2021 PhD Projects

Diamond PhD studentships starting in 2021

Below are the studentships starting in October 2021 that are linked with Diamond Light Source.

These studentships will be fully funded, and will all involve time spent at the synchrotron building.

Technical: 2021 PhD Projects

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Feasibility of Cherenkov Diffraction Radiation Beam Position Monitor for high-energy electron machines

Collaborating Institution: Royal Holloway, University of London (RHUL)
Supervisors: Lorraine Bobb and Pavel Karataev Applications are closed

Provision for Timing Mode Users at Multi-Bend Achromat Synchrotron Light Sources

Collaborating Institution: University of Oxford Supervisors: Ian Martin and Philip Burrows Applications are closed

Life Science: 2021 PhD Projects

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Cryogenic sample preparation to facilitate next-generation cryo-ET of stem cells

Collaborating Institutions: University of Oxford/The Rosalind Franklin Insitute
Supervisors: Alistair Siebert, Maud Dumoux, James Naismith Applications are closed

Getting more from low-resolution methods: the combination of SAXS and atomistic molecular simulation

Collaborating Institution: University of Southampton
Supervisors: Robert Rambo, Jonathan Essex Applications are closed

A Novel CpG Targeting Domain in the Histone Acetyltransferase KAT6A

Collaborating Institution: University of Nottingham
Supervisors: Ralf Flaig and David Heery Applications are closed

Developing novel approaches for time resolved structural biology

Collaborating Institutions: University of Southampton/University of Sussex/Centre for Hybrid Biodevices at Southampton
Supervisors: Allen Orville, Pierre Aller, Agata Butryn and Ivo Tews Applications are closed

Multimodal bioimaging of viral replication organelles and inclusion bodies

Collaborating Institutions: The Pirbright Institute/University of Oxford/STRUBI
Supervisors: James Gilchrist, Daniel Clare, Pippa Hawes, Dalan Bailey, Toby Tuthil, Elizabeth Fry and David Stuart Applications are closed

Charting Cytoskeleton-Organelle Interplay in Living Cells Through High Resolution 3D Correlative Cryo-Imaging

Collaborating Institution: University of Oxford/Linkam Scientific Instruments
Supervisors: Ilias Kounatidis, Maria Harkiolaki, Petros Ligoxygakis Applications are closed

Novel Chiroptical Imaging of Optoelectronic Materials using B23

Collaborating Institution: Imperial College London
Supervisors: Giuliano Siligardi, Matthew Fuchter and Jessica Wade Applications are closed

Microfluidics for Synchrotron to unlock structural changes in biomolecules

Collaborating Institution: University of Leeds
Supervisors: Nicholas Terrill, Nikil Kapur and Arwen Tyler Applications are closed

Physical Sciences: 2021 PhD Projects

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Engineering magnetic interfaces for the high temperature quantum anomalous Hall effect

Collaborating Institution: Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics
Supervisors: Matthew Watson, Niels Schroeter and Stuart Parkin Applications are closed

Imaging and Manipulating Antiferromagnetic Dynamics: From Domain Walls to Single Spins

Collaborating Institution: University of Nottingham
Supervisors: Sarnjeet Dhesi, Philip Moriarty and Peter Wadley Applications are closed

Investigation of novel electrode structure for a new class of conversion electrode materials in solid-state batteries by in operando X-ray and neutron imaging

Collaborating Institution: King's College London/ISIS
Supervisors: Thomas Connolley, Oxana Magdysyuk, Chun Huang and Genoveva Burca Applications are closed

Correlative spectromicroscopy to advance metallomics: application to Progressive Supranuclear Palsy

Collaborating Institution: University of Warwick
Supervisors: Kalotina Geraki, Konstantin Ignatyev and Joanna Collingwood Applications are closed

DFT-aided analysis of soft X-ray photoemission and absorption data for novel oxide catalysts

Collaborating Institution: University of Reading Supervisors: Pilar Ferrer Escorihuela, Dave Grinter, Georg Held and Ricardo Grau-Crespo Applications are closed

Correlating and controlling surface structure and electronic structure in ruthenate oxides

Collaborating Institution: University of St Andrews Supervisors: Hadeel Hussain, Chris Nicklin, Phil King and Peter Wahl Applications are closed

High-pressure synthesis and X-ray diffraction studies of hydride high-temperature superconductors

Collaborating Institution: University of Bristol Supervisors: Simone Anzellini, Sven Friedemann and Oliver Lord Applications are closed

High Energy Single-Crystal Microdiffraction on I15 Applied to Noble-Gas Compounds

Collaborating Institution: University of Edinburgh/ Jožef Stefan Institute (Ljubljana, Slovenia) Supervisors: Christine Beavers, Simon Parsons and Matic Lozinšek Applications are closed

Stopping tooth decay before it begins: Biomimetic Innovative Technologies for dental Enamel Wellbeing (BITE Well)

Collaborating Institution: University of Leeds Supervisors: Christina Reinhard, Maisoon Al-Jawad and Robert Davies Applications are closed

Insights on metal nanocluster (de)hydrogenation for on-board hydrogen storage application using electron microscopy and spectroscopy techniques

Collaborating Institution: University of Nottingham Supervisors: Thomas Slater, David Duncan, Jesum Alves Fernandes and Xuanli Luo Applications are closed

Interfacial magnetism in topological insulator heterostructures

Collaborating Institution: University of Oxford/ISIS Supervisors: Dirk Backes, Thorsten Hesjedal and Sean Langridge Applications are closed

Defining the Role of Defects via Spectroscopic Mapping of Thin Film Lead Halide Perovskites

Collaborating Institution: University of Cambridge Supervisors: Stuart Bartlett, Ann Fitzpatrick and Sam Stranks Applications are closed

Pair correlations and treatment of disorder in Magic Size Clusters

Collaborating Institution: Queen Mary University of London Supervisors: Diego Gianolio, Andrei Sapelkin and Anthony Phillips Applications are closed

Reflectivity ferromagnetic resonance (RFMR) for layer-resolved dynamic study of multi-layered systems

Collaborating Institution: University of Oxford Supervisors: Garrit van der Laan and Thorsten Hesjedal Applications are closed