Projects recruiting for 2020

We are welcoming applications for PhD studentships starting in September 2020. View available projects on the cohort 2020 page.

PhD projects- Cohort 1: 2019

The Aerosol Science CDT welcomed fourteen students into cohort 1 in September 2019. With backgrounds from geography and earth sciences to chemistry, physics, pharmacy and biological sciences, we have a truly diverse first cohort. Building on the initial training period in Bristol, each student undertakes research on their own PhD research project, shown below.

Determining the effects of airborne particulates on immune and barrier epithelial cell function

Filtration of charged aerosols

Building flexible biological particle detection algorithms for traditional and emerging real-time instrumentation

Particle engineering approaches to control the interaction of medicinal aerosols with the lung environment following inhalation

Inhalable nanomedicine for treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis

Development of a packed bed reactor for carbon nanotube synthesis

Aerosol-assisted chemical vapour deposition (AACVD) of inorganic functional materials

Exploring the limits of detection for single nanoscale aerosol particles by light scattering, absorption and luminescence

Damage to jet engines by airborne particulates; Detection and mitigation

Improving the understanding of the gas/particle partitioning behaviour of organic aerosols in different environmental conditions

Size, sources and transport of the seeds of ice in clouds

Extinction cross section measurements for single aerosol particles confined to a linear electrodynamic quadrupole trap

Dynamic surface properties of atmospheric aerosol and resulting climate impacts