Available PhD Projects in the Department of Physics

How to apply

Select a research programme and choose how you want to study.

Find a supervisor and develop your own project or choose one of our academic-led projects listed below. See further information on the application process and available support from the Doctoral College.

Funded PhD projects

We have a range of projects with funding attached on the FindaPhD website

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Projects with funding attached

The following projects are fully funded PhD projects.

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Competitively funded PhD projects

The following projects are fully funded PhD projects, where rectruitment is subject to competition.

See available PhD projects in the Department of Physics

Self-funded PhD Projects

The following PhD projects are available for self-funded students

This project involves ultrashort laser pulses to study nanomaterials of different shape and composition. We aim to build a quantum light source and to discover further new physical effects that will pave the way for nanorobotic and self-assembling meta-materials.

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Optical fibres for the Vacuum Ultraviolet

Fancy a challenge? Deep in the ultraviolet (below 190 nm wavelength) glass is not transparent, even air absorbs light strongly and mirrors do not reflect light well 鈥� so how can it be possible to make an optical fibre to take light round corners?

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