Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD Programs in United Kingdom? University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England invites online application for multiple fully funded PhD positions in various research areas. Interested and eligible applicants may submit their online application for PhD programs via the University’s Online Application Portal.
1. Funded PhD Position in Phase transformation behaviour in high Zr biomedical materials
Summary of PhD Position:
Phase transformation behaviour in high Zr biomedical materials Superelastic alloys typically exhibit a very low elastic modulus (40 – 80 GPa) making them suitable for biomedical implant applications. Historically these alloys have been based on NiTi, however more recently there has been a significant effort to develop Ni free alternatives to enhance biocompatibility. To date, those based on the Ti-Nb system have received the most attention.
Application Deadline: 2 December 2025
2. Funded PhD Position in Imaging-Based AI Screening for Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus
Summary of PhD Position:
Falls have been reported to precede a diagnosis of NPH in 80-90% of cases. Given that a significant proportion of patients presenting with a fall undergo cranial imaging, and a number of imaging hallmarks have been shown to be of diagnostic value in NPH, the project will seek to implement an automated segmentation approach for evaluating CT head imaging performed after a fall for features of hydrocephalus. CT-based volumetric segmentation and falls-based screening have been separately reported in the context of hydrocephalus but not previously combined to enable automated flagging of at-risk individuals for further diagnostic evaluation.
Application Deadline: 14 January 2026
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3. Funded PhD Position in High-throughput synthesis and characterisation of energy materials
Summary of PhD Position:
Hybrid perovskites represent a versatile family of functional materials with dimensionalities ranging from 0D molecular clusters to 3D extended frameworks. Their tunable compositions and heterostructured architectures enable diverse optoelectronic, catalytic, and energy-related functionalities. This PhD project aims to accelerate the discovery and understanding of hybrid perovskites through high-throughput synthesis and characterisation, supported by automated robotic platforms.
Application Deadline: 2 December 2025
4. Funded PhD Position in Energy Storage and Electrochemical Carbon Dioxide Capture
Summary of PhD Position:
Research in the Forse group centres around the development of new materials for climate change mitigation. In the first available project, we will develop improved understanding supercapacitor energy storage devices. Building on recent work from the group that discovered the role of disorder in enhancing energy storage, we will seek to understand the mechanisms through which disorder enhances capacitance. In the second project, we will develop new electrochemical processes for capturing carbon dioxide in a highly energy efficient way.
Application Deadline: 1 December 2025
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5. Funded PhD Position
Summary of PhD Position:
The transition to EAF steelmaking creates challenges for the reliable production of thin rolled steel products where residual element accumulation may compromise processability and properties. This PhD will utilise thermodynamic modelling to obtain predictions of equilibrium and, where possible, non-equilibrium phases for a matrix of compositions covering flat rolled products including elevated levels of Cu, Mo, Ni & Sn. Direct comparisons will be made with experimentally identified phases from high throughput samples.
Application Deadline: 2 December 2025
6. Funded PhD Position in Autism and Addiction Research
Summary of PhD Position:
The Autism Research Centre (ARC), Cambridge University, invites applications from motivated individuals wishing to pursue a funded PhD starting in October 2026 testing if autistic people are at elevated risk of developing addictions. This scholarship offers the equivalent of full funding at the home student rate for 3.5 years. We are particularly interested in candidates with a strong academic background in psychology, neuroscience, medicine, or a related scientific field, and a keen interest in autism research. This studentship will be based at the ARC under the supervision of Professor Simon Baron-Cohen and Dr Carrie Allison.
Application Deadline: 2 December 2025
7. Funded PhD Position in AI foundation model for materials
Summary of PhD Position:
Designing materials and structures with unprecedented performance requires constitutive models that can generalise across chemistries, microstructures and loading histories. Classical approaches rely on hand-crafted modelling assumptions (e.g. specific elastic – plastic – viscoelastic laws with prescribed internal variables) that must be re-tuned or completely re-built whenever the microstructure or processing route changes, limiting transferability and slowing discovery. In this project, we will develop Recurrent Neural Operator++ (RNO++), a foundation model for constitutive behaviour that unifies materials-knowledge representations with operator learning.
Application Deadline: 5 December 2025
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8. Funded PhD Position in Towards full object analysis of precious metal artefacts
Summary of PhD Position:
The PhD studentship will be based at the University of Cambridge in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy as part of the Structural Materials Group. The Structural Materials Group is a diverse and dynamic research team working across aerospace, automotive, energy, defence, and biomedical sectors. The group’s expertise includes alloy design, microstructure-property relationships, phase transformations, advanced materials processing and characterisation.
Application Deadline: 2 December 2025
9. Funded PhD Position
Summary of PhD Position:
The microstructures of steel are sensitive to small variations in composition and the conditions experienced during processing. This can lead to variability in their properties that constrain the values that may be quoted in product datasheets. Discrimination of the microstructural constituents using metallographic approaches is challenging due to the fine scale of features and limitations of stereology. Similarly, crystallographic methods such including laboratory X-ray diffraction cannot readily distinguish between closely related structures.
Application Deadline: 2 December 2025
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10. Funded PhD Position
Summary of PhD Position:
The reliable production of EAF processed steels requires a robust understanding of the kinetics of microstructure formation and how they are influenced by compositional and processing variations. In this PhD, synchrotron X-ray diffraction will be used to track the evolving crystallography in steel samples over a wide range of cooling rates and isothermal dwells. The diffraction data will be interpreted to quantify the phase fractions and lattice parameter evolution, which in turn will allow quantification of the phase transformations taking place.
Application Deadline: 2 December 2025
11. Funded PhD Position in Human-Computer Interaction and Critical Computing
Summary of PhD Position:
A doctoral studentship is available in the forthcoming Aspirational Computing Lab (February 2026) in the Department of Computer Science and Technology (CST) at the University of Cambridge. The goal of this PhD programme is to launch one “deceptive by design” project that combines the perspectives of human-computer interaction (HCI) and critical computing.
Application Deadline: 2 December 2025
12. Funded PhD Position in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
Summary of PhD Position:
The Centre for Doctoral Training in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (NanoDTC) at the University of Cambridge invites applications for its 3.5-year interdisciplinary PhD programme. The programme combines hands-on training, cohort-based learning, and cutting-edge research, preparing graduates for careers in academia, industry, startups, and beyond. We welcome applicants from the Physical Sciences, including Chemistry, Physics, Materials, and Engineering. Shortlisting is based on written applications (qualifications, aspirations, experience), with final selection via interview focusing on independent thinking.
Application Deadline: 3 January 2026
13. Funded PhD Position in DNA Origami for Actuating NanoMachines
Summary of PhD Position:
DNA origami uses nanotechnologies to fold DNA strands into rigid 100nm-scale building blocks, to which nanoparticles and molecules can be carefully attached. We will turn these into nanomachines which can do mechanical work, long a dream of science fiction, for instance for implantable biodevices in healthcare, chemical remediation, or low cost sensors. One promising direction is to integrate functional polymer strands into these DNA devices, which allows them to respond to light, heat, or chemical environment.