PhD Project Opportunities and Research Topics

Projects provide full funding of a stipend and UK fees for four years, and include a generous research training support grant. For information on funding click here.

Many of the projects delivered in collaboration with industry and have the possibility of an extended internship/placement in company/partner university research laboratories.

2024 Projects:

• Levitating microdiamonds towards a test of the quantum nature of gravity FILLED

2023 Projects:

• Levitating Quantum Diamonds FILLED
• Modelling of radiation damage in diamond FILLED
• The development, characterisation, and application of perfect, pure, and functionalised diamond FILLED
• Applications of Boron Doped Diamond Electrodes in High-Pressure High-Temperature Electrochemistry - FILLED

If you would like further information, or if you would like to discuss potential PhD projects, please provide contact details and forward your CV to dst.admin@warwick.ac.uk.

2022 Projects:

• Controlling spin qubits in diamond: towards building a quantum computer - FILLED

• New Electrochemical Polishing Methods for Processing Diamond Surfaces - FILLED

• Environmental Electrochemistry: Development and Application of Electrode Technology for Pollutant Removal from Water Systems - FILLED

• Optimised colour centre control for diamond quantum technologies - FILLED

2021 Projects:

• Disentangling Aggregation Kinetics in CVD Diamond for Quantum Sensing FILLED
• Development of Boron Doped Diamond Transcutaneous Sensors for Blood Gas Measurement FILLED

• Sustainable Electrochemical Strategies for the Removal of Metal Based Catalysts from Process Solutions FILLED

• Diamond magnetometry for finding corrosion in steel - FILLED

2020 Projects:

• Improving 1 and 2-qubit gate fidelities for laser-written nitrogen vacancy centres in diamond membranes; - FILLED
• Diamond Magnetometry in Cars and Aircraft - FILLED

• Nanoscale electrocatalysis - FILLED

• Intense infrared pulses give defects in diamond a shakedownLink opens in a new window - FILLED

2019 Projects:

• Structural and Spectroscopic Imaging with Advanced Electron Microscopies - FILLED
• Platform Development for Diamond Quantum and Photonic Technologies - FILLED

University of Oxford

 Sensing ions in fluids using nanodiamond trapped in a microcavity

 Room temperature single photon sources in diamond

 Logical operations and control systems for scalable diamond quantum computing

 Cavity-coupled qubits in diamond for networked quantum computing

 Engineering spin qubits for diamond quantum computer chips

 Interactions between point defects in diamond