Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? University of Liverpool, 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 Machine learning and data science for materials discovery
Summary of PhD Program:
New materials hold great promise in addressing global challenges that our society faces today. For instance, green hydrogen as a sustainable transport fuel requires the development of materials for better electrolysers to accelerate the transition to clean transportation. Similarly, the realisation of better catalysts will minimise the impact of manufacturing the chemicals and materials that society needs. However, discovering these transformative materials is a challenging and time-consuming task that requires diverse expertise and is plagued by the need for trial-and-error. We need a better way, which means we need to develop better tools.
Application Deadline: 31 December 2023
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Laser-driven Proton Beam Therapy
Summary of PhD Program:
Radiation therapy, a cornerstone of cancer treatment, is used in over 50% of cancer patients. The most frequently used types of radiotherapy employ photon or electron beams with MeV-scale energies. Proton and ion beams offer substantial advantages over X-rays because the bulk of the beam energy is deposited in the Bragg peak. This allows dose to be conformed to the tumor while sparing healthy tissue and organs at risk. The benefits of proton and ion-beam therapy are widely recognized.
Application Deadline: 30 September 2023
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Improving the detection of Developmental Hip Dysplasia in Infants
Summary of PhD Program:
If identified in the weeks after birth, 90% if babies can be treated with a removable brace, that the child typically wears for 6-8 weeks over their clothes. If identified later, the child often needs invasive surgery to put the hip back in position. There is a national screening programme that aims to identify DDH, through clinical examination and, when needed, ultrasound. Every baby born in England has the details of the screening assessment entered onto a national computer system (called Smart4NIPE). Newly, the system has started to collect details of the clinical examination, ultrasound tests and treatment.
Application Deadline: 30 September 2023
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Finding a balance between operational energy, embedded carbon, embedded plastic
Summary of PhD Program:
Carbon zero targets are often presented in relation to operational energy. Design solutions to achieve these goals alone can, in many instances, result in increased embodied carbon and embodied plastic content and can reduce opportunities for material re-use. This is particularly notable in the construction industry, where solutions to reducing energy demand often include a significantly increase in the use of complex polymer insulations and air tightness tapes.
Application Deadline: 10 October 2023
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Exploring how complex glycans shape the human gut microbiota and its interaction with the host
Summary of PhD Program:
This project seeks to understand the molecular mechanisms by which gut bacteria metabolise complex carbohydrates and how this influences their interaction with the host. You will employ an integrated strategy of protein biochemistry, bacterial genetics, metabolomics, and tissue culture to uncover the fundamentals of these metabolic processes seeking how they can be exploited to maximise human health and treat diseases.
Application Deadline: 27 February 2024
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Ecological and Environmental Impacts of Extreme Compound Floods
Summary of PhD Program:
Estuaries represent globally significant systems that link fluvial and coastal systems, and rank as one of the world’s most productive ecosystems. Estuaries play a critical role in the carbon and hydrological cycles, and are chemically and physically important for food production and catchment services. High sediment / nutrient fluxes can stimulate biodiversity and support critical ecosystems, and can be influenced by tidal forcing, freshwater discharge, and extreme weather events including storm surges. Different combinations of extreme weather events can cause flooding in estuaries, and drive fluxes in chemical contaminants and pollutants.
Application Deadline: 3 October 2023
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Disentangling land use and climatic roles in sediment delivery to upland British lakes
Summary of PhD Program:
Changes to agricultural land use practices and climate represent serious challenges to the future management of rural landscapes, as humans have dramatically altered the European landscape over thousands of years. In the U.K., the ‘modern’ rural landscape may seem comparatively stable relative to this long history of human impact. However, there have been important changes linked to agricultural practices during the last ca. 100 years, particularly since the 1940s, with recent improvements in land management designed to reduce impacts on land and water resources. These changes correspond to simplification in crop rotations and loss of non-crop features, such as the removal of abandonment of hedgerows. Such changes have affected both the aesthetic qualities of the countryside as well as impacting on the biophysical environment.
Application Deadline: 3 October 2023
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Discovery of zero thermal expansion materials using Machine Learning and Advanced Data Analytics
Summary of PhD Program:
Low and zero thermal expansion materials are used in many industries where size stability under high temperatures is critical e.g., aerospace, precision manufacturing, sensors. New classes of material are needed to meet intensifying future demands. There are considerable barriers to discovering the required materials. The underlying physics is complex and difficult to predict from first principles, and the space of possible materials is large and equally complex, especially when a combination of properties is needed, i.e., in this case zero thermal expansion and high machinability and durability.
Application Deadline: 17 March 2024
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Discovery of new optoelectronic materials for coatings on glass towards net zero technologies
Summary of PhD Program:
This project aims to develop new materials for optoelectronic applications on glass to contribute to the net zero agenda. New materials are required to maintain the pace of efficiency and performance improvements in thin film PV devices, energy saving glazing, electronic displays, lighting and other emerging markets. Previous work in collaboration with NSG has used computational chemistry and deep (machine) learning to predict new material compositions with high optical transparency and high electrical conductivity.
Application Deadline: 31 December 2023
10. Fully Funded PhD Position in lithium solid electrolytes for all-solid-state batteries
Summary of PhD Program:
The project will combine synthetic solid-state chemistry, advanced structural analysis and measurement of physical and electrochemical properties of new lithium solid electrolytes, enabling the successful candidate to develop a diverse experimental skillset in materials chemistry and battery chemistry. The focus will be on the discovery of new materials and structures with enhanced performance, accelerated by working with computational design experts. Owing to the multi-faceted nature of this dynamic project, the student will work closely with computer scientists, inorganic (electro)chemists, physicists, engineers, and material scientists, as part of the EPSRC Programme Grant “Digital navigation of chemical space for function”, to discover new solid electrolytes for all-solid-state Li metal batteries.
Application Deadline: 31 December 2023
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in mobile robotic system for agriculture applications
Summary of PhD Program:
This project aims to design and develop a Mobile Robotic System which will autonomously and safely navigate within an agriculture setting to monitor and respond to key sensor data of moisture and temperature to optimise particular farming tasks to support farmers and reduce risks of contamination and/or infection. Developing an autonomous system capable of operating in harsh changeable environment such as in agriculture settings, is a significant research challenge. The dynamic cluttered setting and the uneven and changing terrain are major challenges to an autonomous vehicle to safely map and navigate its way around a farm and complete set tasks.
Application Deadline: 31 October 2023
12. Fully Funded PhD Position in validation techniques for computational models
Summary of PhD Program:
This project is part of a 4 year Dual PhD degree programme between the National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) in Taiwan and the University of Liverpool (UoL) in England. As part of the NTHU-UoL Dual PhD Award students are in the unique position of being able to gain 2 PhD awards at the end of their degree from two internationally recognised world leading Universities. As well as benefiting from a rich cultural experience, students can draw on large scale national facilities of both countries and create a worldwide network of contacts across 2 continents.
Application Deadline: 31 December 2023
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Decarbonising global supply chains: tools for trade-off decision-making
Summary of PhD Program:
The energy transition for a low carbon future requires a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel usage along global supply chains (GSCs). GSCs are influenced by, and need to respond to, complex tensions between regulatory, logistics, economic, and geopolitical factors. Optimisation of GSCs therefore needs solving using modelling that is well-constrained and can navigate multi-objective, conflicting issues, with regularly updated assumptions and re-calibration. GSCs will hugely benefit from a dynamic decision support system (DDSS) that can guide stakeholders in informed trade-off decision making.
Application Deadline: 30 October 2023
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Computing over Compressed Data: New Space-Efficient Data Structures for Structure Data
Summary of PhD Program:
The goal of this project is to lay the theoretical foundation for computing over compressed representations of graph-structured data, to better accommodate memory constraints. As part of larger team, you will use ideas from information theory, data compression, and succinct data structures, (structural) graph theory or the analysis of algorithms towards (1) quantifying the intrinsic information content of graph-structured data, (2) new compression methods for graph-structured data, and (3) designing and analysing space-efficient data structures for certain classes of graphs.
Application Deadline: 31 December 2023
15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Computational Modelling of Nano-Bio-Interfaces
Summary of PhD Program:
We invite applications for a PhD studentship as part of the Doctoral Training Centre in Biofilms Innovation, Technology and Engineering (BITE). The student will perform computational chemistry research at surfaces and interfaces under the supervision of Dr Matthew Dyer and Prof Rasmita Raval at the University of Liverpool. Biofilms are communities of micro-organisms that stick to each other within a matrix or at a surface and represent the dominant mode of life for bacteria on earth. Biofilms impact on a ~$5 trillion global economic activity and impact on health and major UK industrial sectors. Understanding and controlling the interaction of molecules with the surfaces of inorganic materials is crucial to gaining control of biofilms and to prevent their formation.
