University of Leicester, Physics & Astronomy
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🔭🧪🎢 PhD Project focus: AGN variability: hidden signals in the noise
We're advertising this project with Prof Simon Vaughan, analysing AGN with methods that go beyond traditional models and assumptions
For details of all our PhD projects look here: le.ac.uk/study/resear... 🔭🧪🎢
We're advertising this project with Prof Simon Vaughan, analysing AGN with methods that go beyond traditional models and assumptions
For details of all our PhD projects look here: le.ac.uk/study/resear... 🔭🧪🎢
STFC | Postgraduate research | University of Leicester
STFC Studentships in Physics and Astronomy. University of Leicester
le.ac.uk
November 26, 2025 at 1:15 PM
🔭🧪🎢 PhD Project focus: AGN variability: hidden signals in the noise
We're advertising this project with Prof Simon Vaughan, analysing AGN with methods that go beyond traditional models and assumptions
For details of all our PhD projects look here: le.ac.uk/study/resear... 🔭🧪🎢
We're advertising this project with Prof Simon Vaughan, analysing AGN with methods that go beyond traditional models and assumptions
For details of all our PhD projects look here: le.ac.uk/study/resear... 🔭🧪🎢
🔭🧪🎢 PhD Project focus: Novel Pu Gd oxides for Space Nuclear Power Systems
We're advertising this project with Dr Emily Jane Watkinson, investigating new options to power exploration of the outer solar system
For details of all our PhD projects look here: le.ac.uk/study/resear... 🔭🧪🎢
We're advertising this project with Dr Emily Jane Watkinson, investigating new options to power exploration of the outer solar system
For details of all our PhD projects look here: le.ac.uk/study/resear... 🔭🧪🎢
STFC | Postgraduate research | University of Leicester
STFC Studentships in Physics and Astronomy. University of Leicester
le.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
🔭🧪🎢 PhD Project focus: Novel Pu Gd oxides for Space Nuclear Power Systems
We're advertising this project with Dr Emily Jane Watkinson, investigating new options to power exploration of the outer solar system
For details of all our PhD projects look here: le.ac.uk/study/resear... 🔭🧪🎢
We're advertising this project with Dr Emily Jane Watkinson, investigating new options to power exploration of the outer solar system
For details of all our PhD projects look here: le.ac.uk/study/resear... 🔭🧪🎢
🔭🧪🎢 PhD Project focus: From gamma-ray bursts to fast radio bursts: the nature of astrophysical transients across the electromagnetic spectrum
We're advertising this project with Dr Starling, where you'll be rapidly responding to astrophysical events
Follow the link for all our PhD projects 🔭🧪🎢
We're advertising this project with Dr Starling, where you'll be rapidly responding to astrophysical events
Follow the link for all our PhD projects 🔭🧪🎢
STFC | Postgraduate research | University of Leicester
STFC Studentships in Physics and Astronomy. University of Leicester
le.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 11:30 AM
🔭🧪🎢 PhD Project focus: From gamma-ray bursts to fast radio bursts: the nature of astrophysical transients across the electromagnetic spectrum
We're advertising this project with Dr Starling, where you'll be rapidly responding to astrophysical events
Follow the link for all our PhD projects 🔭🧪🎢
We're advertising this project with Dr Starling, where you'll be rapidly responding to astrophysical events
Follow the link for all our PhD projects 🔭🧪🎢
🔭🧪🎢 PhD Project focus: SMILE: Northern Lights, Camera, Action!
We're advertising this project with Prof Steve Milan, using ESA's new SMILE spacecraft to study connections between aurora and electrical currents in space
For details of all our PhD projects look here: le.ac.uk/study/resear... 🔭🧪🎢
We're advertising this project with Prof Steve Milan, using ESA's new SMILE spacecraft to study connections between aurora and electrical currents in space
For details of all our PhD projects look here: le.ac.uk/study/resear... 🔭🧪🎢
STFC | Postgraduate research | University of Leicester
STFC Studentships in Physics and Astronomy. University of Leicester
le.ac.uk
November 21, 2025 at 8:43 AM
🔭🧪🎢 PhD Project focus: SMILE: Northern Lights, Camera, Action!
We're advertising this project with Prof Steve Milan, using ESA's new SMILE spacecraft to study connections between aurora and electrical currents in space
For details of all our PhD projects look here: le.ac.uk/study/resear... 🔭🧪🎢
We're advertising this project with Prof Steve Milan, using ESA's new SMILE spacecraft to study connections between aurora and electrical currents in space
For details of all our PhD projects look here: le.ac.uk/study/resear... 🔭🧪🎢
🔭🧪🎢 PhD Project focus: Towards a unified model of the Milky Way's dynamics
We're advertising this project with Dr Paul McMillan, using Hamiltonian mechanics to understand our galaxy's history
For details of all our PhD projects look here: le.ac.uk/study/resear... 🔭🧪🎢
We're advertising this project with Dr Paul McMillan, using Hamiltonian mechanics to understand our galaxy's history
For details of all our PhD projects look here: le.ac.uk/study/resear... 🔭🧪🎢
STFC | Postgraduate research | University of Leicester
STFC Studentships in Physics and Astronomy. University of Leicester
le.ac.uk
November 20, 2025 at 12:10 PM
🔭🧪🎢 PhD Project focus: Towards a unified model of the Milky Way's dynamics
We're advertising this project with Dr Paul McMillan, using Hamiltonian mechanics to understand our galaxy's history
For details of all our PhD projects look here: le.ac.uk/study/resear... 🔭🧪🎢
We're advertising this project with Dr Paul McMillan, using Hamiltonian mechanics to understand our galaxy's history
For details of all our PhD projects look here: le.ac.uk/study/resear... 🔭🧪🎢
🔭🧪🎢 PhD Project focus: Revealing Mercury’s surface composition with BepiColombo MIXS
We're advertising this project with Dr Martindale, using first data from BepiColombo to determine whether surface minerals have been lifted there by asteroids
For details of all our PhD projects look here:
We're advertising this project with Dr Martindale, using first data from BepiColombo to determine whether surface minerals have been lifted there by asteroids
For details of all our PhD projects look here:
STFC | Postgraduate research | University of Leicester
STFC Studentships in Physics and Astronomy. University of Leicester
le.ac.uk
November 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
🔭🧪🎢 PhD Project focus: Revealing Mercury’s surface composition with BepiColombo MIXS
We're advertising this project with Dr Martindale, using first data from BepiColombo to determine whether surface minerals have been lifted there by asteroids
For details of all our PhD projects look here:
We're advertising this project with Dr Martindale, using first data from BepiColombo to determine whether surface minerals have been lifted there by asteroids
For details of all our PhD projects look here:
🔭🧪🎢 PhD Project focus: Exploring the Atmospheres of Uranus & Neptune with JWST
We're advertising this project with Prof Leigh Fletcher, using infrared spectral data to investigate the changing atmospheres of the ice giants
For details of all our PhD projects look here: le.ac.uk/study/resear... 🔭🧪🎢
We're advertising this project with Prof Leigh Fletcher, using infrared spectral data to investigate the changing atmospheres of the ice giants
For details of all our PhD projects look here: le.ac.uk/study/resear... 🔭🧪🎢
November 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
🔭🧪🎢 PhD Project focus: Exploring the Atmospheres of Uranus & Neptune with JWST
We're advertising this project with Prof Leigh Fletcher, using infrared spectral data to investigate the changing atmospheres of the ice giants
For details of all our PhD projects look here: le.ac.uk/study/resear... 🔭🧪🎢
We're advertising this project with Prof Leigh Fletcher, using infrared spectral data to investigate the changing atmospheres of the ice giants
For details of all our PhD projects look here: le.ac.uk/study/resear... 🔭🧪🎢
🔭🧪🎢 PhD Project focus: SMILE! Novel X-ray views of the magnetosphere
We're advertising this project with Dr Jennifer Carter, analysing data from SMILE (launch early 2026) to understand Earth's magnetosphere and the solar wind
For details of all our PhD projects look here: le.ac.uk/study/resear...
We're advertising this project with Dr Jennifer Carter, analysing data from SMILE (launch early 2026) to understand Earth's magnetosphere and the solar wind
For details of all our PhD projects look here: le.ac.uk/study/resear...
November 17, 2025 at 4:21 PM
🔭🧪🎢 PhD Project focus: SMILE! Novel X-ray views of the magnetosphere
We're advertising this project with Dr Jennifer Carter, analysing data from SMILE (launch early 2026) to understand Earth's magnetosphere and the solar wind
For details of all our PhD projects look here: le.ac.uk/study/resear...
We're advertising this project with Dr Jennifer Carter, analysing data from SMILE (launch early 2026) to understand Earth's magnetosphere and the solar wind
For details of all our PhD projects look here: le.ac.uk/study/resear...
🔭🧪🎢 PhD Project focus: Discovering and characterizing extra-solar planets with the Next Generation Transit Survey and TESS
We're advertising this project with Dr Matt Burleigh, analysing data on long-period exoplanets
For details of all our PhD projects look here: le.ac.uk/study/resear... 🔭🧪🎢
We're advertising this project with Dr Matt Burleigh, analysing data on long-period exoplanets
For details of all our PhD projects look here: le.ac.uk/study/resear... 🔭🧪🎢
November 14, 2025 at 2:48 PM
🔭🧪🎢 PhD Project focus: Discovering and characterizing extra-solar planets with the Next Generation Transit Survey and TESS
We're advertising this project with Dr Matt Burleigh, analysing data on long-period exoplanets
For details of all our PhD projects look here: le.ac.uk/study/resear... 🔭🧪🎢
We're advertising this project with Dr Matt Burleigh, analysing data on long-period exoplanets
For details of all our PhD projects look here: le.ac.uk/study/resear... 🔭🧪🎢
🔭🧪🎢 PhD Project focus: The astrophysics and environments of the most luminous galaxies
We're advertising a project with Prof Andrew Blain, using survey data to understand the brightest infrared bursts in dusty galaxies
For details of all our PhD projects look here: le.ac.uk/study/resear... 🔭🧪🎢
We're advertising a project with Prof Andrew Blain, using survey data to understand the brightest infrared bursts in dusty galaxies
For details of all our PhD projects look here: le.ac.uk/study/resear... 🔭🧪🎢
November 13, 2025 at 2:36 PM
🔭🧪🎢 PhD Project focus: The astrophysics and environments of the most luminous galaxies
We're advertising a project with Prof Andrew Blain, using survey data to understand the brightest infrared bursts in dusty galaxies
For details of all our PhD projects look here: le.ac.uk/study/resear... 🔭🧪🎢
We're advertising a project with Prof Andrew Blain, using survey data to understand the brightest infrared bursts in dusty galaxies
For details of all our PhD projects look here: le.ac.uk/study/resear... 🔭🧪🎢
🔭🧪🎢 PhD Project focus: Study Phobos' surface with MMX
We're advertising this project with Dr Chrysa Avdellidou, analysing Phobos' craters to determine its origin.
For details of all our PhD projects look here: le.ac.uk/study/resear... 🔭🧪🎢
We're advertising this project with Dr Chrysa Avdellidou, analysing Phobos' craters to determine its origin.
For details of all our PhD projects look here: le.ac.uk/study/resear... 🔭🧪🎢
November 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
🔭🧪🎢 PhD Project focus: Study Phobos' surface with MMX
We're advertising this project with Dr Chrysa Avdellidou, analysing Phobos' craters to determine its origin.
For details of all our PhD projects look here: le.ac.uk/study/resear... 🔭🧪🎢
We're advertising this project with Dr Chrysa Avdellidou, analysing Phobos' craters to determine its origin.
For details of all our PhD projects look here: le.ac.uk/study/resear... 🔭🧪🎢
🔭🧪🎢 PhD Project focus: Understanding protoplanetary disc evolution
We're advertising this project with Prof Richard Alexander, making simulations of accretion of planet-forming discs onto their star.
For details of all our PhD projects look here: le.ac.uk/study/resear... 🔭🧪🎢
We're advertising this project with Prof Richard Alexander, making simulations of accretion of planet-forming discs onto their star.
For details of all our PhD projects look here: le.ac.uk/study/resear... 🔭🧪🎢
November 11, 2025 at 12:05 PM
🔭🧪🎢 PhD Project focus: Understanding protoplanetary disc evolution
We're advertising this project with Prof Richard Alexander, making simulations of accretion of planet-forming discs onto their star.
For details of all our PhD projects look here: le.ac.uk/study/resear... 🔭🧪🎢
We're advertising this project with Prof Richard Alexander, making simulations of accretion of planet-forming discs onto their star.
For details of all our PhD projects look here: le.ac.uk/study/resear... 🔭🧪🎢
🔭🧪🎢 The University of Leicester is advertising PhD places in Physics & Astronomy starting 2026!
They span Astrophysics, Planetary Science, Space Instrumentation and Earth Observation.
All of them are advertised on FindAPhD 🔭🧪🎢
www.findaphd.com/phds/departm...
They span Astrophysics, Planetary Science, Space Instrumentation and Earth Observation.
All of them are advertised on FindAPhD 🔭🧪🎢
www.findaphd.com/phds/departm...
November 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
🔭🧪🎢 The University of Leicester is advertising PhD places in Physics & Astronomy starting 2026!
They span Astrophysics, Planetary Science, Space Instrumentation and Earth Observation.
All of them are advertised on FindAPhD 🔭🧪🎢
www.findaphd.com/phds/departm...
They span Astrophysics, Planetary Science, Space Instrumentation and Earth Observation.
All of them are advertised on FindAPhD 🔭🧪🎢
www.findaphd.com/phds/departm...
🔭🧪🎢 The next Open Day at the University of Leicester is tomorrow! Come and see what studying Physics here is all about!
Sign up here: le.ac.uk/open-days
Gain a world-class Physics education while learning from experts in Space science, Astrophysics and Earth Observation Science. 🔭🧪🎢
Sign up here: le.ac.uk/open-days
Gain a world-class Physics education while learning from experts in Space science, Astrophysics and Earth Observation Science. 🔭🧪🎢
November 7, 2025 at 4:59 PM
🔭🧪🎢 The next Open Day at the University of Leicester is tomorrow! Come and see what studying Physics here is all about!
Sign up here: le.ac.uk/open-days
Gain a world-class Physics education while learning from experts in Space science, Astrophysics and Earth Observation Science. 🔭🧪🎢
Sign up here: le.ac.uk/open-days
Gain a world-class Physics education while learning from experts in Space science, Astrophysics and Earth Observation Science. 🔭🧪🎢
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Thanks to the team at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory for hosting me today: home of Dragonfly quadcopter to Titan (model below), Parker Solar Probe, New Horizons to Pluto, DART asteroid impactor, and more. Talked HabWorlds, JWST, heliophysics and exoplanets, all in one exhausting day.
October 28, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Thanks to the team at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory for hosting me today: home of Dragonfly quadcopter to Titan (model below), Parker Solar Probe, New Horizons to Pluto, DART asteroid impactor, and more. Talked HabWorlds, JWST, heliophysics and exoplanets, all in one exhausting day.
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Fantastic first part of the week at ESAC at the BepiColombo @science.esa.int Science Working Team meeting… just a bit over a year before arriving to Mercury! ✨✨ very exciting, and always great to go back home, even if just for a few days!
October 30, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Fantastic first part of the week at ESAC at the BepiColombo @science.esa.int Science Working Team meeting… just a bit over a year before arriving to Mercury! ✨✨ very exciting, and always great to go back home, even if just for a few days!
🐱 Our newest student! 🐱
Learning about the vast current flowing along the Earth's magnetic field to the ionosphere is as captivating for cats as it is for our students. It took a seat and stayed for the lecture as @bscredrojo.bsky.social explained the "Birkeland currents" to our 3rd years! 😻
Learning about the vast current flowing along the Earth's magnetic field to the ionosphere is as captivating for cats as it is for our students. It took a seat and stayed for the lecture as @bscredrojo.bsky.social explained the "Birkeland currents" to our 3rd years! 😻
October 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
🐱 Our newest student! 🐱
Learning about the vast current flowing along the Earth's magnetic field to the ionosphere is as captivating for cats as it is for our students. It took a seat and stayed for the lecture as @bscredrojo.bsky.social explained the "Birkeland currents" to our 3rd years! 😻
Learning about the vast current flowing along the Earth's magnetic field to the ionosphere is as captivating for cats as it is for our students. It took a seat and stayed for the lecture as @bscredrojo.bsky.social explained the "Birkeland currents" to our 3rd years! 😻
🔭🧪🎢 As a summer research project, our undergraduate Bagirdam Dharmalingam studied greenhouse gas above the UK! ☀️
Learn more about out Earth Observation research here le.ac.uk/physics/rese...
Learn about studying Physics at Leicester here 👉 le.ac.uk/study/physics
Learn more about out Earth Observation research here le.ac.uk/physics/rese...
Learn about studying Physics at Leicester here 👉 le.ac.uk/study/physics
October 16, 2025 at 12:29 PM
🔭🧪🎢 As a summer research project, our undergraduate Bagirdam Dharmalingam studied greenhouse gas above the UK! ☀️
Learn more about out Earth Observation research here le.ac.uk/physics/rese...
Learn about studying Physics at Leicester here 👉 le.ac.uk/study/physics
Learn more about out Earth Observation research here le.ac.uk/physics/rese...
Learn about studying Physics at Leicester here 👉 le.ac.uk/study/physics
🔭🧪🎢 This summer project, which two of our students, Jack Fuller and Luke Smith, worked on looked at what happens when you mill through the surface of materials with lasers!
Summer projects are open to our undergraduates every year. Learn about studying Physics at Leicester 👉 le.ac.uk/study/physics
Summer projects are open to our undergraduates every year. Learn about studying Physics at Leicester 👉 le.ac.uk/study/physics
October 14, 2025 at 12:27 PM
🔭🧪🎢 This summer project, which two of our students, Jack Fuller and Luke Smith, worked on looked at what happens when you mill through the surface of materials with lasers!
Summer projects are open to our undergraduates every year. Learn about studying Physics at Leicester 👉 le.ac.uk/study/physics
Summer projects are open to our undergraduates every year. Learn about studying Physics at Leicester 👉 le.ac.uk/study/physics
🔭🧪🎢 Our undergraduate, Kieran Bujdoso, spent his summer project here analysing meteorites.
Learn more about our meteorite research here 💫 🪨 : le.ac.uk/physics/rese...
Learn about studying Physics at Leicester here 👉 le.ac.uk/study/physics
Learn more about our meteorite research here 💫 🪨 : le.ac.uk/physics/rese...
Learn about studying Physics at Leicester here 👉 le.ac.uk/study/physics
October 9, 2025 at 12:21 PM
🔭🧪🎢 Our undergraduate, Kieran Bujdoso, spent his summer project here analysing meteorites.
Learn more about our meteorite research here 💫 🪨 : le.ac.uk/physics/rese...
Learn about studying Physics at Leicester here 👉 le.ac.uk/study/physics
Learn more about our meteorite research here 💫 🪨 : le.ac.uk/physics/rese...
Learn about studying Physics at Leicester here 👉 le.ac.uk/study/physics
Our 3rd year William Spanswick did a summer project here studying the Martian ionosphere! This is him telling the department about it before term started
Learn more about our research here 🛰️ le.ac.uk/physics/rese...
Learn about studying Physics at Leicester here 👉 le.ac.uk/study/physics
Learn more about our research here 🛰️ le.ac.uk/physics/rese...
Learn about studying Physics at Leicester here 👉 le.ac.uk/study/physics
October 7, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Our 3rd year William Spanswick did a summer project here studying the Martian ionosphere! This is him telling the department about it before term started
Learn more about our research here 🛰️ le.ac.uk/physics/rese...
Learn about studying Physics at Leicester here 👉 le.ac.uk/study/physics
Learn more about our research here 🛰️ le.ac.uk/physics/rese...
Learn about studying Physics at Leicester here 👉 le.ac.uk/study/physics
🔭🧪🎢 As a summer project our undergraduate student Emily Stedall looked at "The Evolution and Impact of Accretion Disk Winds in an X-Ray Binary System" 🔭🧪🎢
Learn more about studying Physics at Leicester here 👉 le.ac.uk/study/physics
Learn more about studying Physics at Leicester here 👉 le.ac.uk/study/physics
October 2, 2025 at 12:05 PM
🔭🧪🎢 As a summer project our undergraduate student Emily Stedall looked at "The Evolution and Impact of Accretion Disk Winds in an X-Ray Binary System" 🔭🧪🎢
Learn more about studying Physics at Leicester here 👉 le.ac.uk/study/physics
Learn more about studying Physics at Leicester here 👉 le.ac.uk/study/physics
🔭🧪🎢 Every year we run the summer research projects for some of our undergraduates.
Daniel Booth looked at identifying mid-infrared counterparts to gamma-ray bursts, and he presented his work before term started 🔭🧪🎢
Daniel Booth looked at identifying mid-infrared counterparts to gamma-ray bursts, and he presented his work before term started 🔭🧪🎢
September 30, 2025 at 9:15 AM
🔭🧪🎢 Every year we run the summer research projects for some of our undergraduates.
Daniel Booth looked at identifying mid-infrared counterparts to gamma-ray bursts, and he presented his work before term started 🔭🧪🎢
Daniel Booth looked at identifying mid-infrared counterparts to gamma-ray bursts, and he presented his work before term started 🔭🧪🎢
🔭🧪🎢 Every year we run some summer research projects for our undergraduates. Before term, Ayushma Paudel told us about helping to monitor food security!
Learn about our Earth observation research 🌍 le.ac.uk/physics/rese...
Learn about studying Physics at Leicester 👉 le.ac.uk/study/physics
Learn about our Earth observation research 🌍 le.ac.uk/physics/rese...
Learn about studying Physics at Leicester 👉 le.ac.uk/study/physics
September 26, 2025 at 12:37 PM
🔭🧪🎢 Every year we run some summer research projects for our undergraduates. Before term, Ayushma Paudel told us about helping to monitor food security!
Learn about our Earth observation research 🌍 le.ac.uk/physics/rese...
Learn about studying Physics at Leicester 👉 le.ac.uk/study/physics
Learn about our Earth observation research 🌍 le.ac.uk/physics/rese...
Learn about studying Physics at Leicester 👉 le.ac.uk/study/physics
🔭🧪🎢 Our next open day is tomorrow, Saturday 13th September, and you are all welcome!
Book your place here: le.ac.uk/open-days
You can learn about the exciting research done here at the university that you can get involved with as an undergraduate. 🔭🧪🎢
Book your place here: le.ac.uk/open-days
You can learn about the exciting research done here at the university that you can get involved with as an undergraduate. 🔭🧪🎢
Open Days | University of Leicester
Book an Open Day at the University of Leicester. Take a tour of campus, speak to our expert academics and meet our current students. Become a Citizen of Change at a Top 30 university.
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September 12, 2025 at 10:09 AM
🔭🧪🎢 Our next open day is tomorrow, Saturday 13th September, and you are all welcome!
Book your place here: le.ac.uk/open-days
You can learn about the exciting research done here at the university that you can get involved with as an undergraduate. 🔭🧪🎢
Book your place here: le.ac.uk/open-days
You can learn about the exciting research done here at the university that you can get involved with as an undergraduate. 🔭🧪🎢