EPSRC Vacation Internship 2025/26
The University is currently recruiting undergraduate students for the Schools of Chemistry, Computing Science, Engineering, Mathematics and Statistics, Geographical and Earth Sciences, and Physics and 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 £470 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 Internships May 2026 and send it to scieng-gradschool@glasgow.ac.uk by Friday 29th May 2026. Projects will commence in early July (to be confirmed on discussion with the supervisor).
Projects are available across the Schools as follows:
School of Chemistry
| Project | Supervisor(s) |
|---|---|
| Life Cycle Assessment of Consumables Used in Automated Flash Chromatography | Dr Alex Loch |
| Spectroscopic characterisation of hybrid peptide-organic lanthanide complexes |
Dr Drew Thomson |
| Inducing Chirality in 2D Materials Using Orbital Angular Momentum Light Beams | Dr Paula Laborda Lalaguna |
| Experimental Actinide Nano-chemistry for the Future of the Civil UK Plutonium In | Dr Emma Gibson |
School of Computing Science
| Project | Supervisor(s) |
|---|---|
|
Formal verification for physical layer security in ISAC scenarios |
Dr Michele Sevegnani |
|
Embodied Affect Regulation focusing on Heart Rate with Electrotactile Feedback |
Dr Patrizia Di Campli San Vito |
|
Extracting complex and nested biomedical relations from published literature |
Dr Jake Lever |
|
Characterising LLM Inference on a Low-Cost RISC-V Matrix-Accelerated Platform |
Dr Nikela Papadopoulou |
| Deep Learning for Climate Downscaling |
Dr Linus Ericsson |
School of Engineering
School of Physics & Astronomy
| Project | Supervisor(s) |
|---|---|
|
Ultrafast 3D fluorescence imaging via 2D-3D volume reconstruction |
Dr Daniel Olesker |
School of Mathematics and Statistics
| Project | Supervisor(s) |
|---|---|
|
Developing an open-source, rapid ray tracer for aspherical lenses |
Dr Valentin Aslanyan |
|
Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Modelling Extreme Temperature Dynamics |
Dr Vinny Davies |
| Dr Tiffany Vlaar |
School of Geographical and Earth Sciences
| Project | Supervisor(s) |
|---|---|
| Mr Joseph Shingleton |