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We have 1,937 PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships added in the last month

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EastBio CASE: Hairy ears and their function: how do barley awns develop, and influence grain development?

University of Edinburgh
School of Biological Sciences
  Research Group: Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences
Updated: 19 October 2026 
Grasses are incredibly environmentally and economically important, growing in diverse environments across the globe and providing >50% of global calories. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A Richardson
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EastBio CASE: How can the higher-order social structure of badger populations shape disease dynamics?

University of Edinburgh
School of Biological Sciences
Updated: 19 October 2026 
Wildlife social structure is critical in shaping vulnerability to epidemics and the ability of populations to act as maintenance hosts for infectious diseases that may spillover into human or livestock populations. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr M Silk
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EastBio: Endospore-derived Protein Lattices for Novel Antigen and Enzyme Display Platforms

University of Edinburgh
School of Biological Sciences
  Research Group: Institute of Quantitative Biology, Biochemistry and Biotechnology
Updated: 19 October 2026 
Bacillus endospores are some of the most robust biological structures known. Examples have remained viable for decades to centuries and germinate and commence growing normally within 30 minutes of exposure to nutrients. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr DR Radford, Dr G Cowan, Dr P Vohra
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Physics-informed AI for the thermodynamic co-design of emerging cooling technologies

University of Birmingham
School of Chemical Engineering
Updated: 19 October 2026 
Cooling demand is rapidly increasing due to economic development and climate change-induced temperature increase. Vapour compression cycle has been the main technology to satisfy the global cooling demand, from household refrigerators and room air conditioners to industrial size chillers. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr R R Renaldi
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)
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EastBio: Structural architecture of the centromere

University of Edinburgh
School of Biological Sciences
Updated: 18 October 2026 
A defining aspect of life is the accurate transmission of genetic information from one generation of cells to the next. During mitosis, chromosomes are reorganised dramatically into discrete cylindrical entities. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr K Muir, Prof J Arulanandam
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EastBio: Understanding chromatin control of antigenic variation in Trypanosoma brucei

University of Edinburgh
School of Biological Sciences
  Research Group: Institute of Cell Biology
Updated: 18 October 2026 
Trypanosoma brucei, a kinetoplastid parasite, causes severe disease in humans and livestock and remains a significant, neglected tropical disease. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Wilson, Dr B Akiyoshi
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EastBio: Testing Open Science: who’s re-using shared data, models and code?

University of Edinburgh
School of Biological Sciences
  Research Group: Institute of Quantitative Biology, Biochemistry and Biotechnology
Updated: 18 October 2026 
The Open Science movement has transformed biological and environmental sciences, and our colleagues are sharing data at among the highest rates documented anywhere (Deeb 2025 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0328065). Read more
 Supervisor: Prof A J Millar
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EastBio: Investigating sex-biased macrophage dynamics in Drosophila: from acute infection to life course health

University of Edinburgh
School of Biological Sciences
  Research Group: Institute of Immunology and Infection Research
Updated: 18 October 2026 
Sex differences in immunity shape both how individuals respond to acute infection and how inflammatory biology influences lifetime health outcomes, including ageing and the development of non-communicable diseases such as neurodegeneration and metabolic dysfunction. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr J Regan, Dr N Agrawal
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EastBio: Predicting species interactions with traits and phylogenies

University of Edinburgh
School of Biological Sciences
Updated: 18 October 2026 
Interactions between species – such as predator-prey, host-parasite, plant-pollinator – are a fundamental property of biological communities. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof G N Stone, Prof D Obbard
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EastBio: Dissecting the host-pathogen interactions of Burkholderia using modular three-dimensional models of the human lung

University of Edinburgh
School of Biological Sciences
  Research Group: Institute of Immunology and Infection Research
Updated: 18 October 2026 
Bacterial pathogens have evolved a diverse range of strategies to infect, survive, and replicate within a host. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr M Moule
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EastBio: Chronic parasite infection: Unravelling the function of new players in Toxoplasma and Neospora cyst formation

University of Edinburgh
School of Biological Sciences
  Research Group: Institute of Immunology and Infection Research
Updated: 18 October 2026 
Toxoplasma and Neospora are intracellular parasites that can cause abortion when passed to the developing foetus. Both have significant impact on the farming industry, causing sheep and cattle abortions respectively. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr J Young
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EastBio: Investigating the dynamic regulation of tissue disassembly and death in vivo

University of Edinburgh
School of Biological Sciences
  Research Group: Institute of Cell Biology
Updated: 18 October 2026 
Tissues and organs are not only built, they must also be dismantled and removed at the appropriate stage. Tissue disassembly and death are fundamental to normal development and physiology, while their disruption underlies developmental disorders and diseases such as cancer. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr N Agrawal, Dr J Regan
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EastBio: Pangenomic approaches to study the evolution of structural variation

University of Edinburgh
School of Biological Sciences
  Research Group: Institute of Ecology and Evolution
Updated: 18 October 2026 
Recent genomic research has revealed that structural variation, ranging from small insertions and deletions to major chromosomal rearrangements, can have an outsized biological impact compared to simple sequence mutations. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr S Martin, Dr K Lohse
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EastBio: Investigating the role of post-translational modifications on Plasmodium host-parasite adhesion interactions

University of Edinburgh
School of Biological Sciences
  Research Group: Institute of Immunology and Infection Research
Updated: 18 October 2026 
Adhesion of Plasmodium infected erythrocytes (IEs) to host cells plays an important role in the biology and pathology of malaria parasites (1). Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Rowe, Dr N Philip
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhD (4 years) on experimental characterization of snap fit joints (Belgium)

Ghent University
Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering
  Research Group: Mechanics of Materials and Structures
Updated: 17 October 2026 
[Net salary (after taxes) starting from 2600 EUR/month]. UGent-MMS is coordinating a 4-year research project on snap fit joints. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof W VAN PAEPEGEM
 30 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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