Funded PhD studentships on a range of exciting projects are available within the Chemical Dynamics group (www.dynamics.eps.hw.ac.uk) in the Institute of Chemical Sciences at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. The Chemical Dynamics group is made up of the research groups of 5 principal investigators, with interests in both experiment and theory: Prof Ken McKendrick, Prof Martin Paterson, Dr Dave Townsend, Dr Stuart Greaves and Prof Matt Costen. Funding is available through both the EPSRC Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) and Heriot-Watt University James Watt Scholarships, providing both tuition fees and stipend, for starts in Autumn 2017. More information on the projects, funding eligibility, and how to apply, is available on FindaPhD.com at the links included below. For informal queries, contact the named supervisor at the email addresses given. The closing date for applications for all studentships is Friday 27th January 2017
EPSRC DTP Studentships
New Probes of Inelastic and Reactive Scattering at the Gas-Liquid Interface
This project will develop and apply new high-resolution spectroscopic techniques to probe the product state and translational energy distributions of the molecular products of reactive and inelastic scattering at the surfaces of liquids.
See https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=79735&LID=641
Supervisor: Prof Matt Costen, [log in to unmask]
Scattering of OH Radicals from Liquids that Mimic Atmospheric-Aerosol Surfaces
The dynamics of the interactions of OH radicals with liquids that mimic the surfaces of atmospheric aerosols will be studied using a novel combination of molecular beams and laser-based imaging techniques.
See https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=79741&LID=641
Supervisor: Prof Ken McKendrick, [log in to unmask]
Velocity Map Imaging of Gas Surface Scattering
Gas-Liquid surface scattering of small molecules and radicals from low vapour pressure liquids will be investigated using a unique velocity map imaging spectrometer, allowing multiple mechanistic scattering pathways to be determined.
See https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=79784&LID=641
Supervisor: Dr Stuart Greaves, [log in to unmask]
James Watt Scholarships
Imaging the Dynamics of Molecular Collisions
Crossed-molecular beams and velocity-map ion-imaging will be used to measure the stereodynamics of inelastic and reactive collisions of small molecules (NO, CH, OH, CO) of relevance to astrochemical, atmospheric, and combustion environments.
See https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=79739&LID=641
Supervisor: Prof Matt Costen, [log in to unmask]
Reactive-atom scattering as a probe of ionic-liquid surfaces
The structure of the extreme outer layers of technologically important ionic liquids will be probed using reactive-atom scattering, a novel method based on the laser-spectroscopic detection of the gas-phase products of selected reactive projectiles.
See https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=79747&LID=641
Supervisor: Prof Ken McKendrick, [log in to unmask]
Spectroscopy & Dynamics of Atmospherically Relevant Molecules in the Time and Frequency Domains
Competing energy dissipation pathways in the ultraviolet photochemistry of molecules found in the atmosphere will be studied using charged particle detection after excitation using both nanosecond (frequency resolved) and femtosecond (time resolved) laser techniques.
See https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=79779&LID=641
Supervisor: Dr Stuart Greaves and Dr Dave Townsend, [log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask]
Novel Electronic Structure Methods for Photochemical Dynamics
Novel computational methods will be developed and applied to study to the photochemical dynamics of a range of molecules whose light-induced chemistry is important in atmospheric reactions, as well as examples in biochemistry and photocatalysis.
See https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=79783&LID=641
Supervisor: Prof Martin Paterson, [log in to unmask]
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