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2026 PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 1,213 2026 PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Material platforms for low-loss photonic integration in the UV-VIS spectrum

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Dr Thalia Dominguez Bucio and Prof Frederic Gardes. Explore advanced material platforms for UV-VIS photonic integrated circuits. Read more

Supervisor: Dr T Dominguez Bucio

31 July 2026 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

High-performance ultrafast fibre lasers for biomedical applications

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Dr. Lin Xu and Prof. Sumeet Mahajan. This project develops high-performance ultrafast fibre lasers using advanced mode-locking, pulse compression, and power scaling techniques. Read more

Supervisor: Dr L Xu

31 August 2026 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Mid-infrared nonlinear effect and devices based on soft-glass optical fibers

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory team. Dr Tonglei Cheng and Dr Lin Xu. Current nonlinear fiber optic devices mainly focus on the visible and near-infrared bands. Read more

Supervisor: Dr T Cheng

31 August 2026 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Low-loss mid-infrared microstructured optical fibers

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory team. Principal Research Fellow, Tonglei Cheng and Associate Professor, Lin Xu. Mid-infrared (MIR) optical fibers are critical for applications such as environmental monitoring, biomedical diagnostics and chemical sensing. Read more

Supervisor: Dr T Cheng

31 August 2026 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Symmetry-restricted quantum parameterised circuit generative models

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory team. Dr Srinandan Dasmahapatra. Recognising patterns in data to simulate their distributions is a machine learning task that can be enhanced by generating measurement samples from quantum states that are suitably prepared by parameterised quantum circuits. Read more

Supervisor: Dr S Dasmahapatra

30 September 2026 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Event-based computing for real-time computer vision systems

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Dr Firman Simanjuntak and Prof Mark Zwolinski. This PhD project develops ultra-low power, DVS-free computer vision hardware by creating event-based chips using nanofabrication. Read more

Supervisor: Dr F Simanjuntak

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Biometric recognition systems with artificial intelligence techniques

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team - Dr. Sasan Mahmoodi. About the project. Machine learning as well as deep learning techniques are employed in this project to design novel biometric recognition systems. Read more

Supervisor: Dr S Mahmoodi

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Low-noise fibre lasers for next-generation quantum systems

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Dr Yongmin Jung, Prof. Periklis Petropoulos and Dr Sijing Liang. About the Project. This project will pioneer ultra-stable, low-noise fibre lasers engineering for next-generation quantum technologies. Read more

Supervisor: Dr Y Jung

31 July 2026 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Stacked Intelligent Metasurface (SIM) for Orthogonal Time Frequency Space (OTFS)

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Dr Chao Xu. This project will explore the combination of Stacked Intelligent Metasurfaces (SIM) and Orthogonal Time Frequency Space (OTFS) in the context of Space-Air-Ground Integrated Network (SAGIN) applications. . Read more

Supervisor: Dr CX Xu

1 October 2026 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Artificial intelligence techniques for illness detection by using MRI

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Dr. Sasan Mahmoodi and Professor Brigitte Vollmer. Hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy (HIE) affects babies' brains during the childbirth due to shortages of oxygen. Read more

Supervisor: Dr S Mahmoodi

14 October 2026 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Next generation silicon photonic modulators

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Professor David Thomson and Dr Bharat Pant. This project will focus on research into the next generation of optical data communication technology enabling key applications such as high-performance computing and artificial intelligence to thrive. . Read more

Supervisor: Prof D Thomson

30 September 2026 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Photonic fibres for renewable energy

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Dr Pier Sazio, Dr Peter Horak and Prof Mike Zervas. This project repurposes photonic fibre technologies—central to global telecoms—for renewable energy applications, including solar generation and low-cost storage. Read more

Supervisor: Dr P Sazio

31 August 2026 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

AI directed materials discovery and atomistic modelling

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Dr Pier Sazio and Dr Ioannis Zeimpekis. About the Project. This project develops chalcogenide glass materials for optical and electronic applications using cleanroom fabrication and AI-driven simulations. Read more

Supervisor: Dr P Sazio

31 August 2026 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Mid infrared metaoptics and diffractive optical computing

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

This project focuses on designing and fabricating novel photonic computing devices using chalcogenide glass materials such as sulfur (S), selenium (Se) and tellurium (Te). Read more

Supervisor: Dr P Sazio

31 August 2026 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Metasurface technology for next-generation automotive sensing and 3D facial recognition

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Dr Xu Fang and Dr Eric Plum. This project will develop metasurface-engineered optical systems for next-generation automotive and biometric sensing. Read more

Supervisor: Dr X Fang

20 September 2026 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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