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PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy
Main Site
Full Time
May 2026
3 Year
The Department of Physics and Astronomy at the Queen Mary University of London is one of the UK’s elite research centres in internationally-leading research activities. The Department is made up of four research centres including our internationally-leading Astronomy Unit. The Astronomy Unit at Queen Mary is one of the largest astronomy and astrophysics research groups in the UK and our research programme encompasses a broad range of astrophysical phenomena across the universe, which we study with observational, theoretical, and simulational approaches.The research in the Astronomy Unit falls under three main themes:Cosmology and RelativityPlanet Formation and EvolutionSpace, Solar, and Astrophysical Plasmas.
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