Approved Master’s Research Projects for 2026
Approved Engineering Master’s Projects for 2026
- EM1 – Radio astronomy filtering antenna for RFI mitigation
- EM2 – Detection and Localisation of Sources of Radio Frequency Interference at Radio Astronomy Observatories
- EM3 – Monitoring Radio Frequency Interference for Radio Astronomy Observatory
- EM4 – Investigating and Characterising the Performance Metrics of an Active Integrated Antenna to be Used on a Mid-Frequency Aperture Array Antenna Receiver System
- EM5 – Upgrading the Rhodes University Transient Array Radio Telescope (RUTART)
- EM6 – Filtering antenna for RFI mitigation in radio astronomy receivers
- EM7 – Anti-Aliasing Filters for High-Performance Single- and Multiband Radio Astronomy Receivers
- EM8 – Single Mode Quad-Ridged Horn Feed Antenna Design
- EM9 – Calibration of wideband interleaved ADC structures
- EM10 – Next generation arithmetic in spectrometry
- EM11 – 3D printed cryogenic receiver components
- EM12 – An atmospheric phase interferometer
- EM13 – New approaches to cryogenic LNA testing and calibration
- EM14 – Multi-band downconverters
Approved Science Master’s Projects for 2026
- SM1 – Extending WIMP searches with MeerKAT
- SM2 – Foundation models for MeerKAT-detected radio sources
- SM3 – A MeerKAT view of the archetypal ultra-steep spectrum radio halo and relics in Abell 521 cluster
- SM4 – A Bayesian decomposition of radio emission in MIGHTEE galaxies
- SM5 – Physical Properties of Radio Loud Galaxies in the MeerKAT-Herschel Protocluster Fields
- SM6 – Automating Galaxy Classification with Unsupervised Machine Learning
- SM7 – Cold gas fuelling an extremely young AGN
- SM8 – Investigating Background Radio Sources in MeerLIRGs
- SM9- Quantifying HI Morphologies
- SM10 – A MIGHTEE chromatic view of galaxy evolution
- SM11- Exploring the merger dynamics of the SPT-CL J2031-4037 cluster
- SM12 – How to mitigate errors in the observations of the closure phase power spectrum with HERA using fringe rate filters
- SM13- Investigating Odd Radio Circles in the Shapley Supercluster
- SM14- Spectral study of the diffuse radio source in the Abell 2443 cluster
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