Astrophysics PhD

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Research areas include: The extragalactic distance scale; gamma-rays bursts: their natures and use as cosmological probes; the formation and evolution of massive galaxies; physical conditions in extragalactic radio sources; intergalactic and outer halo stars; the role of bars in galaxy evolution; the fuelling of starbursts and active galaxies; the inner structure of active galactic nuclei; star formation and the interstellar medium.(read more)

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Astronomy PhD

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Develops advanced subject expertise at postgraduate level, and research skills through practice, and extensive research experience.(read more)

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Physics and Astronomy PhD

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: The School's research interest areas are: Astronomy and solar-terrestrial physics; quantum, light and matter physics (laser physics and nonlinear optics; magnetism and superconductivity; quantum control); theoretical high-energy physics (beyond the standard model and cosmology; field theory and string theory; lattice quantum chromodynamics and b-physics; phenomenology).(read more)

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Astronomy PhD

Study modes: Full time

Course description: Supervision available in: witnessing the formation of distant galaxies; galaxy evolution and environment; massive galaxy formation: mergers, star formation, black holes; dark matter in the early universe; the hidden universe; the origin of cosmic dust; galaxy evolution in a supercluster; detecting dark matter; dynamical archaeology in nearby elliptical galaxies; simulating galaxy groups; globular cluster survival.(read more)

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Astronomy and Astrophysics PhD

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: The group's research covers a wide range of observational, modeling, theoretical and technological interests.(read more)

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Planetary Science PhD

Study modes: Full time

Course description: Projects include: Modelling the Chicxulub impact - is crater asymmetry produced by impact angle or asymmetry in target rocks?; numerical methods for simulating ejection and survivability of meteorites from mars; the origin of meteorites in the solar system; planetary accretion and volatile depletion in the early solar system; platinum-group elements in the earth, moon, mars and meteorites; meteorites and their gases; methods for exomars.(read more)

All astronomy courses at Imperial College London

Astrophysics PhD

Study modes: Full time

Course description: Research embraces a wide range of observational, theoretical and instrumental programmes; from mapping galaxy formation in the early Universe; to modelling the formation of stars and planets in nearby interstellar space; and devising new ways of searching for gravitational waves.(read more)

All astronomy courses at Cardiff University

Astronomical Instrumentation and Cosmic Microwave Background Studies PhD

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Potential research projects include: data-taking and analysis of anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB); experimental design, data-taking and analysis for an experiment to measure the polarisation signal from the CMB; development of a new interferometric technique using bolometric detectors for making high angular resolution observations of the CMB and high-redshift galaxies.(read more)

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Astronomy PhD

Study modes: Full time

Course description: Study: theoretical cosmology; the formation, and evolution of galaxies; star formation; extra-solar planet detection via transits, and microlensing; the formation of planetary systems, and their discs; radiative transfer in the interstellar medium; magnetic fields around solar type stars; research topics: span full range from theoretical, and observational galactic, and stellar astronomy, to studies of star formation, and extra-solar planets.(read more)

All astronomy courses at University Of St Andrews

Astronomy PhD

Study modes: Full time

Course description: Supervision available for research in: accretion discs; astrophysical fluids and N-body systems; cosmology; gravitation; solar and stellar physics; solar system bodies and dynamics; space plasma physics.(read more)

All astronomy courses at Queen Mary, University Of London

Planetary Science DIC

Study modes: Full time

Course description: Projects include: Modelling the Chicxulub impact - is crater asymmetry produced by impact angle or asymmetry in target rocks?; numerical methods for simulating ejection and survivability of meteorites from mars; the origin of meteorites in the solar system; planetary accretion and volatile depletion in the early solar system; platinum-group elements in the earth, moon, mars and meteorites; meteorites and their gases; methods for exomars.(read more)

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Astronomy PhD

Study modes: Full time

Course description: Recent topics include: Extrasolar planets and stellar disks: stellar variability and planet finding, the search for occultations in the open cluster NGC 2362, on the formation and evolution of planetary systems, modelling origin of hot dust around sun-like stars, and warped and twisted disks; stellar structure and evolution: 2-dimensional stellar evolution, and evolution and nucleosynthesis of zero-metallicity AGB stars.(read more)

All astronomy courses at University Of Cambridge

Physics and Astronomy PhD

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Research interests include: Space and ionospheric physics, theoretical astrophysics, X-ray astronomy, solid- and liquid-state physics, quantum molecular theory, theoretical solid-state and surface physics, nuclear electronics, space plasma physics, earth observation science.(read more)

All astronomy courses at University Of Leicester

Astrobiology PhD

Study modes: Full time

Course description: Research areas include: the study of cosmological models including models of the background radiation; interstellar; interplanetary and cometary dust; early solar system; structure of comets; planetary atmospheres; near-Earth objects and cometary collisions with planets; and the origins of life.(read more)

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Astronomy/Astrophysics PhD

Study modes: Full time

Course description: Includes observational and theoretical research; observational research mainly performed using national facilities in Hawaii, La Palma and Australia; major current programmes include theoretical and observational studies of large-scale distribution of galaxies and quasars; galaxy formation problems (theoretical and via numerical simulations); evolution and environment of active galaxies; star forming regions and interstellar medium.(read more)

All astronomy courses at University Of Edinburgh