PhD Projects available - 2010

The ARI research activity focuses on Galaxy Evolution and Stellar Populations, Clusters of Galaxies, Active Galactic Nuclei, Gamma Ray Bursts, Novae, Star Forming Regions, e-Science and Telescope Instrumentation.

• The Galaxy And Matter Assembly (GAMA) Project - Dr I Baldry


• The Core Regions of Merging Elliptical Galaxies - Prof D Carter


• The HST/ACS Coma cluster survey - Prof D Carter


• Gamma-Ray Bursts and Magnetized Jets - Dr S Kobayashi


• Hyper Velocity Stars - Dr S Kobayashi


• Gas flows in centres of galaxies - Dr W Maciejewski


• Orbits in realistic potentials of double bars - Dr W Maciejewski


• Molecular Outflows from high-mass protostars - Dr T Moore


• Minor mergers as diagnostics of galaxy structure - Dr W Maciejewski


• Recurrent Novae and the progenitors of Type Ia Supernovae - Prof Mike Bode and Dr Matt Darnley


• Galaxies as Laboratories for Testing the Origin of Mass - Prof C Mundell


• The Origin of Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays - Prof C Mundell


• The Astrophysics of Relativistic Outflows in Radio Loud AGN - Prof C Mundell


• Evolution of Stellar Populations - Prof M Salaris


• A New Era of Cosmology with Galaxy Clusters - Prof C Collins


• Robotic telescopes in the era of synoptic surveys - Dr D Bersier

Students interested in other areas of research are also invited to apply and to contact individual members of the institute.

For more details on our PhD study programme please click here.

To apply to study on our PhD programme, please follow the application procedure here.