PhD Opportunities in Physics in South Korea

This doctoral project focuses on the development and multimodal characterisation of gold microstructures fabricated by two-photon laser microfabrication for use in electrochemical sensors and plasmonic devices. The PhD student will investigate the photoreaction mechanisms that lead to the formation of gold nanoparticles from new resins specifically designed for two-photon laser microfabrication. A major part of the work will be the development of a multimodal, multiscale characterisation strateg...

This PhD project focuses on ultrafast electronic rearrangement and relaxation in biomolecules after photoabsorption. The student will investigate how several competing pathways, including very fast femtosecond charge-transfer and local electronic relaxation processes, unfold in complex molecular systems. The research uses a novel strategy based on Auger electrons emitted from a metallic site embedded in a porphyrin derivative. This local probe is used to follow the photoinduced electronic reorga...

This PhD project is about inverse problems for biomedical images , with a specific focus on mammography and breast cancer risk assessment . The research aims to improve the analysis of X-ray mammograms by developing denoising methods that preserve the fine structural properties of mammographic textures, especially the self-similarity and fractal characteristics that can reveal patterns linked to cancer risk. The thesis is rooted in the challenge that risk-related parenchymal patterns can be diff...

This PhD project is part of H2-TWIN and focuses on building fast, reliable reduced-order models for PEM fuel cell systems from a high-fidelity multiphysics model. The goal is to make these models suitable for real-time simulation, control, monitoring, and system sizing. The doctoral research is centered on data-driven, non-intrusive model reduction , with the Loewner framework as the main methodological base. A key challenge is to extend this framework to the nonlinear structure of fuel-cell mod...

The University of California, Berkeley Chemistry PhD program develops students’ ability to conduct creative scientific research, with the individual research project serving as the central component of doctoral training. Students pursue research through one of three broad concentrations: Physical Chemistry , Synthetic Chemistry , or Chemical Biology . Physical chemistry encompasses experimental physical, analytical, nuclear, biophysical, and theoretical chemistry. Synthetic chemistry emphasizes ...

The University of California, Berkeley offers graduate study in chemical and biomolecular engineering , with a strong emphasis on original research in frontier areas of applied science. The program brings graduate students and faculty together as partners in scholarship, learning, and intellectual discovery. The PhD program develops advanced knowledge and talent for original, productive, and creative work in chemical and biomolecular engineering. Students build breadth through advanced coursewor...

Nanoconfined Water: From Molecular Physics to Mechanical Energy Absorption is an interdisciplinary PhD project at the University of Birmingham investigating how water behaves when confined within spaces comparable to individual molecules. The project will focus on water confined in nanoporous materials, particularly metal–organic frameworks (MOFs). Under mechanical pressure, water can be forced into hydrophobic nanopores, creating new solid–liquid interfaces and enabling efficient, reversible me...

This PhD project at Aalborg University is based in AAU Energy , within the research group Hydrogen and Electro Fuels and the section for Thermal Engineering . The project sits at the intersection of chemical and electrochemical reactor engineering and is centered on proton exchange membrane (PEM) water electrolysis . The doctoral researcher will study PEM electrolysis cells experimentally and through detailed modelling. The work includes designing and conducting single-cell experiments, characte...

Chalmers University of Technology invites applications for a doctoral project in multiphase flow within the Multiphase Group at the Division of Fluid Dynamics, Department of Mechanical Engineering, in Gothenburg, Sweden. The research investigates whether the random motion of tiny particles can reveal information about their surrounding environment. The project will examine how Brownian motion is shaped by fluid flow, heat and mass transfer, and chemical reactions in confined environments. By com...