Projects

Applications for Summer 2026 will open shortly (December 2025/January 2026). 

Below, you will find a summary of all projects that were available for the internship programme in Summer 2025.

School of the Physical Sciences

Summer 2025 SPS Project Booklet

School of Technology

The following is a list of Summer 2025 projects. Applications for 2026 have not yet opened.

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology

SupervisorDr Roger Rubio Sánchez / Dr Somenath Bakshi
Project TitleUsing Synthetic Cells to Study Bacteriophage Infection (1)
Key wordsMembrane bio-engineering, membrane biophysics, antimicrobials

Computer Science and Technology

SupervisorDr Soumya Banerjee
Project Title   Reasoning and large language models (2)
Key wordsAbstraction, AI, analogical reasoning
  
SupervisorDr Roly Perera
Project TitleFluid: A Programming Language for Transparent, Self-Explanatory Scientific Outputs (3)
Key wordsProgram analysis; climate science; transparency; data visualisation

Engineering

SupervisorDr Matteo Seita
Project Title        Mechanics of 3D printed metals (4)
Key wordsAdditive manufacturing, polycrystalline microstructures, metallography, plasticity of metals, materials design
  
SupervisorDr Matteo Seita
Project Title "Smart" powder analysis for sustainable metal 3D printing (5)
Key wordsAdditive manufacturing, sustainable metallurgy, computer vision, mechanical design of machines, system control
  
SupervisorDr Matteo Seita
Project Title   Unveiling the technology behind paper making in the medieval era (6)
Key wordsReverse engineering, computer vision, optical microscopy, history
  
SupervisorDr Rachel Thorley
Project TitleDesign and Development of an Arduino-Controlled Environmental Sensor Outreach Kit (7)
Key wordsSensors, electronics, data, making, communication
  
SupervisorProfessor Simon Guest
Project TitleOptimal Compression Structures (8)
Key wordsstructures, compression, experimental, 3D-printing, instability
  
SupervisorDr Somenath Bakshi
Project TitleDesign and Testing of a Microfluidic Gradient Generator for Antibiotic Dose-Response Studies (9)
Key wordsMicrofluidics, gradient generator, dose response, single-cell analysis, antibiotic susceptibility testing
  
SupervisorProfessor Duncan McFarlane
Project TitleUsing LLMs to facilitate inter-factory communication in manufacturing (10)
Key wordsLLMs, Manufacturing, communication, Microsoft, multi-factory
  
SupervisorDr Jim Hambleton
Project TitleRobotics for Earth-Moving (11)
Key wordsGeotechnics, Experiments, Software, Soils
  
SupervisorDr Gemma Bale
Project TitleLipid Light: Developing Non-Invasive Optical Sensors for Lipid Monitoring in Marine Mammals (12)
Key wordsBiomedical optics, Short-Wave Infrared Spectroscopy (SWIRS), non-invasive sensing
  
SupervisorProfessor Duncan McFarlane
Project TitleDecomposition approaches for air cargo dynamic scheduling problem (13)
Key wordsLogistics, optimisation, Python, industrial engineering
  
SupervisorProfessor Duncan McFarlane
Project TitleSimulation of air cargo schedules (14)
Key wordsLogistics, Python, industrial engineering
  
SupervisorProfessor Duncan McFarlane
Project TitleSplit Delivery Vehicle Routing with stochastic demand data (15)
Key wordsLogistics, optimisation, Python, industrial engineering
  
SupervisorProfessor Duncan McFarlane
Project TitleSimulation of operations in a Gateway Hub delivery system (16)
Key wordsVehicle routing, optimisation, logistics, industrial engineering
  
SupervisorProfessor Duncan McFarlane
Project TitleRoute planning/scheduling for unmanned vehicles (17)
Key wordsLogistics, optimisation, industrial engineering