We offer an advanced 3-4-year research degree that provides in-depth specialist training and knowledge in a topical area pertaining to Chemical Engineering and related Engineering and Science disciplines. The Department has state-of-the-art experimental and computational facilities and is the home of the Automated high-throughput platform suite, the Sargent Centre for Process Systems Engineering and the Sustainable Futures Lab.

As part of a PhD degree, you will join one of our research groups to work on cutting-edge research under the supervision of one or more academic staff. You will also join a dynamic community of ~220 PhD students and over 100 postdoctoral researchers working on some on of the world’s most pressing issues, from advancing low-carbon energy technology to enabling a zero-pollution economy, and from accelerating vaccine manufacturing to developing innovative medical devices.

During your PhD, you can expect to develop technical research skills in your chosen research field, while also receiving professional skills training within the Department and the Graduate school. You will become an expert in your field and contribute original research to the academic community. Additionally, you will have the opportunity to work as Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) to get additional teaching experience.

The Department adopts an interdisciplinary approach to research, with interests ranging from fundamentals to practical applications. The research activities of the Department fall into at least one of the following nine research themes:

• Biomedical engineering and industrial biotechnology
• Energy and environmental engineering
• Materials
• Multiphase transport processes
• Multi-scale computational chemical engineering
• Multi-scale thermodynamics and molecular systems
• Reaction engineering and applied catalysis
• Separations
• Soft matter engineering