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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Next-Generation Compact Accelerators and Radiation Sources Based on Intense Laser–Plasma Interactions

Research into intense laser–plasma interactions for compact particle accelerators and advanced radiation sources has attracted considerable interest over the past few decades, driven in particular by the development of high-intensity laser technologies such as chirped-pulse amplification (CPA). Read more
 Supervisor: Dr G Xia
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Towards Circular AI: Critical Materials, E-waste and Circular Economy Strategies

Artificial intelligence (AI) is expanding rapidly, transforming sectors ranging from healthcare and manufacturing to transport, energy and scientific research. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Gallego Schmid, Dr J Apsley
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Post-Quantum Threshold Cryptography from Supersingular Isogenies

Quantum computers threaten much of the public-key cryptography currently used to secure digital communications, cloud services, financial transactions, and critical infrastructure. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr T Fouotsa, Dr B Magri
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Engineering Downstream Processes 2.0: Coupling Chemical Unit Operations for End-to-End Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

Crystallization, a key separation and purification unit operation in the pharmaceutical industry, involves downstream processing steps to isolate the material before final formulation. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Rajagopalan, Prof V Niasar, Dr A Thornton
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Advances in Simultaneous Tolerance Intervals and Bands

This project will develop a new generation of simultaneous tolerance intervals, bands and regions for reliable prediction, calibration and anomaly detection in complex modern data settings. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr Y Han, Dr X Jin
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PhD Programme at the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE), NTU Singapore

The School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) offers world-class Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) research opportunities designed to equip scholars and engineering leaders with advanced research capabilities. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  Singapore PhD Programme
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PhD Programme at the School of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), NTU Singapore

The School of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) offers world-class Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) research opportunities designed to equip scholars and technology leaders with advanced research capabilities. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  Singapore PhD Programme
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PhD Programme at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), NTU Singapore

The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) offers world-class PhD research opportunities designed to provide future academics and engineering leaders with the most advanced research skills. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  Singapore PhD Programme
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PhD Programme at the School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology (CCEB), NTU Singapore

The School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology (CCEB) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) offers world-class PhD research opportunities designed to provide future academics, scientists, and industry leaders with the most advanced research skills. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  Singapore PhD Programme
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Industrial imaging using laser-plasma generated X-rays

Join the University of Manchester’s Accelerator Physics Group and help shape the future of compact X-ray and gamma-ray technology. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr O Apsimon
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Generative User Interfaces that Adapt to the Contextual Needs of Physical Activity Tracking Users

This PhD investigates how user interfaces for physical activity (PA) tracking can be generated automatically from a user's context, rather than designed once and applied to everyone. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Vigo, Dr S Harper
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Pulsars, Exoplanets and Transients

A research project is available on pulsars, exoplanets, and/or other transient phenomena. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof B Stappers, Dr E Kerins, Dr PW Weltevrede, Dr MK Keith
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Optimisation of wind and tidal-stream turbine arrays using advanced wake and turbine-control algorithms

The generation of energy from fossil fuels which has prompted huge economic growth since the industrial revolution is now faltering under two major problems. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr D Apsley, Dr H Mullings
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Minimalist Autonomy: Safe and Sustainable Neurosymbolic Systems

Autonomous systems need to make decisions in complex, uncertain, and changing environments. Machine learning, generative AI, and foundation models offer strong capabilities but can be expensive, unpredictable, unsustainable, and unsuitable for decisions that require strong guarantees. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Hosseini, Prof M Fisher
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Multiscale modelling of polymer network constitutive behaviour

Fibre networks are ubiquitous in both natural and engineered materials. They are manufactured for many reasons. from the nonwoven fabrics used for insulation, clothing and filtration to the rubberlike polymer-based materials used in applications ranging from plumbing to transport. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr T Shearer, Prof O Jensen, Dr G Jones
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Electrosynthetic and Photocatalytic Manipulation of Cyclic Amides toward Novel Stereodefined Heterocycles

The development of next-generation therapeutics demands innovative synthetic methods capable of accessing increasingly complex, three-dimensional molecular architectures with precise control over structure and stereochemistry. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr GEM Crisenza, Dr C Trujillo
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Revealing Extrusion Thermal Boundary Conditions for Additive Biomanufacturing

Nozzle choice in 3D printing is currently made on cost and durability, not on heat behaviour, even though a nozzle's material governs how much heat reaches the melt during printing. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Omar, Dr W Mirihanage, Dr C Imediegwu
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Bootstrap Inference for Rank Based Dependence Measures in Spatio Temporal Data

Large spatio temporal datasets in climate science, epidemiology, and environmental monitoring increasingly involve many spatial units but relatively short time series. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Bhattacharjee, Prof J Huck
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Gen AI and Student Feedback Literacy Deakin Led Studentship

Introduction. This PhD project is part of the Cotutelle arrangement between Coventry University, UK and Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S Alsop
 15 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Gen AI and Student Feedback Literacy Coventry led Studentship

Introduction. This PhD project is part of the Cotutelle arrangement between Coventry University, UK and Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S Alsop
 15 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Feedback control to optimize and explore viscous fingering

Active feedback control - where control inputs are chosen in response to real time observations - is a very powerful tool to alter the dynamics of a system. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Thompson, Dr A Hutchinson
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MINELOOP: Investigating MINEwater systems using closed-LOOP geothermal technologies

Geothermal energy supports net zero targets and energy security by providing a reliable, low-carbon, local energy source. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr C Brown
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Unlikely intersections and the Zilber Pink conjecture

When can a system of polynomial equations have more special solutions than geometry predicts? This question lies at the heart of unlikely intersections, an area connecting number theory, algebraic geometry and model theory. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr V Aslanyan, Dr G Jones
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Existential Closedness for exponential and automorphic functions

Polynomial equations over the complex numbers are central to algebraic geometry. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr V Aslanyan, Dr G Jones
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] AI-driven Hardware-Software Co-optimisation for Sustainable and Efficient Computing

Modern processors spend a substantial fraction of their execution time waiting for data to arrive from memory. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr P Petoumenos, Dr P Olivier
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Differential algebra and the model theory of differential equations

Differential algebra studies differential equations using algebraic methods, treating differentiation as an operation on a field. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr V Aslanyan, Dr O Sanchez
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Security of Neuromorphic Systems

Neuromorphic event cameras are increasingly considered for space, defence and surveillance applications owing to their low latency, high dynamic range and energy efficiency. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Marcireau, Dr S Kohler, Prof A van Schaik
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Designing Immunity from First Principles: AI Protein Design and Structural Biology to Build Synthetic Plant Immune Receptors. Fully Funded 4-Year

Build a plant immune receptor that has never existed in nature. This fully funded four-year Gatsby Sainsbury PhD at Durham combines generative AI protein design, structural biology and plant immunity. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Bentham, Prof M Knight
 27 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Designing Immunity from First Principles: AI Protein Design and Structural Biology to Build Synthetic Plant Immune Receptors. Fully Funded 4-Year

Build a plant immune receptor that has never existed in nature. This fully funded four-year Gatsby Sainsbury PhD at Durham combines generative AI protein design, structural biology and plant immunity. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Bentham, Prof M Knight
 27 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Designing Immunity from First Principles: AI Protein Design and Structural Biology to Build Synthetic Plant Immune Receptors. Fully Funded 4-Year

Build a plant immune receptor that has never existed in nature. This fully funded four-year Gatsby Sainsbury PhD at Durham combines generative AI protein design, structural biology and plant immunity. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Bentham, Prof M Knight
 27 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)