PhD & MSci Opportunities within the Department
IARC offers a wide range of PhD projects and has an active postgraduate research programme. We also welcome approaches from students who wish to discuss research projects within their own area of interest.
IARC also contributes three courses to the undergraduate degrees offered by the Department of Earth Science and Engineering including planetary geology, developments in planetary geophysics and geochemistry, and Earth systems. MSci Planetary research projects are also supervised by IARC.
Tabs - PhD & MSci
The department, together with the Natural History Museum, hosts the IARC planetary science group: One of the leading groups worldwide. If you are interested in one of the projects listed below please feel free to contact the associated staff. You can discover more about the IARC group from their website.
Projects
Modelling large impact crater formation: why do large craters collapse?
Gareth Collins
Modelling the Chicxulub impact: is crater asymmetry produced by impact angle or asymmetry in target rocks?
Gareth Collins and Joanna Morgan
Numerical Simulations of Crater Formation with Dilatancy for Analysis of GRAIL data
Gareth Collins and Mark Wieczorek
Numerical methods for simulating ejection and survivability of meteorites from Mars
Gareth Collins and Alan Dawes (AWE)
Mixing and Volatile Depletion in the Early Solar System
Mark Rehkamper
Subduction initiation and ophiolites: isotopic links?
Julie Prytulak
Mars, Meteorites and Antarctica
Mark Sephton and Samuel Kounaves