Jointly based at the Universities of Bristol and Bath, our Centre for Doctoral Training aims to train students across a broad range of disciplines in the field of hard condensed matter physics, encompassing experiment, theory, fundamental physics and device applications.
Application for Sept 2017
Funded application deadline: 01 August. Applications will be considered as they are received.
What is it like being a student?
- See what our current CMP students are doing via our JPhys blog.
- Students in Bristol blog.
- Life in Bath blog.
News
All Centre for Doctoral Training in Condensed Matter Physics news
- CDT-CMP Student Published In Advanced Materials 08 May 2017
- The CDT-CMP in New Orleans 20 April 2017
Research
- Superconductors
- Novel magnetic materials
- Single atomic layer crystals (graphene and related 2D materials)
- Plasmonic structures
- Metamaterials
- Power electronics
- Optoelectronics
- Instrumentation and sensor development
Our vision is to expose students to the most exciting research topics in condensed matter physics, break down traditional boundaries between disciplines and produce graduates who are able to mix theory with experiment, embed state-of-the-art measurement or computational science in their research and exploit fundamental physics in applications.
Professor Simon Bending, Deputy Director CDT-CMP, University of Bath
