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Looping DNA for Nanotechnology and Biomedicine Using Computer Simulations

University of York

School of Physics, Engineering and Technology

DNA is often depicted as a perfect double helix, yet inside living cells it is constantly bent, twisted, and supercoiled to perform essential genetic functions. Read more

Supervisor: Dr AN Noy

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

Optimal prediction of dynamical systems with incomplete data

The University of Manchester

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Dynamical systems describe a variety of real-life problems related to evolution over time. It is often the case that the problems are so complicated that mathematical models for them either do not exist or are not accurate enough. Read more

Supervisor: Dr S Utyuzhnikov

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Memristor-like micro-electro-mechanical device for AI

University of York

School of Physics, Engineering and Technology

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming our world, but its growing computational demands, particularly for edge computing in devices like IoT sensors, require new, energy-efficient hardware solutions. Read more

Supervisor: Dr C Zhao

28 October 2026 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Developing algorithms for single-cell long-read nanopore sequencing

Garvan Institute of Medical Research

Genomics and Cellular Biology

Project Description. Alternative splicing (AS) is one of the most powerful mechanisms generating protein diversity in the human brain. Read more

Supervisor: Dr R Weatheritt

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Nutrition and mental health

University of Birmingham

School of Psychology

Applications are invited for self-funded students for PhD proposals in an area relating to nutrition and mental health. Modern food environments, especially in the UK, are dominated by ultra-processed, energy-dense, low-fibre foods—contributing to poor physical and mental health. Read more

Supervisor: Prof S Higgs

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

Explainable Multi-Modal Deep Learning for Precision Non-Small Lung Cancer Treatment

Imperial College London

Department of Surgery and Cancer

A full-time PhD studentship is available within the Department of Surgery and Cancer at Imperial College London. This is an exciting interdisciplinary opportunity to develop and apply cutting-edge machine learning techniques to address a key challenge in personalised lung cancer treatment. Read more

Supervisor: Dr M Chen

Year round applications PhD Research Project Awaiting Funding Decision/Possible External Funding

How does the brain make decisions when faced with conflicting options?

University of Birmingham

School of Biosciences

Every day, we make choices that involve balancing opportunities with risks—but what’s actually happening in our brains as we make these decisions remains largely unknown. Read more

Supervisor: Prof C Rezaval

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

Antiresonant hollow core optical fibre precision coils

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Professor Austin Taranta and Dr. Leonard Budd. Read more

Supervisor: Dr A Taranta

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Hollow core optical fibres embedded with chalcogenide 2D materials

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Dr Pier Sazio and Dr Ioannis Zeimpekis. Hollow core anti-resonant fibres (ARFs) enable strong light-matter interaction through functional material deposition. Read more

Supervisor: Dr P Sazio

31 August 2026 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Piezoelectric Nano-Opto-Electro-Mechanical Systems (NOEMS) resonators for neuromorphic computing

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Dr Yoshishige Tsuchiya, Dr Bruce Ou and Prof Jize Yan. Read more

Supervisor: Dr Y Tsuchiya

30 September 2026 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Polarization effects in antiresonant hollow core optical fibres

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Prof. Austin Taranta, Dr. Gianluca Guerra, Dr. Gregory Jasion and Dr. Ian Davidson. Dive into the mysterious world of polarization in antiresonant hollow core fibres, where conventional wisdom is turned on its head, and unexpected phenomena emerge every day. Read more

Supervisor: Dr A Taranta

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Understanding plant development and evolution in the context of environmental responses.

University of Birmingham

School of Biosciences

The aim of the project is to understand how plants have adapted to respond to environmental challenges throughout … Read more

Supervisor: Dr J C Coates

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Graphene-based silicon photonic photodetectors for mid-infrared wavelengths

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Dr Milos Nedeljkovic and Professor Callum Littlejohns. This project’s aim is to explore the integration of graphene with Silicon Photonic circuits to create fast and sensitive photodetectors for the mid-infrared (mid-IR) region, a key wavelength range for detecting gases and molecules. Read more

Supervisor: Dr M Nedeljkovic

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Designing smart space structures for extreme environments: from nonlinear dynamics to resilient mechanisms

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Andrea Cammarano and Dr Cristiano Martinelli. Read more

Supervisor: Prof A Cammarano

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

High-fidelity simulations of wind and dispersion over a city-scale urban area

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Zheng-Tong Xie. We live in a rapidly changing world. It is crucial that we understand such a complex system and build reliable predictive tools in time. Read more

Supervisor: Dr Z Xie

1 October 2026 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Developing high performance optical amplifiers for the future of space communications

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Dr Kyle Bottrill and Prof Periklis Petropoulos. The space communication environment is like no other, subjecting data-carrying lasers to immense transmission distances, substantial Doppler shifts and, in some cases, a highly turbulent atmosphere. Read more

Supervisor: Dr K Bottrill

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Picophotonics: the science of light-matter interactions at sub-nanometre scale

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Prof Kevin MacDonald and Prof Nikolay Zheludev. Optical imaging and metrology techniques now routinely break the classical diffraction limit on resolution. Read more

Supervisor: Prof K MacDonald

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Multimodal Large Language Model for Human-Centered Robots

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Dr. Tan Viet Tuyen Nguyen. This project explores the development of a Multimodal Large Language Model that empowers robots to understand and respond to humans through vision, language, and other sensory data. Read more

Supervisor: Dr N Nguyen

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Surface chemistry and gas reactions in hollow-core optical fibres

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Professor Austin Taranta, Professor Natallie Wheeler and Dr. Hesameddin Mohammadi. Hollow core fibres are transforming applications in communications, sensing, and high-power laser delivery. Read more

Supervisor: Dr A Taranta

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Fabricating Photonic Lanterns to Mitigate Scintillation in Satellite-borne Optical Communication Signals

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Dr Kyle Bottrill, Prof Periklis Petropoulos and Dr Debparna Majumder. Just as starlight falling on the surface of the Earth twinkles when affected by atmospheric turbulence, so too do optical communication signals transmitted from an orbiting satellite to a ground-station. Read more

Supervisor: Dr K Bottrill

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Engineering Coherence in Metamaterials and Metasurfaces

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Dr Giorgio Adamo and Dr Eric Plum. Systems where coherence establishes spontaneously, such as lasers, Bose-Einstein condensates, superradiant emitters and time crystals, are important for classical and quantum technologies. Read more

Supervisor: Dr G Adamo

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Building the future of optical fibre communications

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Professor Periklis Petropoulos, Dr Kyle Bottrill and Dr Hao Liu. Optical fibre networks power all aspects of modern digital life, enabling AI applications and advanced wireless systems. Read more

Supervisor: Prof P Petropoulos

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

Silicon photonic sensors for early detection of paediatric sepsis

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Dr. David J Rowe and Professor Goran Mashanovich. This PhD project focuses on developing silicon photonic sensors that can detect early biomarkers of sepsis in children - quickly, accurately, and at the point of care. Read more

Supervisor: Dr D Rowe

30 September 2026 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Brain-inspired security primitive for secure hardware in space

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Dr Firman Simanjuntak and Dr Basel Halak. Memristors mimic how the brain learns—offering low-cost, secure, and energy-efficient computing. Read more

Supervisor: Dr F Simanjuntak

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Fibre laser based mid infrared sources and their applications

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Dr. Lin Xu and Prof. Sumeet Mahajan. This project focuses on developing high-power, short-pulse fibre lasers at near-infrared wavelengths and converting them to the mid-infrared using advanced nonlinear optics. Read more

Supervisor: Dr L Xu

31 August 2026 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

PhD in Astrophysics and Space Systems

New York University (Abu Dhabi)

The PhD in Astrophysics and Space Systems is the first program of its kind in the UAE and the wider region. Read more

Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide) International PhD Programme

Predictive modelling and control of low-cost droplets for micro-engineering

University of Birmingham

School of Mathematics

Advances in manufacturing science have resulted in unprecedented research and development in the design of ‘micro-swimmers’. microscopic entities that navigate fluid environments by converting some form of energy–e.g. Read more

Supervisor: Dr N D Desai

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Optoelectronic topological metasurfaces for light control

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Dr Giorgio Adamo, Dr Nikitas Papasimakis and Dr Dong-Yang Wang. Recent developments in quantum materials and topological design principles are transforming the way we control the flow of light and charges. Read more

Supervisor: Dr G Adamo

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Miniaturised Mid-Infrared Photonic Systems for Gas Detection and Mapping

University of Southampton

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Professor Goran Mashanovich and Dr. Milos Nedeljkovic. This project explores compact mid-infrared (mid-IR) LiDAR systems for gas sensing. Read more

Supervisor: Prof G Mashanovich

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Sub-Polar North Atlantic ocean dynamics in a 3ºC warmer world

University of Birmingham

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Northwest Eurasia owes its anomalously temperate climate to the oceanic circulation cell known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). Read more

Supervisors: Dr T Dunkley Jones, Dr K Edgar, Dr J Bendle

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

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