gas chromatography PhD Projects, Programs & Scholarships

Dr C Fernandez-Martin, Dr I Graca, Dr A McCue

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.

Developing cost-effective and sustainable porous adsorbents aiming at separating impurities and main constituents from different gas mixtures is a real and necessary challenge for the industry, especially the energy sector.

Green conversion of (mixed) waste into porous carbon materials with application in gas treatment by adsorption

Dr C Fernandez-Martin, Dr D Dionisi

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.

This project will face the global challenge of reducing landfilling by revalorising wastes of different nature and composition (i.e.

Investigations on the Biological Activity of caseinate hydrolysates (Ref: SF20/APP/KOUTSIDIS)

Northumbria University
Faculty of Health and Life Sciences

Dr G Koutsidis

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.

Bioactive peptides have been reported to exert a number of physiologically relevant activities including antihypertensive, cytotoxic, anticancer and antimicrobial effects.

Biomass-derived oils catalytic cracking in existing refinery processes

Dr I Graca, Dr A McCue

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.

The partial replacement of crude oil by renewable sources to produce high quality transportation fuels is a timely and interesting topic.

Production of value-added chemicals and/or fuels from plastic wastes by unconventional technologies

Dr I Graca, Dr C Fernandez-Martin, Dr A McCue

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.

Plastics are the preferred materials in many important areas, such as packaging, beverage, construction, automobiles, medicine, etc., owing to their low cost, easy manufacture, and physicochemical properties.

Determining the importance of lipid remodelling in the rhizosphere bacteria

University of Warwick
School of Life Sciences

Dr Y Chen

Application Deadline: 7 June 2020

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.

Maintaining an adequate food supply for a growing population in the face of emerging global crises presents one of the great challenging of the 21st Century.

Uncovering the role of lipid renovation in bacteria-host interactions

University of Warwick
School of Life Sciences

Dr Y Chen, Prof D J Scanlan

Application Deadline: 7 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.

Antimicrobial resistance is one of the most serious threats to humans in the 21stcentury. Hence, understanding antimicrobial resistance mechanisms is pivotal for combating superbugs that are constantly emerging.

Developing new, high-throughput and comprehensive, headspace approaches for the forensic analysis of ignitable liquids (Ref: SF20/APP/GALLIDABINO2)

Northumbria University
Faculty of Health and Life Sciences

Dr M Gallidabino

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.

Ignitable liquids (ILs), such as gasoline and petrol fuel, are common chemicals used in the initiation of arson attacks. Their detection and profiling from debris is, therefore, of strong interest in forensic science and could provide vital evidence to assist in criminal investigations.

Photocatalytic solar energy conversion

University of York
Department of Chemistry

Dr R E Douthwaite

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.

There is a clear need to develop processes that minimise the consumption of limited energy resources and reduce waste detrimental to the environment.

Saving the planet through carbon recycling: engineering bacterial capture of gasified waste for bioplastics production

University of Nottingham
School of Life Sciences

Dr K Winzer, Prof N Minton

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.

Climate change caused by the release of greenhouse gases from fossil fuels and through change of land use threatens life on our planet.

Addressing the challenge of air pollution: Novel measurements of particulate matter and gaseous air pollutants in the UK and South Asia

UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
UK CEH (Wallingford Site) CLASSIC

Dr C Di Marco, Dr M Twigg, Dr Z Shi, Dr E Nemitz

Application Deadline: 5 June 2020

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.

Overview. Air pollution is of concern for human health and the environment. To mitigate air pollution it is necessary to first identify and quantify the sources of air pollutants, as well as understand their fate in terms of chemical transformations in the atmosphere and their deposition to ecosystems.

Continuous separation of conglomerate forming enantiomers using crystallization process

Dr A Majumder, Dr D Dionisi

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.

Enantiomers are the results of chirality or handedness of molecules which are the non-superimposable mirror images of each other.

Photochemical synthesis of new drug-like scaffolds

University of Reading
School of Chemistry

Dr C Smith, Dr A T Russell

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.

"Our laboratory is interested in the application of enabling technologies, such as continuous flow[1] and photochemistry,[2] for the synthesis of useful functional molecules such as drugs, agrochemicals and materials.