PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for European Students (exc UK) in Warwick

Modelling energy transport in the Solar corona

Supervisor: Prof T D Arber

Modelling energy transport in the Solar corona. Supervisors. Project jointly supervised by two CFSA staff. Tony Arber mailto:t.d.arber@warwick.ac.uk. Read more

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

Functional and structural characterisation of glycosyltransferases involved in protein mannosylation

4 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Glycosylation is one the most abundant post-translational modifications and an evolutionary indicator. indeed the increasing complexity of host-pathogen and organism-environment interactions, amongst others, is reflected in the newly-reported ability of prokaryotes (e.g. Read more

Supervisor: Dr M Tosin

Mapping the climate systems and the evaporation of exoplanet atmospheres

Supervisor: Prof PW Wheatley

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

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

Using single molecule super-resolution microscopy to reveal how bacteria remodel their cell wall

4 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Bacteria are surrounded by a mesh-like cell wall which protects them from bursting due to their high internal pressure of turgor pressure. Read more

Supervisor: Dr S Holden

Understanding bacterial cell wall synthesis and its linkage to cell division for next generation antibiotic drugs

4 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) is now widely understood to be a global healthcare emergency, exacerbated by many socio-economic factors. Read more

Supervisor: Prof D Roper

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

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

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

The explosion environments and host galaxies of Supernovae

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

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

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

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

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

Investigating the origin of the lowest-mass white dwarf stars

Supervisor: Dr I Pelisoli

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

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

Genomics-driven exploitation of aphid-killing bacteria as a source of novel biopesticides

4 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Aphids are major insect pests of agriculture and horticulture, causing damage to many economically important crop plants through direct feeding and/or as efficient vectors of numerous plant viruses. Read more

Supervisor: Dr M Rabiey

Optimising robotic platforms for terahertz detection of cancer

Supervisor: Prof E MacPherson

Are you interested in applying physics to situations that could benefit medical diagnosis? Terahertz (1012 Hz, THz) pulsed imaging is a new technique with high resolution (about 20 μm) and has only emerged recently as a potential new clinical tool for medical imaging. Read more

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

Electrical monitoring and control of environmental microbes

10 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Research Group: CENTA - Central England NERC Training Alliance

Project Highlights. The project will use a novel electrophysiological cell-vitality detection technique to monitor biological activities of soil microbes. Read more

Supervisor: Dr M Asally

Seismic studies of solar and stellar magnetic activity

Supervisor: Dr A.-M. Broomhall

Supervisor. Anne-Marie Broomhall a-m.broomhall@warwick.ac.uk. https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/physics/research/cfsa/people/broomhall. Read more

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

Molecular mechanisms of selective autophagy during the course of ageing

Supervisor: Prof IN Nezis

Ageing is a complex process that involves a progressive decline in physiological functions of an organism, eventually causing disease and death. Read more

4 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)