Explore our current postgraduate research degree and PhD opportunities.
In the last decade, nanophotonics has emerged as one of the most important research fields in optics. A tiny nano-object plays the role of a nanoantenna, when excited by a light source, it scatters light in the surrounding environment in one or more directions that depend on its geometry and material. An important issue that has not been fully understood yet is how to control the directionality and power of this scattered radiation. The scope of this PhD project is to advance our knowledge in nanophotonics by designing and fabricating nanoantennas that allow full control of the scattered field at the nanoscale. Single nanoantennas with arbitrary shape as well as arrays of coupled nanoantennas will be designed, fabricated and tested.
In this project you will investigate the mechanism of how fungi rewire cellular signalling and metabolism to rapidly adapt to lethal levels of stress. The work will involve live cell imaging, super resolution imaging, molecular biology, and proteomics. You will also perform metabolic analysis on populations of yeast and live cells. The project has implications for microbial drug resistance, virulent fungi such as Candida, and chemotherapy resistance in cancer cells.
In this project you will be developing lateral-flow-style tests for in-the-field quantification of macronutrients in seawater, making use of metal-organic-frameworks (MOFs) as the sensing element. MOFs are crystalline porous solids that can be rationally designed as receptors for specific molecules, and the project team has already developed protocols for preparing MOF-based materials for lateral flow devices.
The aim of this project is to use computational modelling in combination with experimental data to improve our understanding of placental antibody transfer, in close collaboration between Engineering and Medicine.
We are inviting applications for a PhD studentship in Human Factors within the Transportation Research Group as part of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) funded Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS) project.
Applications are invited for a PhD studentship funded by the National Grid to conduct research at the Tony Davies High Voltage Laboratory on subjects related to transmission of electrical energy, renewable energy generation and electrical insulation materials.
Undertake a PhD on distributed Raman amplification, a topic at the intersection between optical telecommunications, optical amplification, and optical nonlinearity. Develop techniques for high accuracy link power profile symmetrisation using multi-pump, high order distributed Raman amplification.
This PhD project will study the development and use of state-of-the-art hollow core optical fibres for both telecom and datacom applications. The research will include work concerned with 5G back-haul and datacentres as well as long-haul transmission and will look to exploit the many distinctive and enabling characteristics of these new fibres
This project relates to the development and applications of novel nonlinear waveguides. This is an opportunity to carry out a PhD at the Communications Systems Lab of the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC). The group has been at the forefront of optical fibre communications since the very earliest days of the field providing several critical contributions.
Artificial Intelligence has been hugely successful in solving complex tasks and a significant progress has been made in bringing the utility of deep neural networks on tiny resource-constrained embedded devices via optimizing inference. However, learning the deep learning models on the device still remains challenging due to the mismatch between the computation complexity of deep learning models against the resource availability on the device. In this project, we aim to tackle this challenge.