Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom 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 Ultra-stable Hollow core fibre photonics
Summary of PhD Program:
This project will investigate how the new hollow-core fibres can revolutionize highly-stable lasers, of interest in various fields including accurate time keeping or positioning. This is important for new emerging applications such as accurate positioning for self-driven cars, sensing of Earthquakes using existing network of undersea cables, or relativistic geodesy. This project will be carried out in collaboration with the National Physical Laboratory in London.
Application Deadline: 31 Dec 2024
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Multimode fibre lasers
Summary of PhD Program:
Multimode optical fibres have recently emerged as a promising breakthrough technology to boost the data transmission speed of the Internet network to unprecedented levels. In these fibres each spatial mode carries an independent data channel, and the interaction (cross-talk) among different modes is a problem to avoid.
In this PhD project we want to reverse this point of view, looking for novel opportunities arising from the interaction among spatial modes. We will develop novel fibre lasers where this interaction is the keystone to achieve light generation over a wide spectral bandwidth, well beyond what is possible with current fibre laser technology.
Application Deadline: 31 Dec 2024
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Fibre laser based mid infrared sources and their applications
Summary of PhD Program:
This project will involve the development of high-power short-pulsed fibre lasers operating at conventional near-IR wavelengths (e.g. 1 and 2µm) and converting the wavelength of the output light to the mid-IR wavelengths using nonlinear optical effects in specially engineered crystals, and/or optical fibres. As an integral part of the £6M Airguide Photonics EPSRC programme grant and a collaborative £5M EPSRC Healthcare Technologies grant, we will target both high-power laser operation providing a wide wavelength tuning range and a narrow spectral linewidth (that can be used to probe individual cells with high-resolution and with molecular specificity) and broadband supercontinuum sources with ultrahigh spectral power densities (that can be used to rapidly record the full absorption spectrum of biological samples without the need for laser tuning).
Application Deadline: 31 Dec 2024
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Integration of detectors for mid-infrared sensors
Summary of PhD Program:
We are looking for an enthusiastic candidate with a background in electronics, physics or photonics. The applicant would join a cutting-edge research group in the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) at the University of Southampton, and work in the state-of-the-art cleanroom facilities and photonic device characterisation laboratories at the ORC. They would work in cooperation with postdoctoral researchers employed on the £5.8 million project “MISSION” (Mid- Infrared Silicon Photonic Sensors for Healthcare and Environmental Monitoring), and with six academic and six industrial collaborators.
Application Deadline: 31 Dec 2024
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Metamaterial structures for silicon photonics
Summary of PhD Program:
The main goal of the project is to design metamaterial structures for efficient sensing systems. Silicon Photonics can offer small and low cost sensors for environmental monitoring (e.g. green house gases), industrial process control, agriculture or healthcare. Metamaterial structures can be used for the realisation of low loss waveguides with large evanescent field, efficient optical fibre–to–silicon chip coupling or for the integration of detectors on silicon chips.
Application Deadline: 31 Dec 2024
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Silicon Photonics for methane emissions reduction
Summary of PhD Program:
The aim of this project will be to develop photonic integrated circuits for methane sensing, operating at mid-infrared wavelengths where the gas strongly absorbs light. It will involve 1) evaluating photonic circuit architectures for different sensing scenarios, 2) designing electro-optic devices and circuits through simulation, 3) fabricating them in Southampton’s world class cleanroom, 4) experimentally measuring their performance, and 5) implementing opto-electronic signal processing for extracting data from the sensors.
Application Deadline: 31 Dec 2024
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Transforming respiratory care at the bedside using machine learning assisted on-chip vibrational spectroscopy
Summary of PhD Program:
Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), a widespread respiratory condition affecting all ages, causes respiratory failure due to inflamed, fluid-filled lungs hindering gas exchange. COVID-19 highlighted ARDS globally, leading to hospitalizations and deaths. No specific therapy exists, and surfactant loss worsens outcomes, with 30-50% mortality. Oxygen therapy is crucial but excessive administration can damage tissues. Our study proposes on-chip spectroscopy for rapid in-vivo surfactant analysis, aiding precise treatments and prevention across all ages.
Application Deadline: 31 Dec 2024
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Unlocking the Future of High-Capacity Ground-to-Satellite Communications
Summary of PhD Program:
High-capacity ground-to-satellite communications have long relied on microwaves for data transmission, as they have since the very first communications satellites were launched. However, the surge in demand for data-intensive digital services and the evolution of sophisticated satellite-borne sensors have pushed microwave links to their limit, transforming them into a critical data transmission bottleneck.
Application Deadline: 31 Dec 2024
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in High-performance computer simulation of laser-driven X-ray microscopy
Summary of PhD Program:
We are looking for a PhD student to join our interdisciplinary team of students, postdocs, and senior researchers with backgrounds in physics, chemistry, and engineering, to work on the development of a new femtosecond laser-based source of X-ray pulses approaching the attosecond regime (less than a millionth of a billionth of a second long).
Application Deadline: 31 Dec 2024
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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Greenhouse gas detection using silicon photonics platform
Summary of PhD Program:
This exciting multidisciplinary PhD project aims to develop a new class of marine sensors based on cutting-edge MID-IR silicon photonics research. The ocean, which acts as an environmental buffer by absorbing heat and carbon dioxide (CO2) from human activity such as burning fossil fuels and changing land use (e.g. deforestation), is paying a heavy price. Ocean heat is at record levels and there have been widespread marine heatwaves. The past decade was exceptional in terms of global heat, retreating ice and record sea levels driven by greenhouse gases from human activities. Sea water is 26 percent more acidic than at the start of the industrial era, which poses an extreme hazard.
Application Deadline: 31 Dec 2024
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Chip-based photonic devices for quantum technology
Summary of PhD Program:
We are looking for a PhD student to join our interdisciplinary team of students, postdocs, and senior researchers developing chip-based, microscale optics for advancing quantum technologies. Many quantum technologies, such as quantum computing, quantum communication, and quantum sensing, often rely on optics for the preparation, transmission, and read-out of quantum states. If we want to scale up the quantum information processing power of these devices, we therefore need to integrate a range of optical components onto the chip.
Application Deadline: 31 Dec 2024
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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Ocean’s Methane sensing using novel surface plasmon resonance technology
Summary of PhD Program:
Ocean monitoring is a critical need, and it is closely related to human survival: from the long-term impact on global climate change to sustainable development of ocean resources. Requirements for marine sensing include the ability to sense data timely and accurately from all the environments of space, sea surface and deep sea. It also includes smart integration of data from different sensor systems, to enable accurate prediction of future environmental conditions and its influence of all form of life on our planet.
Application Deadline: 31 Dec 2024
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Environment diagnosis using Intelligent optical sensing
Summary of PhD Program:
Environmental monitoring has entered a challenging era, where new sensing solutions are urgently required for monitoring our oceans on a global scale with pinpoint precision. This PhD project is aimed at addressing this technological challenge by combining artificial intelligence with forefront photonic technologies. Over the course of the project, you will be developing and fabricating a next generation integrated photonic devices capable of operating in harsh environments, without bulky, expensive, and power-hungry support systems. The research work will introduce you to modern manufacturing and characterization techniques used in developing optical devices and composite materials, and computational modelling of photonic systems.
Application Deadline: 31 Dec 2024
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in A quantum leap for quantum technology
Summary of PhD Program:
Are you ready to take a quantum leap in your career? Join the world-leading Hollow Core Fibre group at the University of Southampton, in partnership with Microsoft Azure Fiber, and be part of a ground-breaking research project entitled “A Quantum Leap for Quantum Technology”. This pioneering project aims to develop custom Hollow Core Fibres (HCFs) for use in quantum computers, quantum repeaters and memories, and quantum communications. It leverages the ultra-low nonlinearity of the hollow core fibre and its ability to achieve low loss at wavelengths where efficient single photon sources and detectors exist, away from telecoms wavelengths of 1550 nm.
Application Deadline: 31 Dec 2024
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15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Artificial Intelligence to Transform Optical Fibre Design
Summary of PhD Program:
Join the world-leading Hollow Core Fibre group at the University of Southampton in partnership with Microsoft Azure, and be at the forefront of a technological revolution. We are seeking a dedicated and ambitious individual to develop the next generation of hollow core optical fibres (HCF) using the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI). HCFs guide light in an air core through a delicately designed microstructure, allowing light to travel faster, with less degradation and more power than traditional glass fibres. These fibres have real-world applications ranging from data-centres to industrial machining lasers, and the fibres designed in this project could span oceans, deliver quantum communications or monitor fusion reactors.
Application Deadline: 31 Dec 2024
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Advanced sensors for planetary missions & astrophysics
Summary of PhD Program:
This research project aims to develop the next generation of space flight instruments and control systems using hollow core optical fibres (HCF). In this project, you will develop advanced HCFs for space deployment and discover new realms for the application of optical physics. You will work closely with space agencies and industrial partners at the forefront of spaceflight technologies to develop new inertial sensors for space navigation and new gas sensors for space-based atmospheric monitoring.
Application Deadline: 31 Dec 2024
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in Geological storage of CO2 in the Wessex Basi
Summary of PhD Program:
Large-scale geological storage of CO2 will reduce net CO2 emissions globally. This project focuses on a CO2 storage candidate within the Wessex Basin, UK. It combines field and laboratory observations with simple modelling to assess the influence of heterogeneities within the Sherwood Sandstone Group (reservoir) and Mercia Mudstone Group (seal) on the geomechanical and fluid flow response of the storage complex. This project, open to UK and EU applicants only, focuses on a CO2 storage candidate within the Wessex Basin, UK.
Application Deadline: 30 Sep 2024
18. Fully Funded PhD Position in Molecular basis and ecological significance of Saccharomyces wine yeast interactions with microbes, plants and insects
Summary of PhD Program:
Saccharomyces yeast is an outstanding model eukaryote for research and a workhorse of fermentations. We will use advanced techniques in microbiology, genetics, ecology and analytical chemistry to deepen our understanding of yeast’s coevolution and interactions with other organisms, how it benefits from these, and how it could be tailored for various bioprocesses. This research involving Saccharomyces cerevisiae will train you with skills you can apply to other ‘yeast’ labs or biological systems.
Application Deadline: 8 Nov 2024
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19. Fully Funded PhD Position in Combining deep learning and computational thermodynamics modelling to design novel functionally graded multimaterial components
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project will lead to the conception of functionally graded advanced components, combining properties that are considered unattainable. Metal powder-based additive manufacturing is an emerging 3D printing technology that provides great topological freedom, allowing for component shapes unattainable via wrought technologies. However, the majority of the metal 3D printing has been on alloys designed for wrought conditions, and recent years have seen the emergence of alloy design efforts tailored specifically to this manufacturing technology, where extreme cyclic cooling and heating rates are present.
Application Deadline: 15 Oct 2024
20. Fully Funded PhD Position in The role of the microbiome on coral heat tolerance
Summary of PhD Program:
This project aims to discern the effect of the microbial communities in the response of PAG corals to anomalous high temperature in combination with distinct environmental parameters that define their natural habitat. To this end, PAG corals will be exposed, under carefully controlled environmental conditions, to stressful levels of salinity and temperature. The microbiome structure will be characterised by 16S rDNA gene amplicon sequencing. Both targeted and meta-omics bioinformatic analyses will be used to identify the key microbial taxa and associated changes in their metabolic functions in response to the simulated changes in the water parameters.
Application Deadline: 30 Sep 2024
21. Fully Funded PhD Position in Development of data-driven design optimization framework for expensive real world engineering problems
Summary of PhD Program:
The University of Southampton boasts extensive High Performance Computing (HPC) and experimental facilities making this a unique opportunity to conduct high fidelity, multi-disciplinary research and collaborate with world-class researchers. Mechanical design is non-intuitive. Even with years of experience, the non-intuitive behaviour of physical systems, due to our limited understanding of them, can mean the optimal geometry is surprising or even extreme (look up, for instance, the bulbous bow of a ship). However, the expense of trying out novel designs is usually extremely prohibitive for real-world engineering problems restricting us to unadventurous design spaces. In addition, the geometric constraints and designer biases imposed by conventional methods can restrict the design process to a particular space and make non-intuitive designs impossible.
Application Deadline: 2 Oct 2024
22. Fully Funded PhD Position in The association between hearing and cognition
Summary of PhD Program:
Dementia impairs cognitive ability and currently affects 55 million people worldwide. Hearing loss is the number one modifiable risk factor for dementia. The underlying mechanisms of the well-established association between hearing loss and cognitive decline remain unclear. The confounding effects of hearing loss with aging are partly responsible for that. Moreover, Tinnitus (ringing in the ear) is often presumed to impair cognition, largely due to the high association between hearing loss and tinnitus. In a recent study, we identified that tinnitus in age-related hearing loss is associated with better cognitive performance.
Application Deadline: 31 Oct 2024
23. Fully Funded PhD Position in Development of a new generation health and usage monitoring system (HUMS) based on machine learning and digital twin technologies
Summary of PhD Program:
Health and Usage Monitoring System (HUMS) refers to systems that have been developed to help ensure machine availability, reliability and safety using data collection and analysis techniques. It is particularly used for rotorcraft in aerospace but has also been introduced to offshore oil industry since the Chinook crash in the North Sea in 1986. Despite the high demand and successful applications, current HUMS technology focuses only on safety functions.
Application Deadline: 30 Sep 2024
24. Fully Funded PhD Position in I thought you were driving! Human-automation teaming in future vehicles
Summary of PhD Program:
We are on the cusp of a revolution in vehicle automation. The imminent introduction of Level 3 automation into our cars will see control fully transferred to the vehicle for the very first time, albeit in a limited set of circumstances. Whilst such technology may bring benefits for safety and efficiency, it also raises a host of human factors concerns associated with the transfer of control.
Application Deadline: 31 Dec 2024
25. Fully Funded PhD Position in Is carbon dioxide release from sedimentary rocks a missing driver of geological climate change?
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project will use a novel data-modelling approach (ref. 2-3) to test whether rock organic carbon oxidation was responsible for modulating atmospheric CO2 change during major climate transitions during the Cenozoic and Mesozoic, including the Paleocene Eocene thermal maximum (56 million years ago) and the mid-Miocene Climatic Optimum (~15 million years ago). The results will help evaluate whether state-of-the-art Earth system models currently underestimate the climate response to CO2-driven warming in past warm climates.
Application Deadline: 17 Oct 2024
26. Fully Funded PhD Position in Reconstructing past climate tipping cascades in the South Atlantic
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD opportunity aims to develop a novel proxy to reconstruct the strength and movement of southern westerly winds, crucial for understanding climate tipping points. It involves quantifying wind-blown particles found in sub-Antarctic peat, integrating data into global climate models, with fieldwork in sub-Antarctic islands.
