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We have 83 University College London PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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4-Year Fully Funded EPSRC PhD Studentship in Molecular Assembly Lines in Nucleic Acid Scaffolds

Project ID. 2531cs1089. EPSRC Theme. Healthcare Technologies. Supervisor. Dr James Attwater. Department. Chemistry, UCL Faculty of Mathematical & Physical Sciences (MAPS). Read more
 Supervisor: Dr JA Attwater
 8 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)
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How Loop-Extruding SMC Complexes Navigate Chromatin

The Project. Our group combines tool development, advanced microscopy, force spectroscopy and computer simulations to understand how individual molecular machines reorganize DNA in our cells. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr MM Molodtsov
 16 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Engineering Human Inner Ear Development: A Bioengineered Organoid on-Chip Platform for Hearing Research

Why this research is important. Hearing loss is a major health challenge, yet studying human inner ear development and testing new therapies remain difficult because existing models do not fully reproduce human inner ear biology. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof N Szita
 8 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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AI-Enabled Multiscale Bioprocessing for Predictive Scale-Up and Autonomous Optimisation

Engineering biology has major potential for UK manufacturing, but translation from laboratory discovery to industrial scale remains a critical bottleneck. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr LRS Rios Solis
 8 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Nanoscale Analysis of Membrane Filter Performance for Advanced Biomanufacturing

Filtration membranes critical to the manufacture of monoclonal antibodies and other advanced therapeutics, ensuring safety and quality through sterile and virus removal in the final stages of the production process. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A Rayat
 8 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Scalable Vaccine Manufacture: Fluid Flow Engineering for Global Pandemic Preparedness

Vaccines are the most effective public health tool against contagious infections, and the recent pandemic has spiralled innovations in technologies which can be developed in record time. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof M Micheletti
 8 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Assessing In-Orbit Servicing Adoption in Low Earth Orbit: AI-Assisted Decision Support for Space Sustainability

Low Earth Orbit (LEO) is now a commercially dominated and increasingly congested regime, and current assessments indicate that mitigation alone no longer stabilises its debris population. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr C Tan
 22 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Understanding magnetospheric dynamics using spacecraft and ground-based data

Earth’s magnetosphere is the near-space environment dominated by Earth’s magnetic field and containing overlapping collisionless plasma populations ranging in energies from a few eV up to MeV. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr C Forsyth
 22 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Can we predict when the Sun will erupt? The physics and forecasting of coronal mass ejections

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are enormous eruptions of magnetised plasma from the Sun and are the primary drivers of severe geomagnetic storms at Earth. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof L Green
 22 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Understanding Astrophysical Particle Acceleration Using the Sun

How are particles accelerated to near-light speeds in the Universe? This is one of the most fundamental unanswered questions in modern astrophysics. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr H Reid
 22 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Investigating the Earth’s magnetosphere using multi-spacecraft measurements

The Earth’s magnetosphere is a vast dynamic structure whose behaviour remains only partially understood despite study over several decades. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof A Fazackerley
 22 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Examining disc resonances with Gaia

While the Gaia mission has just concluded, the most important data releases (DR4 and following) and a lot of follow-up surveys (like 4MOST, which deliver stellar spectra and thus ages and abundances, with which we can trace the origin of stars. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr R Schönrich
 22 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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X-ray emission from neutron stars

Electromagnetic and multi-messenger emission from magnetized neutron stars, isolated or binaries, carry a huge amount of information on the properties of the source. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof S Zane
 22 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Measuring disc turbulence across different stellar properties

Planets form in protoplanetary discs, and the final properties of exoplanets are shaped by the initial conditions and physical processes that govern disc evolution. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof P Pinilla
 22 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Beyond Newtonian: Digital Twins and Scaling Rules for Next-Generation Biologics Manufacturing

Modern biologic drugs are increasingly formulated at high protein concentrations, enabling smaller, more convenient doses. However, concentrated protein solutions often behave unusually under flow, their viscosity changes with shear rate, a property called shear-thinning. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr M Marques
 8 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)