London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN) PhD Positions 2024

The London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN) is offering a diverse range of PhD opportunities for the year 2024 in Quantum Technologies. These positions are available under the supervision of leading researchers at University College London (UCL) and are fully funded by the EPSRC. The studentships are available to both Home and Overseas students and span four years. Below, you’ll find a detailed list of available PhD projects along with their specifics:

1. Fundamental Physics and Applications with Quantum Levitated Optomechanics

• Supervisor: Peter Barker
• Location: UCL, Physics & Astronomy

2. Electric Field Control of Quasiparticle Wavefunctions in Organic Semiconductors

• Supervisor: Jochen Blumberger
• Location: UCL, Physics & Astronomy

3. Solid-state Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics

• Supervisor: Jon Breeze
• Location: UCL, Physics & Astronomy

4. Quantum Sensing Technology for Early Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease

• Supervisor: Neil Burgess
• Location: UCL, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience

5. Quantum Metrology with Triatomic Molecules

• Supervisor: Luke Caldwell
• Location: UCL, Physics & Astronomy

6. Picosecond Accuracy Time Synchronization for Quantum Communication Networks

• Supervisor: Kari Clark
• Location: UCL, Electronic and Electrical Engineering

7. Fabricating Single Atom Lattices for Quantum Science

• Supervisor: Taylor Stock
• Location: UCL, London Centre for Nanotechnology

8. Coherence and Entanglement in the Attosecond Domain

• Supervisor: Carla Figueira de Morisson Faria
• Location: UCL, Physics & Astronomy

9. Tensor Networks for Quantum Simulation and Software

• Supervisor: Andrew Green
• Location: UCL, London Centre for Nanotechnology

10. Hybrid Quantum Information Processing

• Supervisor: Stephen Hogan
• Location: UCL, Physics & Astronomy

11. An Electrically Addressable Spin Qubit in InGaAs

• Supervisor: Stuart Holmes
• Location: UCL, Electronic and Electrical Engineering

12. Engineering Correlation Effects in Quantum Structures

• Supervisor: Sanjeev Kumar
• Location: UCL, Electronic and Electrical Engineering

13. Coherent Coupling Between Magnons and Photons

• Supervisor: Hidekazu Kurebayashi
• Location: UCL, London Centre for Nanotechnology

14. Quantum Sensing for Biology with Optically Addressable Spin Defects

• Supervisor: Benjamin Miller
• Location: UCL, London Centre for Nanotechnology/Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering

15. Superconducting Quantum Circuits for Magnetic Resonance

• Supervisor: John Morton
• Location: UCL, London Centre for Nanotechnology

16. Investigating Quantum Advantage with Non-classical Light Sources

• Supervisor: Alexandra Olaya-Castro
• Location: UCL, Physics & Astronomy

17. Precision Tests on the Quantum Nature of Gravity

• Supervisor: Jonathan Oppenheim
• Location: UCL, Physics & Astronomy

18. New Quantum Phenomena in Semiconductor Nanostructures

• Supervisor: Michael Pepper
• Location: UCL, London Centre for Nanotechnology

19. Next-generation Quantum Sensors for Medical Applications

• Supervisor: Ferruccio Renzoni
• Location: UCL, Physics & Astronomy

Application Deadline: 19 April, 2024 is the last date to submit your application for any of the above mentioned LCN PhD positions.

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