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 Single-Photon and Quantum Enhanced Imaging
Summary of PhD Program:
The group has been at the forefront of research in single-photon imaging for many years. The group leader, Prof Gerald Buller, has an EPSRC Established Career Fellowship in the field. This work has concentrated on kilometre range sensors for centimetre scale resolution depth imaging, including use of arrayed SPADs and infrared approaches. More recently, we applied this approach to underwater imaging for the first time. The group have been involved in a number of high-profile “ghost” imaging experiments in recent years.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Harvesting Light beyond Classical Limits
Summary of PhD Program:
On the atomic scale, energy is “quantised”, e.g. as a photon of light, and its behaviour is governed by quantum mechanics. Taking inspiration from the ingenious solutions found in Nature, in this project you will explore novel ways of harnessing quantum effects in artificial, “quantum-engineered” devices and molecules [2]. This will involve applying and deriving suitable open quantum systems approaches for modelling the properties of quantum many body systems in realistic condensed matter environments.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in High quality, high speed engraving using high average power nanosecond pulsed fibre lasers
Summary of PhD Program:
Engraving of metals such as steel, aluminium, brass and silver using nanosecond (ns) pulsed fibre lasers has been well established using relatively low power lasers, typically in the region of 20W average power. Examples of very high quality 3D engraving are available, for instance in the creation of dies for coin manufacture, where a very low surface roughness is required together with high dimensional accuracy. However, such high quality results can only be achieved with low average power lasers, and trials made with high power fibre lasers using similar but scaled process settings do not yield the same high quality compared to lower power results.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in nonlinear optics in microstructures
Summary of PhD Program:
The field of nonlinear photonics has continuously led to the demonstration of a wide range of new applications that have been exploited in developing novel optical devices. It is a field that is based on strong light-matter interactions, via exploiting the optical nonlinearity of the medium through which the light travels. Harmonic generation processes, spontaneous parametric-down conversion, and Raman amplification are only few examples to show the impacts of nonlinear photonics in science and technology.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Hybrid Quantum Technology: Coherently Interfacing Condensed Matter Systems with Light
Summary of PhD Program:
The goal of this PhD project is to coherently interface semiconductor quantum dots emitting in the near-infrared wavelength regime to entangled broadband quantum bits in the telecom regime. This low-loss quantum bus will enable a range of applications in advanced quantum communication and quantum information processing.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in quantum communication and quantum information
Summary of PhD Program:
The student will work in Heriot-Watt’s quantum information theory group, led by Professor Erika Andersson. The PhD will involve work on quantum signatures, quantum measurements, and other topics in quantum communication. Previously, the group has introduced various practical ways of realising quantum signatures, and examined the security of these protocols. We have also worked e.g. on measurement-device independent quantum signatures, on quantum oblivious transfer, and on the use of different types of quantum amplifiers and quantum measurements for quantum communication.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Integrated Lithium Niobate Quantum Devices
Summary of PhD Program:
The goal of this project is to develop an integrated quantum photonics architecture by combining lithium niobate photonic circuits with single photon emitters based on atomically-thin 2D materials. Lithium niobate is a key material in integrated optics, widely used to develop photonic components such as ultralow-loss waveguides, switches, multiplexers and resonators. Due to its electro-optical properties, lithium niobate devices can be electrically tuned on ~100ps timescales.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Towards Quantum Information Technologies with condensed matter systems
Summary of PhD Program:
Many solid-state nanostructures, such as semiconductor quantum dots and crystal defects in diamond or silicon, feature both an optical transition as well as an electron and nuclear spins. Owing to their hierarchy of coupled quantum degrees of freedom, they are considered particularly promising candidates for a host of quantum information technologies, ranging from secure communication and enhanced sensing to fully fledged information processing. In this theoretical project you will explore the physics of solid-state nanostructures with multiple coupled degrees of freedom.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
9. 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.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Ultrafast nonlinear optics in gas-filled fibres
Summary of PhD Program:
This project makes use of cutting-edge experimental laser science to build a high-energy vacuum ultraviolet (100 to 200 nm) to mid-infrared light source – with the eventual aim of creating a table-top synchrotron replacement for advanced ultrafast spectroscopy. This project is based on the rich nonlinear dynamics of intense ultrafast light pulse propagation in hollow-core fibres filled with gases. Primarily you will be working in a new precision laser laboratory, with high energy few-cycle laser pulses and vacuum systems. But the ideal candidate would also join our numerical modelling efforts to fully investigate the nonlinear dynamics involved.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Laser post-processing of metal additively manufactured (3D printed) parts
Summary of PhD Program:
This project will investigate post-build finishing of Additively Manufactured (AM) parts using laser ablation and laser polishing processes. Research will include the development of (i) approaches to remove the support structures required for the AM process, together with support surface clean up; (ii) identification of the best laser(s) for the work; (iii) laser beam delivery and positioning machine configuration; and (iv) generation of design rules for supports to facilitate automated clean up.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Ultra-short pulse laser forming of opto-mechanical components
Summary of PhD Program:
The objective of this project is to develop a novel technique for manufacturing complex opto-mechanical components using ultrafast laser processing techniques. It aims to characterise the process with optically useful materials such as technical glasses, electro-optic materials, and materials with non-linear optical properties. Satisfactory process characterisation will lead on to the design, fabrication and test of opto-mechanical components for applications in areas such as bioemdical engiinering, precision metrology and optical instrumentation, that can’t be practically realised by means of standard fabrication and assembly techniques.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Low-cost nanofabrication for unusual optical devices
Summary of PhD Program:
This project is closely related to our current metasurface research. Advances in metasurfaces have led to various practical applications. Our recent work includes the realization of polarization-dependent broadband metasurface hologram, multifunction optical devices, longitudinal multi-foci lens, broadband vortex beam generator, helicity dependent directional surface plasmon polariton excitation and so on.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Measuring stress-induced birefringence at THz frequencies
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD will involve experimental work underpinned by a strong theoretical understanding. The successful applicant will design, construct and characterise new THz instrumentation to extend the measurements to three dimensional stress distributions and non-planar surfaces. Coatings will be imaged to detect de-bonded regions and defects. Stress-induced birefringence will be measured for the first time for a range of materials that are semi-transparent at GHz and THz frequencies in order to extend the range of potential applications.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Wide-mode-spacing broadband laser frequency combs for astronomy
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 in support of the development of versatile frequency comb lasers which are needed as calibration sources for astronomical spectrographs. In this application, high resolution spectrographs are used to measure tiny Doppler shifts of starlight caused by the presence of an orbiting exoplanet.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in New physics of 2D materials with Dirac-like dispersion
Summary of PhD Program:
The first aim of this project is to gain a theoretical understanding of the excitonic states in Dirac-like transition metals. These have been shown to possess very large electron-hole binding energies which could therefore be observed and exploited at room temperature. Excitons in these materials will likely behave differently from traditional semiconductor excitons, as their wavefunction is governed by the Dirac equation, rather than the Schroedinger equation, and new physics is expected to emerge.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in Wide-mode-spacing broadband optical parametric oscillator frequency combs
Summary of PhD Program:
Heriot-Watt is part of a UK consortium investigating the development of a high-resolution spectrograph (HIRES) for the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT). This PhD project will continue a programme developing OPO frequency combs for astronomy / metrology. It aims to extend the tunability and mode-spacing of OPO frequency combs, so they are suitable for the E-ELT: 400nm < l < 2.4um and mode spacings >10 GHz. There may be the opportunity to validate the final frequency comb on a telescope.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
18. Fully Funded PhD Position in Novel Condensed Matter Systems with Cold Atoms
Summary of PhD Program:
At temperatures on the order of a nano Kelvin, strongly correlated systems of bosons and fermions are completely dominated by quantum effects. In this project we will theoretically investigate strongly correlated bosons and fermions. The system we are interested in is very peculiar and can be best made using interacting ultracold atoms. It is charge neutral, hence it will not react to a magnetic field the way an electron would do. We will, however, optically induce an effective gauge potential. With the optically prepared quantum state we can study a number of interesting scenarios.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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19. 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.
