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Imperial College London PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 54 Imperial College London PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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Exploiting the Nuclear Recoil (Szilárd–Chalmers) Effect for the Separation of Neutron Irradiated Isotopes from Advanced Target Matrices

Supervisors. Dr Philip Miller (Imperial College London) and Dr Tom Haywood (Astral Systems). Home Department. Departments of Chemistry at Imperial College London, Molecular Sciences Research Hub, White City Campus. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr P. Miller
 16 August 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)
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Sustainable City Design

Context and objective. As the world’s population increasingly concentrates in urban centres, the design and delivery of sustainable mega cities have never been more urgent or more ambitious. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr E Dieckmann
 15 August 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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PhD Studentship in Crystal Plasticity Finite Element and MATLAB/C++ Simulations of Thermal Fatigue in Aerospace/Nuclear materials

We offer a fully funded studentship in Computational Solid Mechanics, leading to the PhD degree at Imperial College London. 3.5-year bursary and fees at the home student rate will be provided. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr C Skamniotis, Prof D Balint
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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PhD studentship in Mapping Immune Dynamics and Correlates of Protection in a Staphylococcus aureus Human Challenge Model

  Research Group: Adult Infectious Disease
We are looking for a doctoral student to investigate the immune mechanisms that determine protection against Staphylococcus aureus infection using a pioneering Controlled Human Infection Model (CHIM). Read more
 Supervisor: Dr DA Aggarwal
 7 August 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Mechanistic and interpretable AI for personalised eczema severity forecasting

AI for Healthcare & Computational Systems Medicine. Join us to do your PhD at the intersection of AI, biology, and digital health to make personalised eczema forecasting a clinical reality. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof R Tanaka
 16 August 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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IC-3-7 Rewiring Mammalian Cells Metabolism to Enable Sustainable On-Demand Biomanufacturing

This PhD is one of a number of projects hosted by the Centre for Doctoral Training in Green Industrial Futures (CDT-GIF). We are offering pioneering research projects that will enable PhD researchers to explore key technologies and solutions that will support UK industry to reach net zero. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof P Fennell, Dr F Ceroni, Prof R Ledesma-Amaro, Prof C Kontoravdi
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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The investigation of coastal cliff instability due to extreme weather conditions

Supervisory team. Dr Tiago Gaspar, Prof. Jamie Standing, Prof. Lidija Zdravković (Imperial College London). Project description. With increasingly evident impacts of climate change, there is a growing focus on safeguarding the resilience of geo-infrastructure under extreme weather conditions. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr T Gaspar
 18 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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IC-3-9 Sustainable Dyes from Recycled Rare Earth Materials

This PhD is one of a number of projects hosted by the Centre for Doctoral Training in Green Industrial Futures (CDT-GIF). We are offering pioneering research projects that will enable PhD researchers to explore key technologies and solutions that will support UK industry to reach net zero. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof P Fennell, Dr J Hallett
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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PhD Project – Artificial Intelligence and Radiomics in Hepatocellular Carcinoma

An opportunity has arisen for a 3-year PhD studentship within the Department of Surgery and Cancer at Imperial College London. Summary. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof R Sharma, Prof E Aboagye
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhD Studentship in Control for Autonomous Driving

Develop the next generation of reliable autonomous driving systems. Applications are invited for a fully funded PhD studentship in the field of control within the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Imperial. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr J Kohler
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Fully Funded PhD Scholarship in Photovoltaic (PV) Microgrids for Electricity Access in Africa

A PhD place is offered, full-time for three years, at Imperial College as part of a collaborative project (‘SOMSE’) with the University of Paris-Saclay, Centrale Supélec, CNRS, Paris, France addressing the improved utilisation of electricity from photovoltaic (PV) microgrids. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof J Nelson, Dr S Meunier, Dr C Candelise, Dr B Winchester
 26 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Coding variants and gut hormone-based obesity therapeutics

Gut-derived peptide hormones regulate a large number of metabolic processes, and there is great interest in exploiting their effects to treat disease. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr B Jones
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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PhD Studentship in Fast Zonal Control for Voltage Stability

Applications are invited for a PhD studentship, to be undertaken at Imperial College London (Control and Power Research Group, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering) under the co-supervision of Professors Balarko Chaudhuri and Mark O’Malley. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof B Chaudhuri
 14 August 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Probing of the glymphatic system to explore neuroinflammation in humans

Probing of the glymphatic system to explore neuroinflammation in humans . Neuroinflammation is a common pathophysiological funnel for a number of different neurodegeneration aetiologies. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr I Koychev
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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PhD position available in Synthetic Chemistry for Development of Mitochondria Targeting and Genome Engineering.

PIONEER (Programmable In-Organelle Nucleic-acid Entry, Expression and Retention) is an ambitious UK research consortium from Imperial College London, the University of Bristol, and the University of Glasgow, funded through the UK’s Advanced Research and Innovation Agency’s (ARIA) Precision Mitochondria programme, with a single bold goal. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr N Kamaly
 31 August 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

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