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Deep learning for Computational Imaging

The Bristol Visual Information Lab (VI-Lab) and the School of Engineering Mathematics are offering an exciting PhD position for a student passionate about machine learning, mathematical image modelling, and computer vision. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr MG Golbabaee
 1 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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NERC GW4+ Anticipating and Communicating Unprecedented Extreme Events for Humanitarian Action

Unprecedented extreme events are emerging as a defining challenge of the climate crisis. events beyond recorded experience, yet with devastating potential (Kelder et al 2025). Read more
 Supervisors: Dr D MacLeod, Dr R James, Dr L Stephens
 7 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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MRC NW-DMS DLA programme: A digital portal incorporating patient-reported outcome measures to improve the equity and effectiveness of outpatient epilepsy care

How can digital tools make specialist epilepsy care fairer, more efficient, and better matched to what matters to patients?. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr J Mitchell, Dr A Noble, Prof T Marson
 27 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Precision Medicine DLA - Collaborative: Predicting Progression in Multiple Sclerosis Using Wearable Technologies, Retinal Imaging and Blood Biomarkers

Additional Supervisor. Dr (Principal Research Fellow) Trinh Duong [University College London]. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr D Mahad, Dr T MacGillivray, Dr GA Andreopoulou, Prof S Vijayakumar
 11 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Building Climate-Resilient Landscapes: Ecohydrological Recovery of Peat and Organo-Mineral Soils

How quickly can degraded landscapes recover their ability to store water, reduce flooding, and increase resilience to climate extremes?. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr S G Bond, Prof J Holden
 12 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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NERC GW4+ The growth and evolution of magma reservoirs

Magma reservoirs are key to growth of the Earth’s crust, underpin significant volcanic hazards, and host significant critical mineral deposits. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof J Lissenberg, Dr I Parkinson, Prof M Millet
 7 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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MRC NW-DMS DLA programme: Synthetic Teixobactins for Drug-Resistant Pneumonia Caused by S. pneumoniae and S. aureus

Pneumonia remains a major global cause of death, and antimicrobial resistance is making serious bacterial infections increasingly difficult to treat. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr I Singh, Dr CJ Harding, Dr D Wootton, Dr I Pritchard
 27 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Precision Medicine DLA - Collaborative. Emergency hospital admissions: towards more equitable and actionable risk prediction.

Additional Supervisor. Prof Louis JM Aslett [Durham University]. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr CV Vallejos, Dr PG Gallacher
 11 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Transforming Volcanology Through Complex Systems Science

Transforming Volcanology Through Complex Systems Science. Summary. Volcanic systems are complex (Annen et al. 2025). They contain many interacting parts and processes, from deep partial melting to shallow crustal storage and beyond (Magee et al. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr C Magee, Dr R Cremades, Dr S Ebmeier, Prof S Piazolo
 12 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Surface Phonon Lifetimes and Energy Dissipation in Quantum and 2D Materials

How does energy flow and dissipate at the surfaces of quantum materials? One PhD position remains open within the LiPhED project, investigating the microscopic dynamics of surface excitations and bringing together advanced surface-science experiments and computational materials physics. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Tamtögl, Prof EZ Zojer
 15 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhD thesis student at ILL: studying Polymerization induced self-assembly by neutron scattering

Context & Job description. Thesis subject. Time-resolved Small Angle Neutron Scattering to understand kinetics of morphological transitions in Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr OC Colombani, Dr R Schweins
 1 November 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Tiny Multimodal Learning Under Resource Constraints

Overview. Modern artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly relies on combining multiple sources of information, such as sound, motion, images, and sensor data, to achieve robust and intelligent behaviour. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof L Han
 12 February 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Precision Medicine DLA – DiscoPET: Multiplexed total-body PET to define cancer immunometabotypes

  Research Group: Institute of Cancer Sciences
PET imaging can measure multiple aspects of tumour biology, ranging from energy metabolism pathways, targeted with 18F and 11C labelled small molecules, to surface markers/immune activation, targeted with 89Zr labelled biologics. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr D Lewis, Dr S Paisey, Dr C Wimberley
 11 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Tropical heat forecasting using AI

Heat extremes have become more intense and frequent in the past 50 years, across almost all tropical and sub-tropical land regions. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof C Birch, Dr C. R. Deva
 11 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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MRC NW-DMS DLA programme: Longitudinal Ultrasound AI for Identifying High-Risk Fetal Growth Trajectories

Ultrasound is routinely used to monitor fetal growth throughout pregnancy. Clinical concern is usually greatest when a fetus becomes very small, but a more difficult problem occurs when a fetus remains above conventional thresholds while its growth gradually slows across repeated scans. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr HZ Zhao, Dr A Sharp
 27 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)