College of Science & Engineering

EPSRC Vacation Internship 2024

The University is currently recruiting 16 undergraduate students for the Schools of Chemistry, Computing Science, Engineering, Geographical & Earth Sciences, Mathematics & Statistics and Physics & Astronomy to work on a research project over the summer, under the EPSRC Vacation Internship scheme. 

The scheme supports undergraduate students to gain practical first-hand experience of research and encourages them to consider a research career. Students receive a salary of ca £400 per week (assuming satisfactory engagement with their research) and carry out a project lasting eight to ten weeks during the summer holiday. All students will be invited to a reception in September at which they will be required to present their research. 

Students should be in the middle years of a first degree within EPSRC's remit, and able to fulfil EPSRC doctoral training grant eligibility requirements by the end of their undergraduate degree (i.e be classified as home/EU for fee purposes).  

To apply, please complete the EPSRC Vacation Internship Application Form 2024 and send it to scieng-gradschool@glasgow.ac.uk by Thursday, 2nd of May 2024. Projects will commence in late June/early July (to be confirmed on discussion with the supervisor).  

Projects are available across the Schools as follows:

School of Chemistry

Project	Supervisor(s)
Ion Storage Layer for Organic Based Electrochromic Devices	Dr Benjamin Orimolade
Powering UP: screening for active Zr raw material	Dr Laia-Vila Nadal
Next Generation Lithium-Ion Batteries (LIBs) using Sustainable Seaweed Polymers	Dr Siobhan Stevenson

School of Computing Science

Project	Supervisor(s)
Emergent Behaviour of Telecommunication Control System	Dr Paul Harvey
Investigating How Large Language Model Responses Should Be Displayed to Everyday Augmented Reality Users	Dr Joseph O'Hagan and Dr Euan Freeman

School of Engineering

Project	Supervisor(s)
Investigating fundamental contact mechanics and performance of Tribo-electric Nano-generator from human movement	Dr Satyaranjan Bairagi and Dr Charchit Kumar
Recyclable Wireless Sensors on Biodegradable and Biocompatible Materials	Dr Benjamin King and Dr Mahmoud Wagih
Improved Reliability Testing Systems for Photonic Crystal Surface Emitting Lasers	Dr Adam McKenzie and Prof Jeff Kettle
FPGA Based Qubit Control and Readout Implementation	Dr Roghaieh Parvizi and Dr Atif Jafri
Using organic volatile compounds to monitor anaerobic digesters: Applying medical detection methods to environmental technology	Dr Baptiste Poursat

School of Geographical & Earth Sciences

Project	Supervisor(s)
Multi-Lingual and Multi-Modal Location Information Extraction (Multi-LM)	Joseph Shingleton

School of Mathematics & Statistics

Project	Supervisor(s)
Habitat use and behaviour of multiple species of marine turtles using point processes	Dr Jafet Belmont Osuna and Dr Daniela Castro-Camilo
Research in surface theory	Dr John Nicholson and Philipp Bader
Physics-Informed Neural Networks: Addressing Optimisation Challenges	Dr Tiffany Vlaar

School of Physics & Astronomy

Project	Supervisor(s)
Low gain avalanche detectors for fast timing applications	Dr Dima Maneuski And Dr Richard Bates
Portable Quantum Device for (Q-)Chirality Measurements	Dr Sara Restuccia and Dr Joe Knapper