Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? University of Cambridge, Cambridge, 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 Light-driven carbon dioxide valorisation
Summary of PhD Program:
The overall aims of this Leverhulme Trust-funded project are to valorise carbon dioxide and set the path towards viable technologies for defossilisation of the energy sector and chemical industry. To do so, the Optical Nanomaterials Group at the University of Cambridge has developed sunlight absorbers based on nanoparticles of earth-abundant magnesium,[1-2] and has demonstrated that they can be coupled with catalytically active metals to drive chemical reactions with light [3-4].
Application Deadline: 1 July 2025
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in mild traumatic brain injury
Summary of PhD Program:
This project will aim to understand how implementation such technologies may effect pathways. This work will involve scoping of existing care pathways and the impact on mTBI patient experience, including the identification of care gaps and unmet need. It will take advantage of data collected as part of the NIHR EME funded study BRAINS-TBI (Biomarkers for RAtional Investigation for Neurological decision Support in TBI, Chief Investigator Newcombe, NIHR159241); a UK multi-centre study of >2000 patients with mTBI, as well as other linked datasets, and consider health delivery models that could incorporate such innovations and technologies into routine practice. Specific details of the PhD project will be determined by the student’s interests.
Application Deadline: 16 May 2025
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in History & heritage of discovery of environmental change & interpretation of place in East England
Summary of PhD Program:
This project will explore how local and global understandings of climate and the environment have been created in the East of England. It will investigate the sites, museum collections and academic research groups working in the twentieth century that have delivered new understandings of place and changing climate in this region. It takes advantage of several archival and museum collections of documents, instruments, specimens and sites to invite innovative research that investigates how deeper understandings of place in the east of England were developed.
Application Deadline: 16 May 2025
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in High Entropy Superalloys
Summary of PhD Program:
Advanced materials for high-temperature applications are critical for improving efficiency and reducing emissions in energy and aerospace industries. While Ni-based superalloys have long been the standard, their limits are being reached. Refractory high entropy superalloys (RHEAs) offer a promising alternative, combining high melting temperatures with intermetallic reinforcement similar to Ni-based superalloys. However, several challenges hinder their implementation, including microstructural instability, the formation of detrimental intermetallic phases, and poor oxidation resistance.
Application Deadline: 16 May 2025
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in High Performance titanium alloy
Summary of PhD Program:
Ti6Al-4V has been the aerospace industry’s standard titanium alloy due to its strong balance of properties and low density. However, future aerospace designs demand materials with enhanced performance. Recent research suggests that reducing solute content can improve work hardening behavior while maintaining high yield stress, increasing energy absorption – an essential feature for aerospace applications. This project aims to deepen the understanding of how alloy composition influences properties and processability in solute-lean titanium alloys.
Application Deadline: 16 May 2025
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electric furnace steelmaking
Summary of PhD Program:
This research will develop a high-throughput method for evaluating residual elements in EAF steel, particularly in automotive and packaging-grade alloys. Using thin-film deposition, the project will create miniaturised steel specimens with controlled variations of impurity elements (e.g., Cu, Ni, Sn, Sb, Mo) to assess their impact on microstructure and mechanical properties. The ability to generate thousands of unique compositions on a single sample will significantly accelerate alloy prototyping and testing.
Application Deadline: 16 May 2025
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Farm Animal Health and Production
Summary of PhD Program:
Applications are invited for this 12-month Scholarship programme, which provides an opportunity for new graduates or recently qualified veterinarians to receive high-quality postgraduate training in farm animal studies under the supervision of experienced farm animal clinicians in the Cambridge Farm Animal Veterinary Services ambulatory and referral practice at the University of Cambridge. The emphasis of the programme is on gaining practical clinical experience in farm animal medicine and herd health and will allow the Scholar to identify specific fields of farm animal work in which to specialise, either in preparation for Senior Clinical Training Scholarship programmes, or for specialist private practice.
Application Deadline: 26 May 2025
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Enabling a natural capital approach to infrastructure transitions
Summary of PhD Program:
This project develops a methodology to incorporate services from natural capital in infrastructure delivery strategies. The project identifies infrastructure services (e.g., climate resilience, mobility, carbon storage) and the potential for natural capital to provide these services alongside built infrastructure. The project will bridge existing approaches to identify and value services from natural capital with methodologies for national infrastructure assessment and delivery. The project combines a focus on systems thinking with a data-driven approach to quantify natural capital services and integrate them in infrastructure modelling platforms. These can support actions by stakeholders in the infrastructure systems to effect change and improved outcomes.
Application Deadline: 16 May 2025
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Future Infrastructure and Built Environment: Unlocking Net Zero
Summary of PhD Program:
We have funding for a number of 1+3 MRes/PHD studentships, in collaboration with industry, as part of our EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Future Infrastructure and Built Environment: Unlocking Net Zero (FIBE3 CDT), under the four following themes:
-Current and disruptive technologies
-Circularity and whole life approach
-Al-driven digitalisation and data
-Risk-based systems thinking and connectivity
Application Deadline: 16 May 2025
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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Protecting Glaciers – Non Physical Barriers Seabed Curtains
Summary of PhD Program:
With ice in polar regions disappearing at record rates it is important to investigate potential options to keep land-based, glacier ice on land whilst greenhouse gas levels are reduced; not just emissions, but atmospheric levels. A number of glaciers, including the large Thwaites glacier in Antarctica, are at risk of increasing slippage and loss due to warmer water finding its way to the grounding line at the toe of the glacier. The warming of deep saline water currents is increasing the rate of melting of these kinds of glaciers, and thereby increasing the risk of higher rates of irreversible sea level rise.
Application Deadline: 16 May 2025
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Protecting Glaciers – Melting and flow through snowpack
Summary of PhD Program:
This project would combine laboratory experiments on the melting of idealised porous media with larger scale numerical simulations of the Greenland ice pack. First, warm water will be rained onto a porous matrix of pre-frozen together glass beads on a slope to examine how the flow of the distributed water becomes channelised as the connections between beads opens. Subsequent experiments will utilise crushed ice to examine the flow, melting and hence focusing with initially distributed flow down a slope. Finally, these experiments will be complemented by catchment-scale modelling of melting and flow using Basilisk, and coupled to a hybrid parameterisation of turbulent flow, dissipation and heating, and hence melting in supraglacial river networks.
Application Deadline: 16 May 2025
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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Ice Thickening – Freezing flow through snow
Summary of PhD Program:
How far does water spread through cold snow? This question is fundamental to understanding the surface hydrology of Greenland, the infiltration of seawater into fractured ice shelves, and the feasibility of flooding snowpack for Arctic refreezing. As water flows through cold snow, the water freezes, shrinking the pore space, and restricting the water flow, until eventually everything is frozen in place. This project would investigate flow in a porous medium, including phase change, from an experimental and numerical perspective.
Application Deadline: 16 May 2025
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Protecting Glaciers – Physical barriers Sea Bed Curtains
Summary of PhD Program:
This project will involve collaboration with the University of Lapland, Aker Solutions (an engineering consulting company based in Norway with a UK office), and a number of other universities looking at the possibility of creating physical barriers to impede the flow of deep saline, warm water encroaching upon the grounding line of glaciers. The concept involves the installation of buoyant flexible curtains tethered to the ocean floor in front of glaciers.
Application Deadline: 16 May 2025
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Methane Mitigation: Catalysts
Summary of PhD Program:
With the advancements in renewable technologies, it has become attractive to utilize these ‘free’ electrons to tackle problems related to sustainability such as that mentioned above. In this studentship, you will engineer nanostructures and investigate catalytic properties under charge modulation for methane removal. You will determine the effects of charge application, methane concentration, different modes of perturbation, etc. with the objective of developing an active material. My group specializes in coating and thin film methods and catalytic systems, and the big picture goal is to find an alternative material that is just as active as expensive precious metals such as palladium and platinum, the two best thermal methane oxidation catalysts in industry.
Application Deadline: 16 May 2025
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15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Direct Air Capture – Process modelling and scaling up material production
Summary of PhD Program:
We face a climate change crisis, and it is now accepted that we not only need to dramatically reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, but that we also need to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. The Forse Group in the Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry are working on “direct air capture” (DAC), an approach where sponge-like materials are used to capture carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere. The traditional sponge materials for this process have issues including poor long-term stability and/or the need for very high temperatures (up to 900 ºC) to regenerate the sponges for reuse.
Application Deadline: 16 May 2025
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in the Non-Elite Painting and Decorating Trade in Britain 1600-1800
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD will explore the lives and careers of people who painted and decorated working-class and lower-middle-class homes and lodging houses in the early modern period. The project will involve extensive archival research in numerous British collections. The successful candidate will also be involved in the museum’s upcoming redisplay of the early modern period rooms. This project will be jointly supervised by Dr Matthew Walker (Assistant Professor in Architectural History), Dr Frank Salmon (Associate Professor in the History of Art) at Cambridge; and, at the Museum of the Home, by Marina Maniadaki (Exhibitions and Project Manager) and Louis Platman (Curator and Research Manager).
