Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? University of Liverpool, Liverpool, 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 Using Artificial Intelligence to study cellular changes in high consequence viral infections
Summary of PhD Program:
This project is based at the University of Liverpool and focuses on using artificial intelligence and machine learning to study cellular morphology during infection with high-consequence viruses such as SARS-CoV-2, MERS, and Ebola. The student will employ confocal and live-cell imaging, sequencing, and AI techniques to quantify and analyse how viruses manipulate cells and to evaluate the effectiveness of medical countermeasures.
Application Deadline: 22 August 2025
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Advanced AI-empowered Secure, Green, and Robust 6G networks
Summary of PhD Program:
With the rapid development of wireless technologies, it is expected that future telecommunication systems can serve an enormous number of heterogeneous wireless devices with high-rate and low-latency communications. This funded PhD project aims to face these critical challenges and address them to ensure their successful deployment and operation.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
Follow FellowshipBard for daily updates!
3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Understanding Microbial Colonisation of Surfaces via Correlative Spectroscopic Imaging
Summary of PhD Program:
Microbial attachment to surfaces is the first step to biofilm formation, sophisticated microbial communities encased in a protective matrix. The impact of biofilms on global economies is almost $5trillion per annum. Biofilm prevention is key for multiple industrial sectors. This PhD project aims to improve understanding of microbe-surface interactions and attachment using advanced imaging techniques.
Application Deadline: 1 September 2025
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Understanding, and high-throughput development, of the formulation of spray coating solutions for industrial applications
Summary of PhD Program:
The project will contribute to understanding the process of, and development of new chemistries for, depositing functional coatings on glass with a major industrial collaborator (NSG/Pilkington). The project will make use of state-of-the-art characterisation to understand the process and high throughput methodologies to develop new coating formulations and materials.
Application Deadline: 22 August 2025
Find Fully Funded PhD in UK
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Solution synthesis of multi-anion functional materials
Summary of PhD Program:
The project is based in the Materials Innovation Factory at the University of Liverpool, a state-of-the-art facility for the digital and automated design and discovery of materials. The project will make use of tools developed in the multi-disciplinary EPSRC Programme Grant: “Digital Navigation of Chemical Space for Function” and the Leverhulme Research Centre for Functional Materials Design, that seek to develop a new approach to materials design and discovery, exploiting machine learning and symbolic artificial intelligence, demonstrated by the realisation of new functional inorganic materials.
Application Deadline: 31 August 2025
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Single-Molecule Electroluminescent Devices as Single-Photon Sources
Summary of PhD Program:
Recent advancements in nanoscience have enabled the reliable and reproducible wiring of molecules into electrical circuits. A single molecule can be sandwiched between two metallic electrodes (a “molecular junction”) and an electrical current can be driven through, enabling the assessment of their electronic and charge transport properties at the smallest scale possible. As electrons flow through the molecule, a tiny fraction of their energy is slowly and steadily converted into light – single-molecule junctions behave like an extremely small OLED.
Application Deadline: 30 September 2025
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Selective C-H functionalisations in industrially important alkylarenes
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project will focus on designing conceptually new metal-mediated selective C-H functionalisations of arenes without directing groups. This will be achieved by exploring the unique reactivity of transition metal complexes that coordinate arenes in a rare eta-4 mode. This coordination mode bends the aromatic ring and enables the arene to undergo a range of unconventional C-H (e. g. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 11564) and C-C bond activations (e. g. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019,141, 6048; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 3266). These approaches have an excellent potential for the development of synthetically useful arene functionalisations. The project will involve synthetic and mechanistic studies, which will be supported by DFT computations in collaboration with our UoL colleagues.
Application Deadline: 31 August 2025
Find Fully Funded PhD in USA
8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Organic Radicals and Diradicaloid for Single-Molecule Electronics and Quantum Information Processing
Summary of PhD Program:
Recent advancements in nanoscience have enabled the reliable and reproducible wiring of molecules into electrical circuits. In the last few years, organic radicals – molecules with unpaired electrons in their ground-state electronic structure – have emerged as potential candidates for molecular electronic applications in quantum information processing.
Application Deadline: 30 September 2025
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mapping Bacterial Interactions in Biofilm Colonies
Summary of PhD Program:
Biofilms are highly sophisticated colonies of microorganisms that are attached to a surface and encased within a sticky, protective matrix. These biofilm colonies are a key challenge in healthcare, due to their tolerance to traditional antibiotics, leading to chronic infections. There is an urgent global need to prevent biofilm colonies from forming or growing. This is a challenging subject requiring a truly interdisciplinary science approach.
Application Deadline: 1 September 2025
Find Fully Funded PhD in Europe
10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Improving Mechanistic Understanding of the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction (HER) using High-Entropy Alloy (HEA) Catalysts via Computational Techniques
Summary of PhD Program:
In this project, we will employ density functional theory (DFT) combined with machine-learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) to investigate the interplay between inter-element interactions, structural and electronic properties of HEAs and their root causes affecting HER activity. Furthermore, we will develop simple chemical models and descriptors that elucidate these relationships, providing a deeper understanding of the principles governing HER activity in HEAs and aim at offering rational designs of optimal HEA compositions and structures for efficient HER catalytic performance.
Application Deadline: 1 October 2025
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in High-throughput exploration of multicomponent metal organic frameworks (MOFs)
Summary of PhD Program:
New porous materials are important for advances in key technologies such as carbon dioxide sequestration and storage or catalysts for clean manufacturing. The assembly of multiple metal and organic linkers in the well-defined and complex crystal structures of multicomponent metal organic frameworks (MOFs) will deliver materials with enhanced properties. However, at present we do not have the experimental tools with the scale and speed to efficiently explore the vast chemical space available.
Application Deadline: 31 August 2025
Explore PhD Salary, Jobs, & Career Growth
12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Experimental Discovery of New Ionic Conducting Materials
Summary of PhD Program:
This project will explore the enormous range of possibilities for the synthesis of new lithium- and magnesium-ion conducting materials based on this discovery. It will combine synthetic solid-state chemistry, advanced structural analysis, and measurement of the conductivity and electrochemical properties of the new materials, enabling the successful candidate to develop a diverse experimental skillset.
Application Deadline: 31 August 2025
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electrochemistry of Microbial Cells
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project brings together expertise in nanoscale surface science and local scale electrochemistry, cell-surface interaction probes, microbiology and imaging across physical and biological sciences to study the electrochemical process that occurs both at the local site and single cell level and at the population level. With this project, we aim for a better understanding of the fundamental phenomena of microbial electrochemistry, and microbial induced corrosion. This knowledge will aid in the development of novel mitigating strategies that will lead to next-generation surface design principles.
Application Deadline: 1 September 2025
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Discovery of new inorganic materials for net zero applications
Summary of PhD Program:
The experimental discovery of new inorganic materials shows us how crystal structure and chemical composition control physical and chemical properties. It is therefore critical for our ability to design functional materials with the properties we will need for the next zero transition. Examples include ion motion and redox chemistry in batteries for transport and grid storage, solar absorbers for photovoltaic technologies, rare-earth-free magnets for wind power, catalysts for biomass conversion or water splitting for hydrogen generation, components in low-energy information technology and myriad other unmet needs.
Application Deadline: 31 August 2025
Explore Our Career Blog
15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Automated solid state synthesis robotic workflow
Summary of PhD Program:
This project will develop and exemplify a robotic workflow to perform solid state chemistry reactions, consisting of an automated weighing and mixing stage, coupled with a high temperature furnace to perform the reactions. Automated powder diffraction will be integrated to identify new materials within the phase fields being explored. The student will work closely with colleagues in the group of Professor Andy Cooper who have pioneered the use of autonomous robotic chemical synthesis for functional materials discovery.
Application Deadline: 31 August 2025
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Social influences on fertility in group-living mammals
Summary of PhD Program:
Social competition for limited resources among group-living animals can lead to inhibition of fertility or reproductive suppression, particularly in less competitive individuals that may experience heightened levels of stress. This project will investigate the conditions under which social relationships inhibit or promote the fertility of low-ranking individuals in group-living mammals, with consequences for understanding variation in reproductive skew within and across species.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in Metabolic Network Approaches for Modelling the Human Microbiome
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project, in collaboration with Unilever, focuses on the fascinating world of the skin microbiome, the diverse community of microbes that live on our skin. These microbes do not live in isolation; instead, they establish complex ecological interactions where they exchange metabolites that help maintain skin health. This project aims to understand how these microbial communities function, how they support each another through metabolic exchange, and how they can be influenced to promote healthier skin.
Application Deadline: 31 August 2025
18. Fully Funded PhD Position in Hierarchical Assembly of Precision Polymer Nanomaterials into Advanced Nanomedicines
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project will focus on the development of precision materials with structural control across multiple length scales, producing precision structures that span the molecular to macroscopic world. This will be achieved through combination of polymer chemistry, which enables excellent molecular control, and crystallization-driven self-assembly (CDSA), which enables exquisite nanoscale control. Building on our work developing precision nanofibers for therapeutic delivery (Chem. Sci. 2020, JACS 2022, JACS 2024, Chem. Eur. J. 2025), we will produce a range of non-spherical nanomaterials and develop techniques to control their self-assembly into higher-order materials.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
10 Best AI Cover Letter Builders
19. Fully Funded PhD Position in Enhancing the resilience of coastal embankments using satellite monitoring
Summary of PhD Program:
This project will explore using remote satellite monitoring data to predict embankment failures. It proposes to use InSAR data from open-access Sentinel-1 ESA data (used for monitoring ground movements), optical multi-spectral data from Sentinel-2 (that can remotely monitor groundwater levels), and knowledge about ground conditions and hydrogeological information to create a new risk model to inform asset owners of the areas at the highest risk of failure.
Application Deadline: 29 August 2025
20. Fully Funded PhD Position in Eco-Friendly Modifiers for Sustainable Asphalt Pavements: Enhancing Ageing Resistance and Adhesion
Summary of PhD Program:
Road transport infrastructure plays a crucial role in the transition towards sustainability and decarbonisation. Asphalt, composed of mineral aggregates and bitumen, remains the dominant surfacing material due to its excellent performance. The use of crumb rubber from scrap tyres to modify bitumen has gained popularity within the circular economy framework, offering significant economic and environmental benefits.
Application Deadline: 1 October 2025
21. Fully Funded PhD Position in FluidGPT-2D – Generative AI for Lightning-Fast Flow Prediction
Summary of PhD Program:
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is a great way to visualise and understand flows… until you need weeks (or months) of solver time to capture every eddy of a wind-farm wake, or the swirling chaos inside an industrial mixing vessel. FluidGPT-1—our proof-of-concept Artificial-Intelligence (AI) surrogate—already proves a different future is possible, but right now it’s limited to small example cases. Your PhD will transform that prototype into FluidGPT-2D, a generative transformer that can take a handful of CFD seed timesteps you run yourself and instantly spin them into the full unsteady flow field.