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PhD projects 2017

PhD projects offered for starting in 2017 are listed below. Click on the project title to see a description of the project. You are encouraged to email directly the project supervisor to discuss it with them.

Email address (to be appended with @manchester.ac.uk) is shown in square brackets along with the supervisor name.

If you have ideas of your own for potential projects then please contact either a member of staff working within the relevant research area or else email the JBCA PhD admissions officer, Dr. Eamonn Kerins [Eamonn.Kerins] who can put you in contact with a member of staff.

Primary SupervisorProject Title
Prof. Philippa Browning
[Philippa.Browning]
Magnetic reconnection and heating the solar corona
Prof. Philippa Browning
[Philippa.Browning]
The origin of solar flare energetic particles and their observational signatures
Dr Eamonn Kerins
[Eamonn.Kerins]
Towards precision mass measurements of cool exoplanets using microlensing
Dr Eamonn Kerins
[Eamonn.Kerins]
Data mining the Galactic Centre: the near-infrared VVV survey
Dr Eamonn Kerins
[Eamonn.Kerins]
Transmission spectroscopy of exoplanet atmospheres
Prof. Clive Dickinson, Prof. Ian Browne (emeritus), Prof. Richard Battye
[Clive.Dickinson]
Intensity mapping for future radio cosmology surveys
Prof Michael Brown
[M.L.Brown]
Constraining the physics of the early Universe with CMB polarisation
Dr Rowan Smith
[Rowan.Smith]
Beads on a String: The formation of stars by filamentary accretion
Dr Rowan Smith and Dr Scott Kay
[Rowan.Smith]
How do galaxies form stellar nurseries throughout cosmic time?
Dr Rene Breton
[Rene.Breton]
Search and study of the extreme neutron stars
Prof. Albert Zijlstra
[A.Zijlstra]
The eyes of SPHERE
Prof Ben Stappers
[Ben.Stappers]
MeerTRAP - Searching for Pulsars with MeerKAT
Prof Ben Stappers
[Ben.Stappers]
MeerTRAP - Searching for Fast Radio Transients with MeerKAT
Prof Keith Grainge
[Keith.Grainge]
Understanding Blazar Jets - The OVRO 40-m Blazar Monitoring Program
Prof. Lucio Piccirillo
[Lucio.Piccirillo]
Design and construction of a continuous miniature dilution refrigerator for POLARBEAR2 and SIMONS array
Prof. Lucio Piccirillo
[Lucio.Piccirillo]
Design and development of very Low Noise Amplifiers with direct electron channel cooling
Prof. Lucio Piccirillo
[Lucio.Piccirillo]
Design and realization of a wide-band sub quantum noise parametric amplifier (paramp) based on the non linear kinetic inductance property of superconductors
Dr Neal Jackson
[Neal.Jackson]
Strong gravitational lens research at JBCA
Dr Malcolm Gray
[Malcolm.Gray]
Computational Models of Astrophysical Masers
Dr Malcolm Gray
[Malcolm.Gray]
The Origin of Maser Flares
Dr Malcolm Gray
[Malcolm.Gray]
Radiative Transfer of Radiation with OAM
Dr Malcolm Gray
[Malcolm.Gray]
Very High-Frequency Resolution Observations of Masers
Dr Paddy Leahy and Dr Anna Scaife
[j.p.leahy]
Magnetic fields around Radio Galaxies
Please do contact us if you have your own project ideas.