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PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy
The King's Buildings Campus
Full Time
Jan 2026
3 Year
We have established an enviable reputation for producing impactful work and sought-after graduates. Our group boasts the greatest breadth of expertise in the UK, which creates a research environment that allows for diversity, collaboration and a high level of understanding of the field as a whole. Our experimental research includes studies to identify both the baryonic and non-baryonic constituents of the universe, the influence of nuclear reactions on stellar explosions, and the quark substructures of hadrons. The main areas of our research include: photonuclear research exotic nuclei nuclear astrophysics silicon detector devices dark matter research
