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PhD Studentship in Rare-Earth-Free Organic and Supramolecular Semiconductors for Next-Generation Optoelectronics

Join an interdisciplinary PhD project developing rare-earth-free organic and supramolecular semiconductors for next-generation OLEDs and sustainable optoelectronics. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr F Dias
 15 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhD Studentship in Molecular-Scale Thermomechanics at Solid–Liquid Interfaces

Solid–liquid interfaces are central to an enormous range of technologies, from batteries, electrochemical devices and heterogeneous catalysis to nanofluidics, lubrication and thermal management. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr K Voitchovsky
 15 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhD Studentship in the electronic structure of energy materials

Electronic structure is fundamental to the development of new energy materials, as well as optimising existing technologies. X-ray Compton scattering is a widely used method to measure the electronic structure of solids. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr B Mendis
 15 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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When nutrients turn toxic: how metals shape microbial coexistence

Every living ecosystem on Earth, from the human gut to the open ocean, is a community of species living side by side. Knowing how and why these ecosystems form, survive, change, or collapse, is key to spotting problems early and making smarter decisions to protect the health of the planet. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr K Djoko
 12 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhD Studentship in Condensed Matter Physics; Understanding and Controlling Spin Current Transport for Spintronics Applications

Spintronics is a critical technology for magnetic information storage including the hard-disk drive, that underpins cloud computing, and magnetic random access memory, MRAM, that has wider electronic memory applications. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof D Atkinson
 15 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhD Studentship in Condensed Matter Physics; Theory and Simulation of Ferroic Materials

Symmetry breaking in materials often produces emergent physical behaviour. Common examples include time-reversal symmetry breaking in (ferro)magnetics and spatial-inversion symmetry breaking in ferroelectrics, but there exists a plethora of other types. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr N Bristowe
 15 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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AI-Guided Computer-Assisted Proofs for Mathematical Problems in Physics

AI_CDT_DecisionMaking. Details. This project will develop learning-guided, computer-assisted proofs that use AI for mathematical discovery while maintaining rigorous verification. Read more
 Supervisors: Mr MC Colbrook, Assoc Prof GS Stepaniants
 4 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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PhD Studentship in Condensed Matter Physics; Measurement of single molecule vibrational modes

We have built a brand new Extraordinary Acoustic Raman Spectroscopy (EARS) experiment (believed to be the first in the UK and Europe). Read more
 Supervisor: Dr E H C Bromley
 15 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Hyperparameter Scaling for Neural Network Optimisation

This project is one of a number that are in competition for funding from the University of Bath for entry in October 2027. Overview of the Research. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr E Milsom, Dr RB Babbar
 10 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhD Studentship in Condensed Matter Physics; Advancing Electronic Structure Methods for Next-Generation Materials and Technologies

This PhD project focuses on the development and application of advanced electronic structure methods aimed at discovering and optimizing materials for future semiconductor, magnetic, and high-pressure technologies. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof S Clark
 15 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhD Studentship in Condensed Matter Physics; Soft Matter and Biological Physics

Applications are invited for a PhD studentship in theoretical and computational soft matter and biological physics to work with Prof. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof S Fielding
 15 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhD Studentship in Condensed Matter Physics; Fusing Density Functional and Wavefunction Theories

In recent years, electronic structure calculations have become essential across fields like physics, chemistry, materials science, biology, and nanotechnology, filling roles that were hard to imagine two decades ago. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr N Gidopoulos
 15 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhD Studentship in Condensed Matter Physics; Novel two-dimensional magnetic oxide system

Correlated electron phenomena in solids are a major theme of physics in the 21st century. They have the potential to change our understanding of fundamental physics phenomena, to impact the technology significantly, and to provide new solutions to energy problems. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr Q He
 15 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhD Studentship in Condensed Matter Physics; Nano materials for green and sustainable electrochemical energy storage

Increasing use of renewable energy sources coupled with fluctuations in demand creates a pressing need for efficient, low-cost, energy storage technologies. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr M Hunt
 15 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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EPSRC DLA studentship in Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Real-Time Tsunami Detection and Prediction

  Research Group: Applied and Computational Mathematics
Tsunamis generated by earthquakes, submarine landslides, volcanic activity and atmospheric disturbances pose a significant threat to coastal communities. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr U Kadri, Dr M Filimonov
 5 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhD Studentship in Condensed Matter Physics; Advanced materials for next-generation spintronics

From electric motors to advanced data storage devices, ferromagnetic materials have transformed the modern world. Building on this progress today, ‘spintronics’ promise a new paradigm of beyond-CMOS digital technology, whereby information is processed using the spin of an electron, as opposed to its charge. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr R Johnson
 15 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhD Studentship in Condensed Matter Physics; Probing dynamics with implanted muons: a new paradigm

Muon spectroscopy is a mainstream technique providing decisive results in quantum magnetism, unconventional superconductivity, materials science and chemical reactions. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof T Lancaster
 15 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhD Studentship in Condensed Matter Physics; structure – composition - property relationships in functional materials

Our group designs and synthesises new functional materials. We are particularly interested in non-centrosymmetric materials with properties including ferroelectricity (and related antiferroelectrics), chirality as well as magnetic order. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr E McCabe
 15 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhD Studentship in Condensed Matter Physics; measurement of excited state absorption of dark states

The optical properties of many materials are dominated by excited states which do not emit light, typically these are triplet excited states which are forbidden to decay radiatively by Pauli’s exclusion principle. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof A Monkman
 15 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Investigating the molecular grammar of biomolecular condensates through single-molecule biophysics

Many cell types exhibit liquid-like biomolecular condensates (https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaf4382), however, the interplay between their assembly, “molecular grammar” by which the sequences, structures and interactions of biomolecules determine and the microenvironment assemble into condensates govern the resulting functional properties remains a fascinating mystery. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof M Leake, Dr J Howard
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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PhD Studentship in Condensed Matter Physics; Computational Multiphase Soft Matter

Interfaces of drops, bubbles, sheets, and filaments govern how soft‑matter flows exchange mass, momentum, and energy—from the jets that set droplet sizes to the instabilities that decide whether thin films stay intact or rupture. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr V Sanjay
 15 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhD Studentship in Condensed Matter Physics; Bioelectricity

Bioelectricity—the active maintenance of charge differences across cell membranes—is a universal property of life, regulating key cellular processes such as proliferation, orientation, and migration, and shaping development, wound healing, and diseases like cancer. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr M Staykova
 15 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhD Studentship in distinguishing orbital- and spin-currents using polarised neutron reflectivity

Spin and orbital angular-momentum currents, in place of electric charge, present a pathway to new energy-efficient electronics. Development has concentrated on spin currents, but ‘spintronics’ often requires expensive precious metals. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A.T. Hindmarch
 15 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Future proofing British conifer forestry in response to Phytophthora ramorum

An exciting fully-funded PhD studentship is available to investigate how British conifer forests can become more resilient to Phytophthora ramorum, an invasive pathogen that has caused extensive mortality in commercial larch plantations. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr CB Brady, Dr AH Harris
 18 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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PhD Studentship in Physics 'Forecasting Atmospheric Optical Turbulence for Astronomy and Space Applications'

Can we predict how atmospheric turbulence will affect our ability to communicate with satellites, observe the Universe or track objects in orbit? Atmospheric turbulence limits free-space optical communications, astronomy and optical space surveillance, yet predicting instantaneous turbulence at a particular location remains challenging. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr J Osborn
 15 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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AI and machine learning in spectroscopic greenhouse gas detection

Help us bring the AI revolution to the next generation of optical sensors. We aim to transform the measurement of greenhouse gases to reduce emissions across sectors such as energy, waste, landfill and energy. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr J Hodgkinson, Prof W Guo, Prof R P Tatam
 7 April 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhD Studentship in Physics ‘Improving the accuracy of drone based remote sensing with astronomical instrumentation’

The recent advances in UAV capability has given the remote sensing community a number of exciting possibilities. Unfortunately, in the context of plant ecology, the realization of this potential has focused on monitoring crop health where the species of plant is known. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A Brown
 15 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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PhD Studentship in Physics ‘Calibration instrumentation for the Trinity neutrino telescope’

The Trinity telescope is a novel and distinctive approach to observing the neutrino Universe. Trinity detects ultra‑high‑energy (UHE) tau neutrinos indirectly by observing the Cherenkov flashes from upward‑going air showers emerging from the ground. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A Brown
 15 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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PhD Studentship in Physics ‘Ultra high energy neutrino astronomy with Trinity’

Project description. The Trinity telescope is a novel and distinctive approach to observing the neutrino Universe. Trinity detects ultra‑high‑energy (UHE) tau neutrinos indirectly by observing the Cherenkov flashes from upward‑going air showers emerging from the ground. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A Brown
 15 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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PhD Studentship in Physics ‘Rydberg atomic receivers for submillimetre astronomy’

The submillimetre and terahertz (THz) regime provides a powerful window on the cold universe, capturing thermal emission from interstellar dust and a wealth of molecular and atomic spectral lines. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr Y Ren, Prof K Weatherill
 15 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)