Current studentships
Keele University studentships, when available, are funded internally or from external sponsors such as research councils or from industry. If you are interested in any of the studentships available you can apply online.
| Research topic | Astrophysics: Calibrating stellar models with chemical tracers of internal mixing processes/Chemically Peculiar Stars |
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| Reference number | FNS_STFC2025P1 |
| Overview |
The PLATO mission, launching in 2026, aims to discover and characterise rocky planets around Sun‑like stars and to measure the ages of the planetary systems from the analysis of the host star properties to an accuracy of 10%. The PhD project aims to develop a new method to calibrate the next generation of stellar models using chemical tracers in the spectra of binary stars to probe the efficiency of mixing processes operating in Sun-like stars of known mass. The project will use a combination of stellar modelling, data-mining and machine-learning techniques to understand quantitatively how chemical tracers can be used to calibrate stellar models.
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| Details | See advert and details |
| Duration | 3 years |
| Fees | 100% UK tuition fees (£5006pa in 2025/6) for 3 years. The University will waive the additional international fee for international applicants who successfully obtain a funded studentship. |
| Stipend | 100% UKRI stipend (£20,780pa in 2025/26) for 3 years. Students are also provided with a travel budget for conference attendance, access to Faculty research training funds for research related expenses including - but not limited to - conference attendance, external training courses and UK fieldwork. |
| Closing date | Midnight on 13th February 2026 |
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