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PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 202 PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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Optoelectronic topological metasurfaces for light control

Supervisory Team. Dr Giorgio Adamo, Dr Nikitas Papasimakis and Dr Dong-Yang Wang. Recent developments in quantum materials and topological design principles are transforming the way we control the flow of light and charges. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr G Adamo
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Miniaturised Mid-Infrared Photonic Systems for Gas Detection and Mapping

Supervisory Team. Professor Goran Mashanovich and Dr. Milos Nedeljkovic. This project explores compact mid-infrared (mid-IR) LiDAR systems for gas sensing. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof G Mashanovich
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Development of Specialty Optical Fibres for High-power Eye-safe Fibre Lasers

Supervisory Team. Professor Jayanta Sahu and Professor Johan Nilsson. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof J Sahu
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Community Noise Prediction for eVTOL aircraft during flight phase transition

Supervisory Team. Dr Sergi Palleja Cabre and Dr Chaitanya Paruchuri. This PhD project investigates noise from eVTOL aircraft during transitional flight phases, aiming to improve prediction methods and assess perceived noise using virtual reality. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S Palleja Cabre
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Quantum-Enabled Memristors for Neural Interface Engineering

Supervisors. Prof. Liudi Jiang ldjiang@soton.ac.uk. Dr. Ruomeng Huang R.Huang@soton.ac.uk. This project, within the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Quantum Technology Engineering at the University of Southampton (https://qte.ac.uk), carries a UKRI TechExpert enhanced annual stipend around £31k for UK students. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof L. Jiang
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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2D Materials as Quantum Sensors

Supervisors. Dr Makars Šiškins m.siskins@soton.ac.uk. This project, within the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Quantum Technology Engineering at the University of Southampton (https://qte.ac.uk), carries a UKRI TechExpert enhanced annual stipend around £31k for UK students. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr MS Šiškins
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Driving simulation for assessment and rehabilitation

Supervisory Team. Dr Rich McIlroy, Professor Michael Hornberger and Dr Ruth Turk. This PhD explores how driving simulators can be used to assess and train driving skills, and support rehabilitation following injury, illness, or disability. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr R McIlroy
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Bio-inspired control of non-equilibrium turbulent boundary layers for efficient low-noise aerofoils

Supervisory Team. Professor Jae-Wook Kim. This project aims to study and identify the beneficial effects of using bio-inspired geometry on aerofoils, enhancing aerodynamic efficiency and reducing the noise generated from non-equilibrium turbulent boundary layers. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr J.W. Kim
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Design and synthesis of photoresponsive organic spin-state switches

Supervisors. Dr George Williams G.t.williams@soton.ac.uk; Dr Karl Michael Ziems K.M.Ziems@soton.ac.uk. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr G Williams
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Energy-efficient multicore fibre amplifiers for future submarine networks

Supervisory Team. Dr Yongmin Jung and Dr Sijing Liang. This PhD project develops next-generation multicore fibre amplifiers for sustainable submarine networks. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr Y Jung
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Sparse Variational Quantum Machine Learning

Supervisors. Thomas Blumensath thomas.blumensath@soton.ac.uk. Xaohao Cai X.Cai@soton.ac.uk. This project, within the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Quantum Technology Engineering at the University of Southampton (https://qte.ac.uk), carries a UKRI TechExpert enhanced annual stipend around £31k for UK students. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr T Blumensath
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Optoelectronic device integration for next-Generation photonic memories and neuromorphic computing

Supervisory Team. Professor Dimitra Georgiadou and Professor Frederic Gardes. This project focuses on developing nanostructured optoelectronic devices for next-generation photonic memory and neuromorphic computing. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr D Georgiadou
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Nanostructured neural architectures for sustainable neuromorphic computing

Supervisory Team. Professor Dimitra Georgiadou. Artificial intelligence is transforming society but comes with a growing energy and carbon cost. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr D Georgiadou
 17 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Space-Time Quantum Metasurfaces for Fault-Tolerant, Scalable Quantum Computing

This project, within the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Quantum Technology Engineering at the University of Southampton (https://qte.ac.uk), carries a UKRI TechExpert enhanced annual stipend around £31k for UK students. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S Taravati
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Resilient resource allocation in dynamic settings under uncertainty (RRADSU)

Supervisory Team. Dr Bahar Rastegari, Professor Sebastian Stein and Dr Vahid Yazdanpanah. The main goal is to improve the state-of-the-art mechanisms for the allocation of scare resources from different, and not always compatible, perspectives of efficiency, fairness and resilience. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr BR Rastegari
 30 June 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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