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PhD opportunities: Astrophysics

Compare 5 doctoral research opportunities connected with Astrophysics, including project summaries, funding and application deadlines.

Astrophysics

Interacting dark energy models in light of cosmological data

University of Sheffield

About the Project The current cosmological standard model, the LCDM model, comes under scrutiny from recent cosmological observations: on the one hand, the expansion rate today, as measured from early time and late time probes does not agree. In addition, results from the DESI experiment suggest that dark energy evolves in time.

Location: Sheffield, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline: Year-round applications
Funding: Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Astrophysics

Observing the black hole mergers in the early universe with next-generation gravitational wave observatories.

Cardiff University

About the Project The Einstein Telescope and Cosmic Explorer are proposed next-generation gravitational-wave observatories which will be able to detect black hole mergers throughout the observable universe. Thus, observations of black hole mergers have the potential to provide insights into the formation of the first stars, and of the seed black holes which grow to form the supermassive black holes observed in the centres of galaxies.

Location: Cardiff, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline: Year-round applications
Funding: Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Astrophysics

Probing the star-forming ISM with fine structure lines

Cardiff University

About the Project Supersonic turbulent motions are thought to play a major role in the star formation process in galaxies. Theories have suggested that turbulence is responsible for shaping the interstellar medium (ISM), regulating star formation, and even setting the masses of stars as they form in young clusters.

Location: Cardiff, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline: Year-round applications
Funding: Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Astrophysics

Searching for Dark Matter with the Lux-Zeplin Detector

Royal Holloway, University of London

About the Project The Centre for Particle Physics at Royal Holloway is offering a PhD opportunity on the LZ experiment for direct detection of dark matter. The nature of dark matter is one of the most fundamental open questions in physics, and the LZ experiment is at the forefront of technology designed to pursue this question.

Location: Egham, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline: Year-round applications
Funding: Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Astrophysics

The Sweet-Spot for Star Formation

Cardiff University

About the Project CONTEXT. Star formation is one of the most fundamental processes regulating the evolution and appearance of the Universe, with implications for many diverse areas of astronomy. Two of the key observations that any theory of star formation must explain are (i) the Initial Mass Function, i.e. the distribution of stellar masses, and in particular the fact that the most common mass is of order 0.3 M Sun ; and (ii) the multiplicity statistics of stars, i.e.

Location: Cardiff, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline: Year-round applications
Funding: Self-Funded PhD Students Only