Current research degree projects
Explore our current postgraduate research degree and PhD opportunities.
Explore our current postgraduate research degree and PhD opportunities.
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 PhD project within the Hybrid Quantum Networks Laboratory, concerns the development of a quantum optical memory – a device that stores and recalls on-demand quantum photonic states – to allow for synchronisation capability that will be crucial to scale up a future quantum photonic network.
The project focuses on the theory, algorithms and applications for Machine Learning (ML) based on generalised nonconvex low-rank models. The goals include designing faster algorithm, understanding the working principle behind ML, applying ML to solve application problems.
This project will combine dislocation theory, microstructure modelling and finite element analysis to predict crack nucleation and growth in rail steels. Modelling will be matched with advanced charactersiation. Both rolling contact fatigue and wear conditions will be studied.