PhD Studentships and Taught Masters in Physics and Astronomy

With an internationally-leading research portfolio, an enviable graduate training programme and a long-standing reputation for excellence, the University of Glasgow provides an incredibly vibrant environment for physics and astronomy studies. Research students have access to state-of-the-art local facilities and many participate in multi-national, large-scale collaborative projects. The postgraduate experience is enhanced by the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance (SUPA), which blends the best resources and expertise from many institutions to provide a training experience with a competitive advantage.

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 for Life Sciences, bio-imaging and Healthcare
• Imaging with entanglement
• Fundamentals of quantum physics in curved spacetime

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
• Enhancing the sensitivity of future GW detectors using cryogenics
• Studies of optical systems to be used in space-based GW detectors

Materials and Condensed Matter Physics

• Development of hybrid plasmonic meta-materials and devices
• 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

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 Theory

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

Particle Physics Experiment

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

Quantum Theory

• Quantum information and quantum optics
• Foundations of quantum theory and quantum metrology
• Molecular and atomic light­-matter Interactions
• Macroscopic quantum electrodynamics

For PhD scholarships/funding/admissions

Email: phas-pgradmissions@glasgow.ac.uk
More information and links to online application: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/physics/research/postgraduate/

For the Taught Masters program

Email: andy.buckley@glasgow.ac.uk
More information and links to online application: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/physics/postgraduate