Current research degree projects
Explore our current postgraduate research degree and PhD opportunities.
Explore our current postgraduate research degree and PhD opportunities.
The project directly addresses the urgent need for new drugs to treat AMR pathogens Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Mycobacterium abscessus in the lungs of cystic fibrosis (CF) patients.
In this project, several PhD students are working on a pipeline for modelling and rendering of the full environment including 3D geometry, semantic objects and material attributes from multi-modal inputs such as video, audio and text. You will join this team and investigate topics in AI-based multi-modal 3D environment model reconstruction.
Advance the frontiers of active and polychromatic metasurfaces and metamaterials by exploring the theoretical, simulation, and experimental implications of space-time modulation.
Free energy calculations using molecular dynamics are widely used in the pharmaceutical industry to predict drug binding affinities. Scaffold hopping presents distinct challenges however. The very large number of possible alternate scaffolds means that the method used must be very efficient, while the potentially large chemical change creates problems with method accuracy. In this project you will address these problems.
A current research project is preparing the code set for the next generation of exascale computing, including development of tools for analysis of large data sets. The methods used for the research will be direct numerical simulation, using multi-block structured grids, and modal analysis based on simulation databases.
In this project we aim to develop a technology enabling high-fidelity, high-resolution, robust 3D topology optimisation for multi-physics problems including thermos-fluid and fluid-structure interaction.
The project will focus on understanding the dynamic response of meta-structures subjected to multiple impacts, analyzing the material properties required for effective impact resistance, and developing optimized structural designs to mitigate damage and enhance overall structural resilience.