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.

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• Enabling quantum entanglement distribution with photonic crystal fibre

Supervisors: Dr Alexander Davis, Prof William Wadsworth

• Shining light onto the quantum world: exploring the interactions between lasers atoms and nanotechnolo

Supervisors: Prof Ventsislav Valev, Dr Kristina Rusimova

• Extending the spectrum of simulation-based modelling of gamma-ray burst afterglows

Supervisors: Dr Hendrik van Eerten, Dr Patricia Schady

• Connecting black hole driven outflows, obscuration and galaxy mergers – A hunt for young accreting black holes

Supervisors: Dr Carolin Villforth, Prof Stijn Wuyts

• Nuclear Pasta and Neutron Star Dynamics

Supervisors: Dr David Tsang, Dr Hendrik van Eerten

See available PhD projects in the Department of Physics

• Metamaterial-based chiroptical spectroscopy for bio-analysis

Supervisors: Prof Ventsislav Valev, Dr Soraya Caixeiro

• Superconducting Spintronics in van der Waals Heterostructures

In this project we will build on initial developments in superconducting spintronics by exploiting recent breakthroughs in the ‘dry stamping’ of van der Waals heterostructure Josephson junctions. Layers of 2D ferromagnet will be integrated into the barrier regions of these structures to generate long range, parallel spin electron pairs, and realise novel types of very low dissipation electronic devices.

Supervisors: Prof Simon Bending, Prof Daniel Wolverson

• Twisting light and nanostructures with quantum advantage in a cutting-edge laser lab

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.

Supervisor: Prof Ventsislav Valev

• 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 – so how can it be possible to make an optical fibre to take light round corners?

Supervisor: Prof. William Wadsworth

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