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253 research degree projects
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Photonics and optoelectronics
Next generation silicon photonic modulators
This project will focus on research into the next generation of optical data communication technology enabling key applications such as high-performance computing and artificial intelligence to thrive. -
Engineering | Electronics and computer science | Mathematical sciences | Physics and astronomy
Machine learning models for subgrid scales in turbulent reacting flows
This PhD project advances deep learning for turbulence modeling in combustion. Using CNNs and GANs, it tackles challenges in data demands and generalization. The goal is to develop predictive models for hydrogen-based and carbon-neutral fuels, guiding sustainable energy design. Key tasks include model optimization, integration, and Exascale scalability. -
Photonics and optoelectronics
Shaping light at the nanoscale with dielectric nanoantennas
The scope of this project is to advance our knowledge in nanophotonics by designing and fabricating nanoantennas that allow full control of the scattered field at the nanoscale. Single nanoantennas with arbitrary shape as well as arrays of coupled nanoantennas will be designed, fabricated and tested. -
Photonics and optoelectronics | Electronics and computer science | Engineering | Physics and astronomy
Wavelength-flexible, single-frequency fibre lasers
This project will initially focus on developing, demonstrating, and characterising fibre laser sources and will subsequently aim to utilise the developed technology in a range of application areas. -
Photonics and optoelectronics | Electronics and computer science
Spatial effects in high-power fibre lasers and amplifiers
This project will exploit computer simulations to investigate the dynamics of the generation of light in such large, few-mode or multimode, optical fibres. -
Photonics and optoelectronics
Picophotonics: the science of light-matter interactions at sub-atomic scale
This project will develop new concepts of optical imaging, metrology and device functionality at the atomic scale, leveraging recent advances in topology, the structuring of optical fields, metamaterials, and artificial intelligence. -
Photonics and optoelectronics | Engineering | Physics and astronomy
Photoreactor modelling, design and fabrication
This multifaceted project targets the development of an all-in-one photoreactor described using multi- phase chemical models to incorporate the kinetics of photocatalysts, reactant flow and photon behaviour. -
Photonics and optoelectronics
Metamaterials and nano-machines driven with light
The balance among elastic, electromagnetic and quantum forces changes dramatically at the nanometre scale. This project will explore the remarkable range of functional materials and devices that can be reconfigured with light and electromagnetic forces. -
Photonics and optoelectronics
Photonic time crystals and timetronics
Time crystals are an eagerly sought phase of matter in which time-translation symmetry is broken. This project will explore the physics of optically-driven transitions to the time crystal state in nanostructured materials, and potential applications to ”timetronics” - a new data processing technology harnessing the unique functionalities of time crystals. -
Photonics and optoelectronics
Multimode fibre lasers
This project aims to develop novel fibre lasers where the interaction among spatial modes is the keystone to achieve light generation over a wide spectral bandwidth, well beyond what is possible with current fibre laser technology.