HetSys PhD Project Proposal

Submission deadline: 17:00 on 23 October 2020

All projects submitted will be considered for advertising for an October 2021 start. We plan to advertise 15-20 projects for a cohort intake of 10-12.

Submissions will be assessed using your responses to the questions below. Key selection criteria will be:

(i) alignment with HetSys’ aims and training provision;

(ii) engagement with partners, ideally including significant match funding;

(iii) ongoing and/or scope for engagement of supervisor and research group with the HetSys community, e.g. through training or participation in other HetSys activities such as study groups, conferences, seminar series, etc.

Please complete as much of the form as possible; we appreciate for example that a number of details may not yet be finalised.

Project title (100 characters max)

Warwick academic supervisors – ideally two, with different departments/disciplines/research methodologies

Project Outline – What are the research challenges and where do they go beyond current state-of-the-art? (2000 characters max)

How can a HetSys PhD project help to address these challenges? (500 characters max)

Partner 1 (existing or new)

Partner name

Contact name

Type of partner

Agreed financial contribution (50% match funding cost is ~£50k)

Extent of commitment

Other in-kind contributions (e.g. hosting students, sharing data, experiments)

Partner 2 (existing or new)

Partner name

Contact name

Type of partner

Agreed financial contribution (50% match funding cost is ~£50k)

Extent of commitment

Other in-kind contributions (e.g. hosting students, sharing data, experiments)

Describe any links the project has to a funded research programme and/or research proposals in preparation (500 characters max)

How does the project align with and benefit from each of the three HetSys training objectives? (1000 characters max)
1. To span discipline boundaries
2. To incorporate uncertainty into modelling
3. To promote robust software engineering

What are the likely outcomes of the PhD after 4 years? (1000 characters)

What future collaborations/projects could this project lead to? (1000 characters max)

1. Novel electronic devices

2. Catalysis

3. High performance alloys

4. Direct drive laser fusion

5. Future medicines

6. Smart nanofluidic interfaces

7. Composite materials

8. Underground systems

9. Other (please specify below)

Attach one-page additional background material, e.g. images, references (optional upload, PDF format)

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Other research area/s (optional, 100 characters max)

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HetSys PhD Project Proposal

Submission deadline: 17:00 on 23 October 2020

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