Current research degree projects
Explore our current postgraduate research degree and PhD opportunities.
Explore our current postgraduate research degree and PhD opportunities.
In this project, the student will develop new technologies for integrated quantum optical chips allowing programming and tuning of devices under different operating conditions and in particular for operation in a cryogenic environment.
This project will combine dislocation theory, microstructure modelling and finite element analysis to predict crack nucleation and growth in rail steels. Modelling will be matched with advanced charactersiation. Both rolling contact fatigue and wear conditions will be studied.
This project will adopt successfully used approaches for alloy design developed by the supervisory team. Artificial intelligence approaches will be combined with thermodynamic modelling and characterisation across the scales to conceive printable superalloys of improved properties.
This project is dedicated to the creation of a comprehensive numerical framework, with the primary objective of comprehending and simulating unsteady boundary layers on dynamic geometries.
This project will contribute to a major Ministry of Defence (MoD) research programme intended to develop generation after next technologies for applications in defence and security.
Working with the National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL), this project will develop new in-situ systems for contaminant and risk management at nuclear (and other) sites, based on novel electrokinetic approaches developed at the University of Southampton.
This project will investigate novel concepts for high power lasers operating in the visible and ultraviolet (UV) wavelength bands.
This project will contribute to a major Ministry of Defence (MoD) research programme intended to develop generation after next technologies for applications in defence and security.
The aim of this research is to develop and demonstrate capabilities to explore hydrogen diffusion mechanisms and paths in actinide materials. As a further target, investigation of surface adsorption of hydrogen will be carried out to understand how hydrogen enters the bulk to diffuse and how this process is affected by surface termination and conditions such as pressure and temperature, or even presence of solvents.
This research will focus on oral biofilms and their effects on oral health. The project is highly multidisciplinary and will pioneer a novel approach to control the formation and maturation of biofilm within the oral microbiome, combining the latest chemical biology technique with microbiological methods.