PhD Studentship: High-resolution multi-physics topology optimisation

Supervisory Team: Dr Susmita Naskar, Dr Tanmoy Mukhopadhyay Project description: This PhD studentship will involve a combination of computational and experimental work, providing the students with complete and holistic training and a diverse research experience. At the micro-scale, the scientific challenge is to design novel mechanical metamaterials and...

Supervisory Team: Dr. Andrea Da Ronch  Project description Are you excited to develop innovative solutions to revolutionize the design, analysis, and optimization of aircraft?  Do you want to work in an environment that encourages you to guide your own career through exposure to a diverse set of novel, open-ended problems, and multidisciplinary...

Supervisory Team: J.W. Essex and J.G. Frey PhD Supervisor: Jon Essex Project description: The search for drug molecules is risky and expensive. Having identified a high quality and tractable chemical starting point (a hit), further optimisation takes place by modifying the functional groups attached to a central, rigid-ring scaffold. This central scaffold is...

PhD Supervisor: Asieh Salehi Fathabadi Supervisory Team: Dr Asieh Salehi Fathabadi, Prof Pauline Leonard, Dr Vahid Yazdanpanah Project description: Are you fascinated by the convergence of computer science, and social science? Do you have a keen interest in understanding the intricate dynamics of trust in the context of AI technologies? We invite...

Solar PV is becoming the most important form of electricity generation word-wide. Working with the industry leader, First Solar Inc, this project aims to further improve the efficiency of thin film cadmium telluride solar cells. We will achieve this by improving our understanding of the structure and electrical properties of defects in polycrystalline solar...

Project title: Impact-resistant meta-structures under stochastic multiple impact   Supervisory Team: Dr Susmita Naskar (60%), Dr Tanmoy Mukhopadhyay (40%) Project description: Active mechanical metamaterials can be designed to enhance the performance of body armors and vehicle Armor. These materials can dynamically adjust their stiffness and energy...

Solar PV is becoming the most important form of electricity generation word-wide. Working with the industry leader, First Solar Inc, this project aims to further improve the efficiency of thin film cadmium telluride solar cells. We will achieve this by improving our understanding of the structure and electrical properties of defects in polycrystalline solar...

Supervisory Team: Chris-Kriton Skylaris (90%) Andrea Russell (10%) Project description: Proton-exchange Membrane (PEM) hydrogen fuel cells are an emerging technology for environmentally sustainable transport and other carbon-neutral energy applications. A crucial component of these devices are the metallic catalyst nanoparticles which allow the chemical...

The project is related to the development of a powerful microwave source, able to operate over an extremely wide frequency range (kHz to 10s of GHz).Preliminary work at Loughborough University has proven the operation of an unconventional but conceptually simple electromagnetic source, with the output electric field strength scaling with charging voltages...

The project is related to the development of a powerful microwave source, able to operate over an extremely wide frequency range (kHz to 10s of GHz). Preliminary work at Loughborough University has proven the operation of an unconventional but conceptually simple electromagnetic source, with the output electric field strength scaling with charging voltages...

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...

Supervisory Team: Prof Johan Nilsson, Dr William Kerridge-Johns Project description: This project, focussing on high-power laser architectures, will contribute to a major Ministry of Defence (MoD) research programme intended to develop generation-after-next-technologies for applications in defence and security. The project will be supervised by Prof Johan...

Supervisory Team: Prof Andy Clarkson and Dr Jacob Mackenzie PhD Supervisor: Andy Clarkson Project description: A fully funded PhD project with a stipend of £23,600 (tax-free) p.a. is available to investigate novel concepts for high power lasers operating in the visible and ultraviolet (UV) wavelength bands. Scaling laser power in the visible and ultraviolet...

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...

Supervisory Team: Professor Jeff Yan, Dr Ahmad Atamli, and Dr Aaron Zhao  Project Description:  In a side channel, sensitive information leaks accidentally via some medium or mechanism that was not designed or intended for communication. Exploiting a side channel, an adversary can compromise completely the security of a cryptographic scheme (which would...

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...

Supervisory Team: Prof Andy Clarkson and Dr Jacob Mackenzie Project description Scaling laser power in the visible and ultraviolet (UV) bands remains as one of the most significant challenges facing laser scientists, motivated by the needs of a growing number of applications in areas such laser processing of materials, medicine, sensing and defence....

Supervisory Team: Iris Nandhakumar and Antonios Kanaras  Project Description:  This project will investigate the production and properties of a new class of optical metamaterials which are nanostructured on the 2 to 100 nm range by a versatile bottom-up approach utilising self-assembled lyotropic liquid crystal phases of lipids and surfactants for...

PhD Supervisor: Thomas Blumensath Supervisory Team: Thomas Blumensath (ISVR), Daniel Clark (ECS), Mark Mavrogordato (Engineering) Project description X-ray computed tomography uses X-ray radiation to generate three dimensional images of an object’s external and internal structure. The method is not only used for medical diagnostics but is also...

Supervisory Team: Dr Jordan Cheer Project description A fully funded industrial studentship is available for a high-quality student to work in the area of decentralised and distributed active noise and vibration control. Although active noise and vibration control is now a relatively mature technology, with commercial systems in headphones, cars and...