Cam REPPS projects 2026
Available projects for 2026 are listed below. Further details can be found in the Project Booklet:
Download the Project Booklet here.
Unfortunately not all departments are able to offer a project this summer. Maths students should please follow this link for other placement/internship options.
Astronomy
| (1) Probabilistic identification of gravitationally-lensed supernova candidates | Project Supervisor: Stephen Thorp, sjt202@cam.ac.uk |
| (2) GPU-Accelerated Detection of Subthreshold Gravitational Wave Signals | Project Supervisor: Will Handley, wh260@cam.ac.uk |
| (3) GPU-Accelerated Hubble Constant Inference from Gravitational Waves | Project Supervisor: Will Handley, wh260@cam.ac.uk |
| (4) How galaxy properties relate to dark matter: exploring the galaxy–galaxy lensing signal in the Kilo Degree Survey | Project Supervisor: Anik Halder, ah2425@cam.ac.uk |
| (5) Understanding the nature of alignments in cosmic environments | Project Supervisor: Madalina Tudorache, madalina.tudorache16@gmail.com |
Chemistry
| (6) Coordination Chemistry of a Dewar-Phosphabenzene | Project Supervisor: Ruth Webster, rw740@cam.ac.uk |
| (7) REVEAL-NOx: Reducing aviation Emissions' uncertain climate impacts: NOx | Project Supervisor: Alexander Archibald, ata27@cam.ac.uk |
| (8) Development of Functionalised Carbon Pellets for Direct Air Capture of Carbon Dioxide | Project Supervisor: Alexander C. Forse, acf50@cam.ac.uk |
| (9) AI-driven approaches for automated refinement of X-ray diffraction data for materials discovery and design | Project Supervisor: Clare Grey, cpg27@cam.ac.uk |
| (10) Dynamics of Surface Species on Realistic Metal and Single-Atom Alloy Catalysts using Foundation Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials | Project Supervisor: Prof Angelos Michaelides, am452@cam.ac.uk |
Geography
| (11) Fire and land-use history of the Upper Guinean Forest of West Africa | Project Supervisor: Matthew Adeleye, ma2073@cam.ac.uk |
| (12) Testing a machine learning method for the detection of cryptotephra in lake sediment cores | Project Supervisor: Christine Lane, csl44@cam.ac.uk |
| (13) Quantifying Stemflow Transport Networks Through QSM-Derived Graph Models | Project Supervisor: Emily Lines, erl27@cam.ac.uk |
Physics
| (14) Understanding the polarisation-altering properties of healthy and cancerous tissues | Project Supervisor: Danielle Harper, dh744@cam.ac.uk |
| (15) Designing quantum materials from first principles | Project Supervisor: Bo Peng, bp432@cam.ac.uk |