PhD in Physics

We have a thriving research programme, with 28 academic staff and over 80 postdoctoral researchers, PhD students and research visitors, drawn from the UK and overseas. Our research has a high international profile, in keeping with the University’s position as a leading research institution in the United Kingdom.The Department houses world-leading equipment for:Fabricating and characterising photonic crystal optical fibres.A Nanofabrication Facility for the production of nanoscale electronic and optical devices.State-of-the-art UHV scanning probe microscopes in the Graphene Centre.We also have dedicated research officers managing our Material and Chemical Characterisation Facility (MC²).Career opportunitiesOur recent Physics graduates have gone on to further research or teaching in the UK, Europe, China and Japan and research posts in the UK, Germany, Japan and South Africa. Employers include the Met Office and Fianium in the UK