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The document publishes supervisor contact details (names, universities, and email addresses) for approved postgraduate research projects for 2027, covering engineering and science supervisors for both masters-level and doctoral-level projects.
- Who it is for:
- people who need to contact supervisors for approved postgraduate research projects for 2027
- How to act on it:
- Use the email addresses listed next to the supervisor’s name in the document to contact the relevant supervisor.
A Master’s-level engineering research project is proposed to evaluate a novel calibration technique for low-noise amplifiers (LNAs) in cryogenic conditions, using a fixed known-temperature reference and biasing of a secondary LNA with iterative data fitting. The study also considers optimizing the LNA design, including pursuing a custom broadband LNA design in the second year.
- Who it is for:
- a prospective applicant for a Master’s degree study in Engineering with suitable undergraduate background in high frequency electronics and/or electromagnetics
- How to act on it:
- Contact the supervisor using the email address provided in the document.
A Master’s degree Engineering study is proposed on mm-wave multiplexers for radio astronomy, supervised by Prof Tinus Stander (University of Pretoria). The work will apply manifold multiplexing theory to two mm-wave spectrometers: a kinetic inductance read-out and a multi-channel atmospheric radiometer, with milestones covering literature review/theoretical synthesis in Y1 and testing/design/measurement plus final dissemination in Y2.
- Who it is for:
- A prospective applicant for a bachelor’s degree project with exposure to high frequency electronics and/or electromagnetics (RF components and RF simulation software knowledge is advisable).
- How to act on it:
- Contact the supervisor at the email address provided in the document.
A 2027 MSc project is proposed to apply computer vision foundation models (such as DINOv3) to radio data and use interpretability tools (such as saliency maps/Grad-CAM) to understand what features of radio galaxies the model focuses on, using the MeerKAT Galaxy Cluster Legacy Survey (MGCLS) dataset and anomaly detection results from Astronomaly: Protege (Lochner & Rudnick 2025).
- Who it is for:
- a student who would undertake the 2027 MSc project described
The document states that the full resources of the RATT compute cluster are available to support this MSc research project, which uses MeerKAT and ASKAP data for a multifrequency polarimetric study.
- Who it is for:
- the MSc student undertaking the project
- How to act on it:
- Use the RATT compute cluster resources as part of the project (the document does not describe an application or access steps).
A doctoral candidate opportunity is described to join the HERA collaboration and apply fringe rate filters to HERA data to mitigate systematic effects (including mutual coupling) that limit power spectrum sensitivity, with the aim of improving 21 cm upper limits.
- Who it is for:
- a doctoral research candidate