PhD Grand Challenge Awards

This year has the potential to be the most exciting yet for SEPnet – a consortium of seven world-class universities focused on the future of physics. We’re now offering a range of fully-funded, prestigious PhD awards in 2012 to tackle these grand challenges in physics, aimed at high calibre UK and European Union students.

Research themes

There are thirteen studentships available for entry in 2012, with places at all seven SEPnet universities and in all four SEPnet research themes:

Available PhD Challenges

Our wide-ranging PhD challenges have the potential to change the face of physics. So, explore more about the specific challenges listed below and visit our PhD Grand Challenges section.

Multiferroic materials
Battery materials
Strongly-correlated systems
Molecular ions
Quantum information processing
Asteroidal YORP effect
The Ionosphere from LoFAR
Cosmology with clusters
SUSY and multileptons
Lepton number violation
X-ray imaging up to 150keV
Dark matter detection

Want to know more?

Find out how details of how to apply, key dates and other postgraduate study options on our PhD Grand Challenges page.