computational PhD Projects, Programs & Scholarships

Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project has funding attached, subject to eligibility criteria. Applications for the project are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates, but its funding may be restricted to a limited set of nationalities. You should check the project and department details for more information.

Fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP) composites consisting of two-dimensional reinforcement are used in a variety of industrial applications such as aerospace, automotive, marine, rail, energy, civil structures, biomedical, and oil and gas.

Intelligent Computational Methods for Advanced Composites

Imperial College London
Department of Aeronautics

Dr Z Sharif Khodaei, Prof M.H. Aliabadi

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project has funding attached for UK and EU students, though the amount may depend on your nationality. Non-EU students may still be able to apply for the project provided they can find separate funding. You should check the project and department details for more information.

The structural integrity group in the Aeronautics department (http://www.imperial.ac.uk/structural-integrity-health-monitoring/) is dedicated to improving integrity of engineering components and structures used in aerospace and other safety-critical industries.

Compressive Millimetre-wave Antennas for Computational Security-Screening Radars

Queen’s University Belfast
School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Dr O Yurduseven

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project has funding attached for UK and EU students, though the amount may depend on your nationality. Non-EU students may still be able to apply for the project provided they can find separate funding. You should check the project and department details for more information.

Imaging using millimetre-waves (mmW) brings several advantages such as non-ionizing radiation, operation in all-weather conditions and their ability to penetrate through most optically opaque materials.

PhD position in Computational Sciences

The Cyprus Institute
Computation-based Science and Technology Research Centre (CaSToRC)

Prof C Alexandrou

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

Awaiting Funding Decision/Possible External Funding

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This supervisor does not yet know if funding is available for this project, or they intend to apply for external funding once a suitable candidate is selected. Applications are welcome - please see project details for further information.

PhD, with possibility of financial aiding at The Cyprus Institute (CyI). Supervisors. Prof. C. Alexandrou (CyI) [email protected]

Computational Light Microscopy — Making the Invisible Visible

University of Dundee
School of Science and Engineering

Dr T Vettenburg

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project has funding attached for UK and EU students, though the amount may depend on your nationality. Non-EU students may still be able to apply for the project provided they can find separate funding. You should check the project and department details for more information.

A fully-funded PhD studentship is available. The student will develop a novel 3D light microscopy technique to image through opaque samples.

Computational reactor design for methanol production

University of Southampton
Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Research Group: Energy Technologies

Dr L Armstrong

Application Deadline: 31 August 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

Competition Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project is in competition for funding with other projects. Usually the project which receives the best applicant will be successful. Unsuccessful projects may still go ahead as self-funded opportunities.

Supervisor. Dr Lindsay-Marie Armstrong. Co-supervisor Dr Matthew Potter. Project description. Carbon capture and utilization (CCU) is attracting increasing attention as a sustainable, recyclable and synthetic “drop-in” alternative to the use of fossil fuels, particularly across the transportation sector.

Applied computational electromagnetics for transport, medical, and electronic systems

University of York
Department of Electronic Engineering

Research Group: Communication Technologies

Dr J Dawson

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

In the Applied electromagnetics and devices laboratory of the Communication Technologies research group we are working on solving problems related to the prevention and control of electromagnetic interference.

Precision Medicine DTP: Time-resolved single-cell analysis of neural cell differentiation in motor neuron disease (MND)

University of Edinburgh
School of Biological Sciences

Research Group: Institute of Quantitative Biology, Biochemistry and Biotechnology

Dr C Sibley, Dr R Grima

Application Deadline: 1 June 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

Competition Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project is in competition for funding with other projects. Usually the project which receives the best applicant will be successful. Unsuccessful projects may still go ahead as self-funded opportunities.

Industrial Partner. Dolomite Bio. Background. Motor neuron disease (MND) is a relentlessly progressing and devastating condition caused by the selective degeneration of upper and lower motor neurons essential for all movement.

Computational Framework for Metal Forming of High Strength Alloys

Aberdeen University
School of Engineering

Dr Amir Siddiq, Dr M Kartal

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

Conventional metal forming processes involve high cost and lead times because of design and manufacturing of product specific tooling for new materials and parts.

PhD Candidate in Computational (Electro)Catalysis

Trinity College Dublin
Department of Chemistry

Prof M García-Melchor

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project has funding attached, subject to eligibility criteria. Applications for the project are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates, but its funding may be restricted to a limited set of nationalities. You should check the project and department details for more information.

Applications from outstanding and highly motivated students are invited for a fully funded 4-year PhD position (€18,000 per annum + academic fees) in the Computational Catalysis and Energy Materials (CCEM) Group led by Dr.

PhD in Engineering - Development and validation of a computational model for aortic vessels

University of Glasgow
College of Science and Engineering

Dr A McBride, Dr A Aggarwal

Application Deadline: 8 June 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

Competition Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project is in competition for funding with other projects. Usually the project which receives the best applicant will be successful. Unsuccessful projects may still go ahead as self-funded opportunities.

This collaborative project between the industrial partner Terumo-Aortic and the Glasgow Computational Engineering Centre https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/gcec/ will develop and validate computational models for aortic vessels.

Developing and applying computational methods to understand the genetics of ageing

University of Liverpool
Institute of Ageing and Chronic Disease

Dr JP de Magalhaes

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

Ageing is the chief biomedical challenge of the 21st century, yet it remains a major puzzle of biology. Although it is clear that the process of ageing has a strong genetic component, much work remains to elucidate how the genome regulates ageing.

University of Oxford
Radcliffe Department of Medicine

Computational Functional Genomics

Assoc Prof G Lunter

Application Deadline: 24 July 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

We are interested in building computational models to understand and predict the functional consequences of mutations in the (human) genome.

Computational Functional Genomics

University of Oxford
Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine

Assoc Prof G Lunter

Application Deadline: 24 July 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

We are interested in building computational models to understand and predict the functional consequences of mutations in the (human) genome.

Discovery of new transparent conducting materials

University of Liverpool
Department of Chemistry

Prof M J Rosseinsky, Dr J Alaria, Dr M Dyer

Application Deadline: 31 July 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project has funding attached, subject to eligibility criteria. Applications for the project are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates, but its funding may be restricted to a limited set of nationalities. You should check the project and department details for more information.

An opportunity for a 3.5 year PhD position supported by NSG Group towards the discovery of new transparent conducting materials. This project aims to develop new transparent conducting materials for optoelectronic applications on glass.