Current research degree projects
Explore our current postgraduate research degree and PhD opportunities.
Explore our current postgraduate research degree and PhD opportunities.
Experience the cutting edge of unobtrusive remote sensing and its integration into our daily lives. Remote sensing is increasingly being applied in the context of smart homes and health monitoring, such as in camera-based systems. If you'd like to further develop your expertise in signal processing, machine learning, or computer vision applied to healthcare, and aspire to embed security by design in non-intrusive solutions, we can support you in your journey.
This exciting experimental project aims to characterize the performance metrics and the flow over hydrofoils in canonical oscillatory motions at high Reynolds numbers. The work requires detailed flow diagnostics and the use of direct force/pressure measurement techniques.
This PhD project intends to develop a novel automotive LiDAR (light detection and ranging) sensor, by using optical nanostructures to mimic the quantum phenomenon of “bound states in the continuum”. It aims to enhance driving safety and efficiency, contributing to the advancement of fully autonomous driving.
This groundbreaking research project is dedicated to advancing the field of wave engineering and transformation within superconducting quantum computers and quantum processors. The focal point of our investigation lies in the exploration of space-time-varying superconducting metasurfaces, aiming to push the boundaries of next-generation quantum computing.
The key aim of this PhD is to investigate ionic liquid-based fuel and oxidiser propellants in a green bipropellant rocket engine. This will involve theoretical analysis and simulation of the complex combustion chemistry that will occur in such a thruster, and the experimental design and testing of such a large bipropellant rocket.
In this PhD project, you will build on this mathematical framework to develop practical mathematical and/or computational techniques for analysing the effects of field quantisation on quantum control. This work will have applications in superconducting circuit QED, the basis of many leading quantum technology platforms including IBM’s cloud-accessible quantum processors.
Saccharomyces yeast is an outstanding model eukaryote for research and a workhorse of fermentations. We will use advanced techniques in microbiology, genetics, ecology and analytical chemistry to deepen our understanding of yeast’s coevolution and interactions with other organisms, how it benefits from these, and how it could be tailored for various bioprocesses.
Globally, there is a growing and a huge unmet need for tools and technologies that allow rapid, affordable and accurate dementia diagnosis. Overlapping symptoms and natural changes make this challenging. In this project, we will build on the promising preliminary results with our new multi-excitation Raman spectroscopy (MX-Raman) method.
This PhD is a sought after industrial Cooperative Award in Science and Technology (iCASE), with sponsorship from BAE Systems Ltd. This PhD will develop advanced materials and turn these into thermoelectric energy harvesters. These harvesters will be integrated into clothing as wearable tech, scavenging our very own body temperature as the energy source.
In this project, you will study and explore the entire computational chain, exploring the interaction of classical dimensionality reduction methods with subsequent quantum encoding strategies, coupled with efficient quantum machine learning performed on the low-dimensional, encoded state.