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.
Available PhD Projects in the Department of Physics
See available PhD projects in the Department of Physics
How to apply
Select a research programme and choose how you want to study.
Funded PhD projects
We have a range of projects with funding attached on the FindaPhD website
See our available projects on FindaPhD
Projects with funding attached
The following projects are fully funded PhD projects.
Supervisors: Dr Alex Davis, Dr Kristina Rusimova
Supervisors: Dr Rox Middleton, Prof Daniel Wolverson
- Synthesis of multifunctional polymer nanocomposites for energy applications and biology applications
Supervisor: Prof Kamal Asadi
Supervisor: Prof Kamal Asadi
Supervisors: Dr Soraya Caixeiro, Prof William Wadsworth
Supervisors: Dr Habib Rostami, Dr Simon Crampin
Supervisors: Dr Michele Pizzochero, Dr Marcin Mucha-Kruczynski
Supervisors: Dr Martin Rey, Prof Stijn Wuyts
Supervisors: Prof Alain Nogaret
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.
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
Available PhD Funding
There are number of funding schemes available to support your Doctoral studies.
Find funding for Doctoral research.