Electromagnetism
Imperial College London
About the Project Do you want to control light in time as well as in space? Imperial College London is recruiting fully funded Doctoral Candidates (DCs) within the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Doctoral Network SPARK (HORIZON-MSCA-2025-DN-01-01), devoted to spatiotemporal metamaterials and structured light fields.
- Location
- London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 15 November 2026
- Funding
- Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Electromagnetism
Edinburgh Napier University
About the Project In the upcoming era of sixth-generation (6G) networks, it is predicted that a wide range of low-power devices will have the capability to efficiently sense their surroundings and transmit data on a large scale. A wireless power, sensing, and communication network (WPSCN) serves as the essential infrastructure that allows devices to wirelessly communicate with each other, exchange data, and receive wireless power to ensure uninterrupted operation.
- Location
- Edinburgh, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Electromagnetism
University of Southampton
About the Project Supervisory Team: Dr Giorgio Adamo and Dr Eric Plum Systems where coherence establishes spontaneously, such as lasers, Bose-Einstein condensates, superradiant emitters and time crystals, are important for classical and quantum technologies. Photonic metamaterials/metasurfaces are ideal platforms to foster the emergence of coherent phenomena. This project will study how coupling between nanostructures can mediate coherence and enable future photonic devices.
- Location
- Southampton, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Electromagnetism
Kingston University
About the Project 1. Introduction and Motivation Non-invasive neuroimaging is a cornerstone of modern neuroscience and clinical diagnostics. Techniques such as MRI, EEG, and MEG have advanced our understanding of the brain, but they come with significant limitations—high costs, immobility, limited spatial or temporal resolution, and the need for specialized environments.
- Location
- London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Electromagnetism
University of Bristol
About the Project Gallium Oxide-based RF power devices with thermal management Research Project High power radio frequency (RF) semiconductor technologies are of critical importance to a wide range of applications including defence, aerospace, science, medicine, and industrial heating. They enable systems to communicate across greater distances, process signals faster and more efficiently, and operate under extreme conditions.
- Location
- Bristol, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Electromagnetism
Royal Holloway, University of London
About the Project John Adams Institute (JAI) for Accelerator Science offers a PhD opportunity in the area of advanced instrumentation, in particular, development of beyond state-of-the-art non-invasive THz generators in modern accelerator facilities based on coherent Cherenkov diffraction radiation mechanism.
- Location
- Egham, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Electromagnetism
University of Southampton
About the Project Supervisory Team: Prof Kevin MacDonald, Dr Ben Mills and Prof Nikolay Zheludev Focused ion beam (FIB) milling is a key enabling technology in physical sciences research and industrial micro/nanotech manufacturing. This project will develop and apply deep learning techniques to accelerate and improve FIB nanofabrication processes for advanced photonic materials, in turn enhancing their optical performance and energy efficiency.
- Location
- Southampton, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Electromagnetism
University of Southampton
About the Project Supervisory Team: Dr Giorgio Adamo, Dr Nikitas Papasimakis and Dr Dong-Yang Wang Recent developments in quantum materials and topological design principles are transforming the way we control the flow of light and charges.
- Location
- Southampton, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Electromagnetism
University of Southampton
About the Project Supervisory Team: Prof Nikolay I. Zheludev, Prof Kevin MacDonald and Dr Eric Plum Time crystals are an eagerly sought phase of matter in which time-translation symmetry is broken. This project will explore the exciting physics of time crystals and the foundations of ‘timetronics’, an information and data technology relying on the unique functionalities of this sophisticated yet esoteric state of matter.
- Location
- Southampton, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Electromagnetism
University of Southampton
About the Project Supervisory Team: Prof Kevin MacDonald and Prof Nikolay Zheludev Optical imaging and metrology techniques now routinely break the classical diffraction limit on resolution. This project will reach further still: leveraging recent advances in the subwavelength structure of light fields, metamaterials, information theory and artificial intelligence to achieve sub-nanometric (atomic scale!) optical measurement precision.
- Location
- Southampton, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Electromagnetism
Queen Mary University of London
About the Project Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) are a state of matter predicted to be found in magnetic materials with strong quantum fluctuations. The spins in most magnetic materials form regular repeating patterns at sufficiently low temperature, but QSLs are very different. Instead of settling into a fixed configuration the system exists in a superposition of many possible magnetic states at once.
- Location
- London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
Electromagnetism
Lancaster University
About the Project Lancaster University is pleased to offer a PhD studentship supported by Green Future Fellowship project: Terahertz magnetic recording for green data storage technology. The PhD position is available for admission in October 2026. Applicants should have a Master's degree in Physics before the programme starts.
- Location
- Lancaster, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)