PhD studentships in the AMOPP group

PhD studentships in the AMOPP group

The AMOPP group hosts a lively and vibrant research community with 17 principal investigators and more than 110 people overall, including PhD students, postdoctoral research associates and support staff. Research within the group spreads across a vast range of areas, such as

• quantum information processing and quantum technologies,
• atomic and molecular cooling and trapping,
• highly excited Rydberg states,
• quantum cavity optomechanics,
• quantum sensing,
• positron and positronium physics,
• ultracold laser spectroscopy and strong laser interactions,
• theoretical physics of molecules and quantum systems,
• astronomical spectroscopy,
• quantum collective dynamics in light-matter systems,
• quantum physics of biomolecular processes,
• macromolecular interactions in biological systems,
• attosecond, strong-field and free-electron-laser interactions of matter with light.

DTP Scholarships

To start in Autumn 2024; application deadline 1pm UK time on Jan 8^th 2024.

We warmly invite competitive applications for scholarships on the following seven projects, open to home and international candidates with an interest in pursuing research in theoretical or experimental physics:

• Exotic forms of matter in interaction of molecules with intense laser pulses (theory, Prof. Agapi Emmanouilidou)
• Non-adiabatic properties of nuclear motion (theory, Prof. Jonathan Tennyson)
• Probing the matter-antimatter-asymmetry problem using precision spectroscopy of positronium (experiment, Prof. David Cassidy)
• Hybrid Quantum Information processing with Rydberg atoms and Superconducting Circuits (experiment, Prof. Stephen Hogan)
• Polariton and circuit QED lattices: quantum simulations of correlated and topological states (theory, Prof. Marzena Szymanska)
• Quantum metrology with triatomic molecules to probe physics beyond the standard model (experiment, Dr. Luke Caldwell) 
• Ultimate estimation limits in electron-positron interactions (theory, Prof. Alessio Serafini)

If you are interested in applying, please contact the project’s supervisor directly. The application portal may be found here.

Further funding opportunities

• Research Excellence Scholarship (application deadline: Jan 12^th 2024)

Highly competitive scheme based on academic merit, open to both Home and International students.

• Research Opportunity Scholarship (application deadline: Jan 12^th 2024)

Based on academic merit and financial need, open to UK-permanent resident from one of the following BAME ethnic groups: Black or Black British - Caribbean; Black or Black British - African; Other Black background; Asian or Asian British - Bangladeshi; Asian or Asian British - Pakistani.

• China Scholarship Council – Joint Research Scholarship (application deadline: Jan 12^th 2024)

Open to citizen and permanent residents of the People’s Republic of China. Often combined with Dean’s Prize (see below).

• UCL Dean’s Prize (application deadline: Jan 17^th 2024)

The Dean’s Prize waivers international fees for students who have won a competitive scholarship.

Seaton award

An award of £1000 has been established in honour of Prof M Seaton FRS, distinguished atomic physicist and former member of the group. This award will assist new students joining the AMOPP group. One recipient will be selected by the group every year on the basis of academic merit and particular circumstances (e.g., students coming from abroad or moving to London).