Start date: April or July 2018
Applications are invited for a UK/EU PhD scholarship in the Zienkiewicz Centre for Computational Engineering (ZCCE), College of Engineering, Swansea University. Swansea University is a UK top 30 institution for research excellence (Research Excellence Framework 2014).
A new 3-year project on improving metal detection for the identification of security threats will begin in Autumn 2017 and the PhD studentship will form part of a team that will also include post-doctoral researchers and collaborators in the Department of Mathematics, University College London (UCL) and the Schools of Mathematics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering, the University of Manchester (UoM). The successful candidate’s first supervisor will be Dr P.D. Ledger in ZCCE who is also the principal investigator of the project
The aim of the PhD will be to improve the characterisation and location of hidden conducting security threats using scientific computing algorithms. The student will have access to the College of Engineering’s new high performance computer cluster which has 73 nodes, each comprising 28 cores. They will also be provided with a computer to interface these facilities. It is expected that the student will work closely with the other team members and attend research meetings as well as presenting at conferences and workshops. The student will also write technical reports describing their research progress in form that can be submitted to peer reviewed academic journals.
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