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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...
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Supervisory Team: Richard Guest and Jennifer Williams Project Description: Increasingly AI-based biometric technologies, such as facial recognition and voice biometrics, are playing a major role in assisting public authorities to protect the public, reduce serious crime, and help safeguard...
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Supervisory Team: Professor Pedro Rivera and Dr Andrew Hamilton Project Description: Metal powder-based additive manufacturing is an emerging 3D printing technology that provides great topological freedom, allowing for component shapes unattainable via wrought technologies. However, the majority...
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Project title: Biometric deepfake to physical attack instrument assessment Supervisory Team: Richard Guest and Jennifer Williams Project description: Deepfake technologies have increased the challenges to biometric systems. Generative AI tools are rapidly advancing, enabling the creation of...