Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? University of Nottingham, 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 3D printing of low dimensional materials for sensing
Summary of PhD Program:
We seek to use 3D printing to create novel multimaterial functional structures capable of new ways of sensing underlying material properties. We will use low dimensional materials, including graphene, perovskites and nanodiamonds incorporated into polymers, ceramics and glasses and we will use 3D printing to form them into geometrically complex structures. We will explore how low dimensional materials behave when included within a 3D printed matrix, and we will use their functionality to design and create sensors that can be used for, e.g., examining tissue health or failure in structures under load.
Application Deadline: 31 May 2024
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Assessing the impact of deep shafts in urban areas
Summary of PhD Program:
Construction of large and deep shafts in urban areas is necessary for various construction activities, such as tunnel construction where shafts serve as integral components of the tunnel construction and often operational phases. As tunnels are constructed ever deeper due to the congestion of underground space, so must the shafts be sunk to deeper levels. Shafts may suffer stability issues as a result of various factors, which can, in the worst case, result in catastrophic failures, or more typically in ground movements. These ground movements, which can have serious and detrimental effects on nearby existing structures and infrastructure in urban areas, are the topic of this PhD project.
Application Deadline: 31 May 2024
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Autonomous Bioactivity Searching
Summary of PhD Program:
This 36-month funded PhD studentship will contribute to cutting-edge advancements in automated drug discovery through the integration of high data-density reaction/bioanalysis techniques, laboratory automation & robotics and machine learning modelling. This exciting project involves the application of innovative methods such as high-throughput experimentation to expediate the syntheses (and bioanalysis) of life-saving pharmaceuticals. The subsequent data will then be used to populate machine learning models to predict which molecules to synthesise next, to maximise the binding affinity of the molecules to a target protein. The research will be conducted using state-of-the-art equipment, including both commercial tools and bespoke in-house apparatus. As a key member of our team, you will play a pivotal role in advancing the frontiers of drug discovery, laboratory automation, and the modelling of chemical data.
Application Deadline: 31 May 2024
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Developmental consequences of heat stress during early mammalian embryogenesis
Summary of PhD Program:
Epidemiological evidence in humans indicates that acute heat exposure around the time of mating results in pregnancy loss, with potential long-term consequences for offspring health and wellbeing; although these latter adverse effects are poorly understood. Similar effects of acute heat stress on embryo survival and development are seen in other species. Identifying underpinning mechanisms requires the use of appropriate animal models. Farm animal and human embryos share many aspects of early development including gene regulatory networks, developmental timing, and signalling requirements for cell-lineage establishment. Thus, in addition to being species of clinical importance in their own right, these animals represent excellent models for the study of human embryogenesis.
Application Deadline: 10 May 2024
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Novel subsurface Raman microscopy technologies to enable the development of next-generation drug and implant therapies
Summary of PhD Program:
In this project, the student will develop various approaches to allow deep Raman spectroscopy. These approaches will rely on computer modelling of light propagation in tissue to understand how to deliver and collect efficiently light from the desired region of interest into tissue. This information will then be used to design and build optimised instruments, which will then be used to carry out experiments. The project will explore the use of spatial light modulators and implantable wireless optoelectronics to maximise the penetration depth, spatial resolution and sensitivity to the required molecular markers.
Application Deadline: 03 July 2024
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Joint modelling of latent trajectories for dynamic prediction of competing outcomes in patients with liver disease
Summary of PhD Program:
Liver disease is a common cause of illness and death that is increasing in western countries such as the UK and Denmark, particularly for people under 65 years old. However, the population of liver disease patients consists of people who differ with respect to both their cause of disease, and additional factors such as co-existing conditions and their general medical history. Consequently, disease progression varies substantially: some patients may die early from their liver disease, others might be more at risk of death from causes unrelated to liver disease, whereas for other patients their liver disease does not impact on overall survival.
Application Deadline: 31 July 2024
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Extra-long compliant snake robot capable of self-localisation for inspection in fusion power plants
Summary of PhD Program:
This specific project will be part funded by RACE (Remote Applications in Challenging Environments, https://race.ukaea.uk/). RACE was founded in 2014 as part of the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) fusion research and development programme – to create robots for operating in some of the most challenging environments imaginable. The main research focus of this PhD program is the intelligent design and control of an extra-long compliant snake robot capable of self-localisation for inspection in fusion power plants. In this role, you will be at the forefront of research that offers robotics and AI technological innovations with an aim to improve the quality of inspection for fusion power plants. As a result, this position offers the opportunity for work with the UKAEA.
Application Deadline: 30 July 2024
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanical and Aerospace Systems (MAS) Research Group
Summary of PhD Program:
The MAS group research uses high fidelity modelling coupled with low order design tools, including developing machine learning techniques, to enable solutions to multi-physics problems. Using our own experimental facilities we generate in-house validation for our numerical modelling approaches. By devising new experimental approaches, combined with well-established visualization and laser diagnostic approaches, our research provides insight and understanding of the underlying engineering phenomena that, when coupled with numerical modelling, provides the fundamental research that is translated to facilitate novel solutions.
Application Deadline: 31 July 2024
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Functional Structural Colour Devices through 3D Printing
Summary of PhD Program:
Small, repetitive structures with spacings on the nanometre scale can refract and reflect light to create structural colours, which are being explored to produce anti-counterfeit markings, dye-free colour images, humidity and chemical sensors, anti-glare coatings and optical filters. This project will develop additive manufacturing of devices with actively controlled structural colour. You will develop the materials, methods, and designs necessary to 3D-print the next generation of structural colour devices, integrating optically and electronically active materials, including 0D and 2D nanomaterials.
Application Deadline: 15 September 2024
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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Functional 3D/4D Printing of Responsive Structures
Summary of PhD Program:
3D-printed functional devices interact with their environment, responding to electrical, magnetic, chemical, humidity, temperature, or other signals, including devices that change shape over time, using “4D-printing”. In complex devices, multiple “trigger” stimuli can be encoded, each to its own shape change response; however, these multiple responses are independent of one another. This project will develop new materials and designs for functional 4D-printed devices with fast, self-resetting responses, applicable to biomedical, micromechanical, or optoelectronic applications. The goal will be to build a functional demonstrator device that performs basic comparisons of inputs to select output shape-change responses.
Application Deadline: 15 September 2024
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in 3D-Printed Micro-Robots for Medical Applications
Summary of PhD Program:
The field of medical therapeutics has valuable applications for mobile devices for efficient drug delivery, called micro-robots. Recently, 3D printing has been used to manufacture such devices with functional features that enabled them to respond to environmental cues, including temperature, pH, light, magnetic fields, and ultrasound. This project will develop the materials, methods, and designs necessary to 3D-print the next generation of medical micro-robots, exploiting combinations of functions to achieve advanced control necessary for complex and customisable micro-robots to provide personalised healthcare solutions.
Application Deadline: 15 September 2024
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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in 3D printing next-generation actuators for soft robots and devices
Summary of PhD Program:
3D-printing of soft robotics is a growing field, with many applications in biomedical devices, electronics, and autonomous machines. Actuators to drive these robots utilise electronic, chemical, pressure, magnetic, or thermal mechanisms, with the current generation having significant drawbacks, including low energy efficiency, high operating voltage or temperature. This project will develop the materials, methods, and designs necessary to 3D-print the next generation of soft-actuators. The overall aim is to develop and exploit new designs or new materials to attain large, fast, high-efficiency actuation responses comparable to living muscles.
Application Deadline: 15 September 2024
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Uncertainty quantification for machine learning models of chemical reactivity
Summary of PhD Program:
In this PhD project, we will develop and implement approaches for estimating the uncertainty in AI predictions of chemical reactivity, to help strengthen the interaction between human chemists and machine learning algorithms and to assess when AI predictions are likely to be correct and when, for example, first principles quantum chemical calculations might be helpful.
Predicting chemical reactivity is, in general, a challenging problem and one for which there is relatively little data, because experimental chemistry takes time and is expensive. Within our research group, we have a highly automated workflow for high-level quantum chemical calculations and we have generated thousands of examples relating to the reactivity of molecules for a specific chemical reaction. This project will evaluate a variety of machine learning algorithms trained on these data and, most crucially, will develop and implement techniques for computing the uncertainty in the prediction.
Application Deadline: 12 May 2024
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Concrete4Change and the Centre for Sustainable Chemistry
Summary of PhD Program:
Applications are invited for an industrial led PhD studentship aimed at developing new, sustainable, advanced concrete materials with carbon negative footprints. To achieve this breakthrough we will use a multi-discipline approach incorporating organic and polymer chemistry, materials science and leading-edge data analysis, including machine learning/AI approaches. We are looking to attract applicants from chemistry/materials chemistry with an innate drive and curiosity to deliver new solutions to building materials that are needed within the next 10 years.
Application Deadline: 15 July 2024
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15. Fully Funded PhD Position in synthesis of molecular energy materials for lithium-sulfur batteries
Summary of PhD Program:
We are seeking to recruit a highly motivated and enthusiastic PhD student to work on the synthesis of molecular energy materials. The candidate will work within the Nottingham Applied Materials and Interfaces Group (www.thenamilab.com) in the Carbon Neutral Laboratories for Sustainable Chemistry at the University of Nottingham alongside our ‘next-generation’ batteries research team. We want to understand the chemistry that underpins advanced energy systems and use this knowledge can be used to unlock new energy storage technologies for electrification of the automotive sector. The target is to enable alternative, sustainable technologies that can supersede the lithium-ion battery and the group maintains active research programmes in lithium-ion batteries, magnesium batteries, lithium-air batteries and lithium-sulfur batteries.
Application Deadline: 11 September 2024
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in High Impact sulphur flavour compounds in hop products
Summary of PhD Program:
This project will be focused around intensely aromatic hop sulfur compounds such as 4-methyl-mercaptopentanone (4-MMP) or 3-MH (3-mercaptohexanol). These and related compounds are responsible for the tropical, citrus and exotic fruit flavours typically present in beers dry-hopped with ‘New World’ varieties. The program of work will establish analytical protocols for these low level, high flavour impact sulfur compounds using techniques such as GC-PFPD and GC-QTOF/SCD. These will then be applied throughout the project to appraise the sulfur fractions resulting from different varieties, hop oil isolation techniques and fractionation processes, to support development of commercial products with desirable flavour properties.
Application Deadline: 17 May 2024
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in Carbon dynamics of the Pantanal, the World’s largest wetland
Summary of PhD Program:
The overarching aim of this project is to produce new estimates of carbon storage in soils and vegetation across key ecosystem types, and management regimes in the Pantanal, quantify the potential scale of greenhouse gas dynamics, and identify controls over emissions. You will integrate a range of ecological and biogeochemical techniques, working closely with a range of collaborators in Brazil (including the Federal University of Mato Grosso and Embrapa Pantanal) and the UK throughout the project, as well as presenting your research at UK and international conferences. You will have a unique opportunity to conduct and lead on-the-ground research in the Pantanal, a global hotspot for biodiversity and carbon storage.
Application Deadline: 17 May 2024
18. Fully Funded PhD Position in Contribution of permafrost thaw to Arctic methane emissions from peatland systems
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project aims to quantify methane production with lake development in combined peatland and lake systems in Northern Sweden across decadal timescales. Measurements will be taken at areas experiencing different stages of thaw, e.g. thaw lakes in existence pre-1960 and those forming now. This will be achieved through modern methane measurements and proxy methods using palaeoarchives. In the project, we will identify developing thaw lakes, measuring methane, and use sedimentological and palaeoecological proxy methods (including invertebrate and isotope analysis) to understand both modern day and historical methane emissions from these lakes. There will be opportunities to explore novel methane-based and palaeoenvironmental analyses to complement the project.
Application Deadline: 24 May 2024
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19. Fully Funded PhD Position in Using next generation nitrogen sources for producing spring malting barley and its impact on yield and grain malt quality
Summary of PhD Program:
Malted barley is the single largest dry ingredient in brewing beer. Optimizing barley production and enhancing the production of tons of barley per hectare while increasing barley quality simultaneously are essential to developing the most sustainable barley supply chain globally. Presently, nitrogen fertilizers contribute 50-70% of greenhouse gas emissions associated with barley production. This project will assess the impacts that new nitrogen fertilizers will have on barley yield and malt quality to improve the N-use efficiency (NUE) and hence sustainability of barley supply. You will also investigate the use of nitrification inhibitors which can be added to N-based fertilizer to reduce losses and improve use efficiency. Nitrification inhibitors inhibit the biological oxidation of ammonium to nitrate, thus extending the time the active nitrogen component of the fertilizer remains in the soil as ammonium-N.
Application Deadline: 31 May 2024
20. Fully Funded PhD Position in Turning up the heat on soil carbon: Quantifying carbon dynamics and climate resilience of agave production in Mexico
Summary of PhD Program:
“Climate change is one of the most significant challenges facing the world today, and agriculture is both a contributor to and a casualty of climate change. The impact of agriculture on the environment has been increasingly scrutinised, as it is responsible for 13% of global greenhouse gas emissions. However, regenerative farming offers a promising solution to reduce the impact of agriculture on climate change and increase the resilience of farming systems to climate change impacts. Our recent work has demonstrated substantial benefits for adopting regenerative practices in terms of long-term climate resilience. However, the benefits and trade-offs from such transitions are poorly quantified, and there remains little understanding of how such changes can contribute to the decarbonisation and increased sustainability of supply chains.
Application Deadline: 31 May 2024
21. Fully Funded PhD Position in Cancer cell diagnostics using biomechanics and artificial intelligence
Summary of PhD Program:
We are seeking PhD students who are motivated, curious and passionate about scientific research. Together we will make technological advances in cancer research that can make a difference in the way the cancer is diagnosed or even treated. The prognosis of cancer is an extremely challenging task. Treatments often deliver a different outcome on similar patients. Currently, there is a major global push to develop technologies that allow the inclusion of a larger and wider range of biomarkers. These are key to ensuring treatments are appropriate for patients. One potential biomarker is given by the mechanical properties of cells and tissue, however these remain largely uncharacterised.
Application Deadline: 07 June 2024
22. Fully Funded PhD Position in Super-optical resolution imaging using a phonon probe microscope
Summary of PhD Program:
Imaging and characterising biology is an extremely difficult task. Understanding biological cells as the building blocks of life is fundamental for biology and healthcare. Cells however exhibit very little intrinsic contrast when imaged with light and due to their dimensions, are very difficult to study alive and unperturbed. The short wavelengths (i.e. UV) or fluorescent dyes required to resolve fine features of cells are damaging. Therefore, imaging cell subcomponents at high resolution often requires electron microscopes which can only image dead and dehydrated cells. Alternatively, sound carries less energy than light so short acoustic wavelengths (~300nm) are not damaging to living tissue.
