Latest University of Edinburgh PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Electrodeposition of advanced Cu-based alloy catalysts for the electrochemical reduction of CO2 to valuable chemicals

Supervisors: Dr I Tudela-Montes, Dr GS Santori

SolDAC is an Horizon Europe project ambition is to reinvent the ethylene industry by proving (TRL4) an emerging breakthrough technology for producing technically and economically competitive, socially desirable and climate-neutral (sustainable) ethylene and co-product ethanol (C2 products) from solar energy and air. Read more

15 August 2022 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

Holistic Analysis of Flexibility in integrated Low Carbon Energy Systems

Supervisors: Dr WS Sun, Prof G Harrison

The Institute for Energy Systems at the University of Edinburgh invites applications for are invited for a PhD studentship in “Holistic Analysis of Flexibility in Integrated Low Carbon Energy Systems”. Read more

30 September 2022 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

University of Edinburgh School of Biological Sciences

Disruption of nuclear envelope regulation of miRNA, enhancer, and gene loci positioning leads to aberrant development and disease

Research Group: Institute of Cell Biology

Defects in spatial genome organisation are linked to human disease and it is speculated that most as yet unidentified disease alleles will occur in non-coding genome regions. Read more

Supervisor: Prof E Schirmer

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

PhD studentship in neuro-symbolic AI and/or explainability

5 August 2022 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

One fully funded PhD position to work with Dr Vaishak Belle in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, on a project titled “Neuro-symbolic AI and/or explainability”. Read more

Supervisor: Dr V Belle

University of Edinburgh School of Geosciences

Geophysics for modelling and monitoring the Earth's response to CO2 sequestration

PLEASE READ FULL DETAILS AND HOW TO APPLY at. https://www.ed.ac.uk/geosciences/study/degrees/research-degrees/phd-projects/physical-sciences?item1405. Read more

Supervisor: Dr M Chapman

15 July 2022 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Deep-tissue optical imaging

Supervisors: Prof R.K Henderson, Dr A Gorman

The CMOS Sensors and Systems Group, of the Institute for Integrated Micro and Nano Systems within the University Of Edinburgh School Of Engineering, invites applications for a PhD position focused on deep-tissue optical imaging, supported by an EPSRC 2050 proposal. Read more

7 December 2022 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

University of Edinburgh College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine

Behaviour changes over development in SYNGAP1-related intellectual disability

Research Group: Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences

Variation in the gene SYNGAP1 is increasingly recognised as an important cause of intellectual disability, autism and epilepsy. To date the vast majority… Read more

Supervisors: Dr A Stanfield, Dr DW Wright

29 July 2022 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

University of Edinburgh Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre

Last chance to apply

Characterising a novel tumour suppressor in Liver cancer

This is a 3-year PhD studentship funded by the Melville Trust for Care and Cure of Cancer. It will be hosted at the Institute of Genetics and Cancer and the student will work across the laboratories of Dr Alex von Kriegsheim and Dr Luke Boulter. Read more

Supervisors: Dr A von Kriegsheim, Dr L Boulter

3 July 2022 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Supporting heterogeneous architectures in ASiMoV-CCS

31 October 2022 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

ASiMoV-CCS is a new Computation Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Combustion modelling code that is being developed at EPCC as part of the ASiMoV Strategic Prosperity Partnership project with Rolls-Royce. Read more

Supervisor: Dr M Weiland

Obtaining performance portability via Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) and MLIR

Supervisors: Dr N Brown, Dr T Grosser

Writing efficient parallel code for current generation supercomputers is difficult and in the domain of the (relatively) few experts. Read more

31 October 2022 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

Microbenchmarks for Accelerator Offloading

31 October 2022 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

The EPCC OpenMP microbenchmarks have become a de facto standard tool for measuring the performance of OpenMP runtime implementations. Read more

Supervisor: Dr M Bull

HPC workload generation and benchmarking

Supervisors: Dr M Weiland, Dr A Turner

Artificial intelligence and data analytics applications have driven rapid changes in the world of computing in recent years, and these changes are now showing an impact on distributed and high-performance computing (HPC). Read more

31 October 2022 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

University of Edinburgh College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine

Carbon Agri-Tools: Accounting and decision support systems for calculating emission reductions and offsets in carbon farming initiatives

Teagasc Walsh Scholarships PhD . Supervisors. Prof. Jonathan Hillier (University of Edinburgh) and Prof. Pete Smith (University of Aberdeen) in association with Teagasc supervisors (Dr Donal O’Brien and Prof Gary Lanigan). Read more

Supervisors: Dr J Hillier, Prof P Smith

15 July 2022 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Last chance to apply

Powertrains for offshore wind turbines

Supervisor: Prof A McDonald

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Electrical Power Conversion team looking at offshore wind powertrain technology at the University of Edinburgh. Read more

8 July 2022 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)