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Imperial College London PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 103 Imperial College London PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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Durability of heritage masonry structures in a changing climate

With whom? Supervisor. Dr Evzen Korec (Imperial College London), Second Supervisor. Prof Ambrose Taylor (Imperial College London), External supervisor. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr E Korec
 12 November 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Putting a New Spin on Intracellular Trafficking: Conformation and Fate of Drug Conjugates Revealed by EPR Spectroscopy

Targeted therapeutics such as peptide–drug conjugates (PDCs) and antibody–drug conjugates (ADCs) rely on well-orchestrated intracellular trafficking and precisely timed payload release. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof M Roessler, Dr A Barnard
 5 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Exploring structure and function of insect ligand-gated ion channels

A growing world population is putting ever increasing pressures on food supply systems. In addition, climate change is causing the spread of insect pests which have major impacts on crop yields. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof B Byrne, Dr S Rouse
 27 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Multi-biomarker monitoring with nanopore array

This fully funded four-year PhD studentship (a one-year MRes in Chemical Biology and Bio-Entrepreneurship followed by a three-year PhD) offers the chance to build a new class of devices. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Ivanov, Prof T Cass, Prof J Edel, Dr S Hadjur, Dr A Rees
 7 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Psychological Safety by Design: Measuring and Experimentally Testing Psychological Risks in Human–AI Interaction

What makes an interaction with AI psychologically safe? This PhD investigates how AI design influences autonomy, trust and people's ability to question or disengage from an interaction. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr NVZ Van Zalk
 11 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Exploring the Impact of Generative AI on Health Decision Making and Wellbeing

Generative AI is increasingly used for health information, advice, and decision support, raising important questions about how people interact with and rely on these technologies. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr TP Porat
 11 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Confident trace: how much can we trust smart mouthguards to predict brain loading?

Thousands of athletes in rugby, boxing and football now wear instrumented mouthguards that record how their head moves in every impact. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr M Ghajari
 11 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Targeting DNA G-quadruplex as a key vulnerability of SMARCA4 impaired cancer

It is increasingly evident that alteration of the epigenome can be critical to drive tumorigenesis and cancer development as much as genetic mutations. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Di Antonio, Prof J Downs
 2 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Engineering ultrasound-responsive synthetic cells: technologies for acoustic imaging and remote control of biochemical systems

A central challenge in next-generation medicine is the ability to remotely control therapeutic activity with precision in both space and time. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr Y Elani, Dr S Morse
 5 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Bio-inspired catalytic fertilisers: Imaging uptake and mode of action in plants

This studentship will develop novel probes to investigate the mode of action of a new class of bio-inspired catalytic fertilisers acts plants. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof L Barter, Prof N Long, Dr RB Brown
 2 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PepPERMIT: Decoding Peptide Cellular Uptake through High-Throughput Live-Cell LC-MS and Machine Learning

Peptides are emerging as a promising class of therapeutics which offer a middle ground between small molecules and proteins. However, a key limitation for their progression for intracellular targets is often poor cellular uptake. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Barnard, Dr PS Sormanni
 2 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Rational Design Rules for Blood-Brain Barrier-Penetrant Antibody Fragments

The blood-brain barrier (BBB) protects the brain from pathogens and toxic molecules. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr F Aprile, Dr DV Vadukul, Prof N Brooks, Prof O Ces
 18 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhD Studentship in Aeronautics: Parallel adaptive multi-physics simulations (AE0097)

This research will be carried out within the framework of the REMODEL project that addresses the difficulty of generating and adapting high-quality meshes for complex engineering simulations on exascale and heterogeneous high-performance computing systems. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof S Sherwin, Dr J Peiro, Dr CC Cantwell
 4 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhD Studentship in Aeronautics: Turbulence under strain (AE0096)

Richard Feynman famously quoted ‘turbulence is the most important unsolved problem of classical physics’. Understanding and modelling turbulent flow physics will unlock a vast potential for optimising many applications of the energy and transportation sectors. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr K Steiros
 4 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhD Studentship in Aeronautics: Real-time data assimilation for multi-physics flows (AE0095)

Every model is wrong, and in engineering the errors matter. From aircraft wings to wind turbines and combustors, engineering systems are governed by fluid flows that interact with other physical processes, such as structural vibrations, acoustics and chemical reactions. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr AN Nóvoa
 4 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)