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University of Liverpool PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 92 University of Liverpool PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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Advancing Untargeted Metabolomics through a Probabilistic and Context-Aware Annotation Pipeline

This project aims to develop a revolutionary AI-powered, "context-aware" pipeline to automate metabolite annotation in untargeted metabolomics data. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr F Del Carratore, Prof WB Dunn, Prof A Jones
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Generative AI Models for Materials Discovery

The discovery of novel inorganic solid-state materials is essential to advance energy storage, catalysis, semiconductors, and quantum technologies. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof M J Rosseinsky, Prof R Savani
 31 August 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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The role of PPFIA1 (Liprin-α1) in pancreatic cancer

Pancreatic cancer (PDAC) remains a lethal disease with a 5-year survival rate of ~10%. PDAC progression is associated with profound changes in the extracellular matrix (ECM) that surround and support tumour cells. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr PA Atherton
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Understanding and mitigating the impact of fraudulent participation on health research

This mixed-methods PhD aims to explore how health researchers experience and address fraudulent participation, aiming to develop practical guidelines to protect research integrity across multiple aspects of Health research. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr B Deja
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Optimising Cancer Therapy: Understanding how SGLT2 Inhibitors Enhance Neoplastic Efficacy and offer Cardioprotection against immunotherapies.

This project aspires to make immunotherapy safer and more effective by discovering how SGLT2 inhibitors can simultaneously guard the heart and strengthen antitumour immunity. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr P Sharma
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Discovery of inorganic cathode materials and/or solid electrolytes for next generation battery technology

This project focuses on the discovery of next generation battery materials through experimental design and compositional exploration. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof M Rosseinsky, Dr R Chen, Dr L Daniels, Prof L Hardwick
 31 August 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Computational Modelling of the Retinal Microcirculation to Predict Patient Outcomes

Background. Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of blindness globally. Current treatments involve the injection of anti-vascular endothelial growth factor. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr W El-Bouri
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Modelling the Prevention of Cardiometabolic Outcomes and Reducing Health Inequalities

Cardiovasclar disease continues to be a major public health policy challenge and understanding how its unequal health burden can be tackled is a global priority. . Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M. O'Flaherty, Dr Z Colombert, Dr C Kypridermos
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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The determinants of sexual orientation inequalities in health.

The PhD aims to develop theoretical models for variation in the demand for health across sexual orientation groups and test hypotheses generated therein. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr W Whittaker, Dr E Camacho
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Improving Bayesian Neural Network Computation Performance Applied to Health Data

Transforming Medical AI. Accelerating Bayesian Neural Networks to provide interpretable, uncertainty-aware healthcare solutions with faster, energy-efficient computational methods from Bayesian Inference. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr S Ball, Dr D Hughes
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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AI-powered beam instrumentation for plasma wakefield acceleration

Project Background. AWAKE is the world’s first proton-driven plasma wakefield acceleration experiment. It utilizes 400 GeV proton bunches from the CERN SPS to drive plasma wakefields with an amplitude of ~ GV/m (which are orders of magnitude higher than conventional accelerators). Read more
 Supervisor: Prof C Welsch
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Exploiting Laser Pulse Shaping and Phase Space Tomography to Optimise Longitudinal Beam Dynamics at the Interaction Point of CLARA

Introduction and Motivation. The Compact Linear Accelerator for Research and Applications (CLARA) at Daresbury Laboratory places significant emphasis on providing tailored beam properties for a range of user experiments that push the frontiers of accelerator science. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof A Wolski, Dr A E P Pollard
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning for Bunch-Shape Control in Linear Accelerators

Make particle accelerators smarter. CLARA is a linear accelerator in the Daresbury Laboratory that has been used for a range of accelerator-based experiments since 2018, and it has recently undergone a major upgrade to reach 250 MeV and add a high-power laser and new experimental area. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A Santamaria Garcia
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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High power laser plasma acceleration – making accelerators smaller, cheaper, better

About the Project. Applications are invited for a fully funded studentship from Oct 2026 in laser-driven plasma wakefield acceleration (LWFA). Read more
 Supervisor: Dr L Corner
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Leveraging sequencing technologies to advance identification of bacterial pathogens

This four-year PhD project aims to advance sequencing-based bioinformatics methods for identification and characterisation of bacterial pathogens in diverse clinical and surveillance samples. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr Y Wan, Prof N Williams, Prof S Paterson
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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