Chemistry Research MPhil/PhD

Key information

Award:

MPhil

PhD

Study mode:

Full time

Part time

Duration:

3-4 years full time and 6-8 years part-time

The Department of Chemistry occupies research laboratories Britannia House on Guy’s Campus, with state-of-the art analytical and spectroscopic facilities close at hand and further analytical and synthetic facilities at the Waterloo and St Thomas’ Hospital campuses.

Chemistry research spans the Faculties of Natural & Mathematical Sciences, and Life Sciences & Medicine, and broadly ranges from computational and physical chemistry to chemical biology, medical imaging and materials science. Additional strengths are in analytical chemistry and spectroscopy, metallochemistry, nanoparticle chemistry and biology and drug discovery.

Chemistry is also a major component in a number of prestigious Centres based at King’s such as the Cancer Research UK/EPSRC Cancer Imaging Centre, Wellcome/EPSRC Medical Engineering Centre, and BHF Centre of Excellence.

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Recent publications

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Current research areas

For information about the exciting research in the chemistry department please see our research pages: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/chemistry/research

Partner organisations

King's Health Partners, including Guy’s and St Thomas', King’s College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts; Crick Institute.

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UK Tuition Fees 2024/25

Full-time tuition fees: £6,936 per year

Part-time tuition fees: £3,468 per year

International Tuition Fees 2024/25

Full-time tuition fees: £30,240 per year

Part-time tuition fees: £15,120 per year

UK Tuition Fees 2025/26

Full-time tuition fees: £7,500 per year

Part-time tuition fees: £3,750 per year

International Tuition Fees 2025/26

Full-time tuition fees: £32,400 per year

Part-time tuition fees: £16,200 per year

These tuition fees may be subject to additional increases in subsequent years of study, in line with King's terms and conditions.

Research in the Department of Chemistry is based in Britannia House (a pharmaceutical industry grade research facility). In addition to labs equipped for synthetic chemistry, biochemistry and tissue culture, individual research groups have specialist kit (e.g. laser excitation and microwave spectroscopy) as well as access to King’s excellent core research facilities:

Centre of Excellence for Mass Spectrometry
Centre for Biomolecular Spectroscopy
Nikon Imaging Centre
NMR Facility
Liquid Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry/Mass Spectrometry (LC/MS/MS)
Radiochemistry facilities and medical imaging

Postgraduate students are encouraged to mix with other scientists, both fellow students and beyond, at events varying from Departmental seminars to international conferences. These offer you the chance to present and discuss your work at many levels make valuable network connections.

The nature of the research in the Department of Chemistry is highly cross-disciplinary and making contacts and exchanging ideas form a core part of this approach to science.

Research projects may be co-supervised by staff from different Research Divisions and Departments to support collaboration and application of chemical innovation especially in medicine and biology.