Call for applications: SARAO Freestanding Master’s Scholarships for 2027
Call for SARAO Master’s Scholarships for 2027 is now open
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Approved Master’s Research Projects for 2027
Approved Engineering Master’s Projects for 2027
- EM1 – New approaches to cryogenic LNA testing and calibration
- EM2 – Improved low-cost solid-state water vapour radiometers
- EM3 – Parametric amplifiers for KID readout circuits
- EM4 – mm-Wave multiplexers for radio astronomy
- EM5 – Real-Time Statistical RFI Monitoring Instrument using an RFSoC Platform
- EM6 – Next generation arithmetic in spectrometry
- EM7 – Evaluation of L-band Bandpass Sampling for Cost-Effective OH Spectroscopy
- EM8 – Anti-Aliasing Filters for Single and Multiband radio Astronomy Receivers
- EM9 – Single Mode Quad-Ridged Horn Feed Antenna design
- EM10 – A 3D-printed dielectric lens with a shaped beam for reflector feeds
- EM11 – A multibeam antenna array for water vapour radiometry
- EM12 – Investigating and Characterising the Performance Metrics of an Active Integrated Antenna to be Used on a Mid-Frequency Aperture Array A
- EM13 – Building a Deep Learning RFI detection software package for HERA
- EM14 – Monitoring Radio Frequency Interference for Radio Astronomy Observatory
- EM15 – Detection and Localisation of Sources of Radio Frequency Interference at Radio Astronomy Observatories
- EM16 – Low-loss Microwave Filters
- EM17 – Cyclostationary Analysis for RFI Detection
- EM18 – Drift Scan Single Dish Telescope
- EM19 – Performance limits of QRFH antennas for different reflector subtended angles
- EM20 – Modelling of RFI on signal cables
- EM21 – Application of efficient solver formulations to large-scale radio astronomy antenna array analysis
- EM22 – Physics-Constrained Diffusion Models for Visibility-Domain Reconstruction of RFI-Flagged MeerKAT Data
- EM23 – Radio astronomy filtering antenna with RFI mitigation
- EM24 – High-Stability Band-Defining Filters for Wideband Radio Astronomy Receivers.
Approved Science Master’s Projects for 2027
- SM1 – Wideband AIRI for MeerKAT
- SM2 – The treasure at the centre of the galaxy cluster A3560
- SM3 – Ram pressure stripping in the Shapley Supercluster Core
- SM4 – Exploring galaxy evolution with HI observations
- SM5 – How to mitigate errors in the observations of the closure phase power spectrum with HERA using fringe rate filters
- SM6 – Virgo III Characterising HI in a Filament Feeding the Virgo cluster.
- SM7 – Combining MeerKAT and ALMA Observations to Explore Environmental Influences on the Cold Gas Reservoirs of Dwarf
- SM8 – Interpretable Machine Learning for Anomalous Radio Galaxy Morphologies
- SM9 – A Bayesian decomposition of radio emission in dusty and obscured quasars
- SM10 – Stacking HI emission from high-redshift galaxies
- SM11- Sub-GeV dark matter searches with MeerKAT
Supervisor Contact Details for Approved Master’s Research Projects for 2027
- Call Opening Date: 01 June 2026
- Applicant Closing Date: 31 August 2026
Should you have any questions regarding the call, please contact: [email protected]
