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Artificial leaves for solar chemical and fuel production

Applications are invited for a fully-funded 4-year PhD studentship in the group of Asst Prof Virgil Andrei at NTU Singapore. The PhD position will focus on developing artificial leaves for sustainable fuel production, working at the interface between material science, chemistry and engineering. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof Virgil Andrei Andrei
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Postdoctoral Fellow/Research Associate in Gravitational Microlensing

Postdoctoral Fellow/Research Associate in Gravitational Microlensing. This is a 2.25-year, full-time, fixed term position to start in 2027. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof M Albrow
 14 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Exploring the utility of AI-designed binders for the secretome and discovery proteomics

  Research Group: Respiratory Sciences
We invite applicants for a 4-year iCASE studentship to work in collaboration with our industrial partner YCharOS Inc. Toronto, Canada. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr H Virk, Prof M Dyer
 23 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Stress Hormones and the Pneumococcus: Antibiotic Responsiveness, Microbial Interactions and Host Signalling

  Research Group: Microbiology and Infection
Background. Streptococcus pneumoniae (Spn) remains a leading cause of global morbidity and mortality. It colonises the nasopharynx as a commensal alongside a diverse microbiota, and co-colonisation with multiple pneumococcal serotypes occurs in up to 40% of carriers. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr H Yesilkaya, Dr LC Cuthbertson
 23 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Digital Reading and the Neurocognitive Foundations of Deep Reading and Critical Thinking

  Research Group: Psychology & Vision Sciences
Critical thinking enables people to analyse arguments, evaluate evidence, compare perspectives, synthesise information, and construct well-reasoned conclusions. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr K Warrington, Dr VA Adedeji
 23 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Hearing loss, biological ageing and socioeconomic inequality in cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome in older adults in England

  Research Group: Public Health & Epidemiology
Hearing loss affects more than nine million adults in England and is strongly socially patterned, with disadvantaged groups up to twice as likely to experience hearing decline in later life. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr D Tsimpida, Dr M Graham-Brown
 23 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Decoding Retinal Specialisation: From Development to High-Acuity Vision

  Research Group: Psychology & Vision Sciences
The ability to resolve fine spatial detail depends on extraordinary specialisation of the retina. In humans, this culminates in formation of the fovea, where cellular organisation, neuronal connectivity and tissue architecture are precisely arranged to support high-acuity vision. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Thomas, Dr WN Norton
 23 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Deep learning of nascent transcription dynamics to predict mature mRNA production

  Research Group: Molecular & Cell Biology
The production of mature messenger RNA (mRNA) from a human protein-coding gene is a highly regulated process involving transcription by RNA polymerase II (RNAPII) and co-transcriptional RNA processing, including splicing and cleavage/polyadenylation. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr MT Tellier, Dr MA Cavallaro
 23 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Advancing our understanding of the EGFR-KRas-mediated activation of small G proteins RalA/B

  Research Group: Molecular & Cell Biology
Growth factor signalling is fundamental to cell proliferation and differentiation. Epidermal growth factor (EGF) signalling exemplifies this process by activating the small GTPase KRas at the plasma membrane (PM), where KRas serves as a central signalling hub that activates multiple effectors, including BRAF and Rgl2. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr K Tanaka, Dr AKV Koyamangalath Vadakkepat
 23 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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New generation metallo-antimicrobials

Second Supervisor. Dr Christian Jenul, Division of Microbiology and Infection. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major public health concern worldwide. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr K Suntharalingam
 23 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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When the past shapes the future: How microbial interactions influence behaviour in Staphylococcus aureus

  Research Group: Microbiology and Infection
Second Supervisor. Dr Jan-Ulrich Kreft, University of Birmingham, School of Biosciences. Staphylococcus aureus colonises humans and animals and is a major cause of disease worldwide. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr K Schilcher
 23 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Does transcription speed decide if a gene gets silenced? Structural biology meets functional genomics

  Research Group: Molecular & Cell Biology
How does a cell decide whether a gene stays switched on or is silenced into heterochromatin? This project tests whether the speed at which RNA polymerase II travels along DNA is not merely a consequence of gene activity, but an instructive signal that determines it. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr T Schalch, Dr MT Tellier
 23 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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New synthetic antibodies for circadian research

  Research Group: Genetics
Did you know that camels and llamas have a unique type of antibody that can be a powerful tool for science? These are nanobodies, tiny, highly stable, single-domain antibodies. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr E Rosato, Prof C Kyriacou
 23 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Genome control by cohesin ligands

  Research Group: Molecular & Cell Biology
Second Supervisor. Professor Peijun Zhang, Nuffield Department of Medicine University of Oxford. The human genome is metres long but packed into cells only a few micrometres in diameter. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof D Panne
 23 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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How Cognitive Ageing Affects Language Use and Understanding: Evidence from Eye-Tracking and EEG

  Research Group: Psychology & Vision Sciences
Healthy ageing is associated with changes in vision and cognition that can affect everyday activities such as reading. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Pagán, Prof K Paterson
 23 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Protein kinase G activation by transmembrane signalling

  Research Group: Microbiology and Infection
Protein kinase G (PknG) is conserved in a large phylum of bacteria called the Actinobacteria, where it regulates the TCA cycle. This key regulator is essential for virulence of the human pathogen M. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr H O'Hare, Dr AKV Koyamangalath Vadakkepat
 23 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Deciphering Mycobacteria-Phage Regulatory Interactions for Bovine Tuberculosis Control

  Research Group: Microbiology and Infection
Tuberculosis remains a major global health threat affecting both humans and livestock. Bovine tuberculosis (bTB), caused by Mycobacterium bovis, has a devastating impact on animal welfare, farm productivity, and farmers' wellbeing. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof G Mukamolova, Dr A Millard
 23 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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How does copper increase antibiotic resistance and ability to cause infection?

Second Supervisor. Professor Joan Geoghegan, University of Birmingham. Excess copper is highly toxic and forms part of the host innate immune system’s antibacterial arsenal, accumulating at sites of infection and acting within macrophages to kill engulfed pathogens. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof JM Morrissey
 23 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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More than meets the eye: Understanding the cognitive mechanisms underlying reading

  Research Group: Psychology & Vision Sciences
Project Summary. Can you spot the grammatical error this in sentence? Readers often fail to detect textual errors, such as omissions, repetitions, or swaps of adjacent words. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr V McGowan, Dr K Warrington
 23 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Environmental imprinting: heritable epigenetic memory of past pollution events.

  Research Group: Genetics
Environmental insults (pollution / heat stress) can cause heritable phenotypic outcomes in both wild animal populations and humans. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr H Marshall, Prof E Mallon
 23 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Mapping the dark genome in early embryonic development: Mechanisims establishing and maintaining epigenetic stability

  Research Group: Molecular & Cell Biology
How does a single pluripotent cell reorganise its genome as it becomes a specialised cell? While we know much about the genes that define cell identity, far less is understood about the “dark genome”, repressed and structurally complex regions whose organisation within the nucleus helps determine which genes can be used. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr Y Markaki, Dr MT Tellier
 23 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Turning Back the Epigenetic Clock: How Diet and Metabolism Reprogram Ageing

  Research Group: Genetics
Can diet and metabolism genuinely slow the pace of ageing, not just extend life but reprogram the biological clock that measures it? This project puts you at the centre of one of the most exciting open questions in ageing biology, using epigenetic clocks, the most accurate biomarker of biological age currently available, to find out. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof E Mallon, Dr K Chen
 23 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Unravelling the Architecture of Cellular "Antenna": Molecular Mechanisms of Ciliogenesis

  Research Group: Molecular & Cell Biology
Cilia are hair-like structures found on many human cell types, where they act as sensory ‘antennae’ that detect and relay external signals governing cell behaviour, tissue organisation and development. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr R Mahen, Dr R Hirst
 23 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhD in Chemistry: Sustainable Main Group Catalysis Using Frustrated Lewis Pairs

Prof. Rebecca Melen is looking for an enthusiastic PhD student to join her team on an ERC funded project on sustainable catalysis. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof R Melen
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)
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Evaluating defect detectability for iteratively reconstructed industrial X-ray computed tomography data

Supervisory team. Professor Thomas Blumensath, Dr Richard Boardman and Dr Joseph Lifton. About the project. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr T Blumensath
 29 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Engineering Nature’s Peptide Chemistry: Structure, Mechanism and Biocatalysis of LenY

  Research Group: Molecular & Cell Biology
Nature has evolved enzymes that perform chemistry difficult to reproduce synthetically. LenY is one such enzyme, installing unusual macroamidine crosslinks into ribosomal peptides to generate highly constrained cyclic products. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr H Kwon, Prof A Hudson
 23 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Understanding pathways to healthy lung ageing by integrating genomics and the environment

Why do some people maintain healthy lungs into old age while others experience rapid decline? This project will study how genetically regulated biological pathways interact with environmental exposures to shape lung ageing, ultimately informing strategies to promote lifelong lung health. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr CJ John, Dr SC Cai
 23 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Beyond Killing: How Antibiotics Trigger Metabolites That Reshape Bacterial Communities

  Research Group: Microbiology and Infection
Second Supervisor. Dr Lijiang Song, Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr C Jenul
 23 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Development of Information Entropic Based Methods for Digital Security

Applications are invited for a self-funded, 3 year full-time or 6 year part-time PhD project. The PhD will be based in the School of Computing, Mathematics and Physics and will be supervised by Dr Melvin Vopson and Dr Sergi Simon. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Vopson, Dr S Simon
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Mechanistic Insights into Haem Sensing by the Circadian Clock

Haem is a small organo-transition-metal compound that plays a crucial role in various aspects of cellular biology. Traditionally, its function was thought to be limited to haemoproteins, where it serves as a tightly bound prosthetic group. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof A Hudson, Dr H Kwon
 23 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)