Funded PhD studentships

There are currently no funded PhD opportunities.

PhD projects for self-funded applicants

The applications are invited from exceptional candidates. The projects listed below are offered without studentships on the understanding that successful applicants will secure funding to cover tuition fees and living costs from external sources by themselves. Additionally, each year the College offers limited number of studentships for home and international students, please check the deadlines (usually January each year) and apply for funding directly [here] . Please contact Professor Zayats to discuss the project of interest in advance.

Ultrafast and time-varying media

The PhD project involves fabrication of metasurfaces and metamaterials for engineering time-varying optical properties and their optical characterization using ultrafast optical spectroscopy. Purely theoretical projects in the field of time-varying media are also available.

Optical vector vortex field topologies

The PhD project involves design, nanofabrication and optical studies of metasurfaces to control complex optical beams for applications in chirality sensing, polarisation control, and optical skyrmions. Purely theoretical projects are also available.

Dynamic metasurfaces

The PhD project involves fabrication and optical characterisation of advanced nanophotonic nanostructures for active control of optical properties and/or sensing applications.

Controlling photochemistry with plasmonic heterostructures

The PhD project involves fabrication of plasmonic nanostructures and characterisation of their photocatalytic properties.

Hot carrier dynamics in plasmonic photocatalysis

The PhD project involves fabrication of plasmonic nanostructures and their optical characterization using ultrafast optical spectroscopy to understand and control their photocatalytic properties.

For all the projects please contact Professor Anatoly Zayats before applying online here.