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We have 1,088 physics PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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Research Associate (f/m/d) Research focus: AI in the context of holistic turbine design

Within the Department of Engineering, as part of the research project DaHKIZ (Data-based Holistic AI-supported Civil Engine Development), the following position with the opportunity to pursue a doctoral degree is to be filled at the earliest possible date, initially limited until 30 April 2029. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  Germany PhD Programme
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New ways forward in the theory of turbulent heat and momentum transport

About the Project. This project aims to significantly advance the theoretical understanding of heat and momentum transport in turbulent flows, a crucial step for improving power plants and reducing CO2 emissions. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr KD Deguchi
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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(MCRC Clinical) REACH – Radiation Effects to Auditory, Cognition and Hormone profile in childhood brain tumour survivors

Radiotherapy remains pivotal in curing paediatric brain tumours, but survivors can face significant, life-changing late effects, e.g. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M McCabe, Dr M Aznar, Dr SP Pan, Dr J/l Littlejohn
 23 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Research Studentship in Control and Engineering Biology

Research Studentship in Control and Engineering Biology. 3.5-year D.Phil. studentship. Project. Synthetic Biology for fundamental science and application scale-up. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof H Steel, Prof A Papachristodoulou
 2 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] From Hinges to Morphing: Redefining Aircraft Control for Efficient Flight

How should an aircraft wing change shape to achieve the most efficient control?. Aircraft rely on control surfaces such as ailerons and spoilers to manoeuvre, but there are many ways of distributing these surfaces across a wing. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr MN Nabawy, Prof W Crowther
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Data-driven modelling and active control of aerodynamic flow separation

Flow separation can cause substantial increases in aerodynamic drag and loss of performance in aircraft, UAVs and wind-energy devices, and its prediction and control remain major challenges in aerodynamics. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr S Rezaeiravesh, Dr M Mihajlovic
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Integrated Climate-Impact Design and Lifecycle Assessment of Next-Generation Technologies for Net-Zero Aviation by 2050

Aviation currently contributes around 3.5% of human-caused radiative forcing, and non-CO2 effects – including contrails, nitrogen oxides, soot and water vapour – account for roughly two-thirds of that impact. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr S Jagtap, Dr N Bojdo
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Protection-Compatible Fault Response Design for Grid-Forming Converters

This fully funded PhD studentship covers tuition fees and provides a tax-free annual stipend. Applications from both home and international candidates are welcome. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr D Liu Liu, Prof P Crossley
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Fully Funded PhD opportunity in Isotope Geoscience

The University of Geneva, Switzerland has an extremely strong record in Isotope Geoscience, and is supported by in‐house world class analytical facilities, including access to the modern and complementary laboratories at the University of Lausanne, which is located 50km away. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr R Spikings
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Hybrid Machine Learning & Finite Element Solvers for UQ in PDE Models

In forward uncertainty quantification (UQ), one aims to understand how uncertainty in model inputs affects predictions of quantities of interest associated with model solutions. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr C Powell
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Self-supervising Heart AI to Detect Obstruction Without Stress

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common inherited heart disease, affecting 1 in 500 people. In many patients, the thickened heart muscle intermittently blocks blood flow out of the heart but – in a proportion of patients (up to 35%) - does so only under conditions of physical exertion. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr F Costen, Prof AC Crean
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Recombinant protein production in microalgae

The development of microalgae into alternative expression platforms for therapeutic recombinant protein production has long been hampered by the low productivity of protein expression, particularly when nuclear genes are employed. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof K Theodoropoulos, Dr J Pittman
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Predicting fatigue and fracture in dissimilar-metal joints

How can we predict when a joint between two different metals will fail? Combining metals can create structures that are lighter, more efficient or better suited to demanding environments. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof A Jivkov, Dr J Francis, Dr M Roy
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] The Adapting Artery: computational and experimental digital twins of vascular remodelling

Astronauts return from six months on the International Space Station with arteries that have stiffened by the equivalent of ten to twenty years of ageing. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Harish, Prof A Revell
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Non-Intrusive Approximation for Systems of Time-Dependent Parametric PDEs

In applied mathematics we frequently encounter physics-based models consisting of partial differential equations (PDEs) with inputs that are uncertain in real-world settings (eg material coefficients, boundary conditions etc). Read more
 Supervisor: Dr C Powell
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)