Students will study for a multidisciplinary PhD in Analytical Science. There is a wide pool of Warwick supervisors from Chemistry & Physics, Engineering & Manufacturing, Life Sciences & Medicine and Statistics, as well as industrial partners from the pharmaceutical, agrochemical and additives sectors and instrument manufacturers. Each MSc or PhD research project will be aimed at the creation of new instrumentation and techniques or improvements to existing methods to solve real-world problems that cannot be tackled now.

Four years' funding is provided, with two recruitment routes offered:

A) 1+3: MSc followed by PhD, with the choice of the PhD project made during the MSc (during the second 10-week project).

2020 1 + 3 MSc + PhD Project Areas

Area	Projects	Supervisor	Partners
Statistics (Allocated)	Novel statistical methods for large datasets from FTICR Mass spectrometry	Simon Spencer and Mark Barrow	N/A
	Applying Bayesian statistics to NMR crystallography	Simon Spencer and Steven Brown	N/A
	Is Your Tumor Treatable? Functional Data Analysis of Dynamic Optoacoustic Tomography Imaging	Shahin Tavokoli	Sarah Bohndiek (Cancer Research UK, Cambridge) Michal Tomaszewski (Moffitt)
AstraZeneca (Allocated)	AZ have collaborated on projects in many areas of analytical Science including diffraction, electrochemistry, mass spectrometry and NMR with the previous CDT, you can see a list of projects they are included in on the MAS CDT website	To be confirmed during MSc year	AstraZeneca

OR

B) Direct recruitment to a specific PhD project, with 60 CATS of MSc modules taken in the first year of the PhD (leading to a certificate).

PhD Projects October 2020

Status	ID	Title	Supervisors	Partners
Allocated		Extreme performance mass spectrometry for metals in biology and medicine	Peter J. Sadler and Pete O'Connor	Bruker
Under application	PO-2020-VI	Evaluation of the capabilities of 2-dimensional mass spectrometry in a variety of molecular systems	Pete O'Connor (Chemistry)	Verdel Instruments
Allocated	RW-2020-BYK	Exploring Magnesium Chemistry : From Reactive Precursors To Synthetic Minerals	Richard Walton (Chemistry)	BYK
Allocated	RM-2020-DLS	Developing light-driven molecular switches for use on solid substrates	Reinhard Maurer (Chemistry) David Duncan (DLS)	Diamond Light Source
Allocated	SP-2020-SP	Investigating the atomic and electronic structures of nano-scale molecular metal-oxo clusters.	Sebastian Pike (Chemistry)