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Latest University of Edinburgh PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 18 Latest University of Edinburgh PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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Understanding the complex place-based factors associated with the spread of COVID-19 infection amongst populations in the UK

Project Information. This project will address the important challenge of understanding the complex place-based factors associated with the spread of COVID-19 infection amongst populations in the UK, using high quality, contemporaneous statistics. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr ZF Feng, Prof J Pearce, Prof S Curtis
 10 April 2025  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Industrial Doctoral Landscape Award (PhD studentship): Utilising Graph-based Machine Leaning for Impact Sensitivity Prediction for Energetic Materials

Energetic Materials (explosives, propellants, pyrotechnics and gas generators) are used in a broad range of pubic and private sector applications. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof C. A. M. Morrison
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Exploration of High-Entropy Oxides

Transition metal oxides are a major class of materials with many important properties such as high-Tc superconductivity, ferroelectricity, magnetism, CMR (colossal magnetoresistance) and spintronics, multiferroicity, and ionic conductivity. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof J P Attfield
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Transcriptional, and translational regulation of immune receptor pairs in plants

  Research Group: Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences
Plants have their own, effective defence mechanism to protect itself from pathogens. In plants, intracellular immune receptors called NLRs (Nucleotide-binding, Leucine-rich repeat receptors) can detect specific pathogenic proteins, or effectors secreted into the host cell. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr H-KA Ahn
 28 March 2025  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Biomimetic Total Synthesis of Natural Products

This PhD studentship will be focused on the biomimetic total synthesis of complex natural products. The chemical feasibility of proposed biosynthetic pathways towards biologically active natural products will be investigated. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof A Lawrence
 4 April 2025  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Ultrafast Structural Dynamics Imaging of Carbonyl Photochemistry

A PhD Studentship is available in the Green Research Group at the University of Edinburgh School of Chemistry, https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/alice-green. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A E Green
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Thermochemical materials for thermal management applications

Project Summary. Thermal management is used to reduce the amount of excess heat generated in various processes and systems to protect and cool critical components, for instance batteries or electronics. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr CK Kirk
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)
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Synthesis of Shielded Molecular Radicals for Quantum Information Technologies

A PhD studentship is available in the group of Dr Iain Wright, University of Edinburgh; School of Chemistry, Dr Iain A. Wright | The University of Edinburgh. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr I Wright
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Neutron Diffraction Studies of Inorganic Microcrystals

A PhD studentship is available in the group of Professor J. P. Attfield, University of Edinburgh, School of Chemistry, and is co-supervised by Dr Pascal Manuel, UKRI STFC ISIS Neutron and Muon Facility. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof J P Attfield
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Multi-Scale Mechanics of Biological Composites: Insights from Advanced X-ray Nanotomography

Project Summary. Biological composite materials, such as bone, are three-dimensional, hierarchically structured inorganic-organic composites. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof F Nudelman
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Electrolytes in Zinc-ion Batteries

Zinc-ion batteries (ZIBs) are emerging as a promising alternative to lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) due to their inherent safety, low cost, and environmental friendliness. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr P Sharel E
 24 November 2025  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Machine Learning-Guided Synthetic Strategies for Natural Product Synthesis

A joint PhD studentship is available in the groups of Professor Andrew L. Lawrence (https://lawrence-group.org/) and Dr Emma King-Smith (https://www.kingsmithgroup.com/) at the University of Edinburgh School of Chemistry. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr E King Smith, Prof A Lawrence
 4 April 2025  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Combined high-pressure spectroscopy and crystallography of spatially isolated chromophores in metal-organic frameworks

A PhD studentship is available in the groups of Prof Anita Jones and Dr Claire Hobday, University of Edinburgh; School of Chemistry;. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof A Jones
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Atomistic and Coarse-Grained Simulations of Polymer Composites

A PhD studentship is available in the group of Professor Philip J. Camp, School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh (http://www.molsim.chem.ed.ac.uk) and with co-supervision from Professor Ken Lewtas, The Falcon Project, and Visiting Professor at the University of Edinburgh. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof P Camp
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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PhD Studentship in Medicinal Chemistry - Development of potent anticancer agents against oesophageal cancer

  Research Group: Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre
Oesophageal cancer is the seventh most common cancer worldwide and sixth most common cause of cancer death. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof A Unciti-Broceta, Dr ALM Lorente-Macias, Dr RE Elliot
 18 March 2025  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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