Computational Physics
Loughborough University
About the Project The idea that strongly interacting spins in a solid can evade ordering down to zero temperature by forming a quantum spin liquid (QSL) has a long history [1]. QSLs exhibit topological order and a plethora of remarkable quantum phenomena, including long-range entanglement, topological degeneracy, emergent Majorana fermions and gauge fields [2,3].
- Location
- Loughborough, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 30 September 2026
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Computational Physics
The University of Manchester
About the Project Advanced magnetic materials provide a versatile platform for exploring emergent spin phenomena and developing next-generation technologies. In this PhD project, the candidate will employ atomistic spin-lattice dynamics simulations, a framework that combines atomistic spin dynamics (magnons) with molecular dynamics (phonons), to investigate ways of manipulating spins in various magnetic systems.
- Location
- Manchester, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 15 October 2026
- Funding
- UK Students; £20,780 tax-free stipend and tuition fees will be paid.
Computational Physics
The University of Manchester
About the Project This PhD project will develop nanoscale devices which use magnons (collective excitations in magnetic order) as information carriers for ultra-efficient, compact, brain-inspired computing. This project is positioned at the intersection between computer science and condensed matter physics, offering the student the opportunity to work across both disciplines toward the development of next-generation computing technologies.
- Location
- Manchester, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 2 November 2026
- Funding
- Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
Computational Physics
Loughborough University
About the Project We invite applications for self-funded PhD projects developing memristive reservoirs and artificial neurons for next-generation neuromorphic computing. The aim is to create hardware that can learn from time-varying signals efficiently, using device physics (including diffusion and stochasticity) as part of the computation.
- Location
- Loughborough, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 31 December 2026
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Computational Physics
University of Oxford
About the Project A funded DPhil position is open for this project. The DPhil studentship is funded (tuition fee and stipend) through the Royal Society University Research Fellowship awarded to Dr. Safeer for the project “Next-Generation Spin Computing Devices” within the MIND Research Group. ( https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/research/group/magnetism-intelligent-devices-mind ).
- Location
- Oxford, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Computational Physics
University of Liverpool
About the Project Project Background AWAKE is the world’s first proton-driven plasma wakefield acceleration experiment. It utilizes 400 GeV proton bunches from the CERN SPS to drive plasma wakefields with an amplitude of ~ GV/m (which are orders of magnitude higher than conventional accelerators).
- Location
- Liverpool, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Computational Physics
Lancaster University
About the Project Project Background Laser wakefield acceleration has demonstrated the production of GeV-scale electron beams in centimeter-scale accelerators using plasma waves as a driver. These electron beams are uniquely short and compact and are useful for producing bright radiation from x-rays to gamma-rays, or even for conducting strong field QED experiments.
- Location
- Lancaster, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Computational Physics
Lancaster University
About the Project This project focuses on the use of electron beams to tan leather in a novel process described by industry as potentially the biggest disruption to the process in 150 years. The tanning industry produces large quantities of wastewater which can be potentially harmful to the local environment if not properly treated. However, wastewater treatment is both energy intensive and introduces substantial cost to tanneries.
- Location
- Lancaster, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Computational Physics
Lancaster University
About the Project Project Background Industrial applications is one of the three key areas of the Cockcroft Core grant, whereby security linacs has been identified as one of the priority areas supported by the BDG. This proposal will focus on the design of a cargo scanning linac for security applications. Lancaster has also been involved in the development of security accelerators for cargo scanning for a number of years in collaboration with Rapiscan.
- Location
- Lancaster, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Computational Physics
Lancaster University
About the Project Project Background The superconducting radio-frequency (SRF) cavities made of bulk niobium (Nb) are used in charged particle accelerators for more than 50 years. They exhibit a million times lower power dissipation than ones made of copper, and allow to accelerate charges particle with high acceleration field up to ~50 MV/m.
- Location
- Lancaster, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Computational Physics
Royal Holloway, University of London
About the Project The long-established RHUL ATLAS group has extensive expertise in physics (Higgs, top quark and exotic signatures involving electrons), statistical methods, as well as trigger and data acquisition systems. The group also plays an important role in the upcoming upgrades of the detector for the High-Luminosity running of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
- Location
- Egham, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Computational Physics
University of Liverpool
About the Project Introduction and Motivation The Compact Linear Accelerator for Research and Applications (CLARA) at Daresbury Laboratory places significant emphasis on providing tailored beam properties for a range of user experiments that push the frontiers of accelerator science.
- Location
- Liverpool, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Computational Physics
Lancaster University
About the Project About the Project This project is a unique opportunity to join a vibrant research team from Lancaster University, University of Manchester and The Cockcroft Institute at Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington, UK, developing world leading concepts for novel acceleration using laser-generated THz pulse.
- Location
- Lancaster, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Computational Physics
University of York
About the Project Magnetic materials are ubiquitous in modern technology. They form the basis for power generators and motors, for data storage, and with spintronics they offer the potential to revolutionize computing in the future. Hence there is a lot of demand for new magnetic materials with bespoke properties. The traditional approach to material development, of trial and error, is slow and expensive.
- Location
- York, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Computational Physics
The University of Manchester
About the Project Department: Physics and Astronomy Research Group: Accelerator Physics Group Institution: University of Manchester Application deadline: Open Start date: October 2026 Duration: 3.5 years (full-time) Funding: Fully funded STFC studentship / UK rate tuition fees + stipend Join the University of Manchester’s Accelerator Physics Group and help shape the future of compact X-ray and gamma-ray technology.
- Location
- Manchester, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Computational Physics
Royal Holloway, University of London
About the Project The long-established RHUL ATLAS group is renowned for its expertise in physics (Higgs, top quark and exotic signatures involving electrons), statistical methods as well as trigger and data acquisition systems. The group is also heavily involved in the upcoming upgrades of the detector in view of the High-Luminosity running of the LHC.
- Location
- Egham, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Computational Physics
The University of Manchester
About the Project Particle accelerators are powerful tools that have driven major discoveries in physics, from finding the Higgs boson to developing new materials. Traditional accelerators, such as the 27 km Large Hadron Collider at CERN, are extremely large and costly, which limits how widely they can be built.
- Location
- Manchester, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Computational Physics
The University of Manchester
About the Project Lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) are central to mRNA vaccines, but their performance depends on the complex fluid physics governing mixing and particle formation during manufacturing. This PhD will combine computational fluid dynamics and machine learning to understand and optimise these processes. You will develop ML-based optimisation methods that learn across simulations of different physical complexity and computational cost.
- Location
- Manchester, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
Computational Physics
Lancaster University
About the Project This project sits at the intersection of particle physics, accelerator science and computational modelling, and would be of interest to anyone wanting to use computer simulations to understand the behaviour of fundamental particles and to contribute to the design of the machines we use to probe the nature of matter.
- Location
- Lancaster, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Computational Physics
Lancaster University
About the Project There is immense interest in femtosecond-duration high-energy electron beams in both the condensed matter and high-energy particle physics scientific communities, for their application in exploring femtosecond processes in materials, and for future particle colliders. Conventional Radio-frequency concepts that have been highly developed for well over 50 years are reaching fundamental limits in this quest.
- Location
- Lancaster, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Computational Physics
University of Strathclyde
About the Project Optical elements of next generation exawatt to zettawatt lasers will require new optical elements to manipulate their intense laser pulses. Plasma, as an optical element, is extremely robust and will enable their size to be reduced by orders of magnitude.
- Location
- Glasgow, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
Computational Physics
Royal Holloway, University of London
About the Project The long-established RHUL ATLAS group is renowned for its expertise in physics (Higgs, top quark and exotic signatures involving electrons), statistical methods as well as trigger and data acquisition systems. The group is also heavily involved in the upcoming upgrades of the detector in view of the High-Luminosity running of the LHC.
- Location
- Egham, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Computational Physics
Royal Holloway, University of London
About the Project The long-established RHUL ATLAS group is renowned for its expertise in physics (Higgs, top quark and exotic signatures involving electrons), statistical methods and plays a leading role internationally in the ATLAS trigger and data acquisition systems. The group is also heavily involved in the upcoming upgrades of the detector in view of the High-Luminosity running of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
- Location
- Egham, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Computational Physics
Lancaster University
About the Project Project Background The superconducting radio-frequency (SRF) cavities made of bulk niobium (Nb) are used in charged particle accelerators for more than 50 years. They exhibit a million times lower power dissipation than ones made of copper, and allow to accelerate charges particle with high acceleration field up to ~50 MV/m.
- Location
- Lancaster, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Computational Physics
The University of Manchester
About the Project The acceleration of non-relativistic electrons has had intense interest in the last 9 years, with the effort to drive low-energy electrons to the relativistic regime for development of compact all-THz-powered light sources and electron diffraction.
- Location
- Manchester, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Computational Physics
The University of Manchester
About the Project Develop next-generation particle accelerators powered by laser-driven terahertz (THz) radiation. Join leading researchers at Manchester and the Cockcroft Institute to design integrated THz structures achieving extreme acceleration gradients and femtosecond beam control—advancing ultrafast physics and compact accelerator technology.
- Location
- Manchester, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Computational Physics
University of Strathclyde
About the Project Project Background Over the past few decades, X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) have become the pre-eminent tool for studying the structure and dynamics of materials at the molecular scale. Their bright, coherent, ultra-short X-ray pulses are ideal for imaging and manipulating dynamical molecular processes, which has been vital, for example, in the development of new pharmaceuticals and novel materials.
- Location
- Glasgow, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Computational Physics
The University of Manchester
About the Project Academic School: Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester Anticipated Start Date: October 2026 for 3.5 Years Supervisor Team: Guoxing Xia (University of Manchester, guoxing.xia@manchester.ac.uk ) Carsten Welsch (University of Liverpool, welsch@liverpool.ac.uk ) Pavel Karataev (Royal Holloway University of London, pavel.karataev@rhul.ac.uk ) Can Davut (TENMAK, Ankara, Turkey, can.davut@tenmak.gov.tr ) Thibaut Lefevre (CERN, Thibaut.Lefevre@cern.ch )…
- Location
- Manchester, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)