Projects available for October 2025
Applications are invited for the below projects.
Please ensure you have read our updated programme description before applying for projects.
Please check back for new projects. If you have contacted Dr Jonathan Tate about being added to our mailing list, you will be notified via email when new positions become available. If you wish to be added to our mailing list, please contact Jonathan at j.tate@imperial.ac.uk
Due to the sensitive nature of the research being carried out, some projects may require you to be a UK national.
Project title: Computational methods for radiation transport
Short project description: The aim of this PhD project is to develop high-fidelity computational methods for modelling and simulating (M&S) radiation transport within multiphase media and materials. These methods will be applied to both nuclear reactor physics and reactor shielding modelling and simulation (M&S).
Supervisor(s): Dr Matt Eaton (ICL)
Institution: Imperial College London
Further information: Funded by Rolls-Royce Plc. Only UK nationals are invited to apply for this vacancy.
Part-time: Not suitable for part-time study.
How to apply: E-mail your CV to Dr Matt Eaton (m.eaton@imperial.ac.uk)
Deadline: Ongoing until position is filled.
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Project title: Modelling and simulation of transient nuclear criticality excursions
Short description: The aim of this PhD project is to develop mathematical and computational methods for understanding the nuclear criticality safety risk of performing thermal treatment, or processing, for nuclear waste streams [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]. The aim of thermal processing technology is to reduce the mass/volume of the nuclear waste as well as remove, or stabilise, any other hazardous non-fissile material.
Supervisor(s): Dr Matt Eaton (ICL) and Dr Sonny Gan (Sellafield Ltd)
Institution: Imperial College London
Further information: Funded by Sellafield Ltd. Only UK nationals are invited to apply for this vacancy.
Part-time: Not suitable for part-time study.
How to apply: E-mail your CV to Dr Matt Eaton (m.eaton@imperial.ac.uk)
Deadline: Ongoing until position is filled.
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Project title: Nuclear reactor physics burn-up-depletion algorithms
Short project description: The advent of shared and distributed memory high performance computing (HPC) hardware architectures is driving innovations in nuclear reactor physics modelling and simulation software. The aim of this PhD is to develop appropriate shared and distributed memory parallel solution algorithms that are computational efficient for extremely large data sets and that can resolve each nuclear fuel burn-up/depletion time-step using a highly scalable approach.
Supervisor(s): Dr Matt Eaton (ICL)
Institution: Imperial College London
Further information: Funded by Rolls-Royce Plc. Only UK nationals are invited to apply for this vacancy.
Part-time: Not suitable for part-time study.
How to apply: E-mail your CV to Dr Matt Eaton (m.eaton@imperial.ac.uk)
Deadline: Ongoing until position is filled.
