Southampton Participates in CDT Projects

The University of Southampton is to share in part of the £350 million fund, that has been earmarked for training over 3,500 post graduate students in engineering and physical sciences.

The University of Southampton is involved in three new CDTs –

Professor Hans Fangohr will be leading the CDT in Next Generation Computational Modelling (CDT NGCM), a critically important driver for new technology (from the Airbus 380 to MRI scans), new science (from climate change to drug design), and new policy (from infrastructure to finance). The Computational Modelling Group will work with world-leading industrial partners to train and support at least 11 PhD students per year.

With theory and computer modelling play an increasingly providing the means to understand, predict and design new molecules and materials the CDT in Theory and Modelling in Chemical Sciences will combine the expertise of leading groups in Southampton (represented by Professor Jonathan Essex, Head of Computational Systems Chemistry), Bristol and Oxford universities, to transform graduate-level training in computational and theoretical chemistry. Students will receive integrated, in-depth training in the core activities of fundamental theory, software development, and application to contemporary research challenges. The programme further includes extensive outreach to the wider national research and user community. 

The CDT in New and Sustainable Photovoltaics (PV) will support the transformation of PV in the UK that will in turn aid the country to achieve its renewable energy obligations, and will generate jobs in the technology sectors as well as local manufacturing and installation. The CDT is a multicentre team of seven institutions – Southampton (represented by Professor Pavlos Lagoudakis from the University’s Hybrid Photonics group), Liverpool, Bath, Sheffield, Oxford, Loughborough and Cambridge.

Professor Philip Nelson, Pro Vice-Chancellor at the University of Southampton, says: “We are delighted to be participating in three of the Centres for Doctoral Training announced so far. All of these cover areas of research that are vital to our country's future and we are very pleased to be so directly involved in providing the highly skilled scientists and engineers that are crucial to the UK economy.”