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STFC PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 12 STFC PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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Searching for Lepton Flavour Violation using top quark events in the ATLAS detector at the LHC

The long-established RHUL ATLAS group is renowned for its expertise in physics (Higgs, top quark and exotic signatures involving electrons), statistical methods as well as trigger and data acquisition systems. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof V Boisvert
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning for Bunch-Shape Control in Linear Accelerators

Make particle accelerators smarter. CLARA is a linear accelerator in the Daresbury Laboratory that has been used for a range of accelerator-based experiments since 2018, and it has recently undergone a major upgrade to reach 250 MeV and add a high-power laser and new experimental area. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A Santamaria Garcia
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Exploiting Laser Pulse Shaping and Phase Space Tomography to Optimise Longitudinal Beam Dynamics at the Interaction Point of CLARA

Introduction and Motivation. The Compact Linear Accelerator for Research and Applications (CLARA) at Daresbury Laboratory places significant emphasis on providing tailored beam properties for a range of user experiments that push the frontiers of accelerator science. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof A Wolski, Dr A E P Pollard
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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From ideal to real: Simulation study of laser-plasma imaging performance for future industrial imaging

Department. Physics and Astronomy. Research Group. Accelerator Physics Group. Institution. University of Manchester. Application deadline. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr O Apsimon
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Developing Novel Tools for the Analysis of Local Order using Total Scattering Data (TScat)

This project is part of cohort 3 of the EPSRC CDT in Developing National Capability for Materials 4.0, with the Henry Royce Institute. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr LO Owen, Prof K Christofidou, Dr G Perez, Dr A Belozerov
 30 June 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Fast Diffusion-Relaxation MRI with AI for Prostate Cancer Grading at Ultra-High Gradient Strength

This project will develop a next-generation, non-invasive imaging approach for grading prostate cancer using advanced MRI and machine learning, with the potential to reduce reliance on painful and invasive needle biopsies. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr P Slator , Prof M Cercignani, Dr K Foley
 20 June 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)
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Assessment of phototherapy with model organism Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Project Overview. Saccharomyces cerevisiae is extensively used as model organism and is well understood from a sequencing perspective so up-regulation or down-regulation of gene expression is tractable. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr S Hadjiloucas, Dr E Delivopoulos
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Towards compact Gamma-ray Free Electron Lasers

Project Background. Over the past few decades, X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) have become the pre-eminent tool for studying the structure and dynamics of materials at the molecular scale. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr G Robb
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Terahertz-Integrated Structures for Novel Accelerators

Develop next-generation particle accelerators powered by laser-driven terahertz (THz) radiation. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr D Graham
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarship in AI-Enabled Digital Accessibility (ADA)

  Research Group: Centre for Translation Studies, Surrey Institute for People-Centred AI Further groups and supervisors, please see here: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/postgraduate/ai-enabled-digital-accessibility-ada-phd
Digital media is central to our engagement with public information, news, government services, healthcare, finance, education, culture and entertainment, and facilitates communication and social interaction. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof S Braun, Prof P Jackson, Dr E Davitti, Prof C Orasan, Prof C Hine
 23 June 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Bayesian Analysis of Relativistic Nuclear Energy Density Functionals

  Research Group: Nuclear Theory
Nuclear energy-density functionals are among the most powerful theoretical tools for describing atomic nuclei and for connecting laboratory nuclear physics with the properties of dense matter in neutron stars. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr EY Yüksel, Prof P Stevenson
 12 June 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Analysing data from the ALICE Experiment at the CERN LHC

ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) is a general-purpose, heavy-ion detector at the CERN LHC which focuses on QCD, the strong-interaction sector of the Standard Model. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof D Evans
 1 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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