Overview

Your applied physics and materials research project will be shaped by participation in research activities such as seminars, workshops, laboratory activity and fieldwork, as well as your involvement in one of our established research groups.

Applied Physics and Materials Group (APM) is supported by grants from the European Union, Welsh Government, National Science Foundation, Australian Research Council, Welsh European Funding Office, and EPSRC.

The areas of research include:

• Biophotonics: Nano- and micro-structured materials, biomimetics, analyte sensing and light-tissue interaction
• Nanomedicine
• Sustainable Advanced Materials: next-generation semiconductors, bioelectronic materials and devices, optoelectronics including photodetection, solar energy conversion, advanced electro-optics and transport physics of disordered solids

Atomic, Molecular and Quantum Physics Group (AMQP) is supported by grants from EPSRC, the EU, The Royal Society, the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales and various industrial and government sources.

The areas of research are:

• Analytical laser spectroscopy, 
• Ultrafast Dynamics, Imaging and Microscopy, Optomechanics
• Antihydrogen, positronium and positrons
• Cold atom physics

• Nano-scale physics and the life sciences

• Amplitudes in gauge and supergravity theories
• Hot and Dense matter, High-performance computing 
• Gauge/string duality, Higher spin holography, Integrability, Large-N gauge theories, supersymmetry and duality
• Holography and lattice theories in physics beyond the Standard Model
• Quantum fields in curved spacetime and theoretical cosmology

Programme Aims

This Applied Physics and Materials (by Research) programme from Swansea University will provide students with:

• The opportunity to conduct high quality postgraduate research in a world leading research environment.
• Key skills needed to undertake advanced academic and non-academic research including qualitative and quantitative data analysis.
• Advanced critical thinking, intellectual curiosity and independent judgement.