Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? University of Leeds, Leeds, 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 Micelle Architecture of Mild to Harsh Surfactant Blends
Summary of PhD Program:
This project aims to investigate the structure-function relationships of commonly used surfactants in wash-off skin care formulations. These are typically tested by measuring the ability to solubilize various biological components and to some extent the behaviour can be related to the size and charge of the surfactant micelles, as well as the critical micelle concentration. However, for mixtures of classic and novel surfactants these relationships are sometimes far from clear and a more thorough analysis of micelle nanostructure is needed.
Application Deadline: 30 May 2025
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Opinion dynamics of rational agents
Summary of PhD Program:
This is a mathematical programme of research that will be based on probability theory, especially Bayesian inference and optimisation. Stochastic processes, networks and game theory are also likely to be important. Applicants should be able to evidence a solid background in statistics and probability, and scientific programming. You will also engage with work from biology, psychology and sociology that provides a context for understanding human sociality, motivations and cognitive processes.
Application Deadline: 30 April 2025
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Digitally directed optimisation of mixed metal oxide catalysts for hydrogenations of heteroaromatics and downstream functionalisation
Summary of PhD Program:
We are recruiting a motivated PhD student to develop automated flow technologies to enable the next generation of metal oxide catalysts for synthesis of products within the pharmaceutical sector. This project aims to deliver a transformative shift in the area of catalysis development for pharmaceutical synthesis, an area of research which could enable the UK to compete with foreign outsourced research and manufacturing. Digitally directed continuous flow chemistry is currently underutilised, particularly in the pharmaceutical and high value chemical industries.
Application Deadline: 31 March 2025
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Exploring Magnetism and Spin Currents in Systems Approaching the 2D Limit
Summary of PhD Program:
We are seeking an enthusiastic and talented PhD candidate to join our research team in a cutting-edge project exploring magnetism and spin currents in ultrathin materials approaching the two-dimensional (2D) limit. This project is an exciting opportunity to investigate the physics of low-dimensional magnetic systems and their potential applications in spintronics, a key technology driving the future of energy-efficient data processing and storage.
Application Deadline: 31 March 2025
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Understanding how force is sensed in cells by the Piezo1 mechanosensitive channel
Summary of PhD Program:
The ability of many organisms to sense mechanical forces generated e.g., by the heart is of vital importance for many of their functions e.g., control of blood pressure and respiration. For this reason, proteins that sense mechanical forces have an important role in human health. This project asks the fundamental question; how force is sensed by proteins found in the cell membrane. Despite some recent advances, it is still unknown how such proteins functions in diverse cellular environments and how they sense mechanical force.
Application Deadline: 21 March 2025
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Sensor technology, Recovery, Rehab and Safety in Patients After Knee Replacement
Summary of PhD Program:
This is an exciting opportunity to undertake a PhD within the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Leeds HealthTech Research Centre (HRC) and the Yorkshire and Humber Patient Safety Research Collaboration (PSRC), a partnership between the University of Leeds and Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust. The HRC is funded by the NIHR to undertake research into surgical technologies and assisted healing and rehabilitation and the PSRC is funded by the NIHR to undertake patient safety research. You will be part of a stimulating and supportive network of students and researchers working across the University and in the NHS.
Application Deadline: 21 March 2025
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Robotic manipulation
Summary of PhD Program:
As robots integrate into daily life, achieving human-level dexterity is crucial for tasks like precision assembly, household assistance, and healthcare. This PhD project focuses on developing methods related to the following research topics:
• Robotic fine manipulation
• In-hand dexterous manipulation
• Skill acquisition and transfer
• Bimanual manipulation
Application Deadline: 17 March 2025
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Chemical kinetics of interstellar and planetary atmospheres
Summary of PhD Program:
The Atmospheric, Planetary and Theoretical Chemistry (APTC) research group within the School of Chemistry are pleased to advertise one PhD studentship, fully-funded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), in the general area of astrochemistry. One focus of the project is laboratory measurements of the chemical kinetics of elementary reactions under conditions encountered in the interstellar medium and the atmospheres of exoplanets, over a range of temperatures but particularly at very cold temperatures.
Application Deadline: 14 March 2025
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Chemical Control of Silica Scaling in Geothermal Systems
Summary of PhD Program:
A common method for protecting carbon steel against mineral scaling in aqueous CO2-containing environments (such as geothermal systems) is the continuous injection of scale inhibitors into the process fluid. These inhibitors can function through a number of differing mechanisms in order to reduce the nucleation and/or growth of mineral scales. Towards higher temperatures, the functionality of many scaling inhibitors is lost. Although the development of thermodynamically stable inhibitors is possible, this typically comes at a price of increased toxicity and reduced bio-degradability.
Application Deadline: 28 February 2025
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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in INFUZE: Evaluating new mobility systems
Summary of PhD Program:
The INFUZE project is exploring what the potential is for moving from systems of individual car based mobility to systems which are more based around mobility on demand. This potentially means changing the way in which people pay for how they travel, how they perceive the options in front of them, and how they blend their choices. There is also the potential for such choices to impact on the quality of their local neighbourhood. In a broader sense, the visions is to imagine a “city where you don’t need to own a car”, which could also include how work is organised, health care and social activities. These kinds of system changes are much harder to evaluate with current appraisal tools.
Application Deadline: 28 February 2025
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Building a fluorescent toolbox for exploring translation in Vibrio natriegens
Summary of PhD Program:
One fully-funded PhD project is available in the School of Molecular & Cellular Biology. We invite applications from prospective postgraduate researchers who wish to commence study for a PhD in the academic year 2025/26. The successful candidate will use genome engineering and super-resolution microscopy to investigate protein synthesis in order to better understand, and better engineer, microbial cells as factories for therapeutics. A background in either molecular biology, microbiology, synthetic biology or biophysics, and interests in synthetic and quantitative biology, would be strengths for this project.
Application Deadline: 28 February 2025
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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Artificial Intelligence Platform for Lipid Functionality in Food Products
Summary of PhD Program:
Lipids are common components in many food products and a greater understanding on how their origin and structure determine key physical and chemical properties is required to develop new food products with enhanced nutritional, quality, environment and economic profiles. This interdisciplinary project will include experimental and computational work, combining lipid and data science with a focus on developing an AI platform to identify relationships between lipid structure, chemical and physical properties and ultimately their performance in food products
Application Deadline: 28 February 2025
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in INFUZE: Governance of the transition to mobility on-demand
Summary of PhD Program:
This project will map out the different ways in which users experience accessing different forms of mobility and how this relates to how they are governed. It will begin by tracing the various ways in which car ownership is structured and treated through the regulatory and tax system and then in-use in different types of settings. It will seek to understand individual and institutional rights and responsibilities. The work will start with car ownership as 78% of households own a car and the literature is well established that the car has become so ubiquitous in society that it has massively influenced how society is structured (Urry, 2004) and now thinks (Walker et al., 2023) about what is ‘normal’.
Application Deadline: 28 February 2025
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Multi-scale corrosion assessment of additively remanufactured metallic components
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD will investigate the corrosion behaviour of additively remanufactured stainless steel in collaboration with Sulzer. ‘Additive remanufacturing’ utilises additive manufacturing techniques to rework damaged or worn components, restoring their function with notable cost, lead-time and environmental benefits to industry. Despite the unique benefits of remanufacturing, there is a requirement to understand the aqueous corrosion behaviour of additively remanufactured components to enable wider adoption of the technique.
Application Deadline: 28 February 2025
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15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Numerical Modelling of Hydrogen Explosions in semi-Confined Spaces
Summary of PhD Program:
This project aims to develop the current methods for assessing the consequences of explosions. This may include whether hydrogen deflagration to detonation transient (DDT) can be ruled out, and subsequently what local pressures would be seen if DDT does or doesn’t occur. The outcomes of the proposed project may provide significant improvements to safety case development for nuclear decommissioning and beyond. This project will lead to a start-of-the-art CFD tool for investigating hydrogen explosion safety within nuclear facilities. It may also generate new simplified hand calculation methods for estimating localised overpressures.
Application Deadline: 28 February 2025
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Scene Understanding in Challenging Environments with Multimodal Deep Learning
Summary of PhD Program:
Accurate 3D scene understanding is critical for robotics, autonomous driving, and similar applications. While current models perform well in standard environments (e.g., good lighting, no occlusions), they struggle in challenging conditions like darkness, fog, rain, and occlusions. This project aims to advance scene understanding in such environments using multimodal deep learning approaches. Leveraging cutting-edge technologies such as large models, diffusion models, and vision transformers, the research will focus on integrating diverse data inputs, including 2D RGB images, thermal images, depth maps, and 3D point clouds.
Application Deadline: 28 February 2025
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in INFUZE: Visualization for evaluating probabilistic and agent-based models of mobility transitions
Summary of PhD Program:
In mobility analysis, visualization is often used informally to explore data under different social and environmental contexts, and from here generate new behavioural understanding. Separately, probabilistic and agent-based models provide a mechanism for simulating behaviours and asking what-if questions, resulting in a very large set of ensemble model outputs. But despite the apparent compatibility of visual and model-based approaches, the extent to which visual analytic designs are coupled with probabilistic and agent-based models is relatively limited.
Application Deadline: 28 February 2025
18. Fully Funded PhD Position in Towards real-time digital volume correlation for imaging applications
Summary of PhD Program:
The goal of this research project is to develop a software suite designed in collaboration with scientists and engineers active in materials science micro x-ray CT which allows a user-friendly choice of model (local vs. global), efficient processing of multi-sequence images as well as setting physical constraints (e.g. incompressibility or known fixed points in the setup) and does so in a performant manner. The project will initially require becoming familiar with and implementing existing state-of-the-art algorithms such as ALDVC and developing the mathematical and software framework to go beyond them. Some initial experience with performant languages such as Julia, C or Rust are desirable but this can also be acquired as part of the project.
Application Deadline: 28 February 2025
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19. Fully Funded PhD Position in INFUZE: Estimating the potential for shared mobility across place at the national scale
Summary of PhD Program:
This project will use a data-driven approach to develop national-level estimates of the locations where shared transport modes can best meet the mobility needs of places. As part of the INFUZE programme we will be bringing together data that characterise the mobility of places. Our partnerships on the project will enable access to data on shared transport mode use, business models, and population-scale mobility trajectories. These will be integrated additionally with contextual data relating to the urban environment – such as morphology, topography, land use / activity locations, and road network structure – and population data.
Application Deadline: 28 February 2025
20. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electrical injection of THz spin excitations in topological solid state devices
Summary of PhD Program:
To support the future growth of the digital economy, we must explore computing paradigms that overcome the inherent limitations of semiconductors. Spintronics seeks to build novel devices for computing and communications that utilise electron spin. Applications include low power electronics, high speed logic, neuromorphic computing and novel memory devices. [1-3] Cutting edge research in this area focuses on the high-speed interactions between spins, which allow spintronic devices to operate at THz frequencies, more than 1000 times faster than the current state of the art in silicon.
Application Deadline: 28 February 2025
21. Fully Funded PhD Position in Sustainable delivery of plant nutrients: Selective uptake controlled by wax phase behaviour
Summary of PhD Program:
As global population rises there is a growing challenge in terms of plant healthcare to ensure that key crops do not fail, and that agricultural yields are high. To do this, agrochemicals are used to provide the nutrients for good crop health. To get the nutrients into the crop, the sprayed droplets of nutrients must move through a hydrophobic leaf wax barrier. This wax barrier is needed to retain water in the plant, but it creates an interesting scientific challenge as to how the agrochemicals can penetrate the barrier to deliver the nutrients whilst at the same time ensuring the leaf maintains a viable water content.
Application Deadline: 28 February 2025
22. Fully Funded PhD Position in INFUZE: Household decision-making on car ownership
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project will be part of the INFUZE research project, which aims to co-design solutions to allow people to own and use fewer cars without foregoing access to opportunities and leisure. Most of the existing research looks at how many cars people own, how they use them and how this changes over time focused on an individual perspective. Such studies link individual characteristics such as gender, age and events in a person’s life to their car ownership and use and used these factors to predict how it might change in the future. The interdependencies among the activity and travel decisions of the household members in the long, medium or short term (e.g. whether to work or not, own a car or not, who is in charge of a particular errand on a given day, etc.) are largely ignored.
