Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? University of Exeter, England invites online application for multiple funded PhD Programs / fully funded PhD positions in various research areas.
Candidates interested in fully funded PhD positions can check the details and may apply as soon as possible. Interested and eligible applicants may submit their online application for PhD programs via the University’s Online Application Portal.
1. Fully Funded PhD Position in Metamaterials
Summary of PhD Program:
Exeter’s Centre for Metamaterials Research and Innovation (CMRI) is a community of academic, industrial, and governmental partners that harnesses world-leading research excellence from theory to application, and enables simulation, measurement, and fabrication of metamaterials and metamaterial-based devices. Our breadth of research is our centre’s strength: our PhD students, researchers and academics solve multi-faceted research questions and challenges. Our work spans physics, engineering, maths and computer science, including electromagnetism (from visible and infra-red through to THz and microwave), acoustics and fluidics, undertaken in parallel with research on numerical, analytical and AI modelling techniques.
Application Deadline: 31st August 2023
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Accelerated virtual testing
Summary of PhD Program:
The project will aim at developing numerical methods to accelerate the simulation of localised phenomena, such as fracture and interface failure, with the ultimate objective of facilitating the extensive use of virtual testing in the development of over-printing methods. In particular, adaptive model order reduction, as well as domain decomposition techniques will be developed to exploit the localised nature and progressive evolution of these phenomena. While the project will primarily focus on the development of numerical methods, the target application will be virtual testing of over-printing in composites. To this end, the developed techniques will be experimentally validated using results obtained in Centre for Additive Layer Manufacturing.
Application Deadline: 30th August 2023
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in AI for smart energy system management
Summary of PhD Program:
Decarbonisation of the energy system is key to combatting climate change and achieving a net-zero (NZ) future. The 2018 IPCC report highlights the climate emergency and criticalness of achieving a NZ greenhouse gas future to limit future temperature rise to 1.5C. Buildings are responsible for 30% of greenhouse gas emissions like carbon-dioxide and 40% of the total energy consumption and hence a large contributor to global warming. At the same time, building occupants spend 90% of their time in indoor spaces, raising the need to maintain indoor air quality within acceptable ranges due to a strong correlation that exists between carbon dioxide levels and occupants’ health, well-being, and productivity. The smart building concept has been recognised by the research community as one of the key approaches to make buildings energy efficient, healthy, comfortable and places where productivity and talent cultivation is encouraged.
Application Deadline: 4th September 2023
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Data-driven Analytics and Digital Twins
Summary of PhD Program:
Data-driven analytics is a key focus area of the PhD. Data in the form of event logs from manufacturing systems can be used for process mining and machine learning. Yet another example is using real-time data with simulation techniques, such as discrete-event and agent-based modelling, to develop Digital Twins of complex manufacturing systems. Further, the PhD will investigate novel methodologies and frameworks in fields such as Circular Economy and how they could be combined with data-driven analytics to inform the development of sustainable manufacturing.
Application Deadline: 30th September 2023
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Management and Business
Summary of PhD Program:
We have a very generous funding scheme to support the most outstanding students who wish to complete a PhD in Management and Business. Successful applicants first receive funding to complete one of the University of Exeter Business School’s Research Masters (MRes), which provides a rigorous foundation in the skills that are required to conduct high quality research. Students who meet the PhD entry criteria will then receive funding for full-time study in one of the University of Exeter Business School’s PhD programmes.
Application Deadline: 20th June 2024
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Convex Seascape Survey
Summary of PhD Program:
This studentship is one of three international studentships that form part of the Convex Seascape Survey, a five-year, multi-partner, international collaborative investigation of blue carbon on continental shelves. The overall aim of the project is to explore and quantify the nearshore ocean carbon sink, asking questions such as where is the carbon, how much is there, where did it come from and how is it affected by human activity? The particular questions to be explored by the students could include assessing recovery of seabed carbon stocks after human disturbances, such as trawling and dredging, and the influence of dynamic natural sedimentation processes on ‘blue’ carbon uptake, storage and loss.
Application Deadline: 30th August 2023
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Maximising the Potential of Waste Heat Recovery
Summary of PhD Program:
The high wastewater flow rate in the vicinity of heat demand locations creates a great potential for sewer heat recovery. However, if heat Is removed, the consequent temperature reduction may compromise the effectiveness of downstream wastewater treatment. Furthermore, there is a usual mismatch between heat demand and availability in temporal terms. Existing computational models estimate the possible heat recovery from sewers while maintaining the quality of treatment. However, maximising the potential of heat recovery requires the optimisation of the heat exchange processes.
Application Deadline: 28th August 2023
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Artificial-intelligence-Enabled Active Metamaterials
Summary of PhD Program:
We are looking for a highly motivated candidate with a strong background in the following related areas: plasmonics, nanophotonics and/or optical metamaterials. Experience in numerical simulation in photonics (by Lumerical FDTD, COMSOL Multiphysics and/or CST Microwave Studio) is desirable. Experience in Deep-learning packages in MATLAB and/or Python is a plus. During this studentship you will be exposed to a wide range of exciting areas including nanophotonics, optical metamaterials and deep learning, developing your skills in optical design, nanofabrication/characterisations, and programming.
Application Deadline: 31st August 2023
9. Fully Funded PhD Position
Summary of PhD Program:
Applications are now open for Commonwealth PhD Scholarships (for citizens of high income Commonwealth countries) for full-time doctoral study at a UK university, beginning in January/February 2024. Funded by the Department for Education (DfE) and host universities in the UK, these scholarships support world class research at PhD level that will have impact in a field relating to sustainable development. They are intended for candidates with the potential to undertake research of a developmental nature, and to become influential leaders, teachers, or researchers in their home countries, who could not afford to study in the UK without additional financial support.
Application Deadline: 1st September 2023
10. Fully Funded PhD Position in THz and mm-wave detection through silicon luminescence
Summary of PhD Program:
In this project we will develop a new technology for detecting THz and mm-waves, exploiting a very recent discovery by the Exeter THz group: by measuring heating induced changes to luminescence, one can make a very sensitive detector for these frequencies. This discovery, once fully developed, could have wide ranging applications, effectively turning any silicon based camera, such as a modern smartphone, into a sensitive THz detector.
Application Deadline: 31st August 2023
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in interaction of APOE4 with TDP43 proteinopathy in driving neurodegeneration
Summary of PhD Program:
The proposed study will not only develop a fully characterized new model to study TDP43 proteinopathies but will also highlight how genetic risk synergizes with a key biochemical hallmark to drive neuronal dysfunction in dementia. Additionally, the genomic studies highlighted will discover new candidates for therapeutic intervention. The student will be based in the LSI, an interdisciplinary initiative between Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Biosciences and the Medical School. The LSI houses a high-content high-throughput imaging platform that can conduct phenotypic screens on neurons.
Application Deadline: 15th September 2023
12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Risk Management Framework
Summary of PhD Program:
The proposed PhD project aims to disrupt this conventional adaptive approach to offshore wind risk management by developing a qualitative and quantitative risk management framework for offshore wind construction and operation. The intention is for this framework to be valid for the current global fleet of offshore wind farms as well as adaptable for future offshore wind projects, which will utilise the latest technology trends.
Application Deadline: 1st September 2023
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Tracing the Origins of Blue Carbon
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD will utilise marine sediment cores collected around the Argentine Shelf, and other suitable locations, to answer questions around the rate and nature of carbon sequestration in relation to changing (palaeo)biodiversity in shallow-marine environments. A multi-proxy suite of palaeoecological, geochemical, radiometric dating (radiocarbon and short-lived radioisotopes) and eDNA techniques will be developed, refined and applied to these sediments to generate a high-resolution, holistic molecular fingerprint of changes in the presence and abundance of these species, and of the marine sediments which have accumulated over recent centuries.
Application Deadline: 25th August 2023
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in conservation and population demography
Summary of PhD Program:
Iconic baobab trees (Adansonia digitata) are ecologically, culturally, and economically important across Africa. However, there is widespread concern about the viability and management of aging baobab populations, as human-induced perturbations to ecological systems throughout Africa have hindered the recruitment of new baobab trees into the population and created a demographic skew. This project will be centred on Quiver Tree’s Kremetart Conservation Project, located in the Soutpansberg Mountains in South Africa’s Limpopo Provence undertaking place-based learning to deepen the connections and relevance of the applied research, as well as collaborating with other organizations and projects working on baobab trees including Shangani Holistic in Zimbabwe.
