Higher Degree by Research Application Portal

Ground rotation sensors have wide applications, such as precision instrumentation, environment monitoring, and rotational seismology, as well as for improving the sensitivities of gravitation wave detectors.  Currently available rotation sensors have issues of either low sensitivities or too fragile/too large to be used in the field. At UWA we are developing a compact, and robust with a high sensitivity rotation sensor using many innovative technologies.  This PhD project is to build, characterise and field test the rotation sensor. 

The student will have the opportunity to work with a team of physicists and engineers in the UWA gravitational wave instrumentation group and develop skills in precision mechanics and control, optical readout system and noise analysis. This work will be conducted in collaboration with research groups from across Australia and around the world.

Australian research council

li.ju@uwa.edu.au

Graduate from Physics or Engineering

The Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) is a program of independent, supervised research that is assessed solely on the basis of a thesis, sometimes including a creative work component, that is examined externally. The work presented for a PhD must be a substantial and original contribution to scholarship, demonstrating mastery of the subject of interest as well as an advance in that field of knowledge. 

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