Chemistry

Supervision for a Chemistry PhD at the University of Brighton draws on expertise spanning the traditional areas of organic, inorganic, physical and analytical chemistry, with particular expertise in research with a biological or medicinal angle.

Successful supervision has often drawn on cross-disciplinary expertise across biology, medicine, environmental science and nanotechnology.As a Chemistry Chemistry PhD student you will be part of a thriving postgraduate community within the Chemistry Research and Enterprise Group in the School of Applied Sciences where research is supported by postdoctoral researchers, visiting fellows and technical staff.

Our Chemistry PhD graduates at the University of Brighton University of Brighton have gone on to work in postdoctoral research and industry.

Key facts

As a Chemistry PhD student you will benefit from:

• a supervisory team comprising 2-3 members of academic staff. Depending on your research specialism you may also have an additional external supervisor from another School, research institution, or industry.

• access to a range of electronic resources via the University’s Online Library, as well as to the physical book and journal collections housed within the Aldrich Library and other campus libraries.

• access to state-of-the-art research facilities on the Moulsecoomb site, including electron microscopy, mass spectrometry, computer simulations and electrochemistry, all of which are available to research students.

• desk space and access to a desktop PC, either in one of the postgraduate offices on the sixth floor of the award-winning Cockcroft Building. 

Research themes with regular Chemistry PhD researcher involvement include:

• Synthetic chemistry

• Analytical chemistry

• Computational chemistry

• Biochemistry of lipids and proteins

• Electrochemistry and electrochemical sensors

• Supramolecular chemistry

• Polymers

• The chemistry of ageing