Artificial morphogenesis could be the basis for sustainable, bottom-up manufacturing processes to replace wasteful lithography, and as in nature, fabricate regular geometric shapes with few waste products. Preliminary results have shown that UV and  click-type polymerization are compatible with artificial morphogenesis, but the reactions are highly sensitive to the interfacial layer ordering. Further, reactions are affected by confinement in small volumes. Due to these issues currently, the process is not practical or industrially scalable yet, so understanding the phase transitions, mechanisms, and kinetics is crucial to making the process controllable and efficient. The PhD project will investigate several polymerization reaction kinetics in confinement. It will also study phase transitions in both bulk and interface monolayers. We will make use of know-how obtained over years of studying surfactant and rotator phase transitions. We will also use an array of techniques, incl. x-ray diffraction, quartz-crystal microbalance with electrochemistry, dynamic light scattering, Recent high-profile articles (e.g. in Nature Physics https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-021-01291-3) show we are working at the cutting edge of science and developing new fields, such as active matter and bottom-up synthetic biology. The PhD will work in an interdisciplinary group and be exposed to both experimental and theoretical nanoscience.