Funded PhD studentship in Computational Modelling of Nanoparticle Synthesis

Applications are invited for a fully-funded 3.5 year PhD studentship under the supervision of Prof. Markus Kraft. The successful applicant will be based in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology in Cambridge, UK for the first year of the project. The next two years will be spent at Cambridge CARES in Singapore. The remainder of the project will be spent in Cambridge, UK.

We are looking for an outstanding student who is interested in working on a modelling project to develop and apply state-of-the-art computational tools to model the formation of titanium dioxide nanoparticles. The project will solve detailed mathematical models using stochastic numerical methods to investigate phenomena including the chemical reactions, collision and growth of particles in the reactor. The project will require the student to develop further both the model and the numerical methods used to solve the model on a High Performance Computing cluster. The project would suit a student with strong mathematical, numerical and programming skills. The project will run alongside an experimental studentship that will provide insights to inform the development of the model.