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communication engineering PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 524 communication engineering PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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[FSE PhD President's Doctoral Scholarship] Interdisciplinary Methods for Liquid Crystal-Based Biosensing

Liquid crystals (LCs) are exceptionally versatile and functional mesophases that combine fluidity with the ordering of solids. LCs have tremendous potential as low-cost and non-invasive bio-sensors and have been used to sense glucose, proteins, enzymes, cells, micromolecules etc. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof AM Majumdar, Dr S Woolner
 18 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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How marine microbes transform plastic: discovering novel enzymes and mechanisms

Project Overview. Plastic pollution is transforming marine microbial communities, yet the mechanisms and enzymes driving plastic transformation remain poorly understood. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof R McCarthy, Dr I Tews, Prof CJ Smith
 7 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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(PDS Award) Sensing Nature: Designing and Evaluating Interventions that Enhance Environmental Empathy and Nature Connectedness (SEEEN)

How do people sense and make sense of the natural world around them, and can we help them connect with it more deeply? This PhD will design and evaluate interventions that strengthen nature connectedness and environmental empathy, which attract growing interest as drivers of wellbeing and pro-environmental behaviour. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr SM MacQuarrie, Dr IT Thornhill, Dr M Vigo
 18 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Neuropeptide evolution and function: finding the missing links

Primary Supervisor. Prof. Maurice Elphick. Studentship Funding. Awaiting CSC Funding Decision. Application Deadline. 27th January 2027. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof MR Elphick
 27 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Molecular Simulations of Nanofluids for Cooling Applications

A PhD studentship is available in the molecular-simulation group of Professor Philip J. Camp, School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh in collaboration with Castrol Limited. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof P Camp
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Deep-sea fingerprinting with environmental DNA

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 Supervisors: Dr J Robidart, Dr S. E. Evans, Dr V Huvenne, Dr KW Wade, Dr ES Sumner
 7 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Yap-Wnt in gastrulation

Dissecting the Yap–Wnt mechanoregulatory program during zebrafish gastrulation - How do cells sense physical forces and translate them into the molecular signals that shape an embryo?Gastrulation is a fundamental stage of vertebrate development during which cells move and rearrange to establish the body axis and form the germ layers that will generate future tissues and organs. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S Schlopp
 2 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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AstraZeneca funded Non-clinical PhD Studentship (Fixed Term) in Improved 2A peptides for co-translational separation of a polyprotein

Applications are invited for a 4-year PhD studentship starting on 1 October 2027 and based in the Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, and the AstraZeneca Discovery Centre at Cambridge. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A Firth
 30 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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1 PhD Student Position: New Concepts and Materials in Catalysis

The Erlangen Center for Interface Research and Catalysis (ECRC) at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen–Nürnberg (FAU) invites applications for a PhD student position to join the group of Prof. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof JL Libuda
 29 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Mechanistic Interpretability for Multi-Agent AI Safety

Project Overview. As foundation models evolve into autonomous, interacting multi-agent systems, safety risks, such as covert collusion, deceptive coordination, goal drift, and cascade failures, emerge deep within internal activation states rather than just observable conversational logs. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr RL Li
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Study of reactivity in supramolecular materials

This position is a fully funded 4 year PhD studentship in the group of Dr Georgia Orton (https://ortonlab.uk/). This PhD research project will explore how molecular-level organisation and self-assembly can be harnessed to provide new synthetic routes to otherwise inaccessible materials. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr G Orton
 7 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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EastBio: Building Cellular Resilience: Unlocking the Health Potential of Scottish Potato Bioactives

This fully funded, 4-year PhD project is part of a competition funded by the BBSRC EASTBIO Doctoral Training Partnership. Cellular resilience describes the ability of cells and tissues to resist, adapt to and recover from biological, environmental and age-related stress. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof H Wilson, Prof G Bermano, Dr G McDougall, Dr A Tawfike
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Future-proofing celery with pangenomics, trials, and AI-assisted gene discovery (DE-VEGA_E27CASE)

Primary Supervisor - Dr Jose De Vega. Can we stay ahead of an emerging crop disease before it becomes established in Europe? This PhD will use genomics to future-proof celery against Fusarium oxysporum f. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr J De Vega
 30 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EastBio - Targeting proteasome assembly to uncover cancer vulnerabilities

Cancer cells must continually remove damaged and unwanted proteins to sustain rapid growth and survive cellular stress. This creates a strong dependence on the proteasome, the molecular machinery responsible for much of the cell’s controlled protein degradation. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Rousseau, Prof G Sapkota
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Bacterial Bioelectricity: How Microbes Use Voltage to Regulate Metabolism, Signalling and Survival

Bacteria are electrical —their membrane potential drives ATP synthesis, nutrient uptake, pH homeostasis, motility, cell-cell communication, and stress survival (Benarroch and Asally 2020). Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Asally, Dr ASV Singh Vishen
 23 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)