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PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy
The King's Buildings Campus
Full Time
Sep 2026
3 Year
Exploring nature at the tiniest scale, the Particle Physics group seeks to add to our understanding of the make-up of our universe.By joining our research group, you will be following in the footsteps of our celebrated emeritus professor, Peter Higgs, whose groundbreaking Higgs mechanism has excited the world of physics for decades and has been the focus of operations at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.You will also have the opportunity to confer and work with some of the greatest minds in physics today, through our links with leading conferences and international facilities.
