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Capsule-Size Therapeutic Devices for the Gastrointestinal Tract

  Research Group: Sheffield Biomedical Robotics Lab
Can we transform a swallowable capsule from a passive container into an intelligent miniature robot capable of navigating the human body, identifying therapeutic needs and delivering personalised treatment exactly where and when it is required?. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr D Damian
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Soft Biomedical Implants for Gastrointestinal Tract Therapies

  Research Group: Sheffield Biomedical Robotics Lab
Aim. To develop and experimentally evaluate soft robotic implant architectures that can dynamically interact with gastrointestinal tissues while maintaining mechanical compatibility, functional performance and long-term stability under physiologically relevant conditions. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr D Damian
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Host-microbe dialogue through metabolic interactions

The intestinal microbiome is a complex community of organisms that exists in symbiosis with its host. Microbiota perform essential digestive, metabolic, and immunomodulatory functions in health, and disturbance of the microbiota can contribute to disease. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof F Powrie, Prof H Uhlig, Dr C Pearson, Dr A Bertocchi
 1 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Medical AI: From 3D Imaging and Vision-Language Models to Surgical Robotics and Clinical Agents

  Research Group: Digital Healthcare and Medical Imaging Research Group
Applications are welcome from prospective PhD students, research master students, and visiting scholars who are interested in developing advanced artificial intelligence methods for healthcare. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr L Z Zhang, Prof JL Lima
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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15 fully-funded 4-year MRes + PhD studentships at the EPSRC CDT in Future Infrastructure and Built Environment: Unlocking Net Zero (FIBE3 CDT)

This unique 4-year programme, delivered in close partnership with industry, equips talented researchers from diverse backgrounds to become future leaders tackling the urgent challenge of net-zero infrastructure and sustainable built environments. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training
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Multiscale modelling and statistical inference of tumour initiation and evolution in neuroblastoma

Neuroblastoma is the most common solid tumour of early childhood and, in its aggressive forms, remains hard to treat. These tumours arise when embryonic cells - trunk neural crest cells and their derivatives - fail to differentiate correctly. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof G Fletcher, Dr A Tsakiridis
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Self-Evolving Embodied AI: Spatial Intelligence and Continual Robot Learning

Background. Recent advances in foundation models are enabling a new generation of embodied AI systems that can perceive, reason about and interact with the physical world. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr DL Li
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Next-Generation Optical Signal Processing Using Nonlinear Fourier Methods

Applications are invited for a Postgraduate Research studentship, supported by College of Engineering and Physical Sciences to be undertaken within the Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies (AiPT) at Aston University. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr M Tan
 1 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Discovery of New Treatments for Parkinson’s disease

Summary. Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most common neurological disease in the world. Current PD therapies and medical interventions are very limited and only address the symptoms of this disease highlighting the need for new and effective treatments for this disease. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr Y Mehellou
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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EPSRC iDLA - Arc fault analysis in modern aerospace power drive systems

This 4-year PhD project is fully funded and only home candidates are eligible. The successful candidate will receive an annual stipend of ~£25,518 and paid tuition fees. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S Durovic
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Mechanomedicine Targeting Extracellular Matrix (ECM) Remodeling: Mechanisms and Applications in Tumor Diagnosis and Therapy

To cultivate research talents with global leadership, interdisciplinary innovation capabilities, and international research collaboration capabilities… Read more
 Supervisor: Dr D Ding
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Physics-Guided Causal-Volatility Modelling for Renewable Power Forecasting

The rapid growth of renewable energy has made electricity systems cleaner but also more variable and harder to predict. Unlike traditional power plants, renewable generation depends heavily on changing weather conditions, leading to sudden fluctuations and large ramp events that challenge grid stability. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr J Ma
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Uncertainty-Aware Time-Frequency Electricity Price Forecasting

Electricity prices in renewable-dominated markets exhibit multiscale non-stationarity, regime switching, and volatility clustering, posing significant challenges for reliable forecasting. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr J Ma
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Maintenance routing problem in large industrial systems with spatial-temporal features

Large industrial systems such as logistics networks and smart grids rely on timely maintenance across many distributed assets. This PhD project will develop data-driven methods to determine when and where maintenance is needed and how service resources can be routed efficiently as system conditions change. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr J Xu
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Beyond Pairwise Connections: Higher-Order Models of Human Brain Networks

  Research Group: AMICO Lab
The human brain is commonly represented as a network in which brain regions are nodes and connections between pairs of regions are edges. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr E Amico, Prof F Spill
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)