PhD Studentship: Sensors for Small Acceleration Detection for Gravimetry and Magnetometry in Real World Environments

Supervisory Team: Hendrik UlbrichtProject description: The University of Southampton is expanding its PhD research in the area of Quantum Technology Engineering. In addition to the research project outlined below you will receive substantial training in scientific, technical, and commercial skills.This PhD project will contribute to provide sensors to...

Supervisory Team: Dr Bruce Ou, Dr Alberto Politi, Prof Jize Yan Project description:The University of Southampton is expanding its PhD research in the area of Quantum Technology Engineering. In addition to the research project outlined below you will receive substantial training in scientific, technical, and commercial skills. Quantum information technology...

Supervisory Team: Dr Bruce Ou, Dr Alberto Politi, Prof Jize Yan  Project description: The University of Southampton is expanding its PhD research in the area of Quantum Technology Engineering. In addition to the research project outlined below you will receive substantial training in scientific, technical, and commercial skills.  Quantum information...

Supervisory Team: Dr Adrian Nightingale, Dr Amber Annett, Dr Blair Thornton, Dr Rand Ismaeel Project descriptionAutonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are becoming increasingly widespread in ocean science as sensor platforms that can measure the oceans with minimal human input and maximum efficiency (and hence reduced carbon footprint). Furthermore, they can...

Supervisory Team: Dr Katrina Morgan, Dr Ioannis Zeimpekis, Prof Nick Harris, Prof Steve Beeby  Project Description: This PhD is a sought after industrial Cooperative Award in Science and Techology (iCASE), with sponsorship from BAE Systems Ltd.  Waste heat surrounds us; from car exhausts to fridges, and even yourself. This otherwise untapped energy source...

Supervisory Team: Dr Gustavo de Almeida; Dr Sergio Maldonado Project description: Applications are invited for a fully funded PhD position on the investigation of novel design methods to improve the resilience of submerged infrastructure (i.e. bridge piers, wind turbines) subject to hydrodynamic action (e.g. currents and waves). Many critical submerged...

PhD Supervisor: Prof Hendrik UlbrichtSupervisory Team: Prof Hendrik UlbrichtProject description: The University of Southampton is expanding its PhD research in the area of Quantum Technology Engineering. In addition to the research project outlined below you will receive substantial training in scientific, technical, and commercial skills.In this PhD project...

PhD Supervisor: Dr Chengchen ZhangSupervisory Team: Dr Chengchen Zhang, Prof Hywel MorganProject description:Are you passionate about advancing healthcare through cutting-edge technology? Do you have a keen interest in biosensors, artificial intelligence, and their applications in healthcare? We invite you to embark on an exciting research journey with us as...

PhD Supervisor: Prof Hendrik Ulbricht Supervisory Team: Prof Hendrik Ulbricht Project description: The University of Southampton is expanding its PhD research in the area of Quantum Technology Engineering. In addition to the research project outlined below you will receive substantial training in scientific, technical, and commercial skills. In this PhD...

Supervisory Team: Dr N.C. Townsend, Prof D.A. Hudson and Dr J.A. Bowker (industrial)Project descriptionShip model testing is expensive and time consuming. Can we derive hydrodynamic seakeeping and manoeuvring characteristics with focused datasets, eliminating time consuming single variable investigations?In this PhD program you will develop and test novel...

PhD Supervisor: Dr Seung Lee Supervisory Team: Dr Seung Lee (School of Chemistry), Prof. Jeremy Webb (School of Biological Sciences and national Biofilms Innovation Centre), Prof. Paul Stoodley (University of Southampton and Ohio State University)Project description:A fully-funded 4 year PhD studentship (Institute for Life Sciences studentship) for research...

Supervisory Team: Prof. Xize Niu, Prof. Pete Worsley, Prof. Michael Ardern-Jones Project descriptionWearable sensors measure various physical, chemical, and biological information in real-time and continuously and in a non-invasive or minimally invasive manner. Wearables such as smartwatches have already proved their capability for the early detection and...

PhD Supervisor: Dr Seung Lee   Supervisory Team: Dr Seung Lee (School of Chemistry), Prof. Jeremy Webb (School of Biological Sciences and national Biofilms Innovation Centre), Prof. Paul Stoodley (University of Southampton and Ohio State University) Project description: A fully-funded 4 year PhD studentship (Institute for Life Sciences studentship) for...

Supervisory Team: Dr Seung Lee (School of Chemistry), Prof. Jeremy Webb (School of Biological Sciences and National Biofilms Innovation Centre), Prof. Paul Stoodley (University of Southampton), Dr Rob Howlin (Haleon, industry), Dr David Bradshaw and Dr Ricarda Hawkins (Haleon, industry) Project Description:A fully-funded 4 year National Biofilms Innovation...

Supervisory Team: Dr Adrian Nightingale, Dr Amber Annett, Dr Blair Thornton, Dr Rand Ismaeel  Project description Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are becoming increasingly widespread in ocean science as sensor platforms that can measure the oceans with minimal human input and maximum efficiency (and hence reduced carbon footprint). Furthermore, they...

Project title: PhD Studentship in Nanophotonics and Metamaterials: Development of Switchable and Programmable Metasurfaces using Novel Materials Supervisory Team: Prof. Otto Muskens; Dr Ioannis ZeimpekisProject description:Metaoptics, the application of metasurface concepts in optical systems, is a rapidly growing field that has the potential to...

Supervisory Team: Richard Guest and Jennifer Williams Project description: The development and offline testing of biometric systems (such as face and voice) relies on the presentation of a large collection of population unbiased-data. Assembling these data is often time consuming and, to be ethically valid, requires the agreement of test participants for...

PhD Supervisor: Dr Nema AbdelazimSupervisory Team: Dr Nema AbdelazimProject description: The University of Southampton is expanding its PhD research in the area of Quantum Technology Engineering. In addition to the research project outlined below you will receive substantial training in scientific, technical, and commercial skills.We are offering an exciting...

Supervisory Team: Dr. Danesh Tarapore and Prof. Jadu DashPhD Supervisor: Danesh TaraporeProject Description:Problem: Navigating and defending forests poses a significant challenge due to their large size and complex ecosystems, necessitating robust monitoring systems. Furthermore, preservation efforts are crucial to conserve biodiversity, mitigate climate...

Supervisory Team: Chris-Kriton Skylaris (80%) Jeremy Frey (20%) Project description: Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations are typically limited to tens of atoms due to the steep increase of the computational effort with the number of atoms. Recent developments have led to “linear-scaling” reformulations of DFT which allow calculations with...