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Supervisory Team: Ernesto Vidal-Rosas Project description: Cerebral injuries are the leading cause of neonatal mortality & life-long morbidities. The conditions that lead to brain injury include hypoxia-ischemia, stroke, intracranial haemorrhage, and preterm birth and monitoring cerebral blood...
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Supervisory Team: Dr Charlie Ryan, Dr Alex Wittig Project Description Typical high performance electric propulsion options for large satellites, such as gridded ion thrusters or Hall Effect thrusters, do not work well for nano satellites. Their efficiency falls considerably when scaled to the...
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Supervisory Team: Kees de Groot & Harold Chong PhD Supervisor: Kees de Groot Project description Applications are invited for this prestigious 3.5-year Industrial PhD studentship to work on an exciting collaboration between Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton and...
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Supervisory Team: Dr Charlie Ryan, Dr Ralf Deiterding PhD Supervisor: Charlie Ryan Project description: For the past 50 years the dominant rockets used in space have been hydrazine based chemical thrusters. They are robust and offer good performance. However their performance comes with a large...
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Project title: Modelling the Role of Hard Particles in Hard Facing Alloys Supervisory Team: Robert Wood, Georges Limbert and Dave Stewart (RRSL) Project description: Hard facing alloys, such as those used in nuclear power plant, are composite materials comprising carbides (and other hard...
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Supervisory Team: Jonathan George PhD Supervisor: Jonathan George Project 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...
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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 Carugo Project description: Urological devices (stents and catheters) are deployed as temporary...
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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...
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Supervisory Team: Ioannis Zeimpekis Project description: Enabling integrated and free space photonics with advanced reprogrammable materials. The current increase in data generation is expected to reach unsustainable rates by the end of the decade. This has a strong impact on the environment and...
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Supervisory Team: Ioannis Zeimpekis Project description: Revolutionising the semiconductor industry with next generation 2D materials and devices. Moore’s Law is currently being challenged with Nvidia CEO recently claiming it is over. The scaling of transistors cannot continue due to physical...