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Royal Holloway, University of London, Department of Physics PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 15 Royal Holloway, University of London, Department of Physics PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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Unravelling the origin of decoherence in superconducting quantum devices from two-level system defects

Quantum computers, computers which leverage the laws of quantum mechanics to solve certain problems far more efficiently than classical computers, has the promise of revolutionising the fields of cybersecurity, optimisation, drug discovery, clean energy, and data management and searching, among others. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof J Goff, Dr R Banerjee, Dr S de Graaf
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Bayesian Deep Learning for cosmology with Euclid

  Research Group: Astronomy
This project will focus on the combination of cutting-edge Deep Learning and statistical methods to enable cosmological inference from next-generation facilities such as the European Space Agency’s Euclid mission. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A Spurio Mancini
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Awaiting Funding Decision/Possible External Funding
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Generation of THz radiation beams and its applications

John Adams Institute (JAI) for Accelerator Science offers a PhD opportunity in the area of advanced instrumentation, in particular, development of beyond state-of-the-art non-invasive THz generators in modern accelerator facilities based on coherent Cherenkov diffraction radiation mechanism. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr P Karataev
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Higgs boson production measurement during the LHC Run 3 with the ATLAS detector

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 P Teixeira-Dias
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Searching for exotics signatures (Dark Matter/Extra Dimensions)

The long-established RHUL ATLAS group is renowned for its expertise in physics (Higgs, top quark and exotic signatures involving electrons), statistical methods and plays a leading role internationally in the ATLAS trigger and data acquisition systems. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof T Berry
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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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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Searching for Dark Matter with the Lux-Zeplin Detector

The Centre for Particle Physics at Royal Holloway is offering a PhD opportunity on the LZ experiment for direct detection of dark matter. The nature of dark matter is one of the most fundamental open questions in physics, and the LZ experiment is at the forefront of technology designed to pursue this question. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A Kaboth
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Machine learning for studying supernovae

Supernovae are the explosive deaths of certain types of star at the ends of their lives. They play an important role in the Universe, being the key distributors of heavy elements. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr J Maund
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Development of novel statistical methods and application to searches for New Physics using the ATLAS detector at the LHC

The long-established RHUL ATLAS group has extensive 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 G Cowan
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Searching for Charge-Parity Violation in Neutrino Oscillations

The Centre for Particle Physics at Royal Holloway is offering a PhD opportunity on the T2K and DUNE long baseline neutrino oscillation experiments. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A Kaboth
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Particle accelerator simulations for new particle physics experiments

Particle colliders are incredibly complex and expensive devices to design, construct, operate and maintain. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof S Gibson
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Understanding the erratic spin evolution of radio emitting neutron stars

Formed in the supernova explosions of massive stars, neutron stars are compact remnants that exhibit extreme gravity, ultra-high densities, fast rotation, and strong magnetic fields. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr V Graber
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Tuning correlated electron systems from magnetism to unconventional superconductivity

Applications are invited for a PhD project in Experimental Condensed Matter Physics. In this project you will explore the rich phase diagrams of strongly correlated electron systems. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr P G Niklowitz
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)
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Simulating the dynamics of many body quantum systems with Graphical Processor Units (GPUs)

For more than a century, statistical physics has proved a powerful framework for understanding the behavior of systems made of a large number of particles. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr G Ithier
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)
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Cooling low-dimensional electrons down to the quantum limit

The study of mesoscopic semiconductor devices, where electrons are confined into submicron-sized dots and wires, has been extremely fruitful over the past 25 years. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr J T Nicholls
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)
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