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AI-Driven Protein Design for Studying Cell Signalling and Chromatin

Cells rely on precise molecular signals to decide when to grow, divide, repair DNA, or switch genes on and off. One of the most important of these signals is in the form of post-translational modifications – the attachment of small functional groups or small proteins on substrates. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr E Zeqiraj, Dr J J B Cockburn
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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When should AI decide? Foundation models for complex scientific systems

AI_CDT_DecisionMaking. Details. Future scientific facilities will produce more data than humans can inspect, requiring AI to identify important data and when expert intervention is needed. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr JE Evans, Prof LW Whitehead
 4 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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A Photon and a Molecule Walk into a Tunnel Junction: Quantum Optics Meets Single-Molecule Science

In this fully funded PhD project commencing in October 2027, you will combine scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) with quantum optics to investigate the ultrafast dynamics of individual molecules. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr K Rusimova, Dr P Mosley
 14 February 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Funded PhD – Leveraging existing interventions to Deliver HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis among People who Inject Drugs: Modelling the Impact and cost-effectiveness of Integrated Prevention - HLSUOB26

About the project. HIV remains a major public health challenge among people who inject drugs (PWID), who often experience stigma, criminalisation, and limited access to health services. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr JW Walker, Dr K Kipkoech, Prof P Vickerman
 13 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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How to regulate the function of cellular "Swiss army knife": the p97 unfoldase.

p97 is an enzyme that can recognize ubiquitylated proteins, unfold and extract them from complex structures and deliver for degradation or recycling. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof A Gambus
 23 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Funded PhD – Advancing population neuroimaging with AI: Understanding brain development and mental health - HLSUOB26

About the project. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides detailed information about brain structure and has enormous potential to improve our understanding of brain development and mental health. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr Y Yin, Prof M Suderman
 13 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Understanding the vascular health impact of upper-body exercise

According to the World Health Organisation, approximately 1.8 billion adults were physically inactive in 2022, with this number projected to increase progressively year on year. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr T Nightingale
 23 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Funded PhD – Exploring the role of the digital environment in mental health over the life course: longitudinal analysis of young people in the Philippines and UK - HLSUOB26

About the project. The burden of mental health conditions and self-harm are most acutely felt in the poorer nations and minoritized populations. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr T Sharp, Dr D Knipe, Dr R Wadman, Dr LW Winstone
 13 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Optimising Exercise Performance and Cardiovascular Health Through Non-Invasive Vagus Nerve Stimulation

The autonomic nervous system is integral to the cardiovascular adjustments required to meet the metabolic demands of exercise. Through coordinated sympathetic activation and parasympathetic withdrawal, it regulates heart rate, blood pressure and blood flow to support physical performance. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr T Nightingale, Dr N Jenkinson
 23 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Destroying emulsions by supramolecular sabotage

Normally, emulsions are designed to last as long as possible. This is vital for everyday emulsions such as paints, pharmaceutical formulations and ice cream. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S F Fielden
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Funded PhD – Estimating population-level impacts of public health evaluations using multiple data sources - HLSUOB26

About the project. To improve population health, policymakers need robust evidence about which interventions and policies will translate into meaningful impacts when implemented at scale and to inform subsequent assessments of cost-effectiveness and return on investment. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr R Salway, Dr JM Mclaughlin, Prof F de Vocht
 13 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Seeing the Forest from the Trees: AI and Variational Methods for Forest Biomass Monitoring

AI_CDT_DecisionMaking. Details. Earth Observation (EO) is vital for monitoring biomass, forest health, wildfire risk, illegal logging, and the impacts of climate change. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr F M Watson, Dr JL Latz
 4 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Funded PhD – Unravelling the Causal Pathways Between Selective Glomerular Hypofiltration Syndrome and Cardiovascular Disease Using Genetic Epidemiology - HLSUOB26

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a leading global health crisis, with the vast majority of excess deaths driven by cardiovascular disease (CVD). Read more
 Supervisors: Dr G Hemani, Prof S Satchell, Dr VW Walker, Dr S Hayward
 13 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Accelerating Chemical Process Development via Uncertainty-Aware Modelling and Experimental Design

AI_CDT_DecisionMaking. Details. Chemical processes are essential to medicines, materials and clean energy but are complex and difficult to scale. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr T Waite, Prof S Kaski, Dr J Zhang
 4 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Funded PhD – Mental health through the menopause transition - HLSUOB26

About the project. There is currently poor understanding of why the menopause transition is associated with an increased risk of mental health problems, and which women are most at risk of poor mental health. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof C Joinson, Dr AGS Goncalves Soares, Dr L Beasant, Prof L Howe
 13 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Multimodal Virtual Patients for In-Silico Decision Making

AI_CDT_DecisionMaking. Details. In-silico trials rely on virtual patient populations that represent clinically meaningful variation. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr XY Yang, Dr O Rivasplata, Prof AF Frangi
 4 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Machine Learning for Understanding and Predicting Stochastic Algorithm Performance in Combinatorial Optimisation

AI_CDT_DecisionMaking. Details. Combinatorial optimisation problems arise widely in logistics, transport and manufacturing. As many cannot be solved optimally within reasonable time, heuristics are used. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr AK Kheiri, Dr NP Pavlidis
 4 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Invariant Signal Representations with Wavelets and Deep Learning

This project is one of a number that are in competition for funding from the University of Bath for entry in October 2027, supervised by Dr Georgios Exarchakis, Department of Computer Science, and Dr Carolin Villforth, Department of Physics. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr GE Exarchakis
 10 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Map-based simulation-based inference for cosmology from galaxy clusters and weak lensing

AI_CDT_DecisionMaking. Details. Galaxy clusters are among the most sensitive probes of the growth of structure, but extracting cosmology from them traditionally requires a chain of analysis and modelling choices susceptible to systematic uncertainties. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr AN Nicola, Dr BH Hadzhiyska, Dr JS Snell
 4 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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NIHR ARC South West Doctoral Award: Evaluating the use of probiotic implementation in preterm babies to prevent necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC)

Overview. Necrotising enterocolitis (NEC) is a life-threatening bowel condition that is a leading cause of death and long-term disability in preterm babies. Read more
 Supervisors: Assoc Prof S Redwood, Dr IW Ward, Prof K Luyt, Dr R Denholm
 22 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Human-in-the-Loop Decision-Making for Lipid Nanoparticle Reactor Design

AI_CDT_DecisionMaking. Details. Lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) underpin mRNA vaccines and a growing class of nucleic acid therapeutics. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr N Basha, Dr O Rivasplata
 4 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Trustworthy multi-agent AI: Uncertainty, Alignment and Adaptive Reasoning

AI_CDT_DecisionMaking. Details. Large language models are increasingly used in multi-agent systems where specialised agents communicate through natural language, shared memory and multimodal representations, access external tools and make sequential decisions. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof S Ananiadou, Dr MA Alvarez
 4 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Human-in-the-loop explainable decision making

AI_CDT_DecisionMaking. Details. As Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) continue to drive the success of AI, there has been a growing concern regarding the ethical and legal use of DNNs in sensitive tasks (e.g., healthcare). Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Jamnik, Dr MEZ Espinosa Zarlenga
 4 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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How hot is my plant? Modelling global warming effects at the plant level

Aim. This project seeks to improve our understanding of the impact of global warming on plants in different microclimates, model the result of potential mitigation through rewilding, predict the effect on their genomes, and better link laboratory research to ecologically relevant processes. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr J Hepworth
 12 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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A nitrogen cycle inside a plant: do ants or microbes feed ant-farmed epiphytes?

Background. Nitrogen limits plant growth in rainforest canopies, where epiphytes grow without soil. Some species have solved this problem by recruiting ants. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof G Chomicki
 12 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Mechanism of transcription repression by the Polycomb complex PRC1.

  Research Group: Francis Lab, Biochemistry of Epigenetic Inheritance
A funded position is available for a PhD student with a strong interest in biochemistry, genomics and biophysics for a project to dissect the mechanism of transcription repression by Polycomb proteins. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr DRZ Zenklusen
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Mechanism of transcription repression by the Polycomb complex PRC1.

  Research Group: Francis Lab, Biochemistry of Epigenetic Inheritance
A funded position is available for a PhD student with a strong interest in biochemistry, genomics, and biophysics for a project to dissect the mechanism of transcription repression by Polycomb proteins. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr N Francis, Dr F Robert
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhD in Earth Sciences - How to peel a slab: Insights into slab weakening and slab-plume interactions in the Afar region

Systematic geochemical trends basalts from the southern Red Sea show that the Afar mantle plume has low concentration of primordial gases such as helium (Balci et al. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr AGG Grima, Prof F Stuart
 5 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Algorithmic stability in machine learning

AI_CDT_DecisionMaking. Details. Algorithmic stability has recently been emerging as an umbrella concept in theoretical statistics, machine learning, and computer science. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr PLL Loh
 4 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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From satellite to street: Earth embeddings for local environmental decisions

AI_CDT_DecisionMaking. Details. Nitrogen dioxide levels beside a busy road can be much higher than in a park a few hundred metres away. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr SJ Jaffer, Prof AM Madhavapeddy, Dr D Topping
 4 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)