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We have 3,675 PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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PhD in measuring and mathematical modelling of N-carboxy anhydride copolymerisation kinetics for predictive pharmaceutical formulation design

We are looking for candidates for a PhD project at the interface of polymer chemistry, reaction kinetics and mathematical modelling to predict copolymer properties from reaction conditions. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Zelzer, Dr G Mantovani, Dr R Graham
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Development of a new model of muscle mechanics – in vivo mechanics of a single muscle

Project Description. The goal of this project is to develop and validate a new phenomenological model of muscle contraction—the Active Spring Muscle Model (ASMM)—through in vivo experiments on single muscles in small animals (mouse/rat). Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S-H Yeo
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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PhD in Language, Discourse and Communication - Studentships at King’s College London

The Centre for Language Discourse and Communication at King’s College London is currently recruiting UK and International students for our PhD in Language, Discourse and Communication supported by the LISS-DTP Social Sciences Studentship Scheme (Research Area 3. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  PhD Research Programme
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PhD in Interdisciplinary Policy Studies - Studentships at King’s College London

The Centre for Public Policy Research at King’s College London is currently recruiting UK and International students for our PhD in Interdisciplinary Policy studies supported by the LISS-DTP Social Sciences Studentship Scheme. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  PhD Research Programme
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Low-loss photonics for quantum networks

Supervisors. Prof James Gates j.gates@soton.ac.uk. Prof Corin Gawith corin.gawith@soton.ac.uk. This project, within the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Quantum Technology Engineering at the University of Southampton (https://qte.ac.uk), carries a UKRI TechExpert enhanced annual stipend around £31k for UK students. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr J Gates
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Nonlinear Photonics for Quantum Technologies

Supervisors. Prof Corin Gawith corin.gawith@soton.ac.uk. Prof James Gates j.gates@soton.ac.uk. This project, within the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Quantum Technology Engineering at the University of Southampton (qte.ac.uk), carries a UKRI TechExpert enhanced annual stipend around £31k for UK students. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr C Gawith
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Manufacture of photonic and quantum technologies via ultra-precision diamond machining

Supervisors. Prof James Gates j.gates@soton.ac.uk. Dr Paul Gow p.gow@soton.ac.uk. This project, within the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Quantum Technology Engineering at the University of Southampton (qte.ac.uk), carries a UKRI TechExpert enhanced annual stipend around £31k for UK students. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr J Gates
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Nanoscale Quantum Optoelectronic Platforms for Next-Generation Neuromorphic Systems

Supervisors. Professor Dimitra Georgiadou d.georgiadou@soton.ac.uk. This project, within the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Quantum Technology Engineering at the University of Southampton (https://qte.ac.uk), carries a UKRI TechExpert enhanced annual stipend around £31k for UK students. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr D Georgiadou
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Optimising optical microresonators for quantum technology applications

Supervisors. Dr Peter Horak peh@orc.soton.ac.uk. Dr William Hughes W.J.Hughes@soton.ac.uk. This project, within the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Quantum Technology Engineering at the University of Southampton (https://qte.ac.uk), carries a UKRI TechExpert enhanced annual stipend around £31k for UK students. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr P Horak
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Quantum Nano-optical Metadevices

Supervisors. Dr Giorgio Adamo g.adamo@soton.ac.uk. Professor Kevin Macdonald kfm@orc.soton.ac.uk. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr G Adamo
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Quantum Reservoir Computing via Nano-Opto-Electro-Mechanical (NOEM) coupled quantum oscillators

Supervisors. Dr Yoshishige Tsuchiya yt2@ecs.soton.ac.uk. Dr Srinandan Dasmahapatra sd@ecs.soton.ac.uk. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr Y Tsuchiya
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Nano-opto-electro-mechanical (NOEM) tunable SiC entangled photon source

Supervisors. Dr Yoshishige Tsuchiya yt2@ecs.soton.ac.uk. Dr Bruce Ou Bruce.Ou@soton.ac.uk. This project, within the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Quantum Technology Engineering at the University of Southampton (https://qte.ac.uk), carries a UKRI TechExpert enhanced annual stipend around £31k for UK students. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr Y Tsuchiya
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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MEMS/NEMS-integrated ultralow stand-by power quantum circuits

Supervisors. Dr Yoshishige Tsuchiya yt2@ecs.soton.ac.uk. Prof John McBride J.W.Mcbride@soton.ac.uk. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr Y Tsuchiya
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Wideband all-fibre polarisation-entangled photon pair sources for enhanced versatility in quantum optical experiments and quantum information processing

Supervisors. Dr Morten Ibsen mi@orc.soton.ac.uk. Prof. Peter Kazansky pgk@orc.soton.ac.uk. Prof. Jayanta Sahu jks@orc.soton.ac.uk. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr M Ibsen
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Quantum optimal control for symmetry-based NMR sequences

Supervisors. Professor Marina Carravetta m.carravetta@soton.ac.uk. Professor Malcolm Levitt mhl@soton.ac.uk. Professor Tim Freegarde timf@soton.ac.uk. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr M Carravetta
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Quantum optimal control for long-lived NMR methods

Supervisors. Professor Marina Carravetta marina@soton.ac.uk. Dr. Paul Vasos. Dr. Kirill Sheberstov. Dr. Isabella Felli. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr M Carravetta
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Advanced Lasers for Quantum Enhanced Microscopy

Supervisors. Dr. Lin Xu l.xu@soton.ac.uk. Prof. Sumeet Mahajan. This project, within the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Quantum Technology Engineering at the University of Southampton (https://qte.ac.uk), carries a UKRI TechExpert enhanced annual stipend around £31k for UK students. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr L Xu
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Quantum levitated mechanics for GPS-denied autonomous underwater vehicle navigation

Supervisors. Professor Hendrik Ulbricht h.ulbricht@soton.ac.uk. Professor Blair Thornton B.Thornton@soton.ac.uk. Dr Georgios Salavasidis and Dr Yaomei Wang (National Oceanographic Centre) georgios.salavasidis@noc.ac.uk, yaomei.wang@noc.ac.uk. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof H Ulbricht
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Quantum communications enabled by hollow core optical fibres

Supervisors. Prof. Radan Slavik r.slavik@soton.ac.uk. Prof. Francesco Poletti frap@orc.soton.ac.uk. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof R Slavik
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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How can DNA condensate despite its negative charge? Implications in genome regulation, antibiotic resistance and gene therapy

  Research Group: Physics of Life
DNA molecules, being highly negatively charged, naturally repel each other. However, in the presence of multivalent ions or specific proteins, they can overcome this repulsion and condense into compact structures. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr AN Noy
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers as Nuclear Polarization Injectors for Spin-Based Quantum Sensing

Supervisors. Dr Christian Bengs C.Bengs@soton.ac.uk. Prof Malcolm Levitt mhl@soton.ac.uk. This project, within the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Quantum Technology Engineering at the University of Southampton (https://qte.ac.uk), carries a UKRI TechExpert enhanced annual stipend around £31k for UK students. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr CB Bengs
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Quantum Computing for Computational Fluid Dynamics and Applications

Supervisors. Prof Dimitrios Angelakis d.angelakis@southampton.ac.uk. This project, within the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Quantum Technology Engineering at the University of Southampton (https://qte.ac.uk), carries a UKRI TechExpert enhanced annual stipend around £31k for UK students. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof D Angelakis
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Qubit efficient quantum optimization and applications to industrial problems

Supervisors. Dimitrios Angelakis d.angelakis@southampton.ac.uk. This project, within the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Quantum Technology Engineering at the University of Southampton (https://qte.ac.uk), carries a UKRI TechExpert enhanced annual stipend around £31k for UK students. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof D Angelakis
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhD Positions in Cancer Research

Are you looking for excellent research opportunities for your PhD studies at the forefront of cancer research? The German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)… Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  Germany PhD Programme
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PhD Opportunity in Brain Biomechanics

Mechanical loading plays a key role in a range of neurological conditions. For instance, brain exposure to mechanical loading in sports and road traffic collisions can damage brain tissue, axons and vasculature, leading to traumatic brain injury (TBI). Read more
 Supervisor: Dr M Ghajari
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Awaiting Funding Decision/Possible External Funding
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New mathematical models to make biology predictable

We seek a PhD student in applied mathematics to join the Queensland University of Technology node of MACSYS. MACSYS is the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Mathematical Analysis of Cellular Systems. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof M Simpson
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Build or destroy? Investigating how plants connect protein synthesis and degradation to regulate protein quality control

Proteins are essential components of cells, and the proteome must be effectively regulated to maintain cellular integrity. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof D Gibbs
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)
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Silicon materials for high-efficiency photovoltaics

The capacity of photovoltaic (PV) installations now exceeds 1.5 TW peak worldwide due to the success of silicon-based solar cell technologies which account for >95% of production. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof JD Murphy, Dr S Pain
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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From Pollution to Construction: Influence of Microplastics on the Mechanical Behaviour of Cement Mortar and Masonry

Microplastics are an emerging global pollutant that persist in the environment and contribute to long-term ecological damage. This project aims to transform this waste material into a sustainable construction resource by investigating the effects of incorporating microplastics into cement mortar used in masonry. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr AK Karimian, Dr A Ahangar Asr
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Impact of Infiltration-Induced Nano- and microplastics Migration on the Strength and Hydraulic Conductivity of Biochar-Amended Sandy Soils

Nano- and microplastics are increasingly recognised as emerging contaminants within terrestrial environments. They originate from various sources such as road runoff, agricultural activities, and landfill liners, gradually accumulating in the upper soil layers. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr AK Karimian, Dr A Ahangar Asr
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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