Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland invites online application for multiple funded PhD Programs / fully funded PhD positions in various research areas.
Candidates interested in fully funded PhD positions can check the details and may apply as soon as possible. Interested and eligible applicants may submit their online application for PhD programs via the University’s Online Application Portal.
1. Fully Funded PhD Position in Quantum Superpositions of Mechanical Oscillators
Summary of PhD Program:
More than a 100 years after the discovery of Quantum Mechanics, the emergence of classical behaviour in a world that is believed to be described by Quantum Theory is still not well understood. There is therefore still a debate on whether Quantum Theory should also be valid on the macroscopic length and mass scales of our everyday life or whether it is expected to break down for objects above a certain size or weight. To resolve this question, researcher aim for conducting experiments that show (or do not show) quantum behaviour for ever large and heavier objects.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Frequency-comb metrology for manufacturing: Diode-pumped Ti:sapphire frequency combs for precision distance metrology
Summary of PhD Program:
Frequency combs are the world’s most precise laser sources, with intrinsic noise measured at the 10-19 level, and celebrated in the 2005 Nobel prize to Jan Hall and Ted Haensch for their early work in developing this technology. This project is one of 3 offered in support of a new £1M initiative jointly supported by UK industry and the EPSRC to develop frequency combs to enable innovative ways to measure distance in industrial manufacturing contexts – from the curvature of mirror segments of large telescopes, to the position of machine-tools or the shape of turbine blades or aeroplane fuselages.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Doped Silicon as a Quantum Physics Test-bed
Summary of PhD Program:
Dopants such as phosphorous in silicon semiconductors provide a remarkably controllable test bed from which to investigate phenomena from quantum entangement to astrophysics. For example, we recently used spectroscopic measurements and calculations to show that phosphorous atoms in a magnetic field of tens of tesla behave as though they were hydrogen atoms in a field of tens of thousands of tesla such as is found in white dwarf stars.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in quantum digital signatures and quantum amplifiers
Summary of PhD Program:
The Quantum Communications Hub is a partnership of eight universities and numerous private sector companies (www.quantumcommshub.net) that have formed a collaboration with overall aim of developing a range of new, secure, quantum communications technologies. A PhD studentship, supported by EPSRC funding through Heriot-Watt University, is available to work on advanced quantum communications as part of The Quantum Communications Hub , while being based at Heriot-Watt’s campus in Edinburgh.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Quantum Communications: Quantum digital signatures and quantum amplifiers
Summary of PhD Program:
Our group has five laboratories with a total floor area of more than 105 m² and will shortly be joining a new collaborative facility leveraging the skills and technologies of the local Quantum Communications Technologies Hub colleagues. The research group has direct ownership of world–leading state–of–the–art equipment with a total value in excess of £3 million and shared access to the national network of resources from the Quantum Communications Technologies Hub. Access to these resources and expertise will allow a successful candidate to drive the rapid development of world–leading experimental systems and test–beds and lead to publications in high impact journals.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Controlling spins in diamond and silicon carbide devices
Summary of PhD Program:
This project is an exciting opportunity for a motivated student to join the Quantum Photonics Laboratory at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. The Quantum Photonics Laboratory, jointly led by Dr Cristian Bonato and Prof Brian Gerardot, conducts cutting-edge research towards quantum technologies based on single photons and single spins, at the interface between quantum optics and condensed matter physics. Our work focuses on different material platforms, from III-V quantum dots, to atomic monolayers ‘beyond graphene’, to diamond and silicon carbide.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Optical code based high speed secure optical Communication system
Summary of PhD Program:
The information security is one of the biggest issues in telecommunication network and is receiving significant attentions worldwide. Optical communication systems form the backbone of the modern information society. Protect information security in optical communication system is one of the biggest challenges for the future communication network. The project will investigate high speed (up to 100 Gbps) secure optical communication system based on optical code technology.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Compact Visible Frequency Combs The Missing Link In A Vision Of Pervasive Quantum Timekeeping
Summary of PhD Program:
To date, practical laser combs with the right technical characteristics have been difficult to produce, even with lab-scale dimensions. This project will address the need for compact combs as sub-systems within a practical optical clock–and the current absence of such technology–by developing a disruptive laser-comb architecture. This will be compatible with visible clock transitions in new ion-based time standards, and will have a scale suitable for integrating into quantum timekeeping devices needed by sectors from security, energy, geodesy, finance and defence.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in An artificial atom in a two-dimensional semiconductor
Summary of PhD Program:
Single-photon sources are crucial for emerging quantum technologies. An intriguing host for a solid-state quantum emitter is a two-dimensional semiconductor. Discovered in 2015, 2D quantum emitters possess unique properties such as spin-valley coherence and optical selectivity. This new, rapidly emerging field simultaneously takes advantage of significant advances in 2D semiconductors beyond graphene and the remarkable progress in quantum optics with semiconductor quantum dots.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in On-chip near-zero-index photonics
Summary of PhD Program:
The proposed project aims at solving many of the “intrinsic” limitations of nanocomponents, namely large ohmic losses, poor tunability of the optical properties, and CMOS incompatibility. This will be achieved by developing novel all-dielectric devices and structured materials. The quantum features of the fabricated systems will be then tested in the index-near-zero regime where both nonlinearities and quantum coherence are predicted to be enhanced. The transient behavior under optical excitation will also be investigated in detail.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Novel real time imaging system
Summary of PhD Program:
High-resolution, high-speed imaging technology is very powerful tool for scientific research and biomedical applications. The project will study to apply our unique time-domain spectral-phase encoding/decoding technique in real-time imaging systems for biomedical, scientific research, and manufacturing applications. The project requires both theoretical and experimental investigations. The student has the opportunity to collaborate with researchers from universities and industry in China.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Advanced endoscopic imaging modalities
Summary of PhD Program:
Through this project, you will work with collaborators at the Queen’s Medical Research Institute (QMRI) in Edinburgh to develop advanced endoscopic techniques, capably of “seeing” tumours in the clinic, without the requirement for fluorescent labelling. These techniques will enable the clinician to take biopsies more accurately during diagnosis, and resect tumours more safely during surgery. You will work on optics, fibre-optcs, detectors and instrumentation development, and in a highly multidisciplinary environment, with clinicians, biologists and physicists. You will be based at both Heriot Watt and the QMRI.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Novel MCF functional components for optical communication and sensing applications
Summary of PhD Program:
Currently, the capacity of single mode fibre (SMF) has reached its limit. Spatial Division Multiplexing (SDM) is recognised as the key technology to enable future ultra-high capacity optical communication. Multi-core-fibre (MCF) has been developed and demonstrated to implement high capacity SDM transmission. Moreover, MCF has also been applied for sensing applications. However, MCF is currently only used as a transmission medium and the signals have to be coupled in/out the MCF to perform signal processing functions, this is the main issue of MCF-based SDM systems.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Additive manufacturing (3D printing) of metals
Summary of PhD Program:
Our research relates to fundamental process understanding and process control in the additive manufacture (3D printing) of metals, including directed-energy deposition and powder-bed techniques. This PhD project is specifically related to metal powder bed fusion additive manufacturing systems that build complex metal parts for a wide range of industrial applications.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Novel high-brightness diode lasers
Summary of PhD Program:
The objective of this project is to develop novel technologies relating to high-power, high-brightness diode laser sources. It aims to develop a new beam combining optical scheme coupled to an additively manufactured (AM) carrier with built-in cooling to accurately and stably mount the diode lasers and optics. Power and brightness scaling will be achieved using custom micro-optics to combine a number of laser diode arrays using spatial, polarisation and wavelength techniques.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in A novel approach to manufacturing lasers using ultrafast laser welding
Summary of PhD Program:
This industry-sponsored PhD project will build on this earlier research, focused on the application of such processes to the manufacture of a laser system. The use of this technology has important advantages, in particular removing the requirement for adhesives within the laser cavity. Outgassing from adhesives can result in optical damage since the outgassed material can deposit on optical surfaces, and hence reduce their optical damage threshold. The proposed welding approach will also help to convert laser manufacturing from a skilled assembly process to a much lower cost automated manufacturing process.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in Novel high brightness direct diode laser sources and their use in powder bed additive layer manufacturing
Summary of PhD Program:
This project is part of the research collaboration between Renishaw PLC, the EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Laser-based Production Processes (CIM-Laser) and Heriot-Watt University. Our target is to design, develop and demonstrate novel laser systems that can be used for future manufacturing applications, including powder bed additive layer manufacturing.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
18. Fully Funded PhD Position in 2D materials and meta-materials in the quantum regime
Summary of PhD Program:
Meta-materials and in general 2D materials (for example graphene and transition metal dichalcogenide mono-layers) have been applied in may areas of exciting research over the past years, pushing the boundaries of our knowledge of the behaviour of matter at the microscopic scale. There is also significant interest in their nonlinear optical properties, which are naturally also determined and defined by the 2D geometry. Most studies have been limited to harmonic generation but there are significant opportunities also at the interface with quantum optics.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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19. Fully Funded PhD Position in Large Scale Hydrodynamic Imagining in the Ocean From An Artificial Lateral Line
Summary of PhD Program:
LAkHsMI is an EU collaboration involving IPaQS and ISSS at Heriot Watt University to develop a new bio-inspired technology to make continuous measurements of hydrodynamics for applications including environmental monitoring and damage detection in marine renewable energy. The PhD will research novel signal processing techniques for imaging hydrodymanic activities in the water column at a variety of resolutions and ranges based upon modelling and novel data inputs.
