PhD in Chemistry - Digital Chemistry

Digital approaches to chemistry are becoming increasingly important, from robots performing chemical synthesis to machine learning supporting the interpretation of mass spectra. This theme brings together people working in these areas across the department.

Digital chemistry covers a wide range of activities across the department, either as research in its own right, or in supporting other research areas. The research theme aims to build a community equipped with the skills, capacity and capability to using new digital and artificial intelligence tools to enhance our capacity to make advanced discoveries within molecular science.

Research activities in this area include:

• Using machine learning approaches to predict, parameterize, optimise and explore a wide range of chemical reactions and systems (solvents development, atmospheric pollution, data analysis, spectral analysis, intelligent synthesis of dyes, liquid crystals etc).
• Developing new ways of automatically controlling experiments and analytical equipment through robotics and control systems.
• Developing and applying quantum chemical theory calculations to understand and predict molecular properties.

PhD applicants should have, or be expecting to achieve, a 2:1 undergraduate degree in Chemistry or a relevant, related discipline. We have research students from a range of backgrounds on a variety of projects. Please note that although 2:1 is the minimum requirement to be considered for a PhD, funded studentships are very competitive and it is likely that you would need to be predicted a high 2:1 / First class degree. IELTS: 6.0, with no less than 5.5 in each component TOEFL: 79, with a minimum of 17 in Listening, 18 in Reading, 20 in Speaking and 17 in Writing