PhD projects in Physics of Living Matter
About Physics of Living Matter
We use experiments, computer simulations, and theoretical calculations to understand how physical laws affect living organisms.
Available PhD projects
A list of current PhD projects in Physics of Living Matter is shown below. Click on each project to find out more about the project, its supervisor(s) and its research area(s).
- Active-Nematic/Polymeric Composites
- Bacteria Motility in Complex Media
- Bacterial Biofilm Matrix Remodelling in Complex and Dynamic Environments
- Can the latest positron emission tomography scanners use tracer kinetics to differentiate liver tumours? a simulation study.
- Communal Living for Bacteria
- Controlling the microbial generation of nitrous oxide in wastewater treatment; a pathway to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
- Deciphering species coexistence using microbial microcosms
- Determining cerebral blood flow using positron emission tomography at high temporal resolution
- Developing tractable model systems for filamentous bacteria in wastewater treatment
- Evolution of Life in Droplets
- Force microscopy and spectroscopy of chromatin assemblies in disease
- How antibiotics kill persistent infections
- Microswimmers in Complex Fluids
- Modelling the impact of extreme events on the emergence of infectious disease variants
- Moving and growing among entanglements: the role of DNA in the physics of bacterial swimming and aggregation
- Physics of genome structure in health and disease
- Shaping the genome through formation of protein droplets
- Statistical physics of dividing and differentiating stem cell populations
- Topologically Active Polymers (Experimental and/or Computational)
- Using Viruses to Kill Bacteria