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The objective in this exciting cross-disciplinary project is to investigate the potential of a bio-inspired coating of flexible devices to passively modify energetic modes of an unsteady crossflow and to assess, for the first time, the role of colour in determining mechanical properties. Read more

Supervisor: Dr A Revell

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

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Stress grading with novel 2D materials in cable systems rated at transmission voltages

The University of Manchester Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering

A key pre-breakdown phenomenon in polymer is electrical treeing, which are microscale tree-like hollow channels growing within the solid insulating material. Read more

Supervisors: Dr T Chen, Prof I Kinloch

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

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A new twist on catalysis: folded oligomers with organometallic termini

The University of Manchester Department of Chemistry

A key feature of biological systems is the storage and transmission of information across multi-nanometre distances, which maintains the complex chemical networks and functions within cells. Read more

Supervisor: Dr S Webb

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

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Nanobody-conjugated graphene based electromechanical biosensors

The University of Manchester Department of Materials

A nanobody corresponds to a fragment of an camelid antibody (VHH) containing a single monomeric antibody domain. Read more

Supervisor: Dr A Vijayaraghavan

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

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Development of a wafer-scale graphene MEMS manufacturing process

The University of Manchester Department of Materials

Graphene is the ideal membrane material for micro/nano electromechanical systems (M/NEMS) due to its high stiffness and strength, high elasticity, high electrical and thermal conductivity and low areal mass. Read more

Supervisor: Dr A Vijayaraghavan

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

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Hybrid explicit-implicit time integration schemes for smoothed particle hydrodynamics

The University of Manchester Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering

Smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) is a method for numerical solution of fluid mechanics problems. In this method fluid continuum is approximated by a number of interacting particles. Read more

Supervisors: Dr M Mihajlovic, Dr G Fourtakas

28 April 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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Distributed active reinforcement learning for multi-agent planning and control

The University of Manchester Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering

With the rapid development of network-connected systems, coordination and cooperation among the subsystems/agents have become increasingly important and powerful in many control and robotics applications. Read more

Supervisor: Dr Z Li

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

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Data Lake Exploration with Modern Artificial Intelligence Techniques

The University of Manchester Department of Computer Science

Data Lakes are emerging as data management infrastructures for storing data in various schemata and structural forms. Read more

Supervisors: Prof N Paton, Dr J Chen

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

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Defining the molecular mechanisms of leukaemia chemotherapies

The University of Manchester Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health

Chemotherapies are usually the backbone of cancer treatment for either curative or palliative patient care. Multiple therapies can be used for the same disease, with the choice of drug dependent on parameters such as the patient’s age and fitness. Read more

Supervisors: Dr JK Knight, Dr K Batta, Dr D Wiseman

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

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Design principles for glancing at information by visually disabled users

The University of Manchester Department of Computer Science

We wish to explore the principles for the provision of glances at information to be used by those with visual disabilities. A glance, gist or brief look is an important aspect of interaction with the world via the visual system. Read more

Supervisors: Dr R Stevens, Dr C Jay

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

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Viral-surface interactions studied by vibrational sum-frequency spectroscopy

The University of Manchester Department of Materials

The recent COVID-19 pandemic, and in particular fomite transmission of the virus, led to a lot of interest in how viral particles attached to surfaces, their survival times on different materials and how they transferred to hosts. Read more

Supervisors: Dr A Thomas, Dr R Lindsay

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

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Engineering Ice-Binding Proteins

The University of Manchester Department of Chemistry

Ice-binding proteins are produced by extremophiles to help them survive in the worlds coldest places. They have many potential applications, from the storage of cells/tissue to transport infrastructure. Read more

Supervisor: Prof m Gibson

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

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High-throughput biomaterials discovery

The University of Manchester Department of Chemistry

Polymer biomaterials have revolutionised a range of areas from drug delivery, to antimicrobials, to cellular cryopreservation. There are 1000’s of possible monomer combinations, molecular weights and architectures to be explored, and even small differences can dramatically change their properties. Read more

Supervisor: Prof m Gibson

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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New strategies to cryopreserve cell-based therapies

The University of Manchester Department of Chemistry

In the past decade, cell-based therapies have emerged to transform the treatment of disease, particularly cancer. Whilst potent, these therapies are challenging to deliver in practise as must be stored frozen (cryopreserved). Read more

Supervisor: Prof m Gibson

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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Degradable and resorbable polymeric cryoprotectants

The University of Manchester Department of Chemistry

Extremophiles have evolved to survive in the world’s coldest environments, through the production of specialised macromolecules, such as antifreeze proteins and ‘ice nucleating proteins. Read more

Supervisor: Prof m Gibson

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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