<div id="bm-composer-content-wrapper"><div style="font-family: Montserrat, montserrat, Source Sans, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:FR">PhD in cotutelle on “Negative pressure and
cavitation as stability limit in biological systems” </span></b></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:FR">Funding providers:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:FR"> Swansea
University Strategic Partnership Research Scholarships
(SUSPRS) with Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), France </span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:FR">Subject areas: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:FR;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Physics, Biophysics, </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:FR">Chemical Engineering  </span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:FR">Project start date:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:FR">  </span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom:0cm">
 <li style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:FR">1 October 2024 (Enrolment open from
     mid-September) </span></li></ul><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:FR">Supervisors:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:FR"> </span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom:0cm">
 <li style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:FR">Prof. Judith Peters (Univ. Grenoble Alpes –
     judith.peters@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr) </span></li>
 <li style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:FR">Dr Matthew Barrow (Swansea University - </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:FR"><a><span style="color: blue;">m.s.barrow@swansea.ac.uk</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:FR">) </span></li></ul><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:FR">Aligned programme of study:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:FR"> PhD in Physics, Biophysics or Chemical Engineering </span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:FR">Mode of study:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:FR"> Full-time </span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:FR">Project description:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:FR">  </span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:FR">The preservation of normal form and function of biomolecules is critical
for sustaining life. When living organisms are exposed to conditions beyond a
critical point, irreversible degradation or denaturation can occur. This
project seeks to study the behaviour of protein solutions under varied
conditions of both temperature and pressure and aims to observe the effect of
these conditions upon physical attributes which are linked to natural function.
The project will principally focus on biologically extreme conditions including
negative pressure and/or supercooling of aqueous protein solutions i.e. studies
will focus on the behaviour of biological materials under metastable conditions
with respect to the phase diagram of water.  </span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:FR">The programme of research seeks to develop pressure systems suitable for
the study of biological samples, model the thermodynamics and nucleation
expected at extreme conditions and take into account various transitions of
proteins with respect to changes in thermodynamic conditions. </span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:FR">It is anticipated that the use of advanced scattering and characterisation
techniques will be employed to probe modifications to both protein structure
and mechanical properties, for example the use of FT-IR spectroscopy and
rheometrical techniques will precede applications for beam time at the neutron
facility at Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble.  </span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:FR">Project work will be conducted at both Swansea University Bay Campus and
UGA in association with the Department of Chemical Engineering and the
Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Physics (LIPhY), respectively. </span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:FR">Modalities: </span></b></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:FR">This is a joint PhD programme (co-tutelle) between Swansea University
and Université Grenoble Alpes. </span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:FR">Established in 2012/13, the Swansea and Grenoble (UGA) Institutional
Strategic Partnership was one of the first major strategic partnerships between
a UK and French university. It is a unique, institutional-wide
multi-disciplinary collaboration, which includes joint research and
publication, student and staff exchange, joint PhDs and joint
master’s programmes. Over 30 Joint Doctoral Degrees have been developed through
the strategic partnership to date, across diverse subject areas, including
medicine, engineering and law. Candidates spend 50% of their time in
both Swansea and Grenoble and are jointly supervised by academic staff from
both universities. Successful candidates receive a double degree from the
Université Grenoble Alpes and Swansea University.   </span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-outline-level:3"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:FR">Eligibility </span></b></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:FR">Candidates must hold a UK bachelor’s degree with a minimum of Upper Second
Class honours or overseas bachelor’s degree deemed equivalent to UK honours (by
UK ECCTIS) and achieved a grade equivalent to UK Upper Second Class
honours in Physics, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry or related subject. If
you are eligible to apply for the scholarship but do not hold a UK degree, you
can check our comparison entry requirements. Please note that you may need
to provide evidence of your English Language proficiency.  </span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:FR">Applicants must hold a
master's qualification</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:FR"> to comply
with Grenoble’s admissions requirements.  </span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:FR">English Language: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:FR">IELTS 6.5 Overall (with no individual component below 5.5) or Swansea
University recognised equivalent. </span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:FR">This scholarship is open to candidates of any
nationality. </span></b></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:FR">Please, send your application (including a CV, a
motivation letter, your marks during academic career, a recommendation letter)
to one of the supervisors before June 30^th, 2024.</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:FR"> </span></p><br></div><div data-bm-signature="default"></div><style></style></div>