PhD Studentships
Current PhD vacancies are listed below. See the postgraduate pages for more information on our PhD programmes.
Current Available Studentships
Computational Chemistry Studentships
The interaction of brucite surfaces with uranium and its fission products – Prof Nik Kaltsoyannis
Publication date: 23 April 2013
Summary: A PhD studentship is available to work with Professor Nik Kaltsoyannis (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chemistry/staff/academic_pages/nik_kaltsoyannis), to study computationally the interactions of brucite (Mg(OH)2) surfaces with uranium and its fission products. The position is funded jointly by UCL (through its Impact Award Scheme) and the UK’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (via the National Nuclear Laboratory). This studentship is available from September 2013, and is open to all suitably qualified UK and EU students.
Ab initio simulations of water and ice - Dr Angelos Michaelides
Publication date: 1 May 2012
Summary: Several PhD positions in theoretical chemistry are available involving the application and development of electronic structure techniques to problems in nanotechnology relating to the interfacial properties of water and ice.
Applications for Research Engineers for the Engineering Doctorate Centre in Molecular Modelling and Materials Simulation - Prof Nora de Leeuw
Publication date: 1 May 2012
Summary: Applications are invited for Research Engineers for the Engineering Doctorate Centre in Molecular Modelling and Materials Simulation. The Engineering Doctorate Centre is jointly run by the Departments of Chemistry, Earth Sciences and Physics and the Birkbeck Industrial Materials Group. All the Departments have significant (internationally-leading) research programmes in the area of materials computer modelling over a range of length- and time-scales.
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Inorganic and Materials Chemistry Studentships
Biological and Organic Chemistry Studentships
Targeted epigenetic reprogramming using chemical biological tools - Dr Stefan Howorka
Publication date: 22 June 2012
Closing date: 30th June 2012
Summary: Applications are invited for a 3-year PhD studentship commencing in October
2012. The proposed project will develop a research tool to achieve conditional and
sequence-specific alteration of DNA methylation patterns in vitro and in vivo,
something which is currently not possibly. The approach will potentially lead to
a novel treatment for cancer. The project will encompass the chemical synthesis
of the research reagent and its characterization using epigenetic, biochemical
and cell biological assays. The PhD candidate will receive training within a
research group and via the PhD training programme.
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Physical Chemistry Studentships
Atomic scale imaging and local spectroscopy of CeO2 - Prof Geoff Thornton
Publication date: 5 March 2012
PhD Studentship (to start October 2012)
London Centre for Nanotechnology
University College London
Summary: Applications are invited for a 4-year PhD studentship. The aim of this project is to provide an understanding of the chemical physics of single-crystalline CeO2 in relation to hydrogen production.

