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Investigation of direct lithium extraction from geothermal brines

University of Aberdeen
School of Engineering
These projects are open to students worldwide, but have no funding attached. Therefore, the successful applicant will be expected to fund tuition fees at the relevant level (home or international) and any applicable additional research costs. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Sharifi, Dr R Rafati
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Fluid flow in subsurface reservoirs with application to CCUS

University of Aberdeen
School of Engineering
These projects are open to students worldwide, but have no funding attached. Therefore, the successful applicant will be expected to fund tuition fees at the relevant level (home or international) and any applicable additional research costs. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Sharifi, Dr R Rafati, Dr A Martinez-Felipe
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Hydrogen Pipeline Transport: Materials, Reactive Phenomena, and System Design

University of Aberdeen
School of Engineering
These projects are open to students worldwide, but have no funding attached. Therefore, the successful applicant will be expected to fund tuition fees at the relevant level (home or international) and any applicable additional research costs. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Martinez-Felipe, Dr A Sharifi
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Recycled polymer electrolytes for sustainable sodium ion batteries

University of Aberdeen
School of Engineering
These projects are open to students worldwide, but have no funding attached. Therefore, the successful applicant will be expected to fund tuition fees at the relevant level (home or international) and any applicable additional research costs. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Martinez-Felipe, Dr A Sharifi, Dr N Ruiz
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Digital design of crystallization process for applications in pharmaceutical manufacturing

University of Aberdeen
School of Engineering
These projects are open to students worldwide, but have no funding attached. Therefore, the successful applicant will be expected to fund tuition fees at the relevant level (home or international) and any applicable additional research costs. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Majumder, Dr M N Campbell-Bannerman
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Simulation and optimization of the dark fermentation and hydrodeoxygenation processes for the production of renewable fuel and valuable compounds from biomass

University of Aberdeen
School of Engineering
These projects are open to students worldwide, but have no funding attached. Therefore, the successful applicant will be expected to fund tuition fees at the relevant level (home or international) and any applicable additional research costs. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Majumder, Prof D Dionisi
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Advanced Modelling of Nonlinear Engineering Systems: AI-Integrated Approaches

University of Aberdeen
School of Engineering
These projects are open to students worldwide, but have no funding attached. Therefore, the successful applicant will be expected to fund tuition fees at the relevant level (home or international) and any applicable additional research costs. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr V Vaziri, Dr M Kapitaniak
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Enhancing the performance, condition, safety and reliability of offshore wind energy infrastructure systems using optimal inspections and structural health monitoring

University of Aberdeen
School of Engineering
These projects are open to students worldwide, but have no funding attached. Therefore, the successful applicant will be expected to fund tuition fees at the relevant level (home or international) and any applicable additional research costs. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr P Omenzetter, Dr P Dunning
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Advancing Untargeted Metabolomics through a Probabilistic and Context-Aware Annotation Pipeline

University of Liverpool
Institute of Systems, Molecular and Integrative Biology
This project aims to develop a revolutionary AI-powered, "context-aware" pipeline to automate metabolite annotation in untargeted metabolomics data. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr F Del Carratore, Prof WB Dunn, Prof A Jones
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Exploiting activation of senescence tumour suppressor mechanisms by Salmonella enterica for the treatment of cancer

University of Sheffield
School of Biosciences
Background. Typhoid toxin is a DNase-like virulence factor of the human pathogen Salmonella Javiana, which intoxicates cells throughout the microenvironment. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr D Humphreys
 31 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Optoelectronic Chromatic Dispersion in photodiodes and photovoltaic cells for miniaturized optical spectroscopy driven by machine learning and supported by 3D physics simulations

Ariel University
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  Research Group: Electrooptics and quantum optics Group
Photodetectors and photovoltaic cells are ubiquitous devices used for optical power measurements and energy harvesting. We are developing a new class of optoelectronic sensors for optical spectroscopy and material sensing based on these devices. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof S Sternklar
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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MSc by Research: How are SUMO substrates selected for modification

University of Dundee
Faculty of Life Sciences
SUMO has diverse roles in cellular physiology that in most cases are mediated by its ability to interact non-covalently with hydrophobic patches of low sequence complexity known as SUMO Interaction Motifs (SIMs). Read more
 Supervisor: Prof R Hay
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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MSc by Research: Molecular mechanisms underlying aphid effector virulence activity

University of Dundee
Faculty of Life Sciences
Pests and diseases are a major threat to food security with losses ranging between 20-40%. Aphids are one of the most devastating insect pests, globally. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr J Bos
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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System-Level Optimisation of Offshore Wind and Green Hydrogen for Energy Transition

University of Aberdeen
School of Engineering
These projects are open to students worldwide, but have no funding attached. Therefore, the successful applicant will be expected to fund tuition fees at the relevant level (home or international) and any applicable additional research costs. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof A Maheri, Dr S Sriramula
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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MSc by Research: Defying Mendel’s laws: developing tools to understand the principles of epigenetic inheritance in tomato plants

University of Dundee
Faculty of Life Sciences
In plants, phenotypic innovation is not exclusively encoded in DNA sequences. Some heritable new traits are associated with modifications on the DNA, such as DNA methylation. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr C Martinho
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Distributed Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems with Multi-Vector Integration for Energy Transition

University of Aberdeen
School of Engineering
These projects are open to students worldwide, but have no funding attached. Therefore, the successful applicant will be expected to fund tuition fees at the relevant level (home or international) and any applicable additional research costs. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof A Maheri, Dr S Sriramula
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Pipeline decommissioning: quantifying the risks to the commercial fishing industry

University of Aberdeen
School of Engineering
These projects are open to students worldwide, but have no funding attached. Therefore, the successful applicant will be expected to fund tuition fees at the relevant level (home or international) and any applicable additional research costs. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof A Ivanovic, Prof R Neilson
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Automated Hybrid AM–Lightweight Steel Framing (LSF) Systems for Zero-Waste Construction

University of Aberdeen
School of Engineering
These projects are open to students worldwide, but have no funding attached. Therefore, the successful applicant will be expected to fund tuition fees at the relevant level (home or international) and any applicable additional research costs. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Bagheri Sabbagh, Dr V Vaziri
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Modelling and optimisation of sustainable saloplastics

University of Strathclyde
Department of Chemical and Process Engineering
Saloplastics are salt complexes of oppositely charged polyelectrolytes, that can be processed like thermoplastics, and used as membranes and coatings in a wide range of applications. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr P Mulheran, Dr K Johnston, Dr S T R V Velasquez
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Applications of Electrokinetic Stabilisation to Treat Subsidence in Low-rise Buildings

University of Birmingham
Department of Civil Engineering
Fine-grained soils pose significant challenges to the construction industry in the UK and globally. These soils are known for their problematic characteristics such as shrink-swell and compressibility behaviours, which can cause subsidence and excessive settlement to buildings’ foundations. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr E N Ngezahayo, Prof I Jefferson
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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MSc by Research: Cell migration in epithelial tissues

University of Dundee
Faculty of Life Sciences
It is an important question to answer how cells move in a crowded environment.  In this project, we’ll use the vertex model (a widely used computational framework for cell-based studies of epithelial tissue mechanics) to study motion of a small patch of motile cells in otherwise inert environment. . Read more
 Supervisor: Prof R Sknepnek
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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MSc by Research: Deciphering the ubiquitin codes that regulate protein degradation

University of Dundee
Faculty of Life Sciences
Ubiquitin signalling, which involves the posttranslational modification (PTM) of proteins with ubiquitin, regulates almost every aspect of eukaryotic biology. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof Y Kulathu
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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MSc by Research: Mechanisms of cell size regulation

University of Dundee
Faculty of Life Sciences
The tremendous diversity of cell shapes and sizes found in living organisms is fascinating. For instance, cell size differs enormously in the human body with myocytes being about a million-fold larger than red blood cells. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof J Januschke, Dr D H Murray
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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MSc by Research: Heart failure and fatal epilepsy caused by unbranched glycogen

University of Dundee
Faculty of Life Sciences
The accumulation and precipitation of unbranched glycogen in human tissues as toxic polyglucosan bodies (PB) is the cause of cardiomyopathy… Read more
 Supervisors: Prof Sir Philip Cohen, Dr K Swatek
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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MSc by Research: Greasing plant cell signalling – the role of S-acylation in plant receptor cytoplasmic kinase signalling during immune responses

University of Dundee
Faculty of Life Sciences
Protein S-acylation is a reversible fatty acid-based post-translational modification of proteins. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr P Hemsley, Dr J Bos
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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MSc by Research: Reporting on destruction – developing plant-based assays for PROTAC degrader activity

University of Dundee
Faculty of Life Sciences
Protein Targeting Chimera (PROTAC) degraders are small molecules able to recruit a ubiquitin ligase to a protein of interest and promote degradation. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr P Hemsley, Prof A Ciulli, Dr H Drost
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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MSc by Research: Trimming the fat - Identification of de-S-acylating enzymes from plants

University of Dundee
Faculty of Life Sciences
Protein S-acylation is a reversible fatty acid-based post-translational modification of proteins. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr P Hemsley, Dr J Bos
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MSc by Research: Role and mechanism of the bacterial Type VI secretion system

University of Dundee
Faculty of Life Sciences
Many species of bacteria use a contractile nanomachine known as the Type VI secretion system (T6SS) to deliver a wide range of toxic proteins, known as ‘effectors’, directly into neighbouring cells. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof S Coulthurst
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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MSc by Research: Identifying microbiota responsible for longevity and health

University of Dundee
Faculty of Life Sciences
Gut microbiome is the community of microbes living together in the gastrointestinal tract of an animal. They provide specific functions to the animal host such as digestion of cellulose and protection from invading pathogens. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr V Singh
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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MSc by Research: Characterisation of human induced pluripotent stem cell derived kidney organoid system for use in drug discovery

University of Dundee
Faculty of Life Sciences
Only 5% of all drugs tested in animal models are approved for human applications. Most of these failures are due to unexpected toxicity or lack of efficacy. The poor translation from small mammal studies to humans often causes this challenge. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr PD Davies
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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