Astrophysics (funding) PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Hunting for Hidden Black Holes and Extreme Transients Using Large Surveys

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team: Poshak Gandhi. Project description. Several potential PhD projects are offered under the themes of searching for extreme cosmic sources in multiwavelength sky surveys. Read more

Supervisor: Prof P Gandhi

31 August 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Electron Driven Chemistry in the Interstellar Medium

University of Edinburgh School of Chemistry

A PhD studentship is available joint between the groups of Cate Anstöter and Ewen Campbell, School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh, see https://isla-edi.com/ . Read more

Supervisors: Dr C Anstoter, Dr E Campbell

30 August 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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Quantum technologies for laser interferometry

Cardiff University Cardiff School of Physics and Astronomy

Ultra-precision laser interferometry has been developed to astonishing precision over the last decades, resulting in the first detections of gravitational waves in 2015. Read more

Supervisors: Prof H Grote, Dr K Kokeyama, Dr K Dooley

24 June 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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The Largest Survey of the Hard X-ray Sky - Ever!

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team: Tony Bird. Project description. When viewed through hard X-ray instruments, the sky gives an ever-changing view of the most energetic and explosive processes in the universe. Read more

Supervisor: Prof T Bird

31 August 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Kinetic-scale Structures at Interplanetary Shockwaves

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team: Imogen Gingell. Project description. Plasma is continuously ejected into interplanetary space by the sun, forming the ‘solar wind’. Read more

Supervisor: Dr I Gingell

31 August 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Exploring the Time-Dependence of Kinetic Structure at Earth’s Bow Shock

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team: Imogen Gingell. Project description. When the solar wind interacts with Earth’s magnetosphere, it is heated and slowed from supersonic to subsonic speeds at the bow shock. Read more

Supervisor: Dr I Gingell

31 August 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Revealing Quasar Host Galaxies with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team: Dr. Manda Banerji. Project description. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is a ground-breaking astronomical facility due to start survey operations in 2024-25. Read more

Supervisor: Dr M Banerji

31 August 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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High Redshift Quasars in Next-Generation Spectroscopic Surveys

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team: Manda Banerji. Project description. Read more

Supervisor: Dr M Banerji

31 August 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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The explosion environments and host galaxies of Supernovae

University of Warwick Department of Physics

We invite applications from outstanding and highly motivated students for the Warwick Prize Scholarships in Astrophysics. The successful applicant will work with Dr Joe Lyman within the Astronomy and Astrophysics group in the Department of Physics at the University of Warwick. Read more

Supervisor: Dr JL Lyman

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

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The dynamic universe; variability in crowded fields

University of Warwick Department of Physics

PhD position in Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Warwick – the dynamic universe; variability in crowded fields. Dr. Read more

Supervisor: Dr KU Ulaczyk

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

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The dynamic universe; extragalactic transients and stellar explosions

University of Warwick Department of Physics

PhD position in Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Warwick – the dynamic universe; extragalactic transients and stellar explosions. Read more

Supervisor: Prof DS Steeghs

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

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Mapping the climate systems and the evaporation of exoplanet atmospheres

University of Warwick Department of Physics

We invite applications from outstanding and highly motivated students for the Warwick Prize Scholarships in Astrophysics. The successful applicant will work with Prof. Read more

Supervisor: Prof PW Wheatley

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

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Discovering exoplanets around compositionally-diverse stars across the Milky Way by mitigating stellar signals

University of Warwick Department of Physics

We invite applications from outstanding and highly motivated students for the Warwick Prize Scholarships in Astrophysics. The successful applicant will work with Dr Thomas Wilson within the Astronomy and Astrophysics group in the Department of Physics at the University of Warwick. Read more

Supervisor: Dr T Wilson

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

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Characterising the atmospheres of exoplanets with ground-based and JWST observations

University of Warwick Department of Physics

We invite applications from outstanding and highly motivated students for the Warwick Prize Scholarships in Astrophysics. The successful applicant will work with Dr Siddharth Gandhi within the Astronomy and Astrophysics group in the Department of Physics at the University of Warwick. Read more

Supervisor: Dr SG Gandhi

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

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Investigating the Properties of Active Black Holes in Interacting Galaxies

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team: Sandra Raimundo. Project description. Supermassive black holes need gas to grow and power their activity. Read more

Supervisor: Dr S Raimundo

31 August 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for Interplanetary Spacecraft Missions

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Hanna Sykulska-Lawrence. Project description. Read more

Supervisor: Dr H Sykulska-Lawrence

31 August 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Fully Funded PhD Program Opportunity

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University

The Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), accredited in 2011 as a graduate university, is located in the beautiful subtropical island of Okinawa, Japan. Read more

Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide) International PhD Programme

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Exploring close binary stars: Using nonlinear time series analysis and machine learning for analysing stellar light curves.

Aberdeen University School of Natural and Computing Sciences

These projects are open to students worldwide, but have no funding attached. Therefore, the successful applicant will be expected to fund tuition fees at the relevant level (home or international) and any applicable additional research costs. Read more

Supervisors: Dr G Sandip, Dr M S Baptista

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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A long-term variability study of young stars: Periodicity, hot spots, accretion and early evolution at the time of planet formation

University of Dundee School of Science and Engineering

Young stars are variable due to the processes happening on the star and its protoplanetary disk at the time of planet formation. The star-disk connection holds the clues to several open questions including rotational evolution, the origin of our Solar System and the feasibility of habitable planets. Read more

Supervisor: Dr A Sicilia-Aguilar

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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What time can tell us about space: Using time-resolved observations of young stars to explore the circumstellar environment beyond what direct resolution can achieve

University of Dundee School of Science and Engineering

What happens in the planet-forming region when planets form? How are stars like our Sun formed? Observational answers have to deal with one fact. Read more

Supervisor: Dr A Sicilia-Aguilar

30 June 2024 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Coronal genealogy: the evolution of high-energy emission from low-mass stars

University of Dundee School of Science and Engineering

This PhD project will use models and observations of forming low-mass stars to shed light on the history and evolution of Sun-like stars. Read more

Supervisor: Dr S Gregory

30 June 2024 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Why is the Universe getting cleaner by the day? Modelling dust, gas and metals in high redshift galaxies using BEDE

Cardiff University Cardiff School of Physics and Astronomy

High redshift galaxies discovered using submillimetre surveys of the sky (so-called submillimetre galaxies) are likely ancestors of present-day massive early-type galaxies. Read more

Supervisors: Dr H Gomez, Prof S Eales

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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The Sweet-Spot for Star Formation

Cardiff University Cardiff School of Physics and Astronomy

CONTEXT. Star formation is one of the most fundamental processes regulating the evolution and appearance of the Universe, with implications for many diverse areas of astronomy. Read more

Supervisors: Prof A Whitworth, Dr P Clark

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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The Late Stages of Galaxy Evolution – a project with the Euclid Space Observatory

Cardiff University Cardiff School of Physics and Astronomy

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) make it possible to obtain high-resolution images of tiny areas of sky. Read more

Supervisors: Prof S Eales, Dr MW Smith

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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The formation and evolution of star-forming filaments

Cardiff University Cardiff School of Physics and Astronomy

CONTEXT. Filaments play a critical role in star formation. Read more

Supervisors: Prof A Whitworth, Dr A Duarte Cabral Peretto

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Star Formation Triggered by Colliding Interstellar Clouds

Cardiff University Cardiff School of Physics and Astronomy

CONTEXT. Much of the interstellar gas in a galaxy like the Milky Way is in dense molecular clouds. When these clouds enter a spiral arm, they merge to form larger clouds, and are compressed to higher densities. Read more

Supervisors: Prof A Whitworth, Dr P Clark

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Simulation-based Inference of gravitational waves signals from black holes and neutron stars

Cardiff University Cardiff School of Physics and Astronomy

Black holes and neutron stars are the densest objects in the universe, well beyond what we can produce in a laboratory and at the very edge of our understanding of physics. Read more

Supervisors: Dr V Raymond, Prof S Fairhurst

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Revealing the Hidden Light: Understanding the cosmic dust and cold gas in nearby galaxies.

Cardiff University Cardiff School of Physics and Astronomy

Over half the light ever emitted by stars in the Universe having been absorbed by cosmic dust, and the situation is worse (>90%) when looking at regions where star-formation is occurring. Read more

Supervisors: Dr MW Smith, Prof S Eales

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Probing the star-forming ISM with fine structure lines

Cardiff University Cardiff School of Physics and Astronomy

Supersonic turbulent motions are thought to play a major role in the star formation process in galaxies. Theories have suggested that turbulence is responsible for shaping the interstellar medium (ISM), regulating star formation, and even setting the masses of stars as they form in young clusters. Read more

Supervisors: Dr H Gomez, Dr N Peretto

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Observing the black hole mergers in the early universe with next-generation gravitational wave observatories.

Cardiff University Cardiff School of Physics and Astronomy

The Einstein Telescope and Cosmic Explorer are proposed next-generation gravitational-wave observatories which will be able to detect black hole mergers throughout the observable universe. Read more

Supervisors: Prof S Fairhurst, Prof P Sutton

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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We have 42 Astrophysics (funding) PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Astrophysics (funding) PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 42 Astrophysics (funding) PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Hunting for Hidden Black Holes and Extreme Transients Using Large Surveys

Electron Driven Chemistry in the Interstellar Medium

Quantum technologies for laser interferometry

The Largest Survey of the Hard X-ray Sky - Ever!

Kinetic-scale Structures at Interplanetary Shockwaves

Exploring the Time-Dependence of Kinetic Structure at Earth’s Bow Shock

Revealing Quasar Host Galaxies with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory

High Redshift Quasars in Next-Generation Spectroscopic Surveys

The explosion environments and host galaxies of Supernovae

The dynamic universe; variability in crowded fields

The dynamic universe; extragalactic transients and stellar explosions

Mapping the climate systems and the evaporation of exoplanet atmospheres

Discovering exoplanets around compositionally-diverse stars across the Milky Way by mitigating stellar signals

Characterising the atmospheres of exoplanets with ground-based and JWST observations

Investigating the Properties of Active Black Holes in Interacting Galaxies

Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for Interplanetary Spacecraft Missions

Fully Funded PhD Program Opportunity

Exploring close binary stars: Using nonlinear time series analysis and machine learning for analysing stellar light curves.

A long-term variability study of young stars: Periodicity, hot spots, accretion and early evolution at the time of planet formation

What time can tell us about space: Using time-resolved observations of young stars to explore the circumstellar environment beyond what direct resolution can achieve

Coronal genealogy: the evolution of high-energy emission from low-mass stars

Why is the Universe getting cleaner by the day? Modelling dust, gas and metals in high redshift galaxies using BEDE

The Sweet-Spot for Star Formation

The Late Stages of Galaxy Evolution – a project with the Euclid Space Observatory

The formation and evolution of star-forming filaments

Star Formation Triggered by Colliding Interstellar Clouds

Simulation-based Inference of gravitational waves signals from black holes and neutron stars

Revealing the Hidden Light: Understanding the cosmic dust and cold gas in nearby galaxies.

Probing the star-forming ISM with fine structure lines

Observing the black hole mergers in the early universe with next-generation gravitational wave observatories.

We have 42 Astrophysics (funding) PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Astrophysics (funding) PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 42 Astrophysics (funding) PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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