Science and Technology
School of Science and Technology
The School of Science and Technology invites applications from well qualified candidates, who have or expect to graduate with good first degrees or Masters level qualifications, to undertake doctoral studies in a range of the School’s subject areas.
The School of Science and Technology is located at the NTU Clifton Campus, a green belt campus just four miles from Nottingham city centre. Research in the School is extensive with over 120 academic staff and over 40 research fellows / assistants. The School supports a thriving postgraduate community of around 120 students, many funded by external sponsors. Students benefit from the support of the NTU Graduate School in addition to the subject specialist support from within the School.
In 2008 The Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), a national exercise which assesses the quality of research across all UK higher education institutions, rated research in Biomedical Sciences (UoA12) and in Applied Sciences / Engineering (UoA25) as world-leading and both were placed in the top-quartile of all submissions in the UK. Themes of particular strength include: 'Enabling and Cross-cutting Technologies for Biomedical Sciences', 'Health and Disease', 'Imaging Science and Engineering Applications', 'Intelligent Simulation and Networks' and 'Materials Engineering and Bio-Inspired Materials'.
Find out more about the projects available:
- Anisotropic dielectrophoresis: novel uses for liquid crystals, Professor Carl Brown
- Towards greener energy: Computational path-finding for materials optimization of ceria based fuel cells, Dr Christopher Castleton
- Identifying Novel Targets for Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes, Dr Mark Turner
- Mathematical modelling of epileptic seizure progression, Dr Jonathan Crofts
- Novel therapeutic beta-blockers for preventing disease progression in cancer, Professor John Wallis
- Efficient Delivery of Interactive Content via Large-Scale Wireless Mesh Networks, Dr Wanqing Tu
- New chemotherapeutic agents for the treatment of malaria, Professor Steve Allin
- Immunotherapy of Prostate Cancer Using Vaccination Against Cancer Stem Cells, Dr Tarik Regad
- Droplets of Active-Particle Suspensions, Dr David Fairhurst
- Proteomic analysis of mitochondrial toxicity in human stem cell-derived neural and hepatic cells, Dr Alan Hargreaves
- Multidimensional Analysis of Cerebral Cortex Microstructure, Dr Chris Tinsley
- A noisy flow model for uncertain wave dynamics in built-up vibroacoustic systems, Dr David Chappell
The studentships will pay UK / EU fees and provide a maintenance stipend linked to the RCUK rate (£13,590 per annum for 2012 / 13) for up to three years.
The closing date for applications is 9 am, Friday 15 February 2013.
