PhD Studentship - Probing nuclear structure and nuclear astrophysics with radioactive ion beams (048917)

Supervisor name: Dr Daniel Doherty

Funding: Directly Funded Project (European/UK Students only)

Application Deadline: Sunday 13th of August (midnight)

Project Title:      Probing nuclear structure and nuclear astrophysics with radioactive ion beams

Project description:

Applications are invited for a fully funded Ph.D studentship within the Experimental Nuclear Physics Group at the University of Surrey (https://www.surrey.ac.uk/physics/cnrp/research_areas/experimental_nuclear/).

The funding is for a three-year research programme leading to the degree of Ph.D. The project will focus on key investigations relevant to both nuclear astrophysics and nuclear structure physics. The experimental work will take place mainly at leading international radioactive beam accelerator facilities including CERN, Argonne National Laboratory (Chicago), LNL (Italy), RIKEN (Tokyo) and TRIUMF (Vancouver) and will utilise a variety of state-of-the-art detector systems for both charged-particle and gamma-ray spectroscopy.

Eligibility: A first Class or Upper Second Honours degree (or equivalent overseas qualification) in an appropriate discipline (e.g., physics or mathematics and physics). You should be able to demonstrate excellent mathematical, analytic, programming skills. Some previous experience with radiation detector systems, experience with C/C++ programming and in performing Monte-Carlo simulations would be advantageous but is not essential.

This is a department funded studentship. The studentship covers the University tuition fees (at EU/UK level) and provides an annual tax free stipend (rate for 2016-2017 is £14,553 p.a. tax-free). NB it will not cover the overseas tuition fees (currently £17.5K or £20K from Oct 2017) for students who are outside of the EU.

Please apply via the ‘apply online’ button on the following link: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/postgraduate/physics-phd

References:       Two references required but only at interview stage

Application enquiries:   

Dan Doherty

Email- d.t.doherty@surrey.ac.uk             

Tel- 01483 68 6802

Closing Date: 13 Aug 2017
Category: PhD Studentships