PhD Studentship: Rapid diagnostics for antimicrobial resistance

Supervisory Team: Dr Afaf El-Sagheer and Dr Sandra WilksPhD Supervisor: Afaf El-SagheerProject description:A fully-funded 4 year PhD studentship is available for drug discovery research on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) at the University of Southampton. The project is highly multidisciplinary and will pioneer discoveries of novel therapeutics.Antimicrobial...

Project title: Rapid Development and Testing of Multifunctional Antimicrobial Coatings to Combat Urological Device Infections Supervisory Team: Dr Andrew R. Hamilton; Dr Ali Mosayyebi; Dr Dario CarugoProject description:Urological devices (stents and catheters) are deployed as temporary measures to restore urinary drainage in patients with kidney stones,...

Project title: Rapid Development and Testing of Multifunctional Antimicrobial Coatings to Combat Urological Device Infections Supervisory Team: Dr Andrew R. Hamilton; Dr Ali Mosayyebi; Dr Dario CarugoProject description:Urological devices (stents and catheters) are deployed as temporary measures to restore urinary drainage in patients with kidney stones,...

Supervisors: Professor Sean Lim and Dr. Eugen Stulz (co-lead)Duration of the award: Four years Project description: The Schools of Medicine and Chemistry are offering a fully funded four-year PhD studentship in interdisciplinary cancer research, starting in October 2024. The highly motivated student will receive high-level interdisciplinary training in DNA...

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 thousands of...

Project title: Challenging Deepfake Voices Supervisory Team: Dr. Jennifer Williams (primary), Prof Richard Guest (secondary)Project description:Fake and synthetic media are becoming a well-known issue in society, from AI regulation and AI safety to protecting democracy from election interference. This exciting PhD project investigates two technical aspects...

Supervisory Team: Dr Basel Halak, Dr Erisa KarafiliProject description:This PhD project focuses on developing strategies to secure digital infrastructures against the imminent threats posed by quantum computers.Quantum computing technology, leveraging Shor's algorithm, is expected to dismantle existing public-key cryptography. This jeopardizes the security...

Supervisory Team: V. Sassone and B. HalakPhD Supervisor: Vlad SassoneProject description:We are looking for a high quality student with knowledge, expertise and interest in cyber security, game design and education for a multi-disciplinary PhD aimed at creating innovative resources for cyber security education using serious games. A specific but not...

Supervisory Team: Claire Clarkin, Franklin Nobrega, Bram Sengers, Jemma Kerns (University of Lancaster)PhD Supervisor: Claire ClarkinProject description:Funding for this project is offered by the Centre for Doctoral Training in Complex Integrated Systems for Defence & Security (CISDnS), which will recruit motivated and inquisitive candidates across the...

Supervisory Team:Dr Joanna Bacon (UKHSA Porton Down), Prof Sumeet Mahajan (UoS)PhD Supervisor: Sumeet MahajanProject description:Background: The project directly addresses the urgent need for new drugs to treat AMR pathogens Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Mycobacterium abscessus in the lungs of cystic fibrosis (CF) patients. Mycobacterium abscessus is...

Supervisory Team: Joerg FliegePhD Supervisor: Joerg FliegeProject description:This project will consider the development of mathematical models for electronic warfare, specifically electronic attack and electronic surveillance in the radio frequency region of the electromagnetic spectrum, with the scope of interest covering communications, active sensing...

Supervisory Team: Dr Gustavo de Almeida; Dr Sergio MaldonadoProject 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: Dr Erisa Karafili, Dr Basel HalakPhD Supervisor: Erisa KarafiliProject description:Cyber-attacks in multi-domain environments present a critical challenge due to the interconnected nature of modern systems, spanning across the human, cyber and digital aspects. These attacks exploit vulnerabilities across domains, posing significant risks to...

Project title: High precision time-resolved thrust measurement and Two-dimensional plasma plume diagnostics Supervisory Team: Min Kwan Kim (80%) / Alexander Wittig (20%)Project description:This exciting PhD project offers a unique opportunity to develop a high precision time-resolved thrust balance and optical diagnostics to characterise the spatial...

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...

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: Dr Erisa Karafili, Prof. Adam SobeyProject description:Cyber-attack techniques are becoming increasingly sophisticated, breaching even the toughest defenses and requiring smarter, more agile solutions. Current machine learning (ML) algorithms identify and predict threats but rely heavily on past datasets, requiring significant updates....

We have an exciting opportunity for a postdoctoral research fellow with a strong interest in pioneering molecular bioanalytical methods, protein science, and antimicrobial resistance. In this project the post holder will develop chemical biology and structural proteomic methods (primarily hydrogen/deuterium exchange mass spectrometry) to achieve insight into...

Supervisory Team: Benjamin CameronProject descriptionThis PhD is focussed on a new theoretical/computational method to measure material properties in places where they are really difficult to measure: e.g. in a shock wave, in a shear band, or at a crack tip. These are all of critical importance in many engineering problems such as car crashes, manufacturing...

Supervisory Team: Jonathan GeorgePhD Supervisor: Jonathan GeorgeProject description:The School of Chemistry is offering a fully funded PhD studentship to a highly motivated candidate to start in September 2024. The student will carry out their doctoral research in the George Group, which has recently moved to the University of Southampton.BackgroundThe use...