Unfunded PhD projects
The Department of Mathematical Sciences boasts an active research community with staff and students that are actively engaged in cutting edge research that is shaping the future.
We continuously invest in our student learning environment and research facilities to make Loughborough an excellent place to pursue academic aspirations, research interests and career goals and applications are invited for a number of studentships.
Project descriptions
Below are the studentship projects, click on each project title to see more details.
- Theory for electrolytes in confinement: structure and thermodynamics (supervisors: Andy Archer and Marco Mazza)
- Interacting transition states for reactions with several pathways (supervisors: Thomas Bartsch and Felix Plasser)
- Chaotic transition states in tri-atomic molecules (supervisors: Thomas Bartsch and Felix Plasser)
- Nijenhuis geometry (supervisors: Alexey Bolsinov and Evgeny Ferapontov)
- Coherent state methods in spectral asymptotics (supervisors: Jean-Claude Cuenin and Jonathan Eckhardt)
- Spectral Analysis and Integrable PDEs (supervisors: Jonathan Eckhard and Jean-Claude Cuenin)
- Multidimensional dispersionless equations: geometry and integrability (supervisors: Evgeny Ferapontov and Vladimir Novikov)
- Integration of experimental images with materials models (supervisors: Eugenie Hunsicker and Andrew Archer)
- Nonlinear strain waves in solid waveguides at very high strain rates (supervisors: Karima Khusnutdinova and Pablo Ruiz)
- Stability of surface and internal ring waves (supervisors: Karima Khusnutdinova and Dmitri Tseluiko)
- Skyrmionic matter (supervisors: Marco Mazza and Ioannis Rousochatzakis)
- Motility and self-organization of cyanobacteria colonies (supervisors: Marco Mazza and Andrew Archer)
- Liquid crystal microfluidics (supervisors: Marco Mazza and David Sibley)
- Quasi-satellite orbits in the planetary three-body problem (supervisors: Anatoly Neishtadt and Alexey Bolsinov)
- Integrability of semi-discrete systems (supervisors: Vladimir Novikov and Sara Lombardo)
- Birational geometry of Calabi-Yau varieties (supervisors: Artie Prendergast-Smith and Alan Thompson)
- Advances in Biological and Ecological Data Science (supervisors: Hideyasu Shimadzu and Diwei Zhou)
- Conway’s approach in arithmetic and geometric dynamics (supervisors: Alexander Veselov and Brian Winn)
- Geometry of vortex equilibria and complex roots of Wronskians (supervisors: Alexander Veselov and Brian Winn)
- Mathematical modelling of biodegradable magnesium implants for bone repair (supervisors: John Ward and Yang Liu)
- Using Statistical Machine Learning to Design Particles for Drug Delivery (supervisors: Diwei Zhou, Marijana Dragosavac and Zhaoxia Zhou)
- Mathematical modelling of wave-structure interaction with application to offshore engineering (supervisors: Emiliano Renzi and Alessandro Palmeri)
- Growth of a bacterial biofilm (supervisors: Marco Mazza and Andrew Archer)
- Granular physics and accretion discs (supervisors: Marco Mazza and David Sibley)