vector PhD Projects, Programs & Scholarships

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 UK has legally-binding targets to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and increase the use of renewable sources of energy.

Evaluation of West Nile virus transmission risk in the UK

University of Liverpool
Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences

Prof M Baylis, Dr J Medlock, Dr G Hughes, Dr R Bowden

Application Deadline: 10 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.

West Nile disease has been sporadically present in certain parts of mainland Europe for about 60 years, but recently it has spread geographically and has increased dramatically in incidence; the number of human cases in 2018 (over two thousand) significantly exceeded previous years, possibly in response to unusually warm weather.

Emerging targeted radiation therapies: simulations and benchmarking of cellular response to radiation.

University of York
Department of Physics

Research Group: Nuclear Physics

Dr C Diget

Application Deadline: 30 June 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.

Ionizing radiation is a highly effective way to treat cancer. It is used in about 50% of all cancer patients, either alone or in combination with surgery or chemotherapy.

Applications of topology to soft matter physics

Aberdeen University
Department of Mathematics

Dr M Grant, Dr R Hepworth

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 address mathematical problems in the research field of algebraic topology, inspired by the theory of topological defects in soft materials.

Search for Doubly Charged Higgs Bosons Decaying to Like-Sign Pairs of Tau Leptons with the ATLAS Experiment at the CERN LHC

The University of Manchester
Department of Physics and Astronomy

Dr T Wyatt

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.

The discovery of the Higgs boson by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the CERN LHC in 2012 represents the culmination of a 50-year theoretical and experimental endeavour to complete the “Standard Model” of particle physics.

Developing optogenetic therapies for retinal degeneration

The University of Manchester
Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health

Prof R Lucas, Dr Nina Milosavljevic

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.

Retinal degeneration is the leading cause of blindness in developed countries. The new exciting biological approach of optogenetic therapy in which ectopic expression of photosensitive proteins (photopigments) is used to restore photosensitivity, offers a potential breakthrough for treating these conditions.

Smart and holistic district level energy management systems underpinned with blockchain, optimisation, federative cloud and artificial intelligence, Engineering – PhD (Funded)

University of Exeter
College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences

Dr B Yuce, Dr D Zhu

Application Deadline: 15 June 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.

Location. Engineering Department, in the College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences at Streatham Campus in Exeter.

Cooperative and Autonomous Control of Smart Microgrid

University of Liverpool
Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics

Dr L Jiang, Prof C-C Chu

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.

This project is part of a 4-year Dual PhD degree programme between the National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan) and the University of Liverpool (England).

Development of empirical and damage predictive models, for protective structures, under extreme loading

Aberdeen University
School of Engineering

Dr M Aleyaasin, Dr Amir Siddiq

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.

Protective structures are the scarifying layers that can respond to severe loading, such as fire or explosion or missile impact or combination of such loads.

Investigation & Modelling of Power System Fast Frequency Phenomena

Brunel University London
Electronic and Electrical Engineering

Dr G Taylor

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.

Renewable generation has been growing at historically high rates over the last decade in the UK as well as other parts of the world.

Sufficiently Deep Supervised Learning in High-Dimensions & Fast Prediction, with Applications

Brunel University London
Mathematics

Dr D Chakrakbarty

Application Deadline: 26 June 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

Funded PhD Project (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 research project has funding attached. It is only available to UK citizens or those who have been resident in the UK for a period of 3 years or more. Some projects, which are funded by charities or by the universities themselves may have more stringent restrictions.

Brunel University London (BUL) is recruiting to EPSRC Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) PhD studentships effective 1 October 2020.

Holomorphic Representations of the Braid Group

Dr G Lechner

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 braid group can be intuitively understood as the collection of a finite number of strands with all possibilities of "braiding" them, and consecutive braiding as the group operation.

Machine Learning for Dimension Reduction in High‐Dimensional Datasets

Dr A Artemiou

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 today’s environment where computer processors are powerful and computer memory cheap, researchers are able to collect and store huge amounts of data.

Nonlinear PDEs (deterministic or stochastic coefficients)

Dr F Dragoni, Prof N Dirr

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.

Nonlinear PDEs (deterministic or stochastic coefficients). The project is in the area of stochastic homogenization for nonlinear PDEs (Partial Differential Equations) associated to a low regularity condition called the Hormander condition.

Number Theory; On Multi-Dimensional Sequences of Convergents

Dr M Lettington, Dr K M Schmidt

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 is centred on constructions and limits of sequences of vector convergents, systems of polynomials and generating function matrices, including the application of special function theory.