{"id":456,"date":"2020-11-18T17:01:19","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T17:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/?p=456"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:37:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:37:30","slug":"phd-projects-for-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/2020\/11\/18\/phd-projects-for-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"PhD Projects for 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Several proposed STFC-supported and NERC-supported PhD studentships in Planetary Science, Astrophysics and Earth Observation will be available at the University of Leicester, starting in September 2021. \u00a0<\/em><\/strong>

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Application Deadline for STFC projects:\u00a0 January 20th<\/sup>\u00a02021.<\/u><\/strong>
Application Deadline for NERC\/CENTA projects:\u00a0 January 11th<\/sup>\u00a02021.<\/strong><\/span>

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The list of advertised projects can be found here<\/a>, including (but not limited to) topics in Planetary Science, Astrophysics, and Space hardware. STFC projects are listed here<\/a>, and this is where you’d likely be looking if you are interested in space science and astrophysics. Full details of funding eligibility requirements and the application process are available from the link above.  

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The full list is also available via FindAPhd<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Please do spread the word, and contact our postgraduate admissions team (pgrphys@le.ac.uk<\/a>), or the supervisors directly, for more information regarding the projects.  

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Astrophysics Projects<\/h2>\n\n\n\n


AST\/2021\/ALE<\/strong> The building blocks of planets<\/a> Supervisors: Richard Alexander and Giovanni Rosotti<\/p>\n\n\n\n


AST\/2021\/BUR<\/strong> Finding transiting exoplanets with NGTS<\/a> Supervisors: Matt Burleigh and Mike Goad<\/p>\n\n\n\n


AST\/2021\/GOA <\/strong>Mapping the central regions of AGN<\/a> Supervisors: Mike Goad and Simon Vaughan<\/p>\n\n\n\n


AST\/2021\/LAP <\/strong>Astronomy at extreme energies with the Cherenkov Telescope Array<\/a> Supervisors: Jon Lapington and Steve Leach<\/p>\n\n\n\n


AST\/2021\/NAY1<\/strong> Connecting exoplanet formation to the Solar system<\/a>  Supervisors: Sergei Nayakshin and Jon Nichols<\/p>\n\n\n\n


AST\/2021\/NAY2<\/strong> Sgr A*, our Galaxy\u2019s supermassive black hole<\/a>  Supervisors: Sergei Nayakshin and Andrew Blain<\/p>\n\n\n\n


AST\/2021\/NIC<\/strong> Modelling the upper atmospheres of brown dwarfs and exoplanets<\/a>  Supervisors: Jonathan Nichols and Tom Stallard<\/p>\n\n\n\n


AST\/2021\/NIX<\/strong> Black holes, planets and dynamic accretion discs in astrophysics<\/a>  Supervisors: Chris Nixon and Richard Alexander<\/p>\n\n\n\n


AST\/2021\/ROS<\/strong> Studying proto-planetary disc evolution with population synthesis<\/a>  Supervisors: Giovanni Rosotti and Richard Alexander<\/p>\n\n\n\n


AST\/2021\/STA<\/strong> The physics of energetic transients across the spectrum<\/a>  Supervisors: Rhaana Starling and Nial Tanvir<\/p>\n\n\n\n


AST\/2021\/TAN<\/strong> Multi-messenger astrophysics<\/a>  Supervisors: Nial Tanvir and Rhaana Starling<\/p>\n\n\n\n


AST\/2021\/WAT<\/strong> The AGN-galaxy connection: utilising the power of large sky surveys<\/a>  Supervisors: Mike Watson and Rhaana Starling<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Solar System Projects<\/h2>\n\n\n\n


APP\/2021\/HUT<\/strong> Signatures of Life: Development and use of novel spectroscopy techniques<\/a> Supervisors: Ian Hutchinson and Tom Stallard<\/p>\n\n\n\n


ATM\/2021\/FLE<\/strong> Exploring the Atmospheres of the Giant Planets with James Webb<\/a>  Supervisors: Leigh Fletcher and Jon Nichols<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Terrestrial Ionosphere-Magnetosphere Projects<\/h2>\n\n\n\n


GEO\/2021\/MIL<\/strong> Electrodynamics of the solar wind-magnetosphere-ionosphere-atmosphere coupled system<\/a>  Supervisors: Steve Milan and Suzie Imber<\/p>\n\n\n\n


PLA\/2021\/WRI\u00a0<\/strong>The transfer of solar wind energy into the upper atmosphere through magnetospheric waves<\/a> Supervisors: Darren Wright and\u00a0Tim Yeoman<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earth Observation Science<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hartmut Boesch\u00a0 CENTA2-PHYS4-BOES\u00a0\u00a0Machine Learning Methods for Satellite Remote Sensing in Support of CO2 Emission Monitoring\u00a0 \u00a0<\/a>

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John Remedios\u00a0\u00a0CENTA2-PHYS5-REME\u00a0\u00a0Using satellites to map the spatial characteristics of urban air pollution from aerosols at a time of climate change, health choices and pandemics\u00a0<\/a>

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Darren Wright\u00a0 CENTA2-PHYS1-WRIG\u00a0\u00a0Solar variability and forcing of the lower atmosphere<\/a>

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National Centre for Earth Observation <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Darren Ghent\u00a0 CENTA2-NCEO2-GHEN\u00a0\u00a0Improving temperature observations from Space to close the energy budget of the Earth in support of UNFCCC objectives and the Paris Agreement<\/a>

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Jeremy Harrison\u00a0 CENTA2-NCEO3-HARR\u00a0\u00a0Monitoring air quality from space: fast retrievals of short-lived atmospheric pollutants and precursors\u00a0<\/a>

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Robert Parker  CENTA2-NCEO4-PARK Peatland fires in cold regions and their impact on greenhouse gas emissions: constraining climate feedbacks using modelling and earth observations<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Several proposed STFC-supported and NERC-supported PhD studentships in Planetary Science, Astrophysics and Earth Observation will be available at the University of Leicester, starting in September 2021. \u00a0 Application Deadline for STFC projects:\u00a0 January 20th\u00a02021.Application Deadline for NERC\/CENTA projects:\u00a0 January 11th\u00a02021. The list of advertised projects can be found here, including (but not limited to) topics in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":256,"featured_media":118,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4,10,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-astro","category-graduates","category-planetary","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/256"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":567,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions\/567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}