EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Aerosol Science

The CDT in Aerosol Science brings together a multi-disciplinary team of academics from 8 UK universities (Bristol, Bath, Cambridge, Hertfordshire, Imperial, Manchester, Birmingham and Surrey) spanning the physical, environmental and health sciences, and engineering. Working with industrial and public-sector partners in the areas of healthcare, materials science, energy and transport, environment, consumer products and agrochemicals, we aim to tackle some of the most challenging problems in aerosol science. Expertise in aerosol science is important in a broad range of disciplines spanning drug delivery to the lungs to the transmission of disease, climate change to combustion science, routes to novel materials to consumer and agricultural products. Our 4-year PhD will equip you to work in this exciting area of multidisciplinary science, collaborating with researchers across the physical, environmental and health sciences, and engineering. We welcome applications from candidates who aspire to work in a multidisciplinary field and who have an undergraduate background in any of the following areas: chemistry, physics, biological sciences, life and medical sciences, mathematics and computer science, chemical and mechanical engineering, pharmaceutical and environmental sciences. Our graduates will become agile experts, able to work at the boundaries between the conventional disciplines where aerosols play a role. You will begin your PhD at the Aerosol Science CDT hub at the University of Bristol, with the academic team providing comprehensive training in the core physical science of aerosols, research methods, and in professionalism and translation of research. You will then have the opportunity to build networks across the 7 universities, undertaking a short project at either your home institution or another partnering institution. These training elements will equip you for your PhD research in years 2-4.