Physics PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships in Southampton

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PROBING NEUTRON STARS PHYSICS USING NASA'S NICER MISSION

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team: Prof. Diego Altamirano. Project description. Neutron stars (NSs) are compact objects. Read more

Supervisor: Prof D Altamirnao

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

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Monolithic integration of III-V Lasers on Silicon

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team: Frederic Gardes, Thalia Dominguez Bucio, Ilias Skandalos . Project description. Applications are invited for multiple PhD studentships to be undertaken within the silicon photonics group at the University of Southampton. Read more

Supervisor: Prof F Gardes

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

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High-performance Computer Simulation of Laser-driven X-ray Microscopy

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team: Dr Peter Horak, Dr Bill Brocklesby . Project Description. Read more

Supervisor: Dr P Horak

Year round applications 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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Large area 2D semiconductor platforms

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

The project aims to create a revolutionary semiconductor platform using 2D materials to unlock the ultimate limit in miniaturisation of semiconductors. Read more

Supervisor: Dr I Zeimpekis

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

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Novel Phase Change Materials for Neuromorphic Applications

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team: Ioannis Zeimpekis, Fred Gardes . Project description. In collaboration with a large EU consortium, we work to create a reprogrammable neuromorphic photonic platform for a variety of applications from telecommunications to biosensing. Read more

Supervisor: Dr I Zeimpekis

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

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Fabricating the Future of Telecommunications with Hollow Core Fibres

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team: Dr Ian Davidson, Dr Ghafour Amouzad Mahdiraji, Prof Francesco Poletti. Project description. Read more

Supervisor: Dr I Davidson

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

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Vacuum Hollow-core Optical Fibres

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team: Prof. Radan Slavik, Dr. Peter Horak, Dr. Natalie Wheeler. Project description. We are looking for a PhD student to join our growing team of students, postdocs, and senior researchers. Read more

Supervisor: Prof R Slavik

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

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Phased array fibre lasers with machine learning

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team: Prof Johan Nilsson, Dr William Kerridge-Johns. Project description. This project combines state of the art optical fibre laser amplifiers with machine learning control to produce next-generation lasers. Read more

Supervisor: Prof J Nilsson

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

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Power scaling strategies for continuous-wave and short pulse fibre lasers operating in the two-micron wavelength band

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Prof Andy Clarkson and Dr Jacob Mackenzie. Project description. A fully funded PhD project with a stipend of £23,600 (tax-free) p.a. Read more

Supervisor: Prof A Clarkson

31 August 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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CDT-QTE: Experiments to generate macroscopic quantum states

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team: Prof Hendrik Ulbricht. Project description: This project is part of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Quantum Technology Engineering at the University of Southampton. Read more

Supervisor: Prof H Ulbricht

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

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Next generation high power fibre lasers in the visible and ultraviolet wavelength bands

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

A fully funded PhD project with a stipend of £23,600 (tax-free) p.a. is available to investigate novel concepts for high power lasers operating in the visible and ultraviolet (UV) wavelength bands. Read more

Supervisors: Prof A Clarkson, Dr J I MacKenzie

31 August 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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CDT-QTE: Quantum Control with Quantum Fields

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team: Dr Elinor Twyeffort. Project description: This project is part of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Quantum Technology Engineering at the University of Southampton. Read more

Supervisor: Dr E K Twyeffort

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

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What causes galaxies to stop forming stars?

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory team: Annagrazia Puglisi. Project description. Ellipticals are amongst the most massive galaxies in the present-day Universe, have spheroidal morphologies and red colours, and were formed more than 10 billion years ago. Read more

Supervisor: Dr A Puglisi

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

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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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The effect of General Relativity on super-Eddington accretion

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team: Dr Matthew Middleton. Project description. Compact objects (neutron stars and black holes) can accrete material through a disc which is bright across the EM spectrum. Read more

Supervisor: Dr M Middleton

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

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Resolving the unresolvable: using lenses to map accretion onto black holes and neutron stars

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team: Dr Matthew Middleton. Project description. White dwarfs located in the halo of Andromeda (M31) are expected to lens some of the 100s of X-ray bright, accreting compact objects (black holes and neutron stars) located in that galaxy. Read more

Supervisor: Dr M Middleton

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

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Hidden black holes and the search for self-lensing binaries

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team: Dr Matthew Middleton. Project description. Binary systems containing high mass stars evolve through a number of stages, and in many cases can appear as a black hole or neutron star orbiting at a large distance from a ‘normal’ companion star. Read more

Supervisor: Dr M Middleton

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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Simulating thermonuclear burning spread occurring on the neutron star surface

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team: Prof. Diego Altamirano. Project description. Type I X-ray bursts, commonly referred to as thermonuclear bursts, manifest on the surfaces of neutron stars in binary systems. Read more

Supervisor: Prof D Altamirnao

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

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Integration of Detectors for Mid-Infrared Sensors

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team: Supervisor. Professor Goran Mashanovich. Co-Supervisors: Dr Milos Nedeljkovic, Anu Agarwal (MIT). Read more

Supervisor: Dr G Mashanovich

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

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Metamaterial Structures for Silicon Photonics

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team: Supervisor. Professor Goran Mashanovich. Co-Supervisors: Dr Milos Nedeljkovic, Dr Robert Halir (University of Malaga). Read more

Supervisor: Dr G Mashanovich

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

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Silicon Photonics for Methane Emissions Reduction

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team: Supervisor. Dr Milos Nedeljkovic. Co-Supervisors: Professor Goran Mashanovich, Professor Matthew Mowlem. Read more

Supervisor: Dr M Nedeljkovic

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

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Accelerating AI with Low Latency Hollow Core Fibres

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

PhD Opportunity. Accelerating AI with Low Latency Hollow Core Fibres. Read more

Supervisor: Dr G Mahdiraji

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

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Coherent Femtosecond Soft X-ray Microscopy

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Project title: Coherent femtosecond soft X-ray microscopy . Supervisory Team: Dr Bill Brocklesby, Prof Jeremy Frey, Dr Peter Horak. Read more

Supervisor: Prof W Brocklesby

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

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Ultra-stable Hollow Core Fibre Photonics

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory team: Prof. Radan Slavik, Prof. Francesco Poletti, Dr. Meng Ding. Project description. Read more

Supervisor: Prof R Slavik

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

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Advanced Sensors for Planetary Missions & Astrophysics

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team: Austin Taranta, Natalie Wheeler, Radan Slavik, Francesco Poletti. Project description. PhD Opportunity. Advanced sensors for planetary missions & astrophysics. Read more

Supervisor: Dr A Taranta

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

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