PhD Studentships in Magnetic Fusion Plasma, Imperial College London

UK. PhD Studentships available under a UKAEA Culham Project within the Plasma Physics Research Group, Physics Department, Faculty of Physical Sciences.This project aims at investigating the physics and control of certain types of large scale performance limiting instabilities in magnetic fusion plasmas.

This will involve use of existing numerical codes to study plasma stability in various tokamak devices, as well as significant further development of these simulation tools.

The project also involves comparisons with experiments including with the UKAEA Fusion MAST tokamak, which is located at the Culham Science Centre, where most of the research work will be carried out.

Requirements: Good physics degree (1st or 2(i) of 65% or over) or MSc.

Funding and eligibility: EPSRC CTA Award. Please be aware that EPSRC eligibility restrictions apply i.e. home students receive full funding and normally, unless resident in the UK for the preceding 3 years, only fees would be covered for EU students and overseas students would not be eligible. For further details see the EPSRC website: www.epsrc.ac.uk

Contact: Sarah Dodman, Plasma Physics Administrator, 020 7594 7657, s.dodman@imperial.ac.uk, Imperial College London, Blackett Laboratory, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2AZ. Website: www.imperial.ac.uk/research/plasma

The studentships was announced in April 2008, no date specified for the application deadline.