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We have 1,937 PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships added in the last month

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Visible Light Integrated Sensing and Communication (VL-ISAC)

Updated: 7 October 2026 
Supervisor. Dr Chao Xu. Imagine a world where there is Internet access and radar-assisted living and quantum security, wherever there is light. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr CX Xu
 1 September 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhD in Wireless communications and signal processing for next generation wireless systems

Updated: 7 October 2026 
Supervisor. Professor Mohammed El-Hajjar. Future wireless networks will do more than connect people. they will sense, compute, and adapt intelligently. Read more
 Supervisor: Assoc Prof M El-Hajjar
 28 February 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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(EPSRC CASE) Expanding the toolkit for post-processing AI-generated molecular designs

Updated: 7 October 2026 
Generative AI has become a routine approach to exploration of chemical space and as an idea generator for medicinal chemists. What is missing at the moment is a much stricter requirement for results to be assessed for their physical reasonableness. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Leach, Dr L Sotorrios, Dr C Trujillo
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Learning from past designs: AI that transfers engineering experience to chip design problems where no data exists (S3.5-MPS-Xing)

Updated: 7 October 2026 
A fully funded PhD opportunity to participate in the world-leading research undertaken by the EPSRC Doctoral Landscape Award at the University of Sheffield. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr W Xing, Prof J Oakley
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Next generation silicon photonic modulators

Updated: 7 October 2026 
Supervisors. Professor David Thomson and Dr Bharat Pant. This project develops next-generation silicon photonic modulators for ultra-high-speed, energy-efficient optical communications underpinning AI and high-performance computing. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof D Thomson
 30 September 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Long-term effects of GLP-1 medicines on immunometabolic fitness

Updated: 7 October 2026 
GLP-1 medicines are transforming the treatment of obesity and related complications, with benefits that extend beyond weight loss and glucose control. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr CK Wong, Dr W Scott
 18 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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(EPSRC DTP) A Plug-and-Play Foundation Model for Multiscale Reconstruction and Analysis of Animal Behaviour

Updated: 7 October 2026 
This project will develop computational methods for three-dimensional reconstruction and quantitative analysis of animal behaviour from video recordings. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr R Storchi, Prof R Petersen
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Low-Dimensional Enriched Category Theory (S3.5-MPS-Willerton)

Updated: 7 October 2026 
A fully funded PhD opportunity to participate in the world-leading research undertaken by the EPSRC Doctoral Landscape Award at the University of Sheffield. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr S Willerton, Dr H Beohar
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Spatial and three-dimensional genome regulation during zygotic genome activation

Updated: 7 October 2026 
Zygotic genome activation (ZGA) marks the transition from maternal to embryonic control of development and provides a tractable system in which to examine how regulatory genome function is established (1). Read more
 Supervisors: Dr J Vaquerizas, Dr A Russell
 18 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Designing peptides to uncover cancer vulnerabilities at telomeres

Updated: 7 October 2026 
How do cells copy chromosome ends whose protection depends on restricting access to DNA? Telomeres are protected by shelterin, a protein complex that prevents chromosome ends from being mistaken for broken DNA. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof C Speck, Dr A Barnard, Dr A Barr
 18 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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How to find and design bioactive peptides at scale?

Updated: 7 October 2026 
Plants evolved thousands of cyclic peptides to protect themselves against pests and pathogens. Many of these molecules evolved to be orally active. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr K Sarkisyan, Prof D Craik, Dr A Brown
 18 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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(EPSRC DTP) Predicting pathological myopia through retinal imaging

Updated: 7 October 2026 
This PhD project explores the intersection of advanced retinal imaging and artificial intelligence to improve prediction of ocular disease progression. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr H Radakrishnan, Dr KH Hampson, Dr A Harish
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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(EPSRC DTP) 3D Printing of Resorbable Polymeric Scaffolds for Cardiac Valve Leaflet Engineering

Updated: 7 October 2026 
Heart valve disease affects millions worldwide and is a major cause of heart failure and valve replacement surgery. Current replacement valves have significant limitations. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr C Pinali, Dr J Bella, Dr S Richardson, Dr M Domingos
 16 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Reading tissue history and exposures using spatial single-cell genomics

Updated: 7 October 2026 
Every cell carries a record of its past. Somatic mutations and DNA methylation changes accumulate as cells divide and as tissues encounter chemicals in the environment, leaving marks that reveal how tissues are built, maintained, and damaged [1,2,3]. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Russell, Dr T Coorens
 18 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhD Scholarship Project: Molecular modelling for pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical formulations

Updated: 7 October 2026 
Many promising medicines fail because of poor solubility, limited bioavailability, or uncontrolled interactions with biological interfaces. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof A Galindo
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)