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We have 1,133 physics PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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Seeing the Forest from the Trees: AI and Variational Methods for Forest Biomass Monitoring

AI_CDT_DecisionMaking. Details. Prof. Bispo from the Department of Geography, SEED, FH was previously happy to advertise the project jointly with her, but she is currently on maternity leave, so we couldn't check with her. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr F M Watson, Dr JL Latz
 4 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Mechanism of transcription repression by the Polycomb complex PRC1.

  Research Group: Francis Lab, Biochemistry of Epigenetic Inheritance
A funded position is available for a PhD student with a strong interest in biochemistry, genomics and biophysics for a project to dissect the mechanism of transcription repression by Polycomb proteins. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr DRZ Zenklusen
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Mechanism of transcription repression by the Polycomb complex PRC1.

  Research Group: Francis Lab, Biochemistry of Epigenetic Inheritance
A funded position is available for a PhD student with a strong interest in biochemistry, genomics, and biophysics for a project to dissect the mechanism of transcription repression by Polycomb proteins. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr N Francis, Dr F Robert
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhD in Earth Sciences - How to peel a slab: Insights into slab weakening and slab-plume interactions in the Afar region

Systematic geochemical trends basalts from the southern Red Sea show that the Afar mantle plume has low concentration of primordial gases such as helium (Balci et al. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr AGG Grima, Prof F Stuart
 5 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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From satellite to street: Earth embeddings for local environmental decisions

AI_CDT_DecisionMaking. Details. Nitrogen dioxide levels beside a busy road can be much higher than in a park a few hundred metres away. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr SJ Jaffer, Prof AM Madhavapeddy, Dr D Topping
 4 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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CENTA 2027-B13 Health risks from individual and synergistic heat and air pollution under climate change

Main description. Extreme heat and air pollution are among the leading environmental threats to human health. They frequently occur together, yet their health impacts are still commonly assessed independently. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr Z Shi
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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CENTA 2027-B11 Learning the changing extremes of European precipitation in a warming climate

One of the major challenges for the current and future climate diagnostics is the occurrence of very rare, but extreme intense precipitation events. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof G C LECKEBUSCH
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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CENTA 2027-B08 Less emission, more aerosol? How elevated CO2 changes organic gas emissions from forests and their capacity to form particles

Forests emit large amounts of volatile organic compounds (VOCs). In the atmosphere these are oxidised to form large, oxygenated gases which then form secondary organic aerosol (SOA). Read more
 Supervisor: Dr J Brean
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhD in Electronics and Electrical Engineering - Resilient Cryogenic Power Electronic Inverters for Propulsion Systems in Hydrogen-Powered Aviation

Project background and aim. A fully funded 36-month PhD position is available to candidates of any nationality, subject to Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Doctoral Network eligibility and mobility rules. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Yazdani-Asrami, Dr W Song, Dr Prof Vahedi
 11 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Computational imaging for the democratisation of MRI in medicine

The BASP Laboratory at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, led by Professor Yves Wiaux, invites applications for a fully funded PhD to develop next-generation algorithms for low-field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), contributing to the democratisation of medical imaging worldwide. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof Yves Wiaux
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Design, Modelling and Experimental Investigation of Inflatable and Multistable Mechanical Metamaterials

Research Studentship in Engineering. Project. Design, Modelling and Experimental Investigation of Inflatable and Multistable Mechanical Metamaterials. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof AF Forte
 2 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Nature-based and biomimetic foundation systems

Research Studentship in Geotechnical Engineering. Project. Nature-based and biomimetic foundation systems. 3.5-year DPhil studentship. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof JK Knappett
 2 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Dynamic Analysis of Particle-Based Long-Duration Energy Storage Systems

  Research Group: Thermofluds.
This PhD focuses on the dynamic operation and intelligent control of particle-based long-duration energy storage systems under highly variable renewable energy input. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof Y Mahmoudi Larimi
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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PhD studentship: Probing Mechanochemistry Reaction Conditions by in-situ High-Pressure and High-Temperature X-ray Diffraction and Raman Spectroscopy

Applications are sought for a fully funded 4-year PhD studentship position in the School of Chemistry at the University of Birmingham (UoB) in collaboration with Diamond Light Source (DLS), the UK’s national synchrotron facility. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Michalchuk, Dr XL Liu
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Specialty Optical Fibres and Components for Next-Generation Quantum Networks

Supervisory Team. Dr Yongmin Jung and Prof. Periklis Petropoulos. Quantum networks could transform how we communicate, share information and connect quantum computers. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr Y Jung
 31 August 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)