Physics, PhD

COURSE OVERVIEW

You will undertake a physics research project over two years (MPhil) or three years (PhD), supported by our globally esteemed researchers.

The project will be shaped by your participation in research activities such as seminars, workshops, laboratory activity and fieldwork, as well as your involvement in one of our established research groups. Swansea is a research-led University and physics makes a significant contribution, meaning you will benefit from the considerable experience and skills of our expert staff.

We have three main research groups.

Professor Lyn Evans, leader of the Large Hadron Collider project at CERN, is a significant Swansea Physics alumnus. Professor Peter Higgs is the Physics Nobel Prize winner who proposed the Boson particle and is a Swansea University Honorary Fellow with close links to our department. You will have access to our raft of state-of-the-art facilities including:

• Low-energy positron beam with a high field superconducting magnet for the study of positronium
• CW and pulsed laser systems
• Scanning tunnelling electron and nearfield optical microscopes
• Raman microscope
• CPU parallel cluster
• The IBM-built ‘Blue C’ Super computer at Swansea University