Postgraduate research opportunities Sustainable robots on the microscale – galvanophoresis and microrobots for photocatalytic metal removal for environmental remediation
ApplyKey facts
- Opens: Friday 14 February 2025
- Number of places: 1
- Duration: 3 years
- Funding: Equipment costs, International fee, Stipend, Travel costs
Overview
Our goal is to embed the 5Rs — Reduce, Recycle, Refuse, Rot, and Reuse — not just in the main targets and applications of these tiny devices, but in their entire life cycle. GREENS is committed to integrating sustainability principles into the design/ fabrication processes and applications of small-scale robots, ensuring that they are environmentally friendly from their initial building blocks (raw materials), through their processing and final disposal.Eligibility
We look for you to have:
- a degree in chemistry, physics or materials science
- interest in interdisciplinary collaborations
- prior experience in optics or microscopy is advantageous
- inclination for creative thinking and problem-solving
Project Details
The thesis will include:
- colloidal synthesis
- Surface modifications
- material characterization (spectroscopy, electron microscopy, chemical analysis)
- optical microscopy and microfluidic techniques to observe microscale motion
- microfluidics
- data collection and data treatment
- writing scientific papers and reports and present results (in form of posters and conference talks)
Funding details
The funding provided for these fully funded PhDs will include three years of both tuition fees and monthly stipend payments.
Fully funded studentships are available at the UK home and international rate.
Please note you must have lived outside of the UK for the last 3 years.
While there is no funding in place for opportunities marked "unfunded", there are lots of different options to help you fund postgraduate research. Visit funding your postgraduate research for links to government grants, research councils funding and more, that could be available.
Apply
To apply, email juliane.simmchen@strath.ac.uk with a short description of your expertise, a statement why you are interested and contacts of two possible references
Number of places: 1
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