Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? University of Edinburgh, Scotland 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 Elucidating molecular transport mechanisms through atomistic simulations
Summary of PhD Program:
Water scarcity is one of the grand challenges of our time. With less than 1% of the available water supply in the form of drinking water, new materials and technologies are needed to tap unconventional water sources (e.g., brackish and seawater, and wastewater). To this end, membrane processes such as reverse osmosis (RO) offer high removal of suspended solids, organic carbon, and inorganic ions compared to conventional treatment methods based on flocculation, sedimentation, and granular media filtration.
Application Deadline: June 12, 2024
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Development of Next Generation Megawatt Scale Wind Energy Power Converters
Summary of PhD Program:
Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, together with the University of Edinburgh, are looking for enthusiastic, self-motivating applicants for an exciting PhD research position that will help define the next generation of wind energy power electronic conversion systems. This work will provide the opportunity to both contribute to leading edge research and develop industry relevant skills in renewable energy, electronic design, electrical power systems and power semiconductor applications.
Application Deadline: September 18, 2024
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Developing a Systematic Food Texture Characterisation Methodology for Advanced Manufacturing
Summary of PhD Program:
Food texture is related to the way our senses perceive and feel the rheological and mechanical properties of edible substances. For example a potato chip is crispy; an apple is crunchy; butter is soft; bread is firm; candy is hard; yogurt is smooth; cream is thick; cake is moist, and honey is sticky. Food texture is critical for the consumer and impacts on a product’s market share. It is affected by the composition, manufacturing process, storage conditions and aging. It impacts the final quality and nutrition value of the food product.
Application Deadline: January 18, 2025
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Determining the water retention behaviour of unsaturated hydrophobic granular soils
Summary of PhD Program:
Hydrophobic granular soils are under investigation for constructing roads on frost-susceptible soils in China and the US, in preference to cementitious stabilisation. Hydrophobic granular soils have also been proposed for replacing other geotechnical engineering elements requiring low permeability or resistance to root growth or cracking. In the UK, road building remains a key component of reducing the climate impact of transport whilst maintaining supply chains. Simultaneously, hydraulic risks to infrastructure brought about by climate change are increasing in severity; as of 2016, a 1% chance exists every year that monthly winter rainfall in the UK will be 20% to 30% higher than previously recorded.
Application Deadline: December 1, 2024
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Designing Structured Surfaces with Superwettability Properties
Summary of PhD Program:
The wetting behaviours of liquids on solid surfaces play an important role for a wide range of engineering applications, including coatings, electronics, oil recovery, microfluidics, and inkjet printing. For many of these applications, the key challenge is to control the static and dynamic wettability of a given substrate against various liquids. To achieve such control, especially over the full range of wettability landscape, surface chemistry, while crucial, is inadequate by itself. Recent works have shown that novel surfaces with exceptional wetting properties (often termed as superwettability) can be designed by introducing roughness, lubrication, chemical heterogeneities, and tuning the elasticity of the substrate.
Application Deadline: January 16, 2025
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Design of protection systems through the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Summary of PhD Program:
The main aims of the project are to: investigate the use of Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) models to predict the ballistic response of multi-layered armour systems, comprising a diverse range of materials, to a range of ballistic impacts; and to understand the use of Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) to supplement sparse ballistic datasets and attempt to reverse this method to predict key design parameters for armour systems. An assessment of whether a set of conditional GAN can be used to condition the current network on additional auxiliary information or design requirements that refer to a specific property relevant to the ballistic data will also be conducted.
Application Deadline: June 30, 2024
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Design of microflyers for environmental monitoring
Summary of PhD Program:
In the next decade, distributed sensor network systems made of small flying sensors, from dust-scale to insect-scale, will enable a step change in monitoring natural disasters and remote areas. They will contribute to protecting the environment by providing data on the contamination of physical and biological systems and on the impact of human activities.
Application Deadline: May 1, 2025
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Design of Superconducting Electric Machines for Zero Emission Transport
Summary of PhD Program:
As a PhD candidate, you will embark on a journey of innovation, exploring the intricacies of superconducting electric machine design and EMT analysis. You will delve into numerical modelling techniques to unravel the complexities of superconducting windings and integrate cryogenic systems seamlessly. Hands-on experimental validation work will be conducted in the Applied Superconductivity Lab at the esteemed University of Edinburgh (ranked 4th in the UK based on 2021 REF and top 20 globally).
Application Deadline: June 15, 2024
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Data-Driven Computational Sensing and Imaging
Summary of PhD Program:
This project will consider a range of algorithmic and machine learning technologies including: low rank models and/or auto-encoder type architectures to identify low dimensional data representations; physics-informed and physics aware neural networks that ensure the machine learning solutions adhere to necessary physics within the sensing problem; machine learning solutions targeted reducing computation or processing time; robustness to noise, outliers and adversarial attacks; and Bayesian and variational architectures that can provide uncertainty quantification.
Application Deadline: February 28, 2025
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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Biomass conversion to fine chemicals via photocatalysis processes
Summary of PhD Program:
The conversion of biomass into value-added platform chemicals can greatly alleviate the reliance on fossil feedstock. Biomass alcohol such as benzyl alcohol is one of the important biomass-derived platform compounds and a significant feedstock, which are used to produce a series of value-added derivatives, such as benzaldehyde, hydrobenzoin, benzoin, and deoxybenzoin. Among these derivatives, the C-C coupling chemicals, hydrobenzoin, benzoin, and deoxybenzoin have higher value than the rest and can be used as the versatile intermediates for the production of high value-added downstream products, such as various chemical additives, dyestuff, pharmaceuticals as well as the precursor of photo initiator.
Application Deadline: April 30, 2025
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Antimicrobial coatings for biomedical applications
Summary of PhD Program:
Antimicrobial coating industry is rapidly growing. This is to prevent the serious problems caused by bacterial adhesion and subsequent biofilm formation on the surfaces of many devices. The project to be carried out in the Institute for Bioengineering at the University of Edinburgh is going to combine anti-adhesive approach to prevent bacterial adsorption and bactericidal method to achieve effective antimicrobial coatings.
Application Deadline: May 17, 2024
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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in America’s Cup yacht hydrofoils
Summary of PhD Program:
In 2013, for the first time, the America’s Cup was sailed with foiling boats. This led to fast growth in the use of foils on both sailing and power boats, both for racing and cruising. Foiling allows unprecedented speed and comfort, but it raises significant design challenges on control and safety. The project aims at developing an in-depth understanding of the unsteady hydrodynamics of America’s Cup hydrofoils. The project will be performed with the partnership of world-leading yacht designers and professional sailors, and will be potentially affiliated with an America Cup team.
Application Deadline: December 31, 2025
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Aerodynamics of the gliding seeds of the Javan cucumber vine
Summary of PhD Program:
The Javan cucumber (Alsomitra macrocarpa) is a vine that climbs the trees of tropical forests toward the canopy and sunlight. At great heights, it grows pods that contain hundreds of winged seeds. As the wind blows against the opening of the pods, the samaras are peeled away and released. Unlike many gliding seeds that use auto-rotation, the seed of the Javan cucumber vine exhibits a stable gliding flight with its paper-thin wings.
Application Deadline: December 31, 2025
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Aerodynamics of high-performance yacht sails
Summary of PhD Program:
The proposed project aims to investigate the fluid dynamics of yacht sails. Sails have unique flow features, which allows the generation of very high lift and high lift/drag ratio compared to wings and blades commonly used in other fields such as aeronautics and turbo machinery. The project aims to understand the underlying mechanisms of these flow features in order to allow the performance of sails to be further enhanced and, importantly, to allow the cross fertilisation of ideas in research fields where there is a need for fluid dynamic efficiency.
Application Deadline: December 31, 2025
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15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Advanced laser diagnostics investigating the fluid mechanics of primary breakup
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD position focuses on sophisticated experimental measurements that resolve the fundamental fluid dynamics that govern the primary breakup processes at liquid/gas interfaces at the core of an atomizing spray. Visualization of the liquid core will be performed using (1) Ballistic Imaging and (2) Two-Photon Laser Induced Fluorescence imaging. These diagnostics will be combined with wavelet-based optical flow to spatially resolve the velocity and acceleration along liquid/gas interfaces from successive image frames. These methods are currently being developed in phase 1 of this project.
Application Deadline: February 5, 2025
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Advanced computational modelling of nanobubble cavitation dynamics
Summary of PhD Program:
Rapid changes in pressure, such as in high-frequency ultrasound, can stimulate bubbles to nucleate, oscillate, and collapse violently, in a phenomenon known as cavitation. If uncontrolled, cavitation is a major problem in engineering, as high-speed jets can develop during their collapse upon contact with solids, which are responsible for pitting wear, and even full structural failure of turbomachinery such as pumps and ship propellers. However, these highly targeted jets have also found practical uses in the destruction of micro and nanoscale particles and pathogens, and are currently being tested in waste-water treatment, microfluidic surface cleaning, and non-invasive cancer treatment.
Application Deadline: May 15, 2024
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in Adaptive sensor fusion for optimised 3D sensing
Summary of PhD Program:
This project will investigate a multi-sensor approach to 3D imaging, using a SPAD ToF in combination with other types of sensors, with the aim of substantially reducing power consumption. The sensor fusion and modulation of the ToF laser source will be adapted according to the sensed environmental conditions to ensure robust, power-efficient sensing. As part of the sensor fusion, lightweight neural network models will be developed for 3D reconstruction and object detection. The project will use existing sensors (SPAD, RGB, EVS, IMU) as a starting point, and develop a system around them, with closed-loop control and data fusion being implemented on a single-board computer.
Application Deadline: June 30, 2024
18. Fully Funded PhD Position in A study of Sensing and Wireless Communications
Summary of PhD Program:
This project is to investigate novel techniques for sensing and achieving efficient wireless communication. To fulfil the needs of future communication networks, the study will explore both the optical and radio frequencies for simultaneous sensing and wireless communications. The promise of these techniques is to use a single system for transmitting data, identifying nearby objects of interest (similar to radar) and obtaining location information from sensor data, etc. One of the approaches of interest is the electromagnetically induced transparency with Rydberg atoms.
Application Deadline: July 31, 2024
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19. Fully Funded PhD Position in A multi-spectral single photon sensor for enhanced 3D vision
Summary of PhD Program:
This project aims to develop a single-photon LIDAR system that operates at multiple wavelengths, as opposed to conventional single-wavelength systems, and as such provides enhanced perception and ambient light suppression. To this end, system-level integration will be undertaken of existing SPAD arrays with suitable optics and customised laser sources. A microcontroller or FPGA will be used to interface to a computer for real-time acquisition. There will also be a focus on developing neural network models for enhanced object detection, tailored to the multispectral single-photon data. In addition to LIDAR, there will be opportunities to explore life sciences applications of the resulting imaging system.
Application Deadline: June 30, 2024
20. Fully Funded PhD Position in 4D printed composite morphing structures
Summary of PhD Program:
This project aims to develop a fully instrumented 4D printed multifunctional composite actuator with improved loading capacity able to tailor its deformation autonomously. The actuator will be part of a close-loop control framework including: (i) a 3D printed embedded sensors, (ii) an electro-thermal 3D printed multifunctional composite actuator, and (iii) an integrated controller. We hypothesise that a novel hybrid actuator based on polymer/ unidirectional fibre composites layers will have superior load-carrying capacity at room temperature, while providing the necessary compliance when increasing the temperature during actuation.
Application Deadline: September 14, 2024
21. Fully Funded PhD Position in Engineering Synthetic Cells for Advanced Biomedical Applications
Summary of PhD Program:
The objectives of the project include: (1) Develop innovative methodologies for constructing synthetic cells with membrane architectures, and intracellular machinery; (2) Investigate strategies for incorporating biomimetic features into synthetic cells, including cellular compartments, membrane proteins, and signaling pathways; (3) Characterize the biophysical properties and functional capabilities of synthetic cells; (4) Explore the potential applications of synthetic cells in drug delivery, biosensing, regenerative medicine, or tissue engineering; and (5) Evaluate the biocompatibility, stability, and safety profiles of synthetic cells in vitro and in vivo.
