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We have 3,691 PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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Low-loss mid-infrared microstructured optical fibers

Supervisory team. Principal Research Fellow, Tonglei Cheng and Associate Professor, Lin Xu. Mid-infrared (MIR) optical fibers are critical for applications such as environmental monitoring, biomedical diagnostics and chemical sensing. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr T Cheng
 31 August 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Symmetry-restricted quantum parameterised circuit generative models

Supervisory team. Dr Srinandan Dasmahapatra. Recognising patterns in data to simulate their distributions is a machine learning task that can be enhanced by generating measurement samples from quantum states that are suitably prepared by parameterised quantum circuits. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S Dasmahapatra
 30 September 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Understanding the erratic spin evolution of radio emitting neutron stars

Formed in the supernova explosions of massive stars, neutron stars are compact remnants that exhibit extreme gravity, ultra-high densities, fast rotation, and strong magnetic fields. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr V Graber
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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A systematic approach to investigate how antiviral responses shape susceptibility to secondary infections

Respiratory viral infections such as those caused by influenza viruses, respiratory syncytial viruses or coronaviruses are a major cause of morbidity and mortality globally. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr S Gago, Dr S Knight, Dr M Bromley
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Regulation of apoptosis-induced compensatory cell proliferation and its implications for cancer and tissue regeneration

In multi-cellular organisms, coordinated cell death (e.g. apoptosis) and cell replacement is critical for tissue recovery in response to stress or damage. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr Y Fan
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Muscle function during running

The anatomy of the legs is complex with multiple muscles that are (anatomically) capable of flexing and extending the limb joints. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr G N Askew, Dr J Usherwood
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Disrupted SUMO signalling in epithelial cancers, implications for genome stability and response to therapy.

The School of Molecular and Cellular Biology invites applications from prospective postgraduate researchers who wish to commence study for a PhD in the academic year 2025/26. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A Garvin
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Event-based computing for real-time computer vision systems

Supervisory Team. Dr Firman Simanjuntak and Prof Mark Zwolinski. This PhD project develops ultra-low power, DVS-free computer vision hardware by creating event-based chips using nanofabrication. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr F Simanjuntak
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Reclaiming Residues: Brazil Nut Shells and the Future of the Development of Circular Construction Materials

This PhD project explores the potential of Brazil nut shells and other agro-forestry residues from the Amazon rainforest as innovative, sustainable construction materials. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr T Abdelmagid, Dr J Holley, Dr LB Bufalino
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Ecology and infection in the respiratory tract

Project Details. The lower respiratory tract has a microbiome. It is sparser than the gut microbiome and much less well characterised, but similarly varies in health and disease, has stable composition and has direct interactions with the immune system. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr MJ Cox
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Uncovering the molecular mechanisms underlying spinal cord regeneration

Motor nerves connect the spinal cord and brain with muscles in our face, arms, legs and internal organs. The motor nerves send signals which tell these muscles to contract. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr K Dorey, Dr N Roberts
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Text entry in XR

We are looking for outstanding PhD student candidates to join a collaborative research project with Google on next-generation text entry in immersive environments. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr M Di Luca
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Multisensory integration during surface exploration

We are looking for PhD student candidates to join the EU-funded EXPLORA consortium starting in February 2026. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr M Di Luca
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Robot skill acquisition, transfer and augmentation for indusrial automation

Project overview. We are recruiting a self-funded PhD student to join an EPSRC project, STAMAN. Though the studentship will not be provided, attending conferences, consumables, and industrial engagements will be funded and supported. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr Y Wang
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Robotics for circular economy and sustainable manufacturing

Project overview. We are recruiting a self-funded PhD student to join an EPSRC project, STAMAN. Though the studentship will not be provided, attending conferences, consumables, and industrial engagements will be funded and supported. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr Y Wang
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Self-funded PhD - Growing pains – how do plants measure developmental time?

During their life-cycles multicellular organisms progress through a series of different developmental phases. To ensure that development occurs in the right sequence and at an appropriate rate, the correct timing of transitions between phases is essential. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr J Fouracre
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Silicon devices for nonlinear photonics and applications

Supervisory team. Prof Anna Peacock & Dr Meng Huang. Closing date 31 October 2026. This project seeks to develop compact and power efficient nonlinear silicon photonics devices for use in wide ranging applications such as telecommunications, medicine and spectroscopy. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof A Peacock
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Biometric recognition systems with artificial intelligence techniques

Supervisory Team - Dr. Sasan Mahmoodi. About the project. Machine learning as well as deep learning techniques are employed in this project to design novel biometric recognition systems. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S Mahmoodi
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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A new frontier in distributed temperature sensing in hollow-core fibres

Supervisory Team. Dr Ali Masoudi and Dr Hans Christian Mulvad. Imagine measuring temperature along 200 km of optical fibre with unprecedented precision, even in extreme environments. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A Masoudi
 30 June 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Low-noise fibre lasers for next-generation quantum systems

Supervisory Team. Dr Yongmin Jung, Prof. Periklis Petropoulos and Dr Sijing Liang. About the Project. This project will pioneer ultra-stable, low-noise fibre lasers engineering for next-generation quantum technologies. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr Y Jung
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Stacked Intelligent Metasurface (SIM) for Orthogonal Time Frequency Space (OTFS)

Supervisory Team. Dr Chao Xu. This project will explore the combination of Stacked Intelligent Metasurfaces (SIM) and Orthogonal Time Frequency Space (OTFS) in the context of Space-Air-Ground Integrated Network (SAGIN) applications. . Read more
 Supervisor: Dr CX Xu
 1 October 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Artificial intelligence techniques for illness detection by using MRI

Supervisory Team. Dr. Sasan Mahmoodi and Professor Brigitte Vollmer. Hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy (HIE) affects babies' brains during the childbirth due to shortages of oxygen. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S Mahmoodi
 14 October 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Next generation silicon photonic modulators

Supervisory Team. Professor David Thomson and Dr Bharat Pant. This project will focus on research into the next generation of optical data communication technology enabling key applications such as high-performance computing and artificial intelligence to thrive. . Read more
 Supervisor: Prof D Thomson
 30 September 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Photonic fibres for renewable energy

Supervisory Team. Dr Pier Sazio, Dr Peter Horak and Prof Mike Zervas. This project repurposes photonic fibre technologies—central to global telecoms—for renewable energy applications, including solar generation and low-cost storage. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr P Sazio
 31 August 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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AI directed materials discovery and atomistic modelling

Supervisory Team. Dr Pier Sazio and Dr Ioannis Zeimpekis. About the Project. This project develops chalcogenide glass materials for optical and electronic applications using cleanroom fabrication and AI-driven simulations. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr P Sazio
 31 August 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Mid infrared metaoptics and diffractive optical computing

This project focuses on designing and fabricating novel photonic computing devices using chalcogenide glass materials such as sulfur (S), selenium (Se) and tellurium (Te). Read more
 Supervisor: Dr P Sazio
 31 August 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Programmable silicon photonic circuits

Supervisory Team. Prof David Thomson, Prof Professor Goran Mashanovich & Dr Bharat Pant. Closing Date. 30 September 2026. This project will focus on the development of reliable and efficient programmable photonic integrated circuits (PICs) on a silicon photonics platform. . Read more
 Supervisor: Prof D Thomson
 30 September 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Metasurface technology for next-generation automotive sensing and 3D facial recognition

Supervisory Team. Dr Xu Fang and Dr Eric Plum. This project will develop metasurface-engineered optical systems for next-generation automotive and biometric sensing. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr X Fang
 20 September 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Integrated polysilicon photonics

Supervisory Team. Prof Anna Peacock and Prof David Thomson. This project seeks to develop a simple, low-cost laser materials processing procedure to fabricate high quality polysilicon photonic platforms that will ease issues associated with optoelectronic integration. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof A Peacock
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Recovering precipitation strengthening in additive friction stir deposition builds: heat-treatment design for microstructure control and property improvement

Supervisory Team. Dr Dikai Guan and Prof Pedro Rivera. This project aims to unlock stronger 3D-printed metals. It pioneers new heat-treatment strategies to recover and even surpass the strength of additively manufactured light alloys. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr D Guan
 30 June 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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