2022 PhD Projects

Diamond Joint PhD Studentships 2022

Below are the studentships starting in October 2022 that are linked with Diamond Light Source. These studentships will be fully funded, and will all involve time spent at the synchrotron building.

Applications for some of these projects may not yet have opened however you are welcome to register your interest by clicking the button below and completing the form. You can register your interest for as many projects as you like and we will get in touch with you by email to let you know when applications for specific projects have opened.

Life Sciences: 2022 PhD Projects

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Across multiple timescales and length scales: Using in-situ X-ray scattering to understand hierarchical MOF assembly [STU0453]

Collaborating Institutions: University of Birmingham
Supervisors: Andrew Smith, Phil Chater and Hamish Yeung Applications are open

Investigating the structural dynamics and inhibition of the two cysteine proteases of SARS-CoV-2 and related coronaviruses [STU0435]

Collaborating Institution: University of Oxford Supervisors: Martin Walsh, Jos Kamps and Christopher Schofield Applications are closed

Time Resolved Crystallography of Multifunctional Heme Enzymes [STU0436]

Collaborating Institutions: University of Essex
Supervisors: Mike Hough and Jonathan Worrall Applications are closed

In situ structural cell biology – studying bioenergetics at the nanoscope [STU0437]

Collaborating Institution: University College London (UCL)
Supervisors: Karen Davies and Amandine Marechal Applications are closed

A study on microplastics interference in mammalian cells metabolism via Infrared Microimaging and Nanospectroscopy [STU0438]

Collaborating Institution: King's College London
Supervisors: Gianfelice Cinque and Ka Lung Andrew Chan Applications are closed

Ultrastructural and functional analyses of extracellular vesicles (EVs) in arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) symbiosis [STU0452]

Collaborating Institutions: University of Oxford
Supervisors: Andrew Howe and Ronelle Roth Applications are closed

InFUSE Partnership (Imperial College London and Shell): 2022 PhD Projects

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Chemical Transport and Adsorption in Hierarchical Porous Solids

Collaborating Institution: Imperial College London
Supervisors: Dr Ronny Pini, Prof Camille Petit, Prof Martin Blunt Applications are open

Minimal surfaces in porous materials: wettability design for optimal flow performance

Collaborating Institution: Imperial College London
Supervisors: Prof Martin Blunt, Dr Branko Bijeljic, Prof Jerry Heng Applications are open

Mineralisation Processes for CO2 Storage

Collaborating Institution: Imperial College London
Supervisors: Dr Sam Krevor, Prof Martin Trusler, Prof Mary Ryan, Steffen Berg, Sharif Ahmed Applications are open

Physical Sciences: 2022 PhD Projects

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Unravelling magnetic-ion-induced electric polarization in doped M-type hexaferrites [STU0416]

Collaborating Institution: University of York
Supervisors: Paul Steadman and Stuart Cavill Applications are open

Insights on metal nanocluster (de)hydrogenation for on-board hydrogen storage application using electron microscopy and spectroscopy techniques [STU0432]

Collaborating Institution: University of Nottingham Supervisors: Mohsen Danaie, David Duncan, Jesum Alves Fernandes and David Grant Applications are open

High temperature total scattering studies of metallic systems [STU0439]

Collaborating Institution: University of Sheffield
Supervisors: Philip Chater and Lewis Owen Applications are open

Revealing Electrochemical Defects in Commercial Li-ion Cathodes with 3D-delta-PDF [STU0440]

Collaborating Institution: University College London (UCL)
Supervisors: Christine Beavers, Dean Keeble, Alexander Rettie and Rhodri Jervis Applications are open

Advanced microcrystallisation solutions for serial crystallography [STU0441]

Collaborating Institutions: Cardiff University and XFEL Hub for Physical Sciences
Supervisors: Mark Warren, Lauren Hatcher and James Green Applications are open

Developing Solutions for Data Fusion [STU0446]

Collaborating Institution: Imperial College London Supervisors: Paul Quinn, Satheesh Maheswaran, Daniele Dini and Finn Giuliani Applications are open

Eliminating defects in wide bandgap materials for power electronics reliability [STU0447]

Collaborating Institution: University of Warwick and Bruker Ltd

Supervisors: Oliver Fox, Vishal Ajit Shah and Tamzin Lafford Applications are open

Correlative X-ray and Neutron Studies of Li-ion Battery Performance and Degradation [STU0450]

Collaborating Institution: University College London (UCL) and ISIS Neutron and Muon Source

Supervisors: Christoph Rau, Paul Shearing and Martin Owen Jones Applications are open

X-ray absorption and neutron spectroscopies of novel conducting thermoelectric MOFs [STU0451]

Collaborating Institution: Southampton University and ISIS Neutron and Muon Source

Supervisors: Luke Keenan, Fred Mosselmans, Iris Nandhakumar and Svemir Rudic Applications are open

Unravelling the Giant Piezoelectric Effect in ferroics under in situ external stimuli using Diffuse Multiple Scattering [STU0454]

Collaborating Institution: University of Warwick Supervisors: Gareth Nisbet and Thomas Hase Applications are open

FAIR synchrotron data, from theory to implementation: understanding and evaluating the technical, social and policy implications [STU0460]

Collaborating Institution: University of Oxford
Supervisors: Steve Collins and Susanna-Assunta Sansone Applications are open

In-situ gating and strain-tuning of electronic properties of correlated oxide heterostructures [STU0445]

Collaborating Institution: University of Wuerzburg Supervisors: Tien-Lin Lee and Ralph Claessen Applications opening soon

Elucidation of Confined Catalytic Sites and Adsorption Intermediates in Crystalline Porous Structures for Renewable Ammonia Reactions [STU0442]

Collaborating Institution: University of Oxford Supervisors: Sarah Day and Edman Tsang Applications are closed

Imaging of antiferromagnetic domains by soft X-ray microscopy [STU0443]

Collaborating Institution: University of Oxford Supervisors: Sarnjeet Dhesi and Paolo Radaelli Applications are closed

in-situ study of CO2 reduction on microcrystals [STU0444]

Collaborating Institution: University of Liverpool Supervisors: Francesco Carla and Yvonne Grunder Applications are closed

How do non-crystalline environments affect high-temperature single-molecule magnetism? [STU0448]

Collaborating Institution: University of Manchester Supervisors: Shusaku Hayama and Michael Baker Applications are closed

Developing X-ray spectroscopy techniques to investigate uranium biogeochemistry in contaminated land and nuclear decommissioning systems [STU0449]

Collaborating Institution: University of Manchester

Supervisors: Fred Mosselmans and Samuel Shaw Applications are closed