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Engineering and Physical Sciences

School

Area of Research

Supervisor name(s)

Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Green Chemistry

Green Chemistry and catalysis

Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

 

High Performance Computing including topics in:

  • Heterogeneous Memories for High Performance Computing
  • Energy-efficient High Performance Computing
  • Approximate Computation in High Performance Computing

Intelligent Systems

Mathematics & Physics

 

Astronomy and Astrophysics

  • A range of observational and theoretical astrophysics projects in the areas of extra-solar planets, supernovae, solar physics, solar system physics and astro chemistry.

Ultrafast quantum molecular dynamics (Physics)

  • The use of mathematical models and computational simulations to study fundamental quantum processes in molecules. Chemical and physical changes are mediated by energy/charge transfer processes on ultrafast timescales through quantum field equations.

Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

 

Future Transport Technologies

  • Materials for future transport technologies

Future Transport Technologies

  • Aerospace Automation

Future Transport Technologies

  • Lean Manufacturing

Development of multifunctional polymer nanocomposites

  • Achieve a fundamental understanding of the interactions between material formulation, processing and properties of polymer nanocomposites and to apply this to the development of proof of concept applications with multifunctionality.

Planning, Architecture and Civil Engineering

 

Geotechnical Engineering

  • Mapping near surface moisture variations of earthworks using a combination of electrical resistivity and seismic velocity

Geotechnical Engineering

  • Granular Piles for Energy Storage

Materials Engineering

  • Developing high performance metals and alloys

Materials Engineering

  • Physical and numerical modelling of the durability characteristics of concrete materials such as Geopolymer concrete, ultra high performance concrete