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We have 29 PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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Probabilistic AI for Trustworthy Decision-Making from Heterogeneous Socio-Ecological Evidence

AI_CDT_DecisionMaking. Details. Mangroves underpin biodiversity, climate mitigation, coastal protection and local livelihoods, yet restoration decisions rely on sparse, irregular and heterogeneous evidence. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr S Sampaio, Dr AK Krishnan
 4 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Bayesian automatic decision-making loops in cancer research and treatment

AI_CDT_DecisionMaking. Details. Recent breakthroughs in Bayesian automatic experimental design have made it possible to automate selection of next measurement action in scientific experimental design loops. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof S Kaski
 4 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Trustworthy multi-agent AI: Uncertainty, Alignment and Adaptive Reasoning

AI_CDT_DecisionMaking. Details. Large language models are increasingly used in multi-agent systems where specialised agents communicate through natural language, shared memory and multimodal representations, access external tools and make sequential decisions. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof S Ananiadou, Dr MA Alvarez
 4 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Smart Network-on-Chip Design for Congestion Management in 2.5D Chiplet Systems

  Research Group: Advanced processor technologies
The semiconductor industry is rapidly shifting towards modular design based on chiplets and Multi-Chip Modules, where multiple dies — CPUs, GPUs, AI accelerators, and memory stacks — are integrated side by side on a common interposer. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr D Bertozzi
 15 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Neuromorphic computing using quantum magnetic sensors for skyrmion detection

Skyrmions are long-lived magnetic entities that maintain their internal magnetic structure when, for example, they move across a magnetic thin film. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof T Thomson, Dr C Moutafis, Dr W Griggs
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Filling the Gaps in AI Software Assurance through Exploratory Testing

AI can generate large software test suites from requirements, source code, specifications, examples and existing tests. However, these tests may reproduce the assumptions already embedded in their inputs. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr S Embury, Dr M Vigo
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Post-Quantum Threshold Cryptography from Supersingular Isogenies

Quantum computers threaten much of the public-key cryptography currently used to secure digital communications, cloud services, financial transactions, and critical infrastructure. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr T Fouotsa, Dr B Magri
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Generative User Interfaces that Adapt to the Contextual Needs of Physical Activity Tracking Users

This PhD investigates how user interfaces for physical activity (PA) tracking can be generated automatically from a user's context, rather than designed once and applied to everyone. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Vigo, Dr S Harper
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Minimalist Autonomy: Safe and Sustainable Neurosymbolic Systems

Autonomous systems need to make decisions in complex, uncertain, and changing environments. Machine learning, generative AI, and foundation models offer strong capabilities but can be expensive, unpredictable, unsustainable, and unsuitable for decisions that require strong guarantees. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Hosseini, Prof M Fisher
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] AI-driven Hardware-Software Co-optimisation for Sustainable and Efficient Computing

Modern processors spend a substantial fraction of their execution time waiting for data to arrive from memory. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr P Petoumenos, Dr P Olivier
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Security of Neuromorphic Systems

Neuromorphic event cameras are increasingly considered for space, defence and surveillance applications owing to their low latency, high dynamic range and energy efficiency. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Marcireau, Dr S Kohler, Prof A van Schaik
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Securing Underwater Acoustic Transmissions

Underwater autonomous systems rely heavily on acoustic communication because conventional radio and satellite-based positioning do not work effectively beneath the surface. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr S Kohler, Dr E Alsusa
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Multi-Omics Digital Twins for Modelling Brain Ageing and Intervention Response

Why do some people maintain good brain health as they age, while others experience more rapid decline? Current “brain-age” models often reduce this complex process to a single score. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr J Sun, Dr H Zhou, Dr C Lea-Carnall, Prof GN Nenadic
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Energy-data dynamic multiobjective optimisation for Cloud-Edge systems

Energy-Data Dynamic Multiobjective Optimisation for Cloud-Edge Systems. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr R Sakellariou, Dr S Sampaio
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Multi-Drone UAV System for 3D Tomography and Rapid Mapping of Methane Emissions

Methane (CH₄) is a major greenhouse gas with large, uncertain emissions from diffuse, hard-to-access, or intermittent sources (e.g. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr P Zhao, Dr G Allen, Dr D Topping
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)