PhD Studentships and Taught Masters in Physics and Astronomy

Research Groups:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

• Solar physics theory
• Observational solar physics
• Plasma physics
• Cosmology

Experimental Quantum Technologies

• Computational and AI techniques for imaging
• Single photon imaging techniques
• Quantum sensors and quantum interferometry
• Imaging with entanglement

Imaging Concepts Group

• Computational imaging and Hyperspectral imaging
• In vivo retinal imaging and oximetry
• Microscopy and Biophotonic imaging
• Optical manipulation

Institute for Gravitational Research

• Data analysis: novel methods for exploring gravitational wave (GW) data and extracting astrophysics
• Materials research: studies of materials for use as mirrors and suspensions in GW detectors
• Interferometry: studies of the influence of quantum effects on measurements of macroscopic objects
• Studies of optical systems to be used in space-based GW detectors

Materials and Condensed Matter Physics

• Fabrication and analysis of functional nanomaterials for device technologies
• Nanopatterned and skyrmionic magnetic materials for spintronic applications
• Development of advanced electron microscopy techniques using fast pixelated detectors
• Quantitative chemical characterisation of nanoscale precipitates

Nuclear and Hadron Physics

• Investigating the quark structure of the nucleon through QCD
• Spectroscopy of strongly interacting particles and the search for exotic states of matter
• Development of advanced particle detector technology
• Industrial, medical and other applications of nuclear science

Optics

• Atom cooling and trapping for quantum technologies
• Optics with complex vector light fields
• Quantum optics, single photon imaging and ranging
• Transformation optics beyond lenses and mirrors

Particle Physics Experiment

• Higgs, top quark, precision QCD, and Beyond Standard Model physics
• ATLAS, LHCb, NA62 and T2K experiments
• Future neutrino and linear collider experiments
• Development of detector systems

Particle Physics Theory

• Precision tests of the Standard Model through Quantum Chromodynamics
• Searches for new physics through rare weak decays of hadrons
• Phenomenology for the Large Hadron Collider
• Beyond the Standard Model physics, Higgs and top quark physics

Quantum Theory

• Quantum information and quantum optics
• Foundations of quantum theory and quantum metrology
• Chiral Light - Matter Interactions
• Topology of matter waves

For PhD scholarships/funding/admissions,

Email: [email protected]
More information and links to online application: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/physics/research/postgraduate/

For the Taught Masters program,

Email: [email protected]
More information and links to online application: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/physics/postgraduate

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