Vacation Scholarships
Faculty of Science Vacation Research Scholarships
UNSW Science Summer Vacation Research Scholarships are available for students currently enrolled in second year or above in Physics or a related discipline. The Scholarships are valued at $3800 for a 6 week research project over the Summer Vacation (November to February).
Application opening: This scholarship is not available for 2020-2021.
Further information and online application forms available here .
Read about what some previous summer’s scholars did here:
Possible Summer Research Projects in the School of Physics
| Supervisor(s) | Project Title | Project Details |
| Dr Peter Reece | Photonics and Optoelectronics | Desc |
| Dr Maria Cunningham | Astrophysics and Astrochemistry | Desc |
| Prof. Chris Tinney | Exoplanets and Brown Dwarfs | Desc |
| A/Prof. Clemens Ulrich | Optical Spectroscopy and neutron scattering | Desc |
| A/Prof. Dennis Stello | Sounding stars using data from NASA's kepler and TESS missions | Desc |
| Prof. Sven Rogge | Quantum computation in silicon | Desc |
| A/Prof. Kim-Vy Tran | Galaxy Evolution across cosmic time | Desc |
| Prof. Michael Ashley | Astronomy from Antarctica | Desc |
| Prof. Paul Curmi | Biophysics | Desc |
| Prof. Victor Flambaum | Theoretical Physics | Desc |
| Prof. Oleg Sushkov | Fabry Perot interferometer with Quantum Point Contact | Desc |
| A/Prof Julian Berengut | Theoretical Physics | Desc |
| Prof. Michelle Simmons | Centre of Quantum Computation and Communication Technology | Desc |
| Prof. Alexander Hamilton | Experimental Condensed Matter Physics | Desc |
| Prof. Dane McCamey | Excitonic Materials and Devices | Desc |
| A/Prof. Sarah Martell | Galactic Archaeology | Desc |