Eligibility criteria

A four-year funded PhD studentship is available at Imperial College London in collaboration with the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), Teddington Middlesex.

The successful candidate will join the Optical and Semiconductor Devices Group in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Imperial College London. The student will be primarily located at Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, but must also spend at least three months at the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, Middlesex in the Dimensional Metrology Group working on metrology of quantum devices.

Candidates must meet the ICL graduate entry requirements which include holding at least an upper second-class degree or equivalent qualifications in a relevant subject area such as physics or electrical engineering. A master’s degree in a relevant discipline and additional research experience or interest in semiconductor device instrumentation and fabrication would also be an advantage.

Candidates must also have Home Student status. EU nationals who have Pre-Settled Status may be considered as home status if they have 3 years residency in the UK/EEA/Gibraltar/Switzerland immediately before the start of the course. Full details of UKRI eligibility criteria may be found at:

https://www.ukri.org/what-we-do/developing-people-and-skills/esrc/funding-for-postgraduate-training-and-development/eligibility-for-studentship-funding/

A four-year funded PhD studentship is available at Imperial College London in collaboration with the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), Teddington Middlesex.

The successful candidate will join the Optical and Semiconductor Devices Group in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Imperial College London. The student will be primarily located at Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, but must also spend at least three months at the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, Middlesex in the Dimensional Metrology Group working on metrology of quantum devices.

 

Course specific information

NPL is a world leading national metrology institute and Imperial College is consistently ranked as one of the top universities in the world in various rankings; for instance, it ranked 6th in the world in the QS World University Rankings for 2023. It has also been ranked as the most innovative university in Europe. The project will provide a grounding in several industrially relevant areas including: nanometrology, nanoscale device fabrication, quantum device physics, measurement and modelling, dimensional nanometrology using AFMs leading to a sound basis for a career in nanoscience. The student will benefit from additional training and support at the Imperial College and from the Post Graduate Institute for Measurement Science at NPL. The Post Graduate Institute for Measurement Science (PGI), based at NPL is a pioneering initiative to equip the UK with an exceptionally skilled workforce ready to tackle real life industrial challenges. The student should ideally be able to start on the first day of term of the 2024/2025 academic year or earlier if available.

Application process

For informal enquiries, please contact Professor Zahid Durrani (Imperial College) z.durrani@imperial.ac.uk and Dr Andrew Yacoot (NPL) Andrew.yacoot@npl.co.uk

Please click here to apply. Course code: Electrical Engineering Research – H6ZX. The application should also include a cover letter and your CV.

NB: In the application, the proposed research supervisor should be stated as Professor Zahid Durrani, to indicate that the application is for this post.

Full guidance on application process is available here (https://www.imperial.ac.uk/electrical-engineering/study/phd/). Any further queries regarding the application process should be directed to Miss Hashi Chowdhury eepgoffice@imperial.ac.uk.

 

Contact

If you have any additional questions, please contact us at z.durrani@imperial.ac.uk.