Superconductivity

The Superconductivity CDT provides comprehensive training and research opportunities across the broad, interdisciplinary field of superconductivity, which is a technology central to reducing reliance on fossil fuels, advancing healthcare, and enabling next-generation quantum technologies.

Students receive a holistic education that spans the full landscape of superconductivity: from fundamental physical principles, to the discovery and optimisation of new materials, through to real-world applications. These applications include high-field magnets for nuclear fusion reactors and MRI systems, efficient power transmission technologies, and quantum devices used in emerging quantum computing platforms.

The programme draws on expertise from Physics, Chemistry, Materials Science, and Engineering, ensuring you develop both depth and breadth in your scientific understanding. Alongside technical training, the CDT also provides development in key transferable skills including scientific writing, presentation and communication skills, public engagement, outreach, and entrepreneurship, equipping graduates to become leaders across academia, industry, and the quantum technology sector.

A key aspect of the programme is that it has an emphasis on encouraging you to work together; both as a cohort and between different year groups. It contains several specific mechanisms to promote cohort development. These include three cohort-wide residential training weeks distributed over the academic year, an annual conference, cross-cohort group projects and seminars, and shared mentoring. You will benefit from each other's knowledge and insights, understanding and taking interest in problems outside of your specialism and contributing to each other's progress and training through peer-to-peer learning.

Students are recruited to the CDT to work on specific research projects.