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China Scholarship Council Project

Queen Mary University of London has partnered with the China Scholarship Council (CSC) to offer a joint scholarship programme to enable Chinese students to study for a PhD programme at Queen Mary. Under the scheme, Queen Mary will provide scholarships to cover all tuition fees, whilst the CSC will provide living expenses for 4 years and one return flight ticket to successful applicants. 

The School of Physical and Chemical Sciences is pleased to offer several projects under this scheme to start in September 2025. Please see below for the available projects.

Eligibility and applying

Applicants must be:

  • Chinese students with a strong academic background.
  • Students holding a PR Chinese passport.
  • Either a resident in China at the time of application or studying overseas. 
  • Students with prior experience of studying overseas (including in the UK) are eligible to apply. Chinese QMUL graduates/Masters’ students are therefore eligible for the scheme.

Please refer to the CSC website for full details on eligibility and conditions on the scholarship.

The deadline for applications to Queen Mary is 31st January 2025. Applicants will need to complete an online application form by this date to be considered. Shortlisted applicants will be invited for a formal interview by the project supervisor. Those who are successful in their application for our PhD programme will be issued with an offer letter which is conditional on securing a CSC scholarship (as well as any academic conditions still required to meet our entry requirements).

Once applicants have obtained their offer letter from Queen Mary they should then apply to CSC for the scholarship by the advertised deadline with the support of the project supervisor.  Please note that we expect all applicants to have satisfied Queen Mary's English language requirement at the time of their application to CSC.  

For September 2025 entry, applicants must complete the CSC application on the CSC website by the advertised deadline.

Only applicants who are successful in their application to CSC can be issued an unconditional offer and enrol on our PhD programme.

Projects:

 

Project Title Supervisor
Observational cosmology with upcoming surveys (China Scholarship Council project) Professor Chris Clarkson
Searching for ultra-high energy neutrinos in Antarctica (China Scholarship Council project) Dr Linda Cremonesi
Quantum Coherent Phenomena in Molecular Nanomagnets (China Scholarship Council project) Dr Junjie Liu
Machine learning developments for particle physics discoveries (China Scholarship Council project) Dr Marcella Bona
Stochastic modelling of frequency fluctuations and technoeconomic analysis of future power grids (China Scholarship Council project) Professor Alan Drew
Advanced Spectroscopy for High Efficiency OLED Materials and Devices (China Scholarship Council project) Dr James Thomas
Belle 2 experiment at KEK in Japan to search for discrete symmetry violations (China Scholarship Council project) Professor Adrian Bevan
Development of low-cost disimeters [China Scholarship Council project] Professor Alan Drew
Molecular memristors for next-generation computing (China Scholarship Council project) Professor Jan Mol
A World’s Most Precise Measurement of the Fundamental Standard Model Parameter – the Weak Mixing Angle (China Scholarship Council project) Professor Eram Rizvi
Search for Higgs Boson decays to charm quarks using AI applications at the ATLAS experiment at the LHC (China Scholarship Council project) Dr. Ulla Blumenschein
Neutrino Physics with Short Baseline Neutrino Programme (China Studentship Council project) Dr. Nicola McConkey
Using Machine Learning for Fast Particle Selections on Fast Electronic Trigger of the ATLAS Experiment (China Scholarship Council project) Eram Rizvi
New techniques for scattering amplitudes of particles and strings (China Scholarship Council project) Dr Ricardo Monteiro
Nanotechnology Strategies for the Assembly of Nanohybrid Systems and Devices (China Scholarship Council Project) Professor Matteo Palma
Programmable Actuating Materials (China Scholarship Council project) Dr Yao Lu
New organic semiconductors for bioelectronic and neuromorphic applications (China Scholarship Council project) Dr Christian Nielsen
Development of new electrolytes for all-solid-state battery systems(China Scholarship Council project) Dr Isaac Abrahams
Minimizing exciton and charge losses in next generation organic solar cell materials with extremely weak vibronic coupling, a single molecule approach (China Scholarship Council project) Dr Stoichko Dimitrov
Helicenes and Chiral Spin Filtering (China Scholarship Council project) Dr Jochen Brandt
Helicenes and Chiral Spin Filtering (China Scholarship Council project) Dr Jochen Brandt
Search for High Energy Physics Beyond the Standard Model in Effective Field Theories Using Machine Learning Techniques [China Scholarship Council project] Prof. Eram Rizvi
Computational Catalyst Design for Value-Added Molecule Conversion (China Scholarship Council project) Dr Devis Di Tommaso
Plastic waste upcycling using microwave-initiated heterogeneous catalysis (China Scholarship Council project) Dr Xiangyu Jie
Large scale structure in the Universe (China Scholarship Council project) Professor Chris Clarkson
Inflationary cosmology and the early universe (China Scholarship Council project) Dr David Mulryne
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