In addition to the projects listed below we encourage interested applicants to browse our research pages for areas of our research they are interested in and to contact the members of academic staff concerned.

The School also has a number of specifically-funded PhD projects.

Potential projects

• Exo-climatology: The study of atmospheric dynamics of exoplanets
• Multi-dimensional stellar evolution: very early phases of evolution of low mass stars and brown dwarfs
• Star formation in local molecular clouds
• The turbulent structure and dynamics of molecular clouds
• Mapping the progression of star formation throughout the local region of our Galaxy
• Determining the properties of stellar clusters
• The interaction between a young star and its accretion disc
• Astrometric companion search with PRIMA - from stars to planets