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EastBio (CASE) - Odour-Based Detection and Discrimination of Microorganisms: Integrating Electronic Nose Technologies with Machine Learning

University of Dundee

Faculty of Life Sciences

Planet Earth is estimated to harbour up to one trillion microbial species [1]. Collectively, these microorganisms encode an enormous diversity of genes, many of which produce enzymes with unique metabolic capabilities. Read more

Supervisors: Dr V Singh, Dr D Ndeh

16 November 2026 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Investigating the ‘cry-for-help’ effect in wheat (MALONE_J27DTP)

John Innes Centre

Graduate Programme

Soil microbial associations with roots are highly complex and incredibly important for healthy plant growth. Consequently, plants secrete diverse metabolites to attract/repel key microorganisms from the surrounding soil. Read more

Supervisor: Dr J Malone

30 November 2026 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Elucidating the molecular function of SNAP29 a gene mutated in CEDNIK syndrome

University of Sheffield

School of Biosciences

CEDNIK (cerebral dysgenesis, neuropathy, ichthyosis and keratoderma) syndrome is a rare fatal disease caused by the loss of the SNARE protein SNAP29. Read more

Supervisors: Prof A Peden, Dr M Collins

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Designing Plant Gene Expression with Explainable AI (LI_E27DTP)

Earlham Institute

Graduate Programme

Primary Supervisor - Professor Ke Li. Plants survive drought, heat and disease by rapidly changing which genes are switched on, where, and when. Read more

Supervisor: Dr Ke Li Li

30 November 2026 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

EastBio - Why does the B cell antibody response wane with ageing?

University of Dundee

Faculty of Life Sciences

B lymphocytes (B cells) are key cells of the adaptive immune system producing antibodies which bind to pathogens such as viruses and bacteria and targeting them for destruction. Read more

Supervisors: Dr A Howden, Prof D Cantrell

16 November 2026 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

AI for cybersecurity and trustworthy AI systems

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory team. Dr BooJoong Kang. Artificial intelligence is transforming cybersecurity while creating new challenges for the security and trustworthiness of AI systems. Read more

Supervisor: Dr B Kang

30 June 2027 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

EastBio - Targeting proteasome assembly to uncover cancer vulnerabilities

University of Dundee

Faculty of Life Sciences

Cancer cells must continually remove damaged and unwanted proteins to sustain rapid growth and survive cellular stress. This creates a strong dependence on the proteasome, the molecular machinery responsible for much of the cell’s controlled protein degradation. Read more

Supervisors: Dr A Rousseau, Prof G Sapkota

16 November 2026 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Amorphous nonlinear photonics for scalable next-generation optical and quantum devices

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory team. Professor Senthil Murugan Ganapathy. This project advances amorphous nonlinear photonics by inducing second order optical nonlinearity in amorphous thin films for broadband, on-chip modulators and quantum devices. Read more

Supervisor: Prof S Ganapathy

30 June 2027 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Programmable Ultrafast Fiber Lasers for Adaptive Multiphoton Microscopy

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisors. Dr Lin Xu, Prof Summet Mahajan. This project aims to develop programmable ultrafast fibre lasers for multiphoton microscopy, enabling flexible control of pulse duration, energy and repetition rate. Read more

Supervisor: Dr L Xu

30 September 2027 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

2D material-enhanced photonic integrated circuits for quantum-enhanced Mid-IR sensing and diagnostics

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory team. Professor Senthil Murugan Ganapathy. This project will develop quantum-enhanced Mid-IR sensing by integrating Photonic Integrated Circuits, 2D-materials and engineered metasurfaces. Read more

Supervisor: Prof S Ganapathy

30 June 2027 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Engineering protein nanocages for biotechnology applications (LE BRUN_U27DTP)

University of East Anglia

School of Chemistry, Pharmacy and Pharmacology

Primary Supervisor - Professor Nick Le Brun. Proteins that self-assemble to yield cage-like structures are of great interest due to their potential applications in biotechnology. Read more

Supervisor: Prof N Le Brun

30 November 2026 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Cheminformatics-driven Rhodium-catalysed Upcycling of Polyolefin Waste

Heriot-Watt University

Institute of Chemical Sciences

A funded PhD studentship is available at Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh, UK) in collaboration with Johnson Matthey, a global leader in sustainable technologies and platinum group metal (PGM) catalysis. Read more

Supervisors: Dr DW Willcox, Dr L D Donnelly

16 December 2026 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Spatiotemporal Control of Ultrafast Multimode Fibre Amplifiers

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisors. Dr Lin Xu, Dr Duanyang Xu. This project will develop innovative multimode fibre amplifiers with spatiotemporal control of ultrafast laser pulses. Read more

Supervisor: Dr L Xu

30 September 2027 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

DPhil studentship in Organic Luminescent Materials

University of Oxford

Department of Chemistry

Applications are invited a DPhil studentship in Synthetic Organic and Physical Chemistry available from October 2027, to work under the supervision of Dr Daniel Congrave in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Oxford. Read more

Supervisor: Dr DG Congrave

6 January 2027 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Pd Catalysed Upcycling of Waste Rubber by Polymer Backbone Modification

Heriot-Watt University

Institute of Chemical Sciences

A funded PhD studentships are available at Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh, UK) in collaboration with Johnson Matthey, a global leader in sustainable technologies and platinum group metal (PGM) catalysis. Read more

Supervisors: Dr L D Donnelly, Dr DW Willcox

16 December 2026 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Advertising title: Breaking Code: Deciphering the Biology of the Selfless Virus-like Gene Transfer Agents (LE_J27DTP)

John Innes Centre

Graduate Programme

Bacteria commonly exchange genetic information (DNA) in a process called horizontal gene transfer as they evolve and adapt to changes in their local environment. Read more

Supervisor: Prof T Le

30 November 2026 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Neurosymbolic spatial reasoning: teaching language models to plan over qualitative geographic knowledge

Cardiff University

Cardiff School of Computer Science & Informatics

About the project. Large language models are fluent but unreliable at spatial reasoning. Given a geographic knowledge graph, they recall isolated facts well, yet they struggle with questions that require several spatial relationships to be chained together. Read more

Supervisor: Dr A Abdelmoty

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

AI-assisted vibrational spectroscopy and quantitative biomarker analysis for next-generation cancer diagnostics

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory team. Professor Senthil Murugan Ganapathy. This project will develop AI-assisted vibrational spectroscopy for early cancer detection using circulating tumour DNA (ct-DNA), epigenetic markers and microRNA (miRNA). Read more

Supervisor: Prof S Ganapathy

30 June 2027 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Watching a fungus fight back: mapping antimicrobial resistance in 3-D as it happens (KOEV_U27DTP)

University of East Anglia

School of Chemistry, Pharmacy and Pharmacology

Primary Supervisor - Dr Trey Koev. The chemicals that protect our crops and the drugs that treat fungal infections come from the same family. Read more

Supervisor: Dr T Koev

30 November 2026 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Advanced Ultrafast Thulium Fiber Lasers for Next-Generation Biomedical Imaging

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisors. Dr Lin Xu, Dr Tonglei Chen. This project will develop advanced ultrafast thulium fibre lasers using in-house fabricated soft-glass fibres with engineered normal dispersion. Read more

Supervisor: Dr L Xu

30 September 2027 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Interstage acoustic liners for ultra-high bypass ratio aero-engines

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory team. Dr Sergi Palleja Cabre and Dr Chaitanya Paruchuri. Future aeroengines are expected to use shorter nacelles to reduce weight and drag. Read more

Supervisor: Dr S Palleja Cabre

28 February 2027 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Cracking the carbohydrate code: how carbohydrate-binding modules control starch digestion (KHIMYAK_U27DTP)

University of East Anglia

School of Chemistry, Pharmacy and Pharmacology

Primary Supervisor - Professor Yaroslav Khimyak. Why this matters. Starch is the principal source of dietary glucose, and the rate at which it is digested has major consequences for metabolic health. Read more

Supervisor: Prof Y Khimyak

30 November 2026 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Functional genomics of sexually antagonistic selection (GRIESHOP_U27DTP)

University of East Anglia

School of Biological Sciences

Primary Supervisor - Dr Karl Grieshop. Why do harmful genes persist in populations instead of being removed by natural selection? One answer lies in sexual antagonism. Read more

Supervisor: Dr K Grieshop

30 November 2026 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Post impact fatigue behaviour of titanium aerospace alloys

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory team. Dr John Walker and Professor Philippa Reed. This projet will investigate how impact damage triggers fatigue cracking in titanium aerospace components, combining advanced materials science with real-world engineering challenges. Read more

Supervisor: Dr J Walker

1 January 2027 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Where does Salmonella hide? Using Organ-on-Chip technology to uncover the secrets of persistent infection (LANGRIDGE_Q27DTP)

Quadram Institute Bioscience

Graduate Programme

Persistent asymptomatic infections remain an important but poorly understood public health challenge. Salmonella infections can become persistent, contributing to ongoing transmission, recurrent disease and potential prolonged antimicrobial exposure. Read more

Supervisor: Dr G Langridge

30 November 2026 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Unifying distributional and distribution-free uncertainty quantification for trustworthy medical decisions

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisors. Dr. Nery Riquelme-Granada, Prof. Gabriela Czanner, Prof. Mahesan Niranjan. Read more

Supervisor: Dr N Riquelme-Granada

31 January 2027 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Quantifying tribofilm formation using dynamic pressure sliding and in-operando Raman

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory team. Dr John Walker. This project combines tribology, advanced surface engineering and real-time Raman spectroscopy to reveal how protective tribofilms form and fail under extreme conditions. Read more

Supervisor: Dr J Walker

1 January 2027 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Sweet and sticky: The role of protein glycosylation in bacteria colonisation and adaptation to the gut (JUGE_Q27DTP)

Quadram Institute Bioscience

Graduate Programme

The accessory secretion (aSec) system is a protein export pathway that is uniquely present in Gram-positive bacteria and is dedicated to the secretion of large, glycosylated cell wall-anchored adhesins called serine-rich repeat proteins (SRRPs). Read more

Supervisor: Prof N Juge

30 November 2026 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Development of Advanced Materials for Multilayer Ceramic Capacitors in Fusion Energy Systems

University of Sheffield

The Fusion Engineering Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT)

Fusion energy offers a pathway to low-carbon electricity generation, but its deployment depends on the development of electronic systems capable of operating reliably in demanding environments. Read more

Supervisor: Dr J Dean

31 January 2027 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Learning to communicate and collaborate: emergent multimodal communication in embodied agents

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory team. Dr Daniela Mihai and Professor Jonathon Hare. Robots and embodied agents that collaborate need ways to share what they perceive, intend and need. Read more

Supervisor: Dr D Mihai

30 June 2027 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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