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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Multi-Drone UAV System for 3D Tomography and Rapid Mapping of Methane Emissions

The University of Manchester
Department of Computer Science
Methane (CH₄) is a major greenhouse gas with large, uncertain emissions from diffuse, hard-to-access, or intermittent sources (e.g. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr P Zhao, Dr G Allen, Dr D Topping
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Elastic particles in low Reynolds flows

The University of Manchester
Department of Mathematics
Many fluid mechanical problems involve the motion of thin/slender particles (such as elastic sheets or fibres) in low-Reynolds-number flows. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof M Heil, Dr D Pihler-Puzovic
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Advancing the Joint UK Land Environment Simulator (JULES) through Data Science and Emulation

The University of Manchester
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
How can we make urban climate modelling faster and more accessible? This PhD project will use environmental data science to advance the Joint UK Land Environment Simulator (JULES), a core component of the UK’s national weather, climate and environmental modelling infrastructure. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr ZZ Zheng, Dr D Topping
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Securing Agentic AI: Trustworthy Delegation and Accountable Actions

The University of Manchester
Department of Computer Science
Securing Agentic AI. Trustworthy Delegation and Accountable Actions. How can we trust AI agents to act on our behalf when they interact with untrusted information, external tools, and other agents?. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr Z Wang, Dr M Mustafa
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Fire-Damaged Engineered Timber: Image-Based Characterisation and Modelling of Splitting and Debonding

The University of Manchester
Department of Civil Engineering and Management
Engineered timber is increasingly used in modern construction because of its structural efficiency and potential contribution to more sustainable buildings. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr R Alhamd, Dr LC Cunningham
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Destruction of organic pollutants using novel electrochemical oxidation technology; Evaluating impact of metals on the removal efficiency.

The University of Manchester
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Increased discharge of potentially toxic, hard-to-remove organic pollutants (pesticides, antibiotics etc) is causing major environmental/economic damage worldwide. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr B Van Dongen, Dr S Boult, Dr IS Strashnov
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Quantitative Limit Theorems in Mathematical Statistics via Stein’s Method

The University of Manchester
Department of Mathematics
Distributional approximations arise throughout probability and statistics. Here one is interested in approximating the (possibly intractable) distribution of a quantity of interest by a simpler, well-understood distribution, allowing one to make inference. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr R Gaunt, Dr X Jin
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Flow and transport control and optimization in microfluidic devices

The University of Manchester
Department of Mathematics
Microfluidic devices can be used as lab-on-a-chip analogues for human organs, which themselves involve flow through and around many layers of tissues of varying properties. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Thompson, Dr RT Tank
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Exploring Novel and Unfamiliar Data Visualisations

The University of Manchester
Department of Computer Science
Each year, research explores new ways to visualise data. Read more
 Supervisors: Mr G Strain, Prof C Jay, Prof A Stewart, Dr P Warren
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Volcanic fluid flow and release of greenhouse gases as drivers for Paleocene-Eocene paleoclimate

The University of Manchester
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Simulations of Earth’s response to current and future greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are limited by our current knowledge of Earth-climate feedbacks, creating large uncertainties in numerical climate models. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr S Schroeder, Dr B Van Dongen, Dr G Holland, Dr R Tartese
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Deflation Techniques for Optimization Algorithms

The University of Manchester
Department of Mathematics
Many optimization problems have a large number of local minima, making it difficult to identify the global minimum, or even a representative collection of good candidate solutions. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Webb, Dr JL Latz
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Natural Fibre Insulation for Housing Sector

The University of Manchester
Department of Civil Engineering and Management
Buildings use about a third of global energy consumption, and about 40% of the total operational energy in buildings worldwide is used for space heating and cooling. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Achintha, Dr Jaise Kuriakose
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] 4D Nanoscale Imaging of Clay–Fluid Interactions under Extreme Conditions

The University of Manchester
Department of Chemical Engineering
Clay-based materials are found across natural, engineered and functional systems, where their ability to interact with water and ions can fundamentally alter structure, transport and mechanical behaviour. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr L Ma, Prof R Boya
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] New Activation Modes in Red Light Photocatalysis

The University of Manchester
Department of Chemistry
Red Light Photocatalysis. A PhD in Next-Generation Catalysis. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Trowbridge, Dr LN Natrajan
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Resource-Efficient Execution of Data Centre-Grade Workloads with Lightweight Operating Systems on Emerging Capability Hardware

The University of Manchester
Department of Computer Science
Modern data-centre workloads (e.g., agentic AI) demand strong security guarantees and high performance, which come today at a high resource cost. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr P Olivier, Dr P Petoumenos
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Multiple-bubble interactions in Hele-Shaw cells

The University of Manchester
Department of Mathematics
The study of air bubbles and fingers in Hele-Shaw cells at low Reynolds number is an area with surprisingly rich dynamics, in terms of nonlinear dynamics, fluid mechanical modelling and experimental fluid mechanics. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A Thompson
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Fluid-Injection Fault-Reactivation Experiments Illuminated by High-speed Camera & Acoustic Emissions

The University of Manchester
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Understanding when fluid injection reactivates faults and triggers earthquakes is essential for reducing seismic risk as subsurface technologies become central to the green energy transition. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr J Mecklenburgh, Dr N Farrell
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Accurate parton showers for collider physics

The University of Manchester
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Collider physics has provided some of the biggest advances in our understanding of nature on a fundamental level, best exemplified by the discovery of the Higgs boson. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof M Dasgupta
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Tontines: diverse cohorts and automated adjustments

The University of Manchester
Department of Mathematics
The world faces an ongoing retirement crisis. Governments and insurance companies seek retirement products that cope with rising life expectancy and uncertain financial markets. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr T Bernhardt
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Advancing Computer Graphics through AI-Driven Neural Rendering

The University of Manchester
Department of Computer Science
AI for the Future of Computer Graphics. Computer graphics is increasingly being transformed by Artificial Intelligence. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr Z Montazeri, Dr M Sun
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Strongly interacting quantum many-body systems

The University of Manchester
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Quantum and 2D materials provide a setting in which interactions between many particles can give rise to collective behaviour that has no simple counterpart at the level of individual electrons. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Principi, Dr H Lane
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Linking degassing and mass eruption rates, conduit modelling and petrological records to quantify different eruptive styles and processes at basaltic volcanoes

The University of Manchester
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Why does a volcano switch from producing lava flows to launching powerful lava fountains? Can gases measured from space help us understand what is happening inside a volcanic conduit?. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof M Burton, Dr C Johnson, Dr M Polacci, Mr J Langham
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Verified and reproducible execution of AI models

The University of Manchester
Department of Computer Science
The existing software infrastructure for the training, testing, and deployment of AI models such as neural networks has an inherent weakness. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr E Manino, Dr LC Cordeiro
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Higher‑Order Tensor Compression for Spatio-Temporal Data

The University of Manchester
Department of Mathematics
Dynamic multilayer networks—such as communication systems, financial transaction streams, and international relations—exhibit complex dependencies across dyads, relational layers, and time. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Bhattacharjee, Dr S Utyuzhnikov
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Advancing Symbolic AI for Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: Generalised Adaptive Content Extraction and Reuse for Ontologies

The University of Manchester
Department of Computer Science
Automated content extraction methods provide useful resources for backend-processing in knowledge processing system, and they greatly ease tasks of knowledge engineers in creating, updating and generally maintaining knowledge bases but also of reusing their content and creating new services. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr R Schmidt, Dr J Chen
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Circular Construction Intelligence: Cognitive Digital Twins and AI-Enabled Material Passports for Predictive Reuse, Autonomous Recovery and Net-Zero Project Delivery

The University of Manchester
Department of Civil Engineering and Management
Buildings are commonly treated as final products, yet each building is also a temporary repository of steel, concrete, timber, façade systems, mechanical equipment and other potentially valuable resources. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr R Maqbool, Dr A Yunusa-Kaltungo, Dr M Abadi
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Metal transport and mineralization in igneous systems

The University of Manchester
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
The global transition towards net zero and the digital economy has driven unprecedented demand for critical raw materials including lithium, copper, arsenic, tungsten and tin. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Hartley, Dr M Thomas, Dr DN Neave, Dr A Pawley
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Supermanifolds, graded manifolds, microformal morphisms, and homotopy algebras

The University of Manchester
Department of Mathematics
Supermanifolds and graded manifolds (those with extra Z-grading in the structure sheaf) are important language for structures such as Lie algebroids, L-infinity algebras, L-infinity algebroids, etc. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr T Voronov, Dr Y Bazlov
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Electrophysiology of Bacterial Biofilms

The University of Manchester
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Bacteria are the most numerous living organisms on planet Earth (~10^30) and most of them spend the majority on their lives encased in biofilms [1]. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr T Waigh, Dr R Krasovec
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Supergeometry, integration on supermanifolds, super exterior powers, and related structures.

The University of Manchester
Department of Mathematics
Supermanifolds are analogs of differentiable (and complex-analytic) manifolds whose main new feature is the presence of "anticommuting" variables among local coordinates. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr T Voronov, Dr Y Bazlov
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