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We have 3,172 PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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Ph.D. student in Energy Mechanics and Sustainability Program

1-2 Ph.D. students (Spring or Fall 2026 entry). Research project. (1) Multiphysics modeling and characterization of next-gen batteries; (2) Machine-learning assisted battery manufacturing and prognostics. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr JX Xu
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Functional Mechanisms of Genetic Risk Factors for Immune-Related Disease

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 Supervisor: Prof T Vyse
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Design and Analysis of an Intelligent Tyre for low rolling resistance, optimum performance, and enhanced safety of a vehicle

Summary of the proposed. Intelligent tyres with low rolling resistance and high performance are getting more attention in the recent years. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr AW Awan
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Voltage Waveform and Harmonic Modelling for Enhancing Distribution Grid Hosting Capacity by Ensuring Power Quality Standards

Summary of the proposed. The United Kingdom has set legally binding climate targets, committing to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and leading the global charge for carbon neutrality. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr MNI Iqbal
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Tightening the Science: A Comprehensive Study on Girth Tension, Saddle Pressures, and Horse Performance

Proposed supervisory team. Prof Roberta Blake. Dr David Marlin. Dr Nnenna Ugwu. Theme. Equine. Summary of the research project. The girth is a critical yet understudied component of the saddle system. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof R Blake, Dr N Ugwu
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Assessing the welfare impact of concurrent husbandry procedures in newborn lambs

Proposed supervisory team. Prof Roberta Blake. Dr Jon Amory. Dr Nnenna Ugwu. Theme. AgriTech, Animal, and Environment Management. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof R Blake, Dr J Armory, Dr N Ugwu
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Heat networks that support the national grid

Heating accounts for about 37% of total greenhouse gas emissions in the UK (DESNZ 2024). Decarbonisation of heat is, therefore, critical to meeting national net zero carbon targets. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Shahrestani, Prof S Smith
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Tackling Membrane BioFouling

Surfaces in wet environments biofoul, which is a pressing issue affecting many industries, including water treatment industries. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Semião, Prof M Graham
 10 October 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)
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Postgraduate Research at the University of Sydney

Our research is driven by the big picture. We're proudly home to some of the world's brightest and most accomplished researchers dedicated to finding solutions to the most pressing issues of our times. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  International PhD Programme  Australia PhD Programme
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Characterization and convergence of non-Brownian webs

  Research Group: Mathematical and Statistical Modelling
The Brownian web is a dense system of coalescing Brownian motions in 1+1 dimensional space time. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr N Freeman
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Fully Funded PhD Positions in Control and Robotics

Dynamic Systems and Intelligent Machines (DSIM) Lab at the San Diego State University has PhD positions in the area of control of robotic systems. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr ZNA Nili Ahmadabadi
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Engineering Developable Biopharmaceuticals

The School of Molecular and Cellular Biology invites applications from prospective postgraduate researchers who wish to commence study for a PhD in the academic year 2025/26. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof D B Brockwell, Prof S E Radford
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Targeting protein acetylation to reduce microglia activation in neurodegenerative disorders

The School of Biomedical Sciences invites applications from prospective postgraduate researchers who wish to commence study for a PhD in the academic year 2025/26. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof I Wood
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Optimising functional independence across the life and healthspan using neurostimulation

Neuroplasticity is integral to recovery and maintenance of functional independence as we age, and even more crucial in individuals with developmental disorders such as Cerebral Palsy and those with injuries to their brain and/or central nervous system (Spinal Cord Injury, Stroke, MS). Read more
 Supervisors: Prof S L Astill, Dr R M Ichiyama
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Control and inhibition of virus replication

The Tuplin group explores how RNA viruses regulate replication and translation of their genomes through dynamic interactions between structured viral RNA, host and viral proteins and host-cell non-coding RNAs (including siRNAs, lncRNAs, and circRNAs). Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A.K Tuplin
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Towards new antibacterial drugs to treat infections caused by multidrug-resistant bacteria: identification and characterization of novel natural product antibiotics

Antibiotics make possible the treatment and cure of life-threatening bacterial infections and have added over a decade to the average human lifespan. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof A O'Neill
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Broadening the spectrum of antibacterial drugs to tackle multi-drug resistant Gram-negative pathogens

  Research Group: Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology
Antibiotics make possible the treatment and cure of life-threatening bacterial infections and have added over a decade to average human lifespan. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof A O'Neill, Dr M McPhillie, Prof C Fishwick
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Microstructural, chemical and biological characterization of hydraulic cements for vital pulp therapy

A funded PhD studentship is available to join the Professor Josette Camilleri, Clinical Professor of Endodontics and Applied Materials in a research project focused on the microstructural, chemical, and biological characterization of hydraulic cements for vital pulp therapy within the field of endodontics. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof J Camilleri
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Detecting Dark Matter with Atomic Quantum Systems

Our understanding of the Universe and its fundamental constituents is conveyed by the Standard Model of particle physics and by General Relativity. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof G Barontini
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Investigation of the interplay between TRPV1 channels and the receptor tyrosine kinase Flt3 in living cells

Transient Receptor Potential (TRP) channels are a large and conserved family of ion channels that sense touch, movement, pain and temperature1. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr L Kilpatrick, Dr J Sanchez
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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PhD Opportunities in Data Analysis in Running Neutrino Experiments – JUNO, SBND, and T2K

Open questions in neutrino physics include the neutrino mass ordering and CP violation, and discoveries in future experiments will rely on a precise understanding of neutrino interactions across different targets and energy regimes. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr XL Lu
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Design and synthesis of advanced heterogeneous catalysts for sustainable petrochemical transformations

  Research Group: Materials Chemistry
Catalysis underpins almost every process in the chemical and petrochemical industries. However, many oxidation processes still rely on energy-intensive routes and inefficient catalysts. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr M Conte
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Novel materials and catalytic processes for the clean-up of organic pollutants in water

  Research Group: Materials Chemistry
Clean water is one of the most pressing global challenges of our time, with major implications for health, sustainability, and industry. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr M Conte
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Dynamic skewness in longitudinal data models

  Research Group: Mathematical and Statistical Modelling
Panel (longitudinal) data enables learning the dynamics and relations of (groups of) units, strengthening the inference on both cross-sectional and dynamic parameters. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr M Juarez
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Bayesian Index Tracking: optimisation by sampling

  Research Group: Mathematical and Statistical Modelling
Index trackers (ETFs, index funds, index mutual funds) aim to replicate the return of a reference equity index while keeping implementation frictions---notably turnover and trading costs---under control. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr K Triantafyllopoulos, Dr D Roxanas
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Synchronization of turbulent channel flow

  Research Group: Applied Mathematics
Chaos may seem like complete disorder, but even chaotic systems can sometimes fall into step — a phenomenon called chaos synchronisation. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr Y Li, Dr A P Willis
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Magnetodydrodynamic waves in the solar atmosphere

  Research Group: Applied Mathematics
State-of-the-art high-resolution ground- and spaced-based telescopes routinely observe magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves that are ubiquitous in the solar atmosphere. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof R von Fay-Siebenburgen
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Developing state-of-the-art Space Weather forecast tools

  Research Group: Applied Mathematics
The production of flares and Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) from solar active regions (ARs) is still not well understood in spite of their huge importance to Sun-Earth connections, in particular, to protect mankind and our sophisticated technological systems that might be at considerable risk from high-speed charged particles blowing often abruptly off the Sun. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof R von Fay-Siebenburgen
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Modelling localised solar jets: (macro)spicules) and their effect on solar atmospheric dynamics

  Research Group: Applied Mathematics
(Macro)spicules are one of the longest studied yet unsolved phenomena of small-scale solar atmospheric dynamics. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof R von Fay-Siebenburgen
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Smart garments for personalised compression therapy

This exciting project, a collaboration between the Auckland Bioengineering Institute, Auckland University of Technology (AUT), and The Centre for Health, will develop a world-first smart sensing layer that can be integrated into the commercially available dynamic compression suit (Flowpresso). Read more
 Supervisor: Dr MH Hesam
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)