University of St Andrews, School of Mathematics and Statistics PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 15 University of St Andrews, School of Mathematics and Statistics PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Modelling ultra-low frequency (ULF) waves in Earth’s magnetosphere

University of St Andrews School of Mathematics and Statistics

The Solar and Magnetospheric Theory Group (SMTG) in the School and Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, is looking for applicants for a funded PhD project for a start in September/October 2024. Read more

Supervisor: Dr T Elsden

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Hidden Markov models for spatially structured populations

University of St Andrews School of Mathematics and Statistics

Research Group: Division of Statistics

Hidden Markov models (HMMs) offer a very powerful, flexible, and efficient structure for likelihood computation. They’re a popular tool for problems… Read more

Supervisors: Dr H Worthington, Dr C Sutherland

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Exploring synergies between statistical ecology and statistical genomics

University of St Andrews School of Mathematics and Statistics

Research Group: Division of Statistics

While superficially different, these two areas of research share several questions in common (How many species? How many of each species? How are the species distributed spatially? How should we sample?) that differ fundamentally only in whether the species in question are flora and fauna or nucleic acids and proteins. Read more

Supervisor: Dr H Worthington

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Movement through space and time, realistic movement for species abundance methods

University of St Andrews School of Mathematics and Statistics

Research Group: Division of Statistics

Evidence-based conservation and ecology are reliant on wildlife surveys. As a result, there exists a range of methods that have been developed specifically… Read more

Supervisors: Dr H Worthington, Prof DLB Borchers

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Causal inference and trial emulation for ecological observational data

University of St Andrews School of Mathematics and Statistics

Research Group: Division of Statistics

Conducting formal causal inference for ecological data is challenging due to the complex observational processes that are usually involved. Read more

Supervisors: Dr BS Swallow, Dr H Worthington

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Understanding the uncertainty in the decomposition of cancer gene or protein expression data

University of St Andrews School of Mathematics and Statistics

Research Group: Division of Statistics

Many tools exist that will take the expression profile of a tumour sample and decompose that signal into components arising from different tissue types (e.g. Read more

Supervisors: Dr M Papathomas, Prof A Lynch

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Propagation of uncertainty for signatures of mutational processes

University of St Andrews School of Mathematics and Statistics

Research Group: Division of Statistics

There is a trend, especially in cancer research, to i) take a set of DNA mutations ii) cross-categorize them by patient and mutational characteristic and iii) decompose the resulting counts matrix into two sets of vectors – one set representing the mutational impact of specific mutagens and one set representing the exposure of individuals to those mutagens. Read more

Supervisors: Dr M Papathomas, Prof A Lynch

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Incorporating Mixture of Expert Models for Longitudinal Data with Missing and Censoring

University of St Andrews School of Mathematics and Statistics

Research Group: Division of Statistics

Longitudinal data analysis is a powerful tool for studying changes in subjects over time. However, the presence of missing data and censoring poses significant challenges. Read more

Supervisor: Dr EM Mirfarah

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Supervised learning methods to measure information transfer in biology

University of St Andrews School of Mathematics and Statistics

Information theory is widely used as the basis of communication channels to transfer information through the Internet and other platforms. Read more

Supervisor: Dr G Minas

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Stochastic simulation, analysis, and inference of non-linear dynamical systems

University of St Andrews School of Mathematics and Statistics

Research Group: Division of Statistics

This project will develop a novel framework for studying the dynamics of systems presenting oscillations and multi-stabilities. This type of dynamics is abundant in many fields and especially in molecular biology, epidemiology, ecology, sociology. Read more

Supervisor: Dr G Minas

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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We have 15 University of St Andrews, School of Mathematics and Statistics PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

University of St Andrews, School of Mathematics and Statistics PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 15 University of St Andrews, School of Mathematics and Statistics PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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