Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? University of Strathclyde, 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 Marine match-mismatch
Summary of PhD Program:
Phenology is the study of seasonal biological events, such as migration, egg laying, or flowering. The iconic ‘match-mismatch hypothesis’ (Cushing, 1974, 1975) predicts that changes in phenology may affect synchronicity with energy sources and so impact fitness. Examples of this may be failure to migrate in time to exploit a food source elsewhere, or to lay eggs to synchronise hatching with seasonally available food. As species rely on different environmental cues to time these events, it is possible that climate change will disrupt important ecological connections with cascading consequences at the level of the ecosystem.
Application Deadline: 31 August 2024
2. 02 Fully Funded PhD Position in Acoustic Devices & Metamaterials
Summary of PhD Program:
Acoustic signals can provide for the detection and location of acoustic sources. The problem of location is that it relies on triangulating a source using sensors which are spaced far enough apart. Miniature directional microphones have therefore been an active research topic for some time, but with little practical success. Some moths are capable of directional hearing despite sound wavelengths significantly longer than the distance between their ears. Recent work has shown that directionality for one moth it exclusively relies on the shape of the eardrum membrane itself. This PhD project will explore a new acoustic directional sensor concept inspired by the moth’s ear. This new concept provides a means to reach towards a truly wideband, miniature directional acoustic sensor.
Application Deadline: 30 April 2024
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Innovative and manufacturable approaches to exploiting low cost-per-Watt diode-laser pumping of Ti:sapphire
Summary of PhD Program:
Titanium sapphire lasers are an enabling scientific and industrial tool across applications from biological imaging to quantum technologies. They are also a vital and growing part of Glasgow’s hi-tech economy. The studentship will build on recent Strathclyde work on novel Ti:sapphire crystal specifications to progress towards multi-Watt lasers that combine the low-cost per Watt and reliability of diode laser pumping with designs that are more suited to volume manufacture.
Application Deadline: 31 March 2024
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Photo-chemical adaptive integrated circuits for next generation neuromorphic computing
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project will investigate new neuromorphic functionalities in photonic integrated circuits. The programme will hybridize state-of-the-art semiconductor integrated devices with photo-chemical switches, targeting tunability and all-optical information storage. Those devices will be used to build hardware-based photonic neural networks demonstrating synaptic plasticity and self-learning. This project is part of a funded, international collaboration with groups in Germany and Italy.
Application Deadline: 31 March 2024
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Spiking Neural Network Processing for Infra-red Event Driven Cameras
Summary of PhD Program:
The aim of this PhD studentship is to research the combination of an infrared event-driven camera (EDC) with data processing algorithms based on neuromorphic (NM) processing and Spiking Neural Networks (SNN), addressing EPSRC’s mission inspired challenges for AI, Digitisation & Data. Event-driven detection and NM processing are finding applications in several engineering problems concerned with the detection of movement, alignment, tracking and autonomous navigation. Although EDC are now commercially available, they are limited to the visible and near-infrared detection band.
Application Deadline: 31 March 2024
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Technologies for optogenetic neural interfacing
Summary of PhD Program:
In this PhD, you will develop a novel neural interface technology for optogenetic control of neural circuits. This will be a multi-channel, optoelectronic, neural interface device that has the ability to emit at multiple wavelengths and record the subsequent neural activity in vivo. The multi-wavelength capability means that more than one class of neurons can be excited or inhibited simultaneously. This ability to precisely activate or inhibit specific neural circuits, while recording their activity, opens up the possibility of closed-loop control of neural circuits, with implications for how we best address neurodegenerative disorders.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Neuromorphic photonic-electronic integrated circuits for fast and efficient SPIKE-based information PROcessing (SPIKEPRO)
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project will investigate neuromorphic (brain-like) photonic-electronic systems for new high-speed and efficient neuromorphic computing and AI technologies. The programme will investigate artificial photonic and electronic spiking neurons, their connectivity into compact chip-scale spiking neural networks. These will be used in spike-based photonic-electronic processing functionalities in real-world applications (e.g. high-speed radar signal processing, high-speed data classification).
Application Deadline: 31 March 2024
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) optical wireless communications with deep ultraviolet lasers
Summary of PhD Program:
This project aims to develop a comprehensive channel model for the laser-based deep UV OWC system that accounts for the dynamic effects of turbulence and multiple scattering and to investigate advanced mitigation techniques to enable reliable UV communication. The UV laser development, in association with the Fraunhofer Centre for Applied Photonics, the UK’s first Fraunhofer centre, will support high-speed, long-distance nLOS communication. The initial phase involves measuring the deep UV-OWC channel under controlled conditions to analyse the influence of device and environmental parameters on the UV communication channel. These measurements will serve as the foundation for constructing a complete communication channel model.
Application Deadline: 28 March 2024
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Vegetation-based climate change adaptation measures for earth infrastructure
Summary of PhD Program:
Vegetation mediates the soil-atmosphere interaction and can therefore be engineered to be turned into a nature-based adaptation measure. Water uptake by transpiration occurs through the Soil-Plant-Atmosphere Continuum (SPAC). This project explores possible manipulation of the in-series components of the SPAC to correct the water exchange between the soil and the atmosphere and potentially mitigate the effect of climate change.
Application Deadline: 15 March 2024
10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Developing a targeted mitochondrial proteomics pipeline for ageing and disease research
Summary of PhD Program:
Loss of muscle mass and energy dysregulation are known primary drivers of ageing. In this project we will look to develop peptide synthesis and new mass spectrometry driven ways to assess mitochondrial biochemistry. Using established targeted proteomics methods alongside the development of new synthesis and isolation techniques, this Shimadzu sponsored project aims to redefine the way we characterise static and dynamic mitochondrial changes and related them to models of ageing and disease.
Application Deadline: 29 February 2024
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Understanding the economy-wide implications of different policy actions to address barriers and improving the outcomes of adopting energy efficiency improvement measures
Summary of PhD Program:
The aim of this project is to analyse the effectiveness of the current policy actions promoting residential energy efficiency improvement and identify the economy-wide implications of different actions to address barriers to the adoption of efficiency improvement measures. The successful candidate must be available to start study on 1 April 2024 at the latest.
Application Deadline: 28 February 2024
12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Assessing the international trade, jobs and skills of the future international hydrogen market and the transition from incumbent energy systems
Summary of PhD Program:
This project will examine the emerging low carbon hydrogen market and the potential impacts on the economy, international trade and jobs. This PhD project will add value to CEP’s current work exploring the green jobs market, the macroeconomic implications of decarbonisation and the emerging capital investment in hydrogen systems in the UK. The successful candidate must be available to start study on 1 April 2024 at the latest.
Application Deadline: 28 February 2024
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in A unique approach to point of care detection of E. coli using bacteria-killing antimicrobial proteins
Summary of PhD Program:
Infection-causing microorganisms are becoming increasingly resistant to the drugs we currently use kill them. This is called antimicrobial drug resistance. Most of us will experience an infection at some point in life and antimicrobial drug resistance places us at greater risk of serious illness or death. The aim of the studentship, therefore, is to develop a new, rapid and highly sensitive test for bacteria using electrochemical biosensor technology in conjunction with bacterial proteins called bacteriocins that specifically identify and kill E. coli. Exploiting the properties of bacteriocins, the student will create a low cost, rapid, sensitive and specific test for detection of highly prevalent and costly urinary tract infections (UTIs) caused by E. coli.
Application Deadline: 28 February 2024
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Scalable Qubit Arrays for Neutral Atom Computing and Optimisation (SQuAre)
Summary of PhD Program:
Quantum computation offers a revolutionary approach to information processing, providing a route to efficiently solve classically hard problems such as factorisation and optimisation as well as unlocking new applications in material science and quantum chemistry that could in future be scaled up to accelerate drug design or optimised materials for aerospace and manufacturing. Whilst large-scale applications will require thousands of qubits, in the near-term small (100 qubit) quantum processors will reach a regime in which the quantum hardware is able to solve problems not accessible even on the largest available conventional supercomputers.
Application Deadline: 16 February 2024
15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Quantum Error Correction in a dual species Rydberg Array (QuERy)
Summary of PhD Program:
This project seeks to develop a dual-species platform for quantum computing and simulation with neutral atoms, providing a route to implementing active quantum error correction essential for future scaling beyond 100 qubits. This hardware will simultaneously provide a versatile platform for analogue computing and simulation due to the ability to independently control inter- and intra-species interactions, providing a route to performing studies of complex many-body physics as well as increasing the diversity of real-world optimisation problems that can be tackled using neutral atom hardware.
Application Deadline: 16 February 2024
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Spatial omics using histology
Summary of PhD Program:
This imaging project is an opportunity to undertake one of our new and exciting cross-disciplinary projects lying at the interface of mathematics and cancer medicine. The candidate does not need to have any knowledge in cancer diseases or medicine but will need strong mathematical knowledge through a degree in maths, or in computer science / physics / engineering with essential maths components, as well as good programming skills.
Application Deadline: 9 February 2024
17. Stephen Young Global Leader Doctoral Scholarship
Summary of PhD Program:
This is a generous scholarship available for an excellent candidate. Applicants must have excellent academic records but may also bring with them relevant industry expertise. While the domains typically focused on within SYI include marketing, innovation, entrepreneurship, and international business, applicants can come from a range of management and technical backgrounds as the SYI takes an interdisciplinary approach to its research.
Application Deadline: 31 January 2024
18. Fully Funded PhD Position in High Power Density Converter Topologies for Pulsed Power Applications
Summary of PhD Program:
This project is to contribute to a major Ministry of Defence (MOD) research programme intended to develop generation-after-next technologies for applications in defence and security and will be co-funded by Ultra Maritime. The project will be concerned with exploring advanced converter topologies that can handle high peak power levels and maintain efficiency while delivering short-duration pulses.
Application Deadline: 31 January 2024
19. Fully Funded PhD Position in Non-destructive quantification of particulates in aerospace fluids
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD student will be primarily based at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in Teddington with access to cutting-edge EPSRC THz Facility. NPL is a world-leading centre of excellence that provides cutting-edge measurement science, engineering and technology to underpin prosperity and quality of life in the UK. The student will also have access to a dedicated national network of world-class, state-of-the-art facilities at the University of Strathclyde, including the £34M UK-RPIF funded CMAC National Facility in the Technology and Innovation Centre at Strathclyde. It houses suites of state-of-the-art process analytics, advanced automation, control and advanced characterisation techniques.
