Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? King’s College London, London, 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 Modelling, performance evaluation and optimization of reconfigurable surfaces based on surface electromagnetics
Summary of PhD Program:
The development of sixth-generation (6G) networks aims to achieve unprecedented data rates, ultra-low latency, and enhanced connectivity. 6G will enable holographic telepresence, and sub-centimetre localization accuracy for sensing and tracking, exceeding 5G capabilities. These demands present significant challenges for conventional wireless communication networks. In this context, Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) and Holographic Surfaces (HoloS) offer new opportunities for energy-efficient beamforming, interference mitigation, and spectral efficiency enhancement. However, current communication models for these emerging technologies overlook near-field effects, mutual coupling, and electromagnetic interactions, limiting their ultimate performance.
Application Deadline: 30 April 2025
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Multi-modal Research on Emotion in Engineering Education
Summary of PhD Program:
Emotion is multi-componential phenomenon with motor, neurophysiology, subjective feeling, motivation, and cognition components. This model underscores the complexity of emotion and need to study it across multiple modalities. This project will take a multi-modal approach to research emotion in engineering education. Multi-modality enables meaning-making through several dynamics and representations to illuminate the layers of complex phenomenon – such as capturing physiological proxies of emotion through heartrate and electrodermal activity as well as subjective feelings through interviews.
Application Deadline: 11 August 2025
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Wildfires and Climate Change: Physics-Based Modelling of Fire Spread in a Changing World
Summary of PhD Program:
Uncontrolled wildfires are a global phenomenon that are becoming more commonplace as changes in moisture and local temperature driven by climate change affect local fuel properties and ecosystems. Different vegetation distributions can lead to very different fire spread mechanisms, as well as different effects on structures. In these PhD projects the research will aim at quantifying some of these mechanisms for different wildfire scenarios. The project will likely require a combination of qualitative, quantitative and simulation methods.
Application Deadline: 09 May 2025
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Supply scenario simulation and optimisation in a global complex multi-echelon consumer healthcare supply chain (Haleon/EPSRC funding)
Summary of PhD Program:
This is an exciting, funded PhD opportunity in mathematical data science that will appeal greatly to mathematicians who are interested both in theory and practical, real-world applications. This PhD programme will especially interest those who excelled at undergraduate courses in mathematical analysis, linear algebra, programming, optimisation, and machine learning, and want to see how their knowledge of these areas can be used to develop and apply new techniques in industry. Specifically, the project is to design, implement and analyse advanced optimisation and machine learning algorithms for use in a practical supply chain problem proposed with our industrial partner and global consumer healthcare company Haleon.
Application Deadline: 01 August 2025
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Supply scenario simulation and optimisation in a global complex multi-echelon consumer healthcare supply chain
Summary of PhD Program:
In this project, we propose the development of novel multi-objective sequential decision-making algorithms on graphs (which are intended to represent the underlying multiechelon supply chain of Haleon with varying granularity levels). The development of the said algorithmic strategies must rely on the utilization of bespoke simulation software and Haleon’s real-world supply chain data to produce realistic and competitive strategies in a timely manner.
Application Deadline: 01 August 2025
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Large-Scale Continuous Nonlinear Optimisation
Summary of PhD Program:
This project will focus on the development and analysis of efficient and robust optimisation algorithms for the solution of general or application-directed nonlinear (possibly stochastic, non-smooth, or non-convex) continuous optimisation problems of large-scale (i.e., problems with millions to billions to variables). This research will involve deriving novel first- and/or second-order optimisation methods, conducting convergence analyses and developing associated efficient implementations.
Application Deadline: 25 August 2025
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Pathwise method in stochastic analysis and mathematical finance
Summary of PhD Program:
The project will focus on pathwise methods in stochastic analysis and broadly its application in mathematical finance. Traditionally, Itô’s lemma provides a change-of-variable formula for semimartingales, interpreting the stochastic integral as the limit of left Riemann sums which exist in a well-defined probabilistic sense. However, this framework is limited to semimartingales and does not extend to more irregular processes or processes which are not Gaussian.
Application Deadline: 01 June 2025
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Nominal Specification and Verification Environments
Summary of PhD Program:
Software verification techniques have been successfully used to prove correctness of low-level programs, but verification of high-level programming languages is challenging: it requires reasoning about name binding (e.g., visible/hidden channel names, scoping rules defining local and global variable names, parameter passing and substitution of values for variables). A standard approach to deal with name binding in verification tasks is to replace names with numerical codes (de Bruijn indices). While this avoids some of the difficulties of reasoning about names in programs, conducting a formalisation in de Bruijn style is labour-intensive and imposes a significant overhead to comprehending and reusing proofs.
Application Deadline: 31 May 2025
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanics of Creases in Thin Sheets
Summary of PhD Program:
In this project, you will develop fundamental understanding of how the material and geometric properties of a crease affect its out-of-plane bending behaviour and associated buckling instabilities. This will be achieved through a combination of mathematical modelling using thin shell theory and asymptotic methods; numerical simulations, either using a coarse lattice model or commercial finite element software; and laboratory experiments on thin polymeric sheets. The knowledge developed throughout this project will inform engineering applications of creased sheets across a wide variety of contexts, including origami-based materials, shape-morphing ‘groovy metasheets’ and deployable space structures.
Application Deadline: 10 July 2025
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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Evaluating Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) in STEM doctoral training
Summary of PhD Program:
Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) is a field of research and practice which emphasises anticipating the broader implications of research in creating meaningful public benefit whilst ensuring ethical alignment with societal values and regulations. Despite increasing integration in UKRI-funded doctoral programmes, little is known about what makes RRI training effective, or how PhD students should demonstrate their competence in this area.
Application Deadline: 27 June 2025
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Devising computational methods for molecule-surface physics on a quantum computer
Summary of PhD Program:
Quantum computers are on their way, and (as originally envisaged by Feynman) one of the most impactful application areas they are expected to disrupt is in the simulation of electronic structure for molecular and materials modelling. In a unique collaboration between Prof. George Booth at King’s College London, and industry partners Capgemini QuantumLab, this ambitious PhD project will develop scalable and robust quantum algorithms for the simulation of many-body physics. Capgemini Quantum Lab, with its goal of being at the forefront of solving multi-scale chemistry and materials problems for its clients, aims to leverage and integrate the developed advanced quantum computing techniques, whose clients and partners include industry leaders such as Airbus and Total Energies, among others.
Application Deadline: 12 May 2025
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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Detection of Gravitational Waves using Machine Learning
Summary of PhD Program:
Current gravitational-wave (GW) detection pipelines for compact binary coalescence based on matched-filtering, in which incoming GWs are cross-correlated to pre-computed signal templates for given source parameters, have reported over 90 confident detections during the first three observing runs of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) detector network. Despite their many strengths, development of faster, more computationally efficient procedures to search for GW signals in data grows increasingly important as data volume increases. The purpose of the thesis will be to further develop machine learning methods and artificial intelligence techniques to improve GW detection prospects and apply them to LVK, as well as their generation (Einstein Telescope, Cosmic Explorer) and LISA searches
Application Deadline: 30 April 2025
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Causality Representation Learning based Language Models
Summary of PhD Program:
In storytelling, characters are the heartbeat of the narrative. Every action, choice, and conflict stems from who the characters are, what they want, and what they fear. A character-centric story places the individual at the centre, focusing not just on the plot, but on the emotional arcs, personal growth, and relationships that drive the narrative forward. However, in current research on large language models, the generated content is typically written in the third person and lacks interactivity.
Application Deadline: 31 May 2025
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Translational Research in Advanced Cell and Gene Therapies for Heart Failure
Summary of PhD Program:
Mutations in the nuclear envelope are the second highest cause of familial dilated cardiomyopathy. We have identified novel mutations in the nuclear envelope in heart failure patients at the inherited cardiomyopathy clinic at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospitals. However, the underlying molecular mechanisms that cause disease are poorly understood, which is due in part to a lack of appropriate human tissue models to study them.
This PhD project will use CRISPR/Cas9 technology to engineer these novel patient mutations combined state-of-the-art tissue engineering to generate ‘micro-hearts’ in a dish and light-sheet microscopy to reveal the functional effects of these mutations. Once established, the effects of clinically-approved or experimental drugs will be tested and the data relayed to geneticists and clinicians treating these patients.
Application Deadline: 11 May 2025
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15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Economic and cultural connections within Mediterranean ecosystems, c.1250-1550)
Summary of PhD Program:
ECOMEDS examines the interrelationships between economy, environment and culture in the Mediterranean, c.1250-1550. The project combines the history of the plant and animal life of the Mediterranean with the production of highly sought-after location-specific commodities (coral, honey, citrus and cheese) whose trade in the Middle Ages drew together networks of producers, merchants, processors and consumers from different places, polities and communities. Mediterranean products were also traded north where they entered new trading networks and were imbued with new meanings and values.
Application Deadline: 09 May 2025
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Improving active learning strategies for limited annotation budgets
Summary of PhD Program:
In machine learning, determining the subset of data points (e.g. images, videos) for annotation emerges as a critical decision-making process. The selected data points carry the responsibility of providing a representative snapshot of the diverse scenarios anticipated during real-world testing. Despite the multitude of proposed strategies for data point selection, an enduring observation persists, suggesting that random selection, especially in low-budget scenarios, often proves to be an optimal approach. The overarching objective of this project is to propel active learning strategies tailored specifically for situations characterized by highly limited annotation budgets. This pursuit is particularly relevant in fields with stringent budget constraints, such as medicine.
