Chemistry

Entry requirements

PhD

Months of entry

Anytime

Course content

Join a School that is finding solutions to global problems through cutting-edge research. We are working in a wide range of areas including cleaner energy, sustainable synthesis, new materials health care and drug discovery. We are looking for passionate research students to help us make a difference to people and the environment.

Join a thriving research environment with 160 postgraduate students and 60 post-doctoral fellows from all corners of the globe.

Our research themes are:

• molecular bonding and spectroscopy
• materials
• synthesis and catalysis
• biological chemistry

For more in-depth information about our research themes, view our individual webpages where you will find about more about supervisors and alumni as well as current and previous research.

A PhD is an independent in-depth research project. You will be able to develop additional skills through training programmes to help you complete your PhD.

In each year you will have regular meetings with your supervisor and an annual review.

Past PhD projects have included:

• Chemical Synthesis of Bioactive Natural products
• Design and Development of Novel Catalysts
• Sustainable Synthetic Chemistry
• Novel Polymers From Terpenes
• Industrial Exploitation of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide
• Synthesis of Antimalarial Compound Using a Simple and Flexible Photo Reactor
• Nanoscale manipulation using TEM
• Chlorotoxin as a Drug Delivery System to Treat Glioblastoma Multiforme
• A Computational Screening of Porous Materials for Biogas Upgrading