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 Understanding the Mechanisms of Underground Storage of Carbon Dioxide and Hydrogen
Summary of PhD Program:
The aim of this project is to understand the micro-scale physical and chemical processes occurring in rocks when carbon dioxide and hydrogen are injected into them. The scientific challenge here is that a depleted hydrocarbon reservoir, where gas storage would take place, is very different from a pure synthetically made porous material. In addition to chemical and structural differences of different rock types, the pores into which the carbon dioxide or hydrogen is injected contain varying levels of sea-water and residual hydrocarbon.
Application Deadline: 23 March 2025
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Strategic Decision-Making approaches for Sustainable Technology and Innovation Management
Summary of PhD Program:
Integrating digital technologies in the boardroom: options and potential of emerging digital tools to augment socio-cognitive decision-making processes This research investigates the integration of emerging digital technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Virtual Reality (VR), Simulation, or Digital Twins into corporate boardrooms to enhance socio-cognitive decision-making and support sustainable strategic transitions. Climate uncertainty and ecosystem degradation are forcing firms to reconsider their strategic approaches and adopt innovative, regenerative practices. However, socio-cognitive challenges, such as entrenched mindsets and resistance to change, could limit the effectiveness of existing tools like roadmapping and scenario planning.
Application Deadline: 13 March 2025
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Social Anthropology of Inner Asia
Summary of PhD Program:
Applications are invited for the Sigrid Rausing MIASU PhD Studentship in the Social Anthropology of Inner Asia. The studentship, funded by a generous donation from the Sigrid Rausing Trust, will cover the University Composition Fee (tuition fees) and maintenance at the home fee rate. Applications from international students are welcome. Whilst we endeavour, where possible, to award full studentships, international students may be required to cover the fee gap between the home and overseas fee rates. The studentship is available for full-time students only and normally tenable for three years.
Application Deadline: 30 April 2025
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Investigating the causes and consequences of R-loop dysregulation in cancer
Summary of PhD Program:
We recently discovered that dysregulation of R-loop metabolism by cancer-associated mutations leads to the excision of R-loops. Excised RNA-DNA hybrids are exported from the nucleus and build up in the cytoplasm of cells, activating an innate immune response (Crossley et al., Nature 2023). We developed new biochemical, genomics and imaging approaches to study RNA-DNA hybrids across different cellular compartments. PhD projects are expected to gain mechanistic and translational insights into this novel and fascinating population of nucleic acids.
Application Deadline: 24 March 2025
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Logistics Automation
Summary of PhD Program:
A PhD studentship is available to work on Logistics automation. The student appointed will work with the Distributed Information and Automation Laboratory (DIAL) at the Institute for Manufacturing (IfM). One of the key areas of focus for the project is to systematically analyse the impact of automation for small and medium scale enterprises. This includes, but is not limited to, the automation solutions developed through the ongoing Shoestring Logistics project at IfM. Examples of such automation are warehouse automation, autonomous delivery vehicles coordination, human-robots coordination, etc. A second focus is the development of novel algorithms and systems to support logistics automation systems such as these.
Application Deadline: 31 March 2025
6. Fully Funded PhD Position
Summary of PhD Program:
Our body’s immune system is one of the most powerful tools in the fight against cancer. An improved understanding of how the adaptive immune system evolves in the context of cancer, including the effects of chronic inflammation and the phenotypic changes from premalignancy to cancer progression, could lead to improved cancer outcomes. However, these immune dynamics are difficult to study directly in humans due to longitudinal sampling constraints. To overcome these obstacles, this project will apply state-of-the-art lineage tracing techniques and single-cell multiomics to track CD8+ T cell dynamics in an inflammatory premalignancy and the resulting liver cancer.
Application Deadline: 28 March 2025
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Role of the ribotoxic stress response in determining cell fate in human skin exposed to UV-light
Summary of PhD Program:
Human skin provides a barrier against the external environment and is therefore exposed to a variety of environmental insults. When skin is exposed to ultraviolet (UV) radiation from sunlight, both acute and long-term local responses are stimulated including, inflammation, epidermal hyperplasia, carcinogenesis and keratinocyte cell death. Many of the harmful effects of UV-light on skin have been attributed to DNA damage and the activation of DNA damage signalling pathways. More recently, however, it has become clear that UV-induced RNA damage also plays a major role in the acute response of skin to UV radiation [1,2].
Application Deadline: 21 March 2025
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in electrohydrodynamics
Summary of PhD Program:
A fully funded PhD at the University of Cambridge, under the supervision of Professor Alex Routh is available. It is in collaboration with a Dynamic Smart Glass manufacturer. Dynamic Smart Glass windows become opaque or clear in response to an external trigger. Example uses can be temperature modulation in cars through to maintaining a pleasant environment in a house. To optimize the operation of such systems, we will examine the dynamics of colloidal particles in an applied electric field. The aim is to understand the resulting particle motion and accumulation under the electrodes. The project will be a combination of experimental rig design, construction and measurement as well as mathematical modelling.
Application Deadline: 23 March 2025
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in New Analytical Methods to Advance the Design of Porous Materials
Summary of PhD Program:
This project will apply these techniques to at least 3 materials thereby demonstrating this approach in application to at least one catalyst (sustainable methanol production/ sustainable aviation fuel), one inorganic adsorbent (direct air capture) and an organic membrane (carbon capture and utilization; pharmaceutical production). These methods will then be translated on to low field NMR technology such that they can then be used widely as a routine part of material design in university and industrial R&D laboratories.
Application Deadline: 23 March 2025
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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Inside Infrastructure: Unlocking Hidden Structural Insights with Muon-Enhanced Digital Twins
Summary of PhD Program:
In the field of infrastructure monitoring, current practices heavily rely on visual inspections that detect surface-level defects, which can miss underlying issues critical to structural integrity. In contrast, muon flux tomography (MFT) a game changing technology likened to an MRI for infrastructure can provide detailed internal imaging that enables a much deeper understanding of structural health. This ICASE studentship focuses on pioneering data fusion and processing techniques to integrate MFT data into a digital representation of the infrastructure asset suitable for Building Information Modelling (BIM).
Application Deadline: 14 March 2025
11. 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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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Particle-driven convection in a stratification: The mystery of ocean plastics
Summary of PhD Program:
This project will use laboratory experiments to investigate particle-driven convection, which occurs when particles settle through a stably stratified interface. Even though the initial stratification is stable, particle settling leads to an unstable interface in the density field, driving an instability. Using experimental techniques, such as PIV and PTV, shadowgraph imaging and dye attenuation, experiments will be used to characterise the flow and develop an understanding of the important physics.
Application Deadline: 31 March 2025
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in AI for reconstructing supply chains
Summary of PhD Program:
This project aims to map, model and explore systemic risk and monopolisation in service supply chains. We have never attempted modelling certain types of service supply networks from data before. Service supply chains are exhibit dependencies coupled over firms, countries and digital threads which are largely untraceable. We therefore ask, can they be predicted? In certain service industries firm level dependencies are highly concentrated in terms of number of users, resulting in systemic risk.
Application Deadline: 31 March 2025
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Designing Catalysts for Production of Sustainable Aviation Fuels
Summary of PhD Program:
The transition to net zero is driving a new phase in the development of innovative catalysts and processes because the reactants required for these ‘net zero’ processes come from new sources, and the products of the reaction are required with increasingly high specifications. This project addresses Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF) which is considered, if adopted in an environmentally responsible way, to have the potential to cut the greenhouse gas emissions of the aviation sector by up to 80% compared with traditional jet fuels (World Economic Forum) and can also be used as an energy vector where high energy density is required.
Application Deadline: 23 March 2025
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15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Protecting Glaciers – Non Physical Barriers Seabed Curtains
Summary of PhD Program:
This project will explore how the creation of bubble curtains or pumped flow might reduce the rate of melting of glaciers. Bubble curtains are already used to contain the debris created in the construction of wind turbines but have not been used in the context of reducing the rate of supply of warm deep saline water to the grounding line of glaciers. Fluid curtains are also used to disrupt exchange flows in other applications, for example overhead air curtains in the doorways of retail environments in high summer to reduce air-conditioning loads.
Application Deadline: 16 May 2025
16. 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.
Application Deadline: 16 May 2025
17. 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
18. 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
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19. Fully Funded PhD Position in Methane Mitigation: Catalysts
Summary of PhD Program:
There is an urgency to mitigate methane due to its high heat trapping potential being 84 times more than that of carbon dioxide. This is especially challenging now since most methane gases are released in small doses over large areas of natural wetlands and thawing permafrost. Current methane mitigation methods rely on high temperature processes, and this is not feasible and not efficient if deployed near natural methane sources.
Application Deadline: 16 May 2025
20. 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
21. Fully Funded PhD Position in Shaping and Enhancing Magnetic Fields with Bulk Superconductors
Summary of PhD Program:
The aim of the project is to demonstrate that Bulk Superconductors can be used to shape and enhance the magnetic field generated by superconducting solenoidal magnets. This project will involve the growth and characterisation of the superconducting properties of bulk superconductors using seeded melt growth. The project will involve developing suitable methods for the shaping of bulk superconductors and mapping the resultant magnetic field profile in the bore of a superconducting magnet. While primarily experimental some numerical modelling may be required.
