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ai PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 737 ai PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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Robotics for circular economy and sustainable manufacturing

Project overview. We are recruiting a self-funded PhD student to join an EPSRC project, STAMAN. Though the studentship will not be provided, attending conferences, consumables, and industrial engagements will be funded and supported. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr Y Wang
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Cyber-physical systems for Medicines Development and Manufacturing (CEDAR)

Our CEDAR CDT is offering 17 fully funded PhD studentships for ambitious individuals who are passionate about using cutting-edge technology to translate new molecules into medicines. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (European/UK Students Only)  EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training
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Fully funded PhD in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

The Machine Learning (ML) Department at MBZUAI is dedicated to imparting a world-class education in ML to our students. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  International PhD Programme
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Functional surfaces for friction reduction and improved durability of mechanical watch movements

Project advert. This PhD project will explore how advanced surface coatings can reduce friction and improve the long-term durability of mechanical watch movements. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof T Liskiewicz, Dr SJRN James Rowley-Neale
 13 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Neurosymbolic spatial reasoning: teaching language models to plan over qualitative geographic knowledge

About the project. Large language models are fluent but unreliable at spatial reasoning. Given a geographic knowledge graph, they recall isolated facts well, yet they struggle with questions that require several spatial relationships to be chained together. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A Abdelmoty
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Learning to communicate and collaborate: emergent multimodal communication in embodied agents

Supervisory team. Dr Daniela Mihai and Professor Jonathon Hare. Robots and embodied agents that collaborate need ways to share what they perceive, intend and need. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr D Mihai
 30 June 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Can machines invent a visual language we can read? Emergence and interpretability of agent-made symbols

Supervisory team. Dr Daniela Mihai and Professor Jonathon Hare. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr D Mihai
 30 June 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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A single-cell atlas of the Euglena gracilis cell cycle (HALL_E27DTP)

Primary Supervisor - Professor Neil Hall. Euglena gracilis is one of biology's outliers. This single-celled protist diverged from plants and animals over a billion years ago, switches effortlessly between photosynthesis and feeding, and carries a genome stitched together from multiple ancient endosymbionts. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof N Hall
 30 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Supernovae and dark energy with the Rubin Observatory

Supervisory team. Professor Mark Sullivan and Dr Philip Wiseman. This project tackles one of the biggest questions in astrophysics. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof M Sullivan
 31 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Functional Injectable Biomaterials for Spinal Disc Repair

  Research Group: School of Mechanical Engineering
This project is related to the assessment of a minimally invasive treatment for back pain called ‘nucleus augmentation’. The treatment involved the injection of a hydrogel into a damaged spinal disc to restore its biomechanics. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof R K Wilcox, Dr H L Fermor, Prof P A Beales
 18 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Metasurfaces for Machine Vision and Compact Photonics

Supervisors. Prof Kevin MacDonald, Dr Xu Fang. This project will develop and demonstrate advanced bilayer metasurface optical elements addressing performance trade-offs and constraints (field of view vs. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof K MacDonald
 31 August 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Engineering fitness in disease-resistant crops (GRANDELLIS_E27DTP)

Primary Supervisor - Dr Carolina Grandellis. Engineering crop disease resistance to overcome the growth-defence trade-off. Developing crops that are both productive and resillient is one of the major challenges facing agriculture. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr CG Grandellis
 30 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Time Crystals: A New State of Matter for Next-Generation Data Processing

Supervisors. Prof Nikolay Zheludev, Prof Kevin MacDonald, Dr Eric Plum, Associate Prof Giorgio Adamo. Time crystals are an eagerly sought phase of matter with unique functionalities. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof N Zheludev
 31 August 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Picophotonics: Sub-nanometre Light–Matter Interactions, Metrology and Super-Resolution Imaging

Supervisors. Prof Kevin MacDonald, Prof Nikolay Zheludev, Associate Prof Giorgio Adamo, Dr Eric Plum. Optical imaging and metrology techniques now routinely break the classical diffraction limit on resolution. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof K MacDonald
 31 August 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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The Wytham Woods Digital Twin

Forests are experiencing increasingly frequent and interacting disturbances, from drought and heatwaves to emerging pests and pathogens such as ash dieback. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof R Salguero-Gómez
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)