- Location:
Edinburgh
How to Apply
Synopses of the projects available, web pages and email addresses of supervisors from whom further details are available, and information on how to apply can all be found at http://www.hw.ac.uk/schools/engineering-physical-sciences/research/james-watt.htm.
Applications must be made through the Heriot-Watt on-line application system, https://www.hw.ac.uk/study/apply/uk/postgraduate.htm
New projects are being added all the time. For questions about the application process, please contact pgr.eps@hw.ac.uk
Closing Date: 14th February 2021. All successful candidates must commence studies by September/October 2021.
List of Scholarships
EPS2021/01: Bioelectric devices for quality assessment in human islet transplant surgery
EPS2021/02: Tracking of ultrasound microbubbles beyond the diffraction limit for microvessel mapping.
EPS2021/03: Super-resolution ultrasound microbubble tracking.
EPS2021/04: Deep Eutectic Solvent and Supercritical Fluid Extraction of High Value Chemicals from Agri-Food Waste
EPS2021/05: By-PATH: By-products to protein and algae to HydrogenEPS2021/06: Microfluidic sample preparation for circulating nucleic acid based bloodstream infection identification
EPS2021/07: Improved sample processing techniques for waterborne pathogen detection
EPS2021/08: Primary school engineers: tackling stereotypes and inspiring the next generation
EPS2021/09: PhD Position in Computational Organometallic Chemistry and Catalysis.
EPS2021/10: Surface-Hopping Dynamics of Electronically Excited Processes in Photochemistry and Scattering
EPS2021/11: Inelastic and Reactive Scattering Dynamics of NO and OH
EPS2021/12 Dynamics of Atmospherically Relevant Gas-Liquid Surface Reactions I: Velocity-Map Imaging Probes
EPS2021/13: Dynamics of Atmospherically Relevant Gas-Liquid Surface Reactions II: Real-Space Imaging and Advanced Laser Absorption Probes
EPS2021/14: Reactive-Atom Scattering as a Novel Probe of Ionic-Liquid Surfaces
EPS2021/15: Cheap and Clean: Zero Waste Catalytic Generation of Bio-based Fine Chemicals via Hydrogen Mediated Pathways
EPS2021/16: Biodegradable polymer platform for co-delivery of antibiotics with controlled release
EPS2021/17: Compressible Turbulence Models from Transformed Navier-Stokes Equation Perspectives
EPS2021/18: Particle-laden flows: aerosols
EPS2021/19: Particle-laden flows: aerosols
EPS2021/20: Model development and simulation of novel processes for CO2 direct air capture from the atmosphere – PhD in Chemical Engineering
EPS2021/21: Production of solar fuels
EPS2021/22: Sustainable Cold Chain from Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) from Regasification Sites
EPS2021/23: Understanding reactive flow in porous media
EPS2021/24: Design of multifunctional Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs)-based materials for carbon capture and photocatalytic conversion
EPS2021/25: Developing ocean alkalinity enhancement technologies to prevent climate change and protect ecosystems
EPS2021/26: Tracking the fate of plastic biodegradation under environmentally relevant conditions
EPS2021/27: Crumbling reefs: Simulation based monitoring of coral reefs
EPS2021/28: Fast and effective personalised multiscale modelling for precision medicine in musculoskeletal diseases.
EPS2021/29: Design of a collaborative parallel robot
EPS2021/30: Development of a smart precision 3D assembly system
EPS2021/31: Biomechanical and tissue material assessment using camera-based motion tracking – applications in clinical diagnostics
EPS2021/32: Next-Generation Astrocombs
EPS2021/33: Practical free-space quantum communications
EPS2021/34: Novel optical beam steering for quantum communications
EPS2021/35: High-speed imaging technology and applications
EPS2021/36: High-speed Secure optical communication
EPS2021/37: Under-water Optical Communication system
EPS2021/38: Project Title: Deep ultraviolet laser sources for healthcare and industry
EPS2021/39: Biophotonics for healthcare with fibre optics and single photon detection
EPS2021/40: Ultrafast lasers for surgical applications
EPS2021/41: Laser controlled nanoparticle deposition
EPS2021/42: New optical components and devices from micro-structured fibres
EPS2021/43: SiC quantum devices for quantum networking
EPS2021/44: Adaptive Learning for quantum sensing
EPS2021/45: Next-Generation Astrocombs
EPS2021/46: Strongly correlated states in designer two-dimensional moiré heterostructures
EPS2021/47: Engineering scalable coherent coupling among artificial atoms
EPS2021/48: Laser-based manufacture of a micro-needle sensing platform for electrophysiology testing
EPS2021/49: NOVEL PLATFORMS FOR INTEGRATED QUANTUM DEVICES BASED ON RARE EARTH DOPED INSULATING MATERIALS
EPS2021/50: Quantum-Enhanced Imaging in Extreme Environments
EPS2021/51: Next Generation Components for Quantum Communications
EPS2021/52: The photonic Lattice Gauge Theory emulator
EPS2021/53: PhD Studentship in Integrated Nonlinear Photonics
EPS2021/54: 3D Beam Shaping for Laser Based-Manufacturing
EPS2021/55: Laser Material-Interactions on the Ultra-fast scale
EPS2021/56: 3D Printing of Ceramics
EPS2021/57: Optical neural networks for shaping light
EPS2021/58: High-dimensional measurement device independent quantum technologies
EPS2021/59: Quantum Photonics in Space and Time
EPS2021/60: Controlling electron transport for molecular quantum devices
EPS2021/61: Optimising protocols for quantum-enhanced spin-based magnetometry
EPS2021/62: Bio-inspired quantum-enhanced light harvesting
EPS2021/63: 2D material enhanced nonlinear integrated photonics
EPS2021/64: Dynamic wavefront engineering via epsilon-near-zero nonlinearities
EPS2021/65: Theoretical project on quantum communication and quantum information
EPS2021/66: Underwater single-photon depth imaging
EPS2021/67: Photoelectron Circular Dichroism as a Chiral Probe
EPS2021/68: Project Title: Using synthetic biology to develop new labels for super-resolution microscopy
EPS2021/69: Wearable flexible electronic system for monitoring of the rehabilitation of patients.
EPS2021/70: Innovative Measurement System for Remote Monitoring of Biosignals
EPS2021/71: Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces (IRS) for 6G Communications and Smart Buildings
EPS2021/72: Novel algorithms for robust and scalable computational imaging: from deep learning, optimisation, and Bayesian inference theories, to applications in astronomy and medicine.
EPS2021/73: Robust and scalable methods for multi-sensor 2D/3D imaging through obscurants
EPS2021/74: Digital surrogate of a microwave sensor system
EPS2021/75: Empowering Self-Sustainable Internet of Things Using Environmental-Aware Multi-Source Energy Harvesting Systems
EPS2021/76: Computational methods for event-based imaging and sensing
EPS2021/77: Variational and message passing algorithms for scalable inference in computational imaging problems
EPS2021/78: Computational methods for particle detection and tracking in microfluidic devices for medical diagnostics using event-based cameras
EPS2021/79: Anomaly detection with heterogeneous data
EPS2021/80: Utilization of novel photosensitive compounds in medical and manufacturing applications
EPS2021/81: Theory for high-temperature one-dimensional (1D) superconductors
EPS2021/82: Advanced photo- and thermo-electrochemical flow cell for energy conversion and storage
EPS2021/83: Experimental quantum networking
EPS2021/84: Satellite quantum photonics
EPS2021/85: New materials for electrochemical energy storage and conversion devices
EPS2021/86: Fundamentals and applications of scattering at the gas-liquid interface
EPS2021/87: Novel Methods for Modelling Photochemical Dynamics
EPS2021/88: Stereodynamics of Gas-Phase Electronic Quenching: Experiment and Theory
EPS2021/89: Modelling Solid-State Molecular OrganoMetallic (SMOM) Chemistry
EPS2021/90: Plasma Recycling of Polymers as Value Added Organics
