“Solar and Space Physics” research group at Northumbria University is inviting applications for multiple fully-funded PhD studentships for a September/October 2024 start

The Solar and Space Physics research group at Northumbria University is inviting applications for multiple fully-funded PhD studentships for a September/October 2024 start. The closing date for applications is Sunday 2nd June 2024.

We offer:

  • 3-year, fully-funded PhD studentship (funded via the Leverhulme Trust)
  • 4-year, fully-funded Centre for Doctoral Training in Data Intensive Science PhD studentship (funded via STFC)
  • 4-year, fully-funded PhD studentship (funded via Royal Society, note: this opportunity has a later deadline of Thursday 20th June 2024),

Details of these PhD opportunities can be found on to the Group’s research webpage.

The webpage has all the info but, in summary, we are advertising:

3-year, fully-funded PhD studentship (deadline = 2nd June 2024, Home student only):

  • A Bayesian inference approach to solving Poisson equation for 3D vector fields

4-year, fully-funded STFC Centre for Doctoral Training in Data Intensive Science PhD studentship (deadline = 2nd June 2024, Home student only):

  • AI for smart spacecraft control
  • Construction of Artificial Intelligence (AI) models of processes that govern space weather in Earth’s radiation belts to describe extreme events
  • Future Proof Space Traffic Management Data Systems
  • In the presence of uncertainty: Exploring the use of Gaussian Processes to examine the Sun’s corona
  • Mapping the global structure of nonlinear dynamics in Earth’s magnetosphere using machine learning
  • Predicting the source regions of solar energetic particles using machine learning techniques
  • Reconstructing and analysing space plasma data using machine learning
  • Using AI to find the giant magnetospheric waves driving near-Earth space weather
  • Using AI to predict coronal-loop kink instabilities by designing physics-informed neural networks
  • What lies beneath the surface of Mars? Advanced Numerical Modelling and Data Intensive Processing for Large and Complex Ground Penetrating Radar Data

4-year, fully-funded PhD studentship (deadline = 20th June 2024, Home or International student):

  • Unveiling the turbulent dynamics of the near-Earth and near-Sun solar wind with numerical modelling and spacecraft observations