{"id":1221,"date":"2021-12-01T10:32:51","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T10:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/?p=1221"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:37:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:37:27","slug":"phd-studentships-for-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/2021\/12\/01\/phd-studentships-for-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"PhD Studentships for 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>The School of Physics and Astronomy is pleased to announce that applications are open for several research projects across our research groups for September 2022.<\/em><\/strong><br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">STFC Application deadline: 19th January 2022<\/span><\/strong> &#8211; see <a href=\"https:\/\/le.ac.uk\/study\/research-degrees\/funded-opportunities\/stfc\">this website<\/a> for how to apply.<br><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">NERC\/CENTA Application deadline: 7 January 2022<\/span><\/strong> &#8211; see <a href=\"https:\/\/le.ac.uk\/study\/research-degrees\/funded-opportunities\/centa-phd-studentships\">this website<\/a> for how to apply.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The list of advertised projects&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www2.le.ac.uk\/departments\/physics\/postgraduate-study\/research-degrees\">can be found here<\/a>, including (but not limited to)&nbsp;topics in Planetary Science, Astrophysics, and Space hardware. STFC projects are&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/le.ac.uk\/study\/research-degrees\/funded-opportunities\/stfc-2020\">listed here<\/a>, and this is where you\u2019d likely be looking if you are interested in space science and astrophysics. Full details of funding eligibility requirements&nbsp;and the application process are available from the link above. &nbsp;<br><br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The full list should also be available via&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.findaphd.com\/phds\/department-of-physics-and-astronomy\/?c0wgx330\">FindAPhd<\/a>.<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Please do spread the word, and contact our postgraduate&nbsp;admissions team (<a href=\"mailto:pgrphys@le.ac.uk\">pgrphys@le.ac.uk<\/a>), or the supervisors directly, for more information&nbsp;regarding the projects.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/files\/2020\/09\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"509\" height=\"267\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Astrophysics projects<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Professor Richard Alexander &#8211;&nbsp;The building blocks of planets&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/le.ac.uk\/-\/media\/uol\/docs\/study\/funded-ops\/2022-projects\/cse\/stfc\/stfc-alexander.docx\">(Word doc)<\/a>&nbsp; &nbsp;(<a href=\"https:\/\/le.ac.uk\/-\/media\/uol\/docs\/study\/funded-ops\/2022-projects\/cse\/stfc\/stfc-alexander---pdf.pdf\">Project .pdf<\/a>)<\/li><li>Professor Andrew Blain &#8211;&nbsp;Probing the universe with JWST&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/le.ac.uk\/-\/media\/uol\/docs\/study\/funded-ops\/2022-projects\/cse\/stfc\/stfc-blain.docx\">(Word doc)<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href=\"https:\/\/le.ac.uk\/-\/media\/uol\/docs\/study\/funded-ops\/2022-projects\/cse\/stfc\/stfc-blain---pdf.pdf\">Project .pdf<\/a>)<\/li><li>Dr Michael Goad &#8211;&nbsp;Mapping the central regions of AGN&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/le.ac.uk\/-\/media\/uol\/docs\/study\/funded-ops\/2022-projects\/cse\/stfc\/stfc-goad.docx\">(Word doc)<\/a>&nbsp; (<a href=\"https:\/\/le.ac.uk\/-\/media\/uol\/docs\/study\/funded-ops\/2022-projects\/cse\/stfc\/stfc-goad---pdf.pdf\">Project .pdf<\/a>)<\/li><li>Professor John Lapington &#8211;&nbsp;Construction and Characterization of the SST Camera for the Cherenkov Telescope Array Gamma Ray Observatory&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/le.ac.uk\/-\/media\/uol\/docs\/study\/funded-ops\/2022-projects\/cse\/stfc\/stfc-lapington.docx\">(Word doc)<\/a>&nbsp; (<a href=\"https:\/\/le.ac.uk\/-\/media\/3d6658d8a0bf4e75b3e2d050fabcf4e1.ashx\">Project .pdf<\/a>)<\/li><li>Dr Chris Nixon &#8211;&nbsp;Astrophysical accretion: theory and computation&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/le.ac.uk\/-\/media\/uol\/docs\/study\/funded-ops\/2022-projects\/cse\/stfc\/stfc-nixon.docx\">(Word doc)<\/a>&nbsp; (<a href=\"https:\/\/le.ac.uk\/-\/media\/uol\/docs\/study\/funded-ops\/2022-projects\/cse\/stfc\/stfc-nixon---pdf.pdf\">Project .pdf<\/a>)<\/li><li>Professor Paul O&#8217;Brien &#8211;&nbsp;Gamma-Ray Bursts discovered by the SVOM satellite&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/le.ac.uk\/-\/media\/uol\/docs\/study\/funded-ops\/2022-projects\/cse\/stfc\/stfc-obrien.docx\">(Word doc)<\/a>&nbsp; (<a href=\"https:\/\/le.ac.uk\/-\/media\/uol\/docs\/study\/funded-ops\/2022-projects\/cse\/stfc\/stfc-obrien---pdf.pdf\">Project .pdf<\/a>)<\/li><li>Dr Giovanni Rosotti &#8211;&nbsp;A new window into planet formation: kinematical studies of proto-planetary discs with ALMA&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/le.ac.uk\/-\/media\/uol\/docs\/study\/funded-ops\/2022-projects\/cse\/stfc\/stfc-rosotti.docx\">(Word doc)<\/a>&nbsp; (<a href=\"https:\/\/le.ac.uk\/-\/media\/uol\/docs\/study\/funded-ops\/2022-projects\/cse\/stfc\/stfc-rosotti---pdf.pdf\">Project .pdf<\/a>)<\/li><li>Professor Nial Tanvir &#8211;&nbsp;Multi-messenger astrophysics&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/le.ac.uk\/-\/media\/uol\/docs\/study\/funded-ops\/2022-projects\/cse\/stfc\/stfc-tanvir1.docx\">(Word doc)<\/a>&nbsp; (<a href=\"https:\/\/le.ac.uk\/-\/media\/uol\/docs\/study\/funded-ops\/2022-projects\/cse\/stfc\/stfc-tanvir1---pdf.pdf\">Project .pdf<\/a>)<\/li><li>Professor Nial Tanvir &#8211;&nbsp;Probing the high redshift universe with gamma-ray bursts&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/le.ac.uk\/-\/media\/uol\/docs\/study\/funded-ops\/2022-projects\/cse\/stfc\/stfc-tanvir2.docx\">(Word doc)<\/a>&nbsp; (<a href=\"https:\/\/le.ac.uk\/-\/media\/uol\/docs\/study\/funded-ops\/2022-projects\/cse\/stfc\/stfc-tanvir2---pdf.pdf\">Project .pdf<\/a>)<\/li><li>Dr Simon Vaughan &#8211;&nbsp;Black hole astrophysics through timing studies&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/le.ac.uk\/-\/media\/uol\/docs\/study\/funded-ops\/2022-projects\/cse\/stfc\/stfc-vaughan.docx\">(Word doc)<\/a>&nbsp; (<a href=\"https:\/\/le.ac.uk\/-\/media\/uol\/docs\/study\/funded-ops\/2022-projects\/cse\/stfc\/stfc-vaughan---pdf.pdf\">Project .pdf<\/a>)<\/li><li>Professor Mike Watson &#8211;&nbsp;The AGN &#8211; galaxy connection: utilising the power of large sky surveys&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/le.ac.uk\/-\/media\/uol\/docs\/study\/funded-ops\/2022-projects\/cse\/stfc\/stfc-watson.docx\">(Word doc)<\/a>&nbsp; (<a href=\"https:\/\/le.ac.uk\/-\/media\/uol\/docs\/study\/funded-ops\/2022-projects\/cse\/stfc\/stfc-watson---pdf.pdf\">Project .pdf<\/a>)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Planetary Science projects<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Professor John Bridges &#8211;\u00a0Water-Rock Reactions in the Solar System\u00a0 (<a href=\"https:\/\/le.ac.uk\/-\/media\/uol\/docs\/study\/funded-ops\/2022-projects\/cse\/stfc\/stfc-bridges.docx\">Word doc<\/a>)\u00a0 (<a href=\"https:\/\/le.ac.uk\/-\/media\/uol\/docs\/study\/funded-ops\/2022-projects\/cse\/stfc\/stfc-bridges---pdf.pdf\">Project .pdf<\/a>)<\/li><li>Dr Leigh Fletcher &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0Giant Planet Origins from the James Webb Space Telescope\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/le.ac.uk\/-\/media\/uol\/docs\/study\/funded-ops\/2022-projects\/cse\/stfc\/stfc-fletcher.docx\">(Word doc)<\/a>\u00a0 (<a href=\"https:\/\/le.ac.uk\/-\/media\/uol\/docs\/study\/funded-ops\/2022-projects\/cse\/stfc\/stfc-fletcher---pdf.pdf\">Project .pdf<\/a>)<\/li><li>Dr Henrik Melin &#8211;\u00a0The ionosphere of Jupiter in the Juno era (<a href=\"https:\/\/le.ac.uk\/-\/media\/uol\/docs\/study\/funded-ops\/2022-projects\/cse\/stfc\/stfc-melin.docx\">Word doc<\/a>)\u00a0 (<a href=\"https:\/\/le.ac.uk\/-\/media\/uol\/docs\/study\/funded-ops\/2022-projects\/cse\/stfc\/stfc-melin---pdf.pdf\">Project .pdf<\/a>)<\/li><li>Professor Steve Milan &#8211;\u00a0Electrodynamics of the solar wind-magnetosphere-ionosphere-atmosphere coupled system\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/le.ac.uk\/-\/media\/uol\/docs\/study\/funded-ops\/2022-projects\/cse\/stfc\/stfc-milan.docx\">(Word doc)<\/a>\u00a0 (<a href=\"https:\/\/le.ac.uk\/-\/media\/uol\/docs\/study\/funded-ops\/2022-projects\/cse\/stfc\/stfc-milan---pdf.pdf\">Project .pdf<\/a>)<\/li><li>Dr Jonathan Nichols &#8211;\u00a0Analysing Jupiter&#8217;s polar auroras with the Hubble Space Telescope\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/le.ac.uk\/-\/media\/uol\/docs\/study\/funded-ops\/2022-projects\/cse\/stfc\/stfc-nichols.docx\">(Word doc)<\/a>\u00a0 (<a href=\"https:\/\/le.ac.uk\/-\/media\/uol\/docs\/study\/funded-ops\/2022-projects\/cse\/stfc\/stfc-nichols---pdf.pdf\">Project .pdf<\/a>)<\/li><li>Prof Emma Bunce &#8211; Magnetospheres of the Gas Giants:-\u00a0 Analysing Juno (Jupiter) and Cassini (Saturn) magnetic field data to determine magnetospheric current systems and their internal and external drivers\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/le.ac.uk\/-\/media\/uol\/docs\/study\/funded-ops\/2022-projects\/cse\/stfc\/stfc-bunce.docx\">(Word doc)<\/a>\u00a0 (<a href=\"https:\/\/le.ac.uk\/-\/media\/uol\/docs\/study\/funded-ops\/2022-projects\/cse\/stfc\/stfc-bunce---pdf.pdf\">Project .pdf<\/a>)<\/li><li>Dr Beatriz Sanchez-Cano &#8211; The role of crustal magnetic fields on Mars\u2019 ionospheric dynamics\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/le.ac.uk\/-\/media\/uol\/docs\/study\/funded-ops\/2022-projects\/cse\/stfc\/stfc-sanchez-cano.docx\">(Word doc)<\/a>\u00a0 (<a href=\"https:\/\/le.ac.uk\/-\/media\/uol\/docs\/study\/funded-ops\/2022-projects\/cse\/stfc\/stfc-sanchez-cano---pdf.pdf\">Project .pdf<\/a>)<\/li><li>Dr Tom Stallard &#8211;\u00a0Traces of Jupiter\u2019s magnetic field: the magnetic silhouette in Jupiter\u2019s ionosphere\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/le.ac.uk\/-\/media\/uol\/docs\/study\/funded-ops\/2022-projects\/cse\/stfc\/stfc-stallard.docx\">(Word doc)<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/le.ac.uk\/-\/media\/uol\/docs\/study\/funded-ops\/2022-projects\/cse\/stfc\/stfc-stallard---pdf.pdf\">Project .pdf<\/a>)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Earth Observation Projects<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Dr Robert Parker&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/centa.ac.uk\/studentship\/attributing-causes-of-extreme-fire-events-with-the-jules-land-surface-model-and-artificial-intelligence\/\">Attributing causes of extreme fire events with the JULES Land Surface Model and Artificial Intelligence<\/a><\/li><li>Dr Darren Ghent&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/centa.ac.uk\/studentship\/high-resolution-thermal-imaging-data-for-earth-observation-research-and-services\/\">High Resolution Thermal Imaging Data for Earth Observation Research and Services<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The School of Physics and Astronomy is pleased to announce that applications are open for several research projects across our research groups for September 2022. STFC Application deadline: 19th January 2022 &#8211; see this website for how to apply.NERC\/CENTA Application deadline: 7 January 2022 &#8211; see this website for how to apply. 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