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Developing high performance optical amplifiers for the future of space communications

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Dr Kyle Bottrill and Prof Periklis Petropoulos. The space communication environment is like no other, subjecting data-carrying lasers to immense transmission distances, substantial Doppler shifts and, in some cases, a highly turbulent atmosphere. Read more

Supervisor: Dr K Bottrill

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Picophotonics: the science of light-matter interactions at sub-nanometre scale

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Prof Kevin MacDonald and Prof Nikolay Zheludev. Optical imaging and metrology techniques now routinely break the classical diffraction limit on resolution. Read more

Supervisor: Prof K MacDonald

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Surface chemistry and gas reactions in hollow-core optical fibres

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Professor Austin Taranta, Professor Natallie Wheeler and Dr. Hesameddin Mohammadi. Hollow core fibres are transforming applications in communications, sensing, and high-power laser delivery. Read more

Supervisor: Dr A Taranta

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Fabricating Photonic Lanterns to Mitigate Scintillation in Satellite-borne Optical Communication Signals

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Dr Kyle Bottrill, Prof Periklis Petropoulos and Dr Debparna Majumder. Just as starlight falling on the surface of the Earth twinkles when affected by atmospheric turbulence, so too do optical communication signals transmitted from an orbiting satellite to a ground-station. Read more

Supervisor: Dr K Bottrill

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Engineering Coherence in Metamaterials and Metasurfaces

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Dr Giorgio Adamo and Dr Eric Plum. Systems where coherence establishes spontaneously, such as lasers, Bose-Einstein condensates, superradiant emitters and time crystals, are important for classical and quantum technologies. Read more

Supervisor: Dr G Adamo

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Optoelectronic topological metasurfaces for light control

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Dr Giorgio Adamo, Dr Nikitas Papasimakis and Dr Dong-Yang Wang. Recent developments in quantum materials and topological design principles are transforming the way we control the flow of light and charges. Read more

Supervisor: Dr G Adamo

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Miniaturised Mid-Infrared Photonic Systems for Gas Detection and Mapping

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Professor Goran Mashanovich and Dr. Milos Nedeljkovic. This project explores compact mid-infrared (mid-IR) LiDAR systems for gas sensing. Read more

Supervisor: Prof G Mashanovich

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Intelligent Nanofabrication for Nanophotonics

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Prof Kevin MacDonald, Dr Ben Mills and Prof Nikolay Zheludev. Focused ion beam (FIB) milling is a key enabling technology in physical sciences research and industrial micro/nanotech manufacturing. Read more

Supervisor: Prof K MacDonald

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Photonic time crystals and timetronics

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Prof Nikolay I. Zheludev, Prof Kevin MacDonald and Dr Eric Plum. Time crystals are an eagerly sought phase of matter in which time-translation symmetry is broken. Read more

Supervisor: Prof N Zheludev

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Unlocking the potential of optimized vertical-axis wind turbine arrays via surrogate-modelling and topology optimization

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory team. Dr. Haris Moazam Sheikh. This project will develop a multi-scale optimization framework using surrogate modelling and topology morphing techniques to overcome the high cost of Vertical-axis wind turbines (VAWTs) design. Read more

Supervisor: Dr H Sheikh

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

AI-driven silicon photonics circuits design

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory team. Professor Goran Mashanovich, Dr. Milos Nedeljkovic and Dr. David Rowe. This PhD applies AI to inverse design, a method that works backwards from desired performance to generate efficient photonic circuits. Read more

Supervisor: Prof G Mashanovich

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Therapeutic drug monitoring using silicon photonics circuits

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Closing date. 31 December 2026. Supervisory Team. Professor Goran Mashanovich, Dr. Milos Nedeljkovic and Dr. David Rowe. About the project. Read more

Supervisor: Prof G Mashanovich

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Multi-level topology optimization of architected metamaterial structures

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Dr Haris Moazam Sheikh. About the project. Mechanical metamaterials are engineered structures with extraordinary properties driven by geometry, not composition. Read more

Supervisor: Dr H Sheikh

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Modelling gust-wing interactions in curvilinear flows

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Dr. Swathi Krishna and Prof. David Toal. This PhD project will explore gust–wing interactions in vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs). Read more

Supervisor: Dr S Krishna

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Optoelectronic AI processors for cryogenic and space electronics

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory team. Dr Firman Simanjuntak. This PhD project aims to develop error-tolerant AI processors for cryogenic and space electronics using optomemristor technology, which mimics neural networks and offers ultra-fast, low-power computing. Read more

Supervisor: Dr F Simanjuntak

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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