PhD opportunities for 2025-26 

We welcome applications from students wishing to undertake a PhD in the Centre for Light-Matter Interactions starting in September/October 2025.

Current projects:

High-quality positron and x-ray sources for EuPRAXIA, Professor Gianluca Sarri

Femtosecond radiobiology with very high energy electron beams, Professor Gianluca Sarri

Synthesizing 3D Light Fields for Manipulating Chiral Matter, Dr Jason Greenwood

The Coherent Harmonic Focus - High Harmonic Generation in the Multi-Petawatt Regime, Professor Brendan Dromey

Carbon ion acceleration for radiotherapy applications, Professor Marco Borghesi

Relativistic attosecond sources from intense multi-colour laser pulses, Dr Mark Yeung

Radiation damage in the wide band gap semiconductor Ga₂O_3, Dr Lorenzo Stella

Probing dipole instabilities in the ultrafast ionization of molecules, Dr Daniel Dundas

Mapping the transition from photo-ionisation to strong-field ionisation, Dr Andrew Brown

Spatio-temporal coupling in high intensity lasers, Dr Matthew Streeter