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We have 744 ai PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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Decoding Dynamic Plant Meristems

All aerial parts of a plant originate from a small population of pluripotent cells within the shoot apical meristem (SAM). Far from being a static structure, the SAM is continuously changing in size, shape and cellular organisation as the plant develops. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr V Wahl, Prof H Jönsson
 20 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Intelligent Multimodal Sensing and Motion Intention Recognition for Adaptive Human-Robot Collaboration

Applications are invited for a self-funded, 3 year full-time or 6 year part-time PhD project. The PhD will be based in the School of Computing and will be supervised by Dr Dalin Zhou, Dr Xin Zhang, and Dr Xia Han. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr D Zhou, Dr X Han
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Using High-Throughput Operando Spectroscopy to Understand the Factors Controlling Electrocatalyst Performance for Carbon-Neutral Transformations

Supervisor. Dr Benjamin Moss. Application deadline. December 20th 2026. Interview date. January 15th 2027. UCL Chemistry Department is offering a fully funded studentship to a highly motivated candidate to start in February 2027. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr BM Moss
 20 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Artificial Intelligence and Multiscale Data Fusion for Infrared and Mass Spectrometry Imaging of Disease

Recent advances in chemical imaging are transforming our ability to investigate the molecular composition of complex biological systems. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof P Gardner, Prof N Lockyer, Prof HY Yin
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Autonomous Layout Synthesis for High-Density Power Electronics PCBs

Power electronics is the technology behind converting and controlling electrical energy — stepping voltages up or down, switching between AC and DC, and regulating power flow using fast switching devices rather than bulky transformers and resistors. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr C Zhang, Dr J Apsley
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Physics-informed and explainable reduced-order modelling for integrated subsurface hydrogen and thermal energy storage

The proposed PhD will develop a physics-informed reduced-order modelling (ROM) framework for integrated subsurface hydrogen and thermal-energy storage, using biogas-to-hydrogen conversion as an application case. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Babaei, Prof V Niasar
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] 4D Nanoscale Imaging of Clay–Fluid Interactions under Extreme Conditions

Clay-based materials are found across natural, engineered and functional systems, where their ability to interact with water and ions can fundamentally alter structure, transport and mechanical behaviour. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr L Ma, Prof R Boya
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Resource-Efficient Execution of Data Centre-Grade Workloads with Lightweight Operating Systems on Emerging Capability Hardware

Modern data-centre workloads (e.g., agentic AI) demand strong security guarantees and high performance, which come today at a high resource cost. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr P Olivier, Dr P Petoumenos
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Assured Runtime Control for Safe Autonomy (ARCS-A) [PhD in Engineering (Funded)]

Modern autonomous ground vehicles (AGVs/UGVs) in defence operations require sophisticated AI/ML-based control systems for perception, decision-making, and adaptive responses in complex, unstructured environments where terrain can change abruptly. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr P Menon
 23 October 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Adaptive Federated Learning in Heterogeneous Environments

This PhD project focuses on developing a novel trust‑adaptive federated learning framework tailored for heterogeneous environments. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr W Li
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Smart Nanomaterial Characterisation

This project is part of cohort 4 of the EPSRC CDT in Developing National Capability for Materials 4.0, with the Henry Royce Institute. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr N Hondow, Prof A P Brown, Dr S Wilson
 8 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Reprogramming Human Envelope Proteins for Neuronal Genome Editing

Targeted delivery remains the principal bottleneck for therapeutic genome editing, particularly in the central nervous system where efficient delivery to defined neuronal populations remains challenging. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr JH Haldrup, Prof S Hyde, Prof C Rinaldi
 1 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Understanding Brain Resilience, Vascular Health and early Neurodegeneration

Summary. Why do some individuals remain cognitively healthy despite accumulating brain pathology and genetic risk, while others develop cognitive impairment and dementia?. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr KT Tsvetanov
 8 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Machine learning for finding macromolecules in cells

The aim of this PhD project is to develop computer software for in situ structural biology projects. Specifically, software tools for the identification of macromolecular complexes in cryo-EM/cryo-ET data sets collected on thinned human and budding yeast cells. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr D Barford
 8 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Making Large Language Models Faster and Greener: Efficient Training and Inference through Sparsity, Pruning and Smart Decoding

Overview of the Research. Large language models are transforming how people interact with software, but they are expensive to train and run. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr RB Babbar
 31 October 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)