Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? King’s College 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 Understanding how tyrosine phosphatases regulate the cytoskeleton
Summary of PhD Program:
This project will focus on the spatiotemporal regulation of the phosphatases PTPRA and PRL-2, both of which can bind membranes. Using CRISPR and RNAi-based approaches, we will replace these proteins in mammalian cell lines with truncated, mutant and fluorescently tagged variants and assay for localisation to the virus, cell membrane and the impact on actin dynamics. To identify interactors and substrates of PTPRA and PRL-2, we will use proximity-labelling and mass-spectrometry to identify host and viral, protein and lipidic interactors. Candidate interactions will be verified in cells by immunoprecipitation and co-labelling, and functionally tested in infected and uninfected cells.
Application Deadline: 10 February 2025
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Restoring brain health in steatotic liver disease
Summary of PhD Program:
Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) is a chronic multisystem disease, which affects ~30% of the general population and more than 80% of morbidly obese people. Studies have reported the negative effects that an unhealthy diet and obesity can have on brain function. It is now also known that MASLD increases the risk of developing depression, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease. We recently found that accumulation of liver fat causes a decrease in oxygen to the brain and inflammation to brain tissue. Specifically, MASLD affected the number and thickness of brain blood vessels, delivering less oxygen, with brain cells consuming more oxygen due to inflammation. This led to lower brain oxygen levels, which alone could be responsible for the increase risk of dementia seen in MASLD patients.
Application Deadline: 09 February 2025
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in The hydrodynamic principles for many-body systems out of equilibrium: understanding fluctuations and entanglement
Summary of PhD Program:
The general principles of hydrodynamics give a powerful framework to understand large-scale behaviours, much beyond hydrodynamics from textbooks. For instance, in integrable systems, which admit many more conservation laws than the usual energy and momentum, the hydrodynamic equations are very different – the theory is called Generalised Hydrodynamics. Most interestingly, in general, there are powerful “hydrodynamic field theories” to describe fluctuations, which show unusual non-equilibrium effects. The project will explore correlations and fluctuations at large scales using and extending these powerful new theories.
Application Deadline: 10 January 2025
4. 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 nonconvex) 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
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5. 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
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Interacting Particle Systems and Out-of-equilibrium dynamics
Summary of PhD Program:
The project is in Probability Theory and will consist of the study and mathematical analysis of problems involving interacting particle systems, percolation or mixing time of Markov chains. All candidates with interest in the above areas and a solid background in Probability Theory are encouraged to apply.
Application Deadline: 31 January 2025
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Ergodic Theory for Complex Systems
Summary of PhD Program:
Complex systems are made of a large number of components intricately interacting with each other. Even when the components are well understood in isolation, it is a great challenge to determine the emergent behaviour that results from their interactions. Models of complex systems are often prescribed by a network where each node represents a component/unit and where the links prescribe the structure of the interactions among them. Changes in the interaction structure have far reaching effects.
Application Deadline: 31 January 2025
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Causality Representation Learning based Language Models
Summary of PhD Program:
Start Up Studentship – 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
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Advanced robotic micro-manipulation of gametes
Summary of PhD Program:
Infertility is a global concern, affecting approximatively 1 in 6 couples who are trying to conceive. In vitro fertilisation (IVF) is an effective fertility treatment; however, worldwide only a privileged 2% of the clinically infertile can access IVF. In the UK, approximatively 60% of the couple who could benefit from IVF still do not have access to treatment and most UK patients end up paying out of pocket due to limited public funds. The high cost of treatment, together with the low success rate of around 33%, prohibit the widespread use of IVF.
The proposed project is part of a collaboration between King’s College London and Conceivable Life Sciences, partners who co-fund the research. Conceivable aims to revolutionise IVF by providing end-to-end automation of the IVF lab. A radical approach wherein the full IVF pipeline is being reconsidered and modernised with the help of robotics and artificial intelligence is undertaken.
Application Deadline: 12 January 2025
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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Computational Science for Music Heart Theranostics
Summary of PhD Program:
The Music Theranostics Laboratory has a PhD opportunity for research at the intersection of music science, data science, and cardiovascular science. The Lab, joint between the School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences and Department of Engineering, focuses on digital music-based research in cardiovascular therapeutics and precision diagnostics. The Lab, to be in St Thomas’ Hospital, is equipped with a reproducing piano for designing and rendering music-based interventions and with a range of sensors for capturing and recording concurrent cardiovascular parameters for music and heart research.
Application Deadline: 28 March 2025
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Chemistry: Data-driven design of organic mixed conductors
Summary of PhD Program:
This project will use data-driven computational tools to design and characterise optimised mixed conductors for bioelectronics. The PhD candidate will collaborate closely with experimental partners working on synthesis/characterisation of organic mixed conductors, integrating their insight in computational models. The project will result in new optimised materials and workflows and fundamental design rules for mixed conductors. The knowledge developed throughout this project will translate to applications such as energy storage, neuromorphic computing or drug delivery.
Application Deadline: 03 January 2025
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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Machine learning the dynamics of force-sensing proteins
Summary of PhD Program:
Mechanosensing proteins detect mechanical forces within cells and convert them into biochemical signals. Understanding the dynamic behaviour of these proteins under force is key for advancing our understanding of this process called mechanotransduction. Recent advances in single-molecule magnetic tweezers instrumentation have opened up exciting possibilities for studying these proteins under physiologically relevant forces, providing unprecedented insights into their functional states as done in a recent study by Rafael Tapia-Rojo [1]. The typical readout of such measurements is a stochastic trajectory that randomly oscillates around certain equilibrium points and quickly switches between them. In these trajectories, the signal is embedded in noise.
Application Deadline: 15 January 2025
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Social Science
Summary of PhD Program:
The application window is open until 24th January 2025, 5.00pm (UK time) for academic year 2025-26 ESRC Open Competition studentships through the London Interdisciplinary Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership (LISS DTP), offering full funding for postgraduate study. The Doctoral Training Partnership is led by King’s, partnered by Imperial College London and Queen Mary University of London.
Application Deadline: 24 January 2025
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Knowledge Orders before Modernity
Summary of PhD Program:
The Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarships Programme `Knowledge Orders before Modernity’ (KOM) is an innovative collaboration between King’s College London and the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) at the University of Kent. The programme explores the capacity of the handwritten word comparatively, after as well as before the advent of the printing press, outside as well as within western cultures. It seeks to challenge a conventional periodization which associates complex knowledge, complex archival mechanisms, and mundane recording with the development of western print culture.
Application Deadline: 27 February 2025
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15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Development of Plant-Derived Polymers to Enhance Taste and Lubrication in Plant-Based Food Products
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project aims to develop plant-derived polymers and proteins that enhance the sensory qualities, particularly the taste and mouthfeel, of plant-based food products. While plant-based foods are increasingly popular due to their environmental benefits and health advantages, many products still struggle to replicate the creamy texture and mouthfeel that consumers expect from animal-derived fats. By improving oral lubrication through specially designed plant polymers that interact with salivary mucins, this project seeks to bridge that gap, creating more appealing plant-based food alternatives.
Application Deadline: 28 March 2025
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in performance and medicine
Summary of PhD Program:
Your proposed research should aim to evidence how performance might be used to address urgent challenges and opportunities faced by future doctors and those who teach them. ‘Performance’ is defined broadly, to encompass staged or scripted performances (for example theatre, live art, popular forms), applied performance practices, or as a lens for analysing human behaviour and interaction. These pragmatic and conceptual perspectives promise fresh approaches at a time when the welcome diversification of the medical student population challenges models of medical authority and objectivity tainted by medicine’s colonial and patriarchal history; and when expectations and values set by professional frameworks (for example patient-centredness and empathy) are strained by the reality of working in a healthcare service rocked by challenging working conditions.
Application Deadline: 15 January 2025
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in Computational modelling of biobased materials from biomass degradation for applications in precision agriculture, resilient infrastructure, or energy storage
Summary of PhD Program:
Valorising biomass wastes as new carbon mines to develop biobased materials that mimic nature’s efficiency and waste-free processes is one of the most promising avenues for achieving sustainable technical solutions in precision agriculture, resilient infrastructure, and energy storage. Despite the apparent disparity among these three applications, there are common fundamental mechanisms controlling the performance of biobased materials like biochar and biocrude oils. This project aims to develop atomistic models of biomass (e.g., lignin, cellulose, or chitin) and biobased materials produced from its thermal degradation (e.g., biochar, biocrude oils, or bio-oils) to enable a fundamental understanding of their structure-property relationships, as well as simulating the molecular-scale interactions at solid-fluid interfaces.
Application Deadline: 17 February 2025
18. Fully Funded PhD Position in Chemical origins of biological catalysis on early Earth
Summary of PhD Program:
Building on recent work that prebiotic reaction pathways efficiently produce a range RNA, peptide, and coenzyme precursors under simulated early Earth conditions, we want to investigate the conventional and prebiotic chemical synthesis of biological molecules with potential catalytic functions. Our goals are to develop robust and scalable chemical syntheses that are amenable to rapidly generating catalyst libraries. These will be used to investigate their organocatalytic properties in challenging prebiotic chemical reactions. This is an exciting opportunity to tackle the origin of life question using synthetic organic chemistry and analytical chemistry. You will join Dr Saidul Islam’s group: a newly established group with a fully equipped laboratory with access to a suite of latest equipment.
Application Deadline: 16 January 2025
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19. Fully Funded PhD Position in Digital Twins for Healthcare
Summary of PhD Program:
Do you want to make a difference in digital advancements of healthcare? Do you want to bridge the gap between healthcare domain-based knowledge, state-of-the art computing, and personalization techniques? Do you want to test your skills in real-life healthcare applications? Join our Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Digital Twins for Healthcare (DT4Health) at King’s College London! DT4Health is an innovative PhD programme located at King’s, in the heart of London, arising as a joint forces collaboration between the Healthcare Faculties and the Faculty of Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences.
