These co-funded studentships, normally 50% funded by ISIS and 50% by a university, contain an element of facility development - for example development of equipment, software or experimental processes. Studentships have an ISIS supervisor and a university supervisor who work in partnership throughout the student's project. Over recent years, ISIS has funded around 50 of these studentships across a wide range of topics and university partners. A full list of the studentships supported to-date can be found here.
Applications are now open through the relevant university websites.
2021 ISIS PhD Studentship Opportunities
Developing new methods for corrosion and steel degradation studies
ISIS Supervisor: Winfried Kockelmann
External Supervisor: Dr Adriana Matamoros Veloza
Host Institution: University of Leeds
Isolating incoherent quasi-elastic neutron scattering using polarised neutrons
ISIS Supervisor: David Voneshen
External Supervisor: Professor Jon Goff
Host Institution: Royal Holloway, University of London (RHUL)
Apply on the Find a PhD webpage.
Complex Metallurgy of the Bronze Age-Iron Age Transition in Iran: Archaeomaterials and Forensic Investigations
ISIS Supervisor: Antonella Scherillo, Anna Fedrigo
External Supervisor: Nathaniel Erb-Satullo
Host Institution: Cranfield
Apply on the Find a PhD webpage.
Humic/HULIS material extracted from the environment at a solid-liquid interface: Cloud-climate effects and a modular community cell for neutron and photon science
ISIS Supervisor: Rebecca Welbourn
External Supervisor: Martin King
Host Institution: Royal Holloway University of London
Adsorption of surfactants as friction modifiers
ISIS Supervisor: Rebecca Welbourn
External Supervisor: Julian Eastoe
Host Institution: Bristol
Apply on the Find a PhD webpage.
Experimental and numerical studies of fast neutrons for design and characterisation of neutrino experiments and spallation sources
ISIS Supervisor: Carlo Cazzaniga
External Supervisor: Teppei Katori
Host Institution: King's College London
Apply on the Find a PhD webpage.
Developing Accurate Structural Models and Transferable Potentials for Multicomponent Glasses using Dissolve.
ISIS Supervisor: Tristan Youngs
External Supervisor: Emma Barney
Host Institution: Nottingham
Apply through the Nottingham website.
New Quantum Materials from High Pressure
ISIS Supervisor: Pascal Manuel
External Supervisor: Paul Attfield
Host Institution: Edinburgh
Apply on the Find a PhD website.
Experimental and computational studies of the methanol synthesis catalyst – where is the hydrogen?
ISIS Supervisor: Stewart Parker
External Supervisor: Arunabhiram Chuita
Host Institution: Lincoln
Apply on the Find a PhD website.
Development of in situ Electric field and Electric current capabilities at ISIS
ISIS Supervisor: Diego Alba Venero
External Supervisor: Peter Hatton
Host Institution: Durham University
Where's the Lithium? Elemental analysis and structural characterisation of Li-containing ore materials using advanced muon and neutron techniques.
ISIS Supervisor: Adrian Hillier
External Supervisor: Caroline Kirk
Host Institution: Edinburgh
Apply on the Find a PhD website.
Joint ISIS-Diamond Studentships
Investigation of novel electrode structure for a new class of conversion electrode materials in solid state batteries by in operando X-ray and neutron imaging
ISIS Supervisor: Genoveva Burca
Diamond Supervisor: Thomas Connolley
External Supervisor: Chun Huang
Host Institution: King's College London
Apply on the Diamond webpage.
Interfacial magnetism in topological insulator heterostructures
ISIS Supervisor: Sean Langridge
Diamond Supervisor: Dirk Backes
External Supervisor: Thorsten Hesjedal
Host Institution: University of Oxford
Apply on the Diamond website.
