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Intelligent Earth - UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in AI for the Environment

Intelligent Earth

UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in AI for the Environment

The Intelligent Earth CDT brings together academics from key environmental science and AI departments across the University of Oxford with non-academic partners to train a new generation of PhD students to tackle some of the most pressing environmental issues using AI through five closely connected themes:

  1. Climate
  2. Biodiversity
  3. Natural hazards
  4. Environmental solutions
  5. Core AI/ML research

We offer up to 20 fully funded places in the CDT per year, supported by UKRI, Oxford and partners. By applying to the CDT, you are automatically considered for a funded place. We are committed to improving access to candidates from groups that are under represented at Oxford.

The CDT provides a unique interdisciplinary student experience: each project will be advised by both an environmental science supervisor and an AI supervisor, plus an advisor from one of our non-academic partners, who also serves as a secondment host.

Intelligent Earth is a student-led programme: instead of applying to a pre-defined project, students will be matched with supervisors and partners throughout the first year of training and develop their project proposal with their personal supervisory team.

How to apply

Applications for our 2024 entry are now closed. We are looking forward to welcome the inaugural cohort of Intelligent Earth students in October!.

Applications for our 2025 entry are now open with an application deadline of midday Wednesday 8th January 2025.

Full details will be provided on the application webpages here.