2022 Placements

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Physical Science Placements

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Structure and chemical reactivity in photoelectrochemical systems (22005Y)

The aim of this project is to develop and test a sample environment for characterizing photoelectrochemical processes during surface x-ray diffraction experiments. Photo-electrochemical processes are particular electrochemical processes that involve the transformation of light in other form of energy.... Applications are now closed

Mineralization in marine algae using synchrotron light (22007Y)

Biominerals are hard tissues grown by organisms, and can be made of many different materials and designs, that often have surprising or useful material properties. One example of this is coccolithophores... Applications are now closed

Technical Placements

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Design, Analysis, Modelling and Testing of a Magnetically Levitating Motion Stage - Electronics (22009Y)

The stability and accuracy of sample scanning stages directly define the Synchrotron X-ray microscope tomography & ptychography resolution... Applications are now closed

Design, Analysis, Modelling and Testing of a Magnetically Levitating Motion Stage - Mechanical (22010Y)

The stability and accuracy of sample scanning stages directly define the Synchrotron X-ray microscope tomography & ptychography resolution. ... Applications are now closed

Design, Model and Assemble a Multi-Temperature Chemistry Reactor (22011Y)

In this project, you will use your design and prototyping skills to make a multi-temperature reactor array. The reactor will use a combination of different materials, geometry, and control engineering to generate different heating zones for chemical reactions... Applications are now closed

Life Science Placements

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Development of correlative cryo-imaging solutions for the in cellulo assessment of side effects and efficacy of pharmaceuticals (22001Y)

To date, methods employed for drug development and pre-clinical assessment are primarily based on physicochemical parameters such as proteomics, NMR, spectroscopy, calorimetry and ELISA... Applications are now closed

Structural and Functional Studies of Small Membrane Proteins (22004Y)

Recent biomedical advances including anti-viral and anti-cancer immunotherapies, and structure-based drug design are driven by insights from structural biology. Despite notable structure-based successes... Applications are now closed

Software Placements

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Enabling artificial intelligence capabilities in Savu software (22002Y)

Savu is a Python package, developed in the Data Analysis Group, used to process and reconstruct parallel-beam tomography data. Data processing pipelines in Savu can be built using plugins stacked together... Applications are now closed

Fast Beam-Based Alignment for the Diamond Storage Ring (22003Y)

This project will develop a new software tool to speed up the routine procedure of preparing the Diamond Storage Ring for user operation following a shutdown or intervention.... Applications are now closed

Developing an interactive web interface for a ptychographic imaging application (22006Y)

Ptychography is a high-resolution imaging technique widely used at the Diamond Light Source for research in fields such as Biology, Chemistry, Material Science and many more.... Applications are now closed

Next generation AI vision 22008Y)

You will be working on cutting-edge technologies that will pave the way for the next evolution in AI Vision..... Applications are now closed

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