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Supervisors: Dr. Tom Goffrey (Physic), Prof. Tony Arber (Physics) Summary: The recent successes at the National Ignition Facility in achieving fusion gain from laser-driven implosions is major step forward for fusion research. For UK based researchers the next step is to work towards a...
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Supervisors: Dr. Ravindra Desai (Physics), Dr Dimitri Veras (Physics) Summary: Extreme Space Weather is driven by large-scale eruptions from the Sun called coronal mass ejections. Upon arrival at the Earth, these produce amazing auroral displays but also endanger satellites and disrupt...
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Funding Source: EPSRC DTP Sponsor Company: Not Applicable Start Date: 30th September 2024 Project Overview Industrial manufacturing activities generate roughly two-thirds of global CO2 emissions, with over 90% of these emissions generated in the value chain, which encompasses all the individual...
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Supervisors: Dr. Ferran Brosa Planella, Dr. Radu Cimpeanu, Prof. Louis Piper Summary: Manufacturing not only has a significant impact on battery performance and lifetime, but also on cost and environmental impact. A key process (yet not a well-studied one) is the so-called filling, in which a...
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Supervisors: Supervisors: Dr. Radu Cimpeanu (Maths), Dr. Ellen Luckins (Maths) Summary: Interfacial fluid flows around obstacles and through porous materials are key to numerous applications, including filtration, decontamination and manufacturing. For instance, resin must be injected into a...
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Supervisors: Prof. James Kermode (Engineering) and Dr. Thomas Hudson (Maths) Summary: Inverse problems are a general class of problems that involve calibrating the parameters of a model using measurements of its outputs, typically from real-world experiments. Many such problems occur across...
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Supervisors: Prof. Reinhard J. Maurer, Prof. Scott Habershon Summary: The drug discovery pipeline involves the screening of many molecules before viable leads are identified. This involves screening for their pharmacological properties, but also for their synthetic viability. Typical drug...
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Supervisors: Supervisors: Dr. Albert Bartok-Partay (Physics), Prof. James Kermode (Engineering), Dr Livia Bartok-Partay (Chemistry) Summary: In high-performance applications such as aerospace and medical technologies, there is a high demand for specialised materials with high strength-to-weight...
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Project title: Atomistic Simulations of Surface Chemistry underpinning the Atomic-Scale Processing of Materials for AI-driven Nanoelectronics Applications Supervisor: Dr. Bora Karasulu (Assistant Professor in Computational Chemistry, Chemistry Department) Start Date: As soon as possible, by 1st ...
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Human activity recognition (HAR) is a compelling topic in the fields of ubiquitous computing, with numerous applications including human behaviour understanding, smart healthcare, human-computer-interaction (HCI), and more. Among various sensing technologies, Radio Frequency (RF) signals such as...