Current research degree projects
Explore our current postgraduate research degree and PhD opportunities.
Explore our current postgraduate research degree and PhD opportunities.
Advance the frontiers of active and polychromatic metasurfaces and metamaterials by exploring the theoretical, simulation, and experimental implications of space-time modulation.
Free energy calculations using molecular dynamics are widely used in the pharmaceutical industry to predict drug binding affinities. Scaffold hopping presents distinct challenges however. The very large number of possible alternate scaffolds means that the method used must be very efficient, while the potentially large chemical change creates problems with method accuracy. In this project you will address these problems.
A current research project is preparing the code set for the next generation of exascale computing, including development of tools for analysis of large data sets. The methods used for the research will be direct numerical simulation, using multi-block structured grids, and modal analysis based on simulation databases.
In this project we aim to develop a technology enabling high-fidelity, high-resolution, robust 3D topology optimisation for multi-physics problems including thermos-fluid and fluid-structure interaction.
The project will focus on understanding the dynamic response of meta-structures subjected to multiple impacts, analyzing the material properties required for effective impact resistance, and developing optimized structural designs to mitigate damage and enhance overall structural resilience.
The Machine learning sustainable electricity markets PhD project offers a unique opportunity to contribute to the forefront of sustainable circular economies and operations through AI innovation.
This project aims to examine the role of the hard phase in supporting galling resistance and developing a microstructural model. This allows the role of the hard phase to be investigated under a range of operating loads informed by experiments. This PhD studentship is open only to UK, USA and Australian applicants.
The School of Chemistry is offering a fully funded PhD studentship to a highly motivated candidate to start in September 2024. This research project aims to develop new ways of constructing 3-dimensionally complex natural products using strategies inspired by their biosynthesis.
This project aims to explore how Large Language Models (LLMs) can be harnessed to continuously acquire new skills to solve novel tasks as opposed to mastering a predefined and fixed set of tasks. In particular, methods for incrementally learning skill representations jointly from textual descriptions and spatio-temporal information of action sequences will be developed and evaluated on learning visuomotor robotic tasks in a household environment.