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 Back to the Future: Ice Sheet collapse, ocean circulation showdown and abrupt climate change
Summary of PhD Program:
Are you passionate about climate research and keen to tackle one of the greatest climate challenges of today? Are you keen to develop advanced research skills that can equip you for a wide range of future careers? For these reasons and more, you may be an ideal candidate to apply for a studentship with project VERIFY: Out Of Sample Testing For Early Warning Systems Using Past Climate, funded by the UK’s Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA*).
Application Deadline: 17 March 2025
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in High-Resolution Geochemical Analysis of Greenland Ice Cores to Identify Early Warning Signals of Rapid Climate Change
Summary of PhD Program:
This fully funded PhD is available at the British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge. The project is part of a multi-million-pound interdisciplinary research consortium aimed at developing early warning systems and forecasting tipping points in the Greenland Ice Sheet and the Subpolar Gyre. A particular emphasis for this project is the 8.2 kyr event—a period marked by abrupt cooling in the North Atlantic region.
Application Deadline: 17 March 2025
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in How stable is the Greenland ice sheet? A view from the past
Summary of PhD Program:
Using advanced uncertainty quantification, this project will drive state-of-the-art ice sheet models with climate output from the most detailed and complex climate models to comprehensively assess when and how Greenland tipping events are triggered. The simulations will be combined with records of Greenland ice sheet conditions during past interglacials, testing periods when the ice underwent pronounced deglaciation and contrasting these with periods when we know the ice sheet was relatively stable.
Application Deadline: 17 March 2025
4. 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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5. 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.
Application Deadline: 21 March 2025
6. 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
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in High-throughput discovery of lysine-directed probes for protein kinases
Summary of PhD Program:
In this project, we will harness a high-throughput approach to discover covalent probes that target the conserved lysine in protein kinases. The student will develop plate-based chemistry in which pairs of building blocks will be combined to yield diverse probe sets. The probe sets will be exploited to discover novel covalent modifiers of specific protein kinases. The student will harness a chemical proteomic approach to profile the proteome-wide reactivity of the discovered probes; and exploit biochemical and structural biology approaches to characterise their mechanism of action.
Application Deadline: 31 March 2025
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8. 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
9. 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.
Application Deadline: 31 March 2025
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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Integrated experimental system for assessing innovations in hip replacements
Summary of PhD Program:
Over three million people in the UK are living with hip osteoarthritis. While hip replacement surgery is a successful intervention, long-term durability is not guaranteed. The most significant reasons for revision are aseptic loosening and infection, both a consequence of interplay between the hip replacement and surrounding tissue. We, along with our industry partner, believe significant innovation is possible to reduce these causes of revision, if an experimental pre-clinical simulation considering the wider system is developed.
Application Deadline: 31 March 2025
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Building artificial cells for clinical diagnosis of pathogen infections
Summary of PhD Program:
Artificial cells mimic the structure and some properties of natural, living cells with reduced complexity. They are assembled from their molecular constituents, enabling them to be engineered with specific functions and developed for applications in a range of technology areas, including environmental remediation, chemical manufacture and biomedicine. In this project, you will join an international team, across UK and Japan, developing artificial cells for rapid diagnosis of pathogen infections.
Application Deadline: 31 March 2025
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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Where to cross over? Interrogating meiotic crossover positioning via chromosome engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
During sexual reproduction, parental chromosomes swap DNA segments in a process called crossover, which is a key driver for evolution and crop breeding. Importantly, crossovers are uneven along chromosomes and occur in hotspots, leaving large proportions of chromosomes crossover-suppressed. As a result, obtaining desired combinations of agronomically valuable traits is a lengthy process, representing a major limitation in crop breeding.
Application Deadline: 8 April 2025
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Investigating porosity changes and stress mechanics of corroding nuclear wastes under confined expansion
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project will work alongside leading teams within the University of Leeds and Sellafield Ltd, to investigate the nature of waste evolution under storage conditions in order to predict volume changes and resulting forces generated on confinement packaging. Specifically, under interim storage, Magnox alloy undergoes a series of physical and chemical changes; such as corrosion reactions forming brucite, as well as with CO2 to form hydromagnesite and other magnesium hydroxycarbonate phases as a soil/clay like sediment bed, which will gradually dry-out over long timescales.
Application Deadline: 11 April 2025
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Sustainable Membrane Technologies for Nuclear Wastewater Treatment
Summary of PhD Program:
This project focuses on developing novel biopolymer thin-film membranes and composite biopolymer systems, leveraging natural polymers to deliver high radionuclide selectivity and permeability. The membranes aim to provide a biodegradable and sustainable alternative to synthetic systems using ionic gelation and advanced cross-linking techniques.
Application Deadline: 11 April 2025
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15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Purpose-led leadership model with embedded sustainability for nuclear decommissioning
Summary of PhD Program:
This research will develop a purpose-led leadership model which embeds sustainability behaviour within the NDA group and its supply chain by making sustainability the gold standard against which ‘good leadership’ is measured. Transforming the culture of the complex and interdependent context of the NDA in this way, requires a systems perspective that emphasises the purposeful work of leadership at all levels and organisations as well as the diverse and emerging interpretations and solutions of sustainability.
Application Deadline: 11 April 2025
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Multi-Disciplinary Design Optimisation of Mixer Settler for Liquid-Liquid Extraction
Summary of PhD Program:
LLE processes are widely used to extract pure metals and molecules in the hydro-metallurgical, pharmaceutical and nuclear reprocessing industries. There are currently three main classes of LLE technology deployed: mixer settlers (MXS), centrifugal contactors (CC) and pulse extraction columns (PEC). All three have been used in the nuclear industry. MXSs can be engineered for a range of applications and are easy to operate, but currently their principal disadvantage is a large physical footprint (high cost) and long residence time (solvent degradation).
Application Deadline: 11 April 2025
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in In-situ tribological design and investigation for nuclear fusion applications
Summary of PhD Program:
An exciting PhD opportunity exist for a talent individuals who wish to conduct some conceptual tribological equipment/test design and in-situ analyses in relation to the extreme environment of the rotary equipment. You will be working closely with a UK vacuum tribotesting manufacturer to design and implement the changes to the Royce@Leeds Environment tribology suite in order to study the working mechanism of the application.
Application Deadline: 11 April 2025
18. Fully Funded PhD Position in Characterisation of dissolved hydrogen diffusion and bubble nucleation in waste suspensions
Summary of PhD Program:
For this PhD, you will work alongside some of the UK’s leading nuclear researchers at Leeds, as part of the Nuclear Engineering Group, and industry experts at Sellafield Ltd, to develop a comprehensive understanding of the influence of various environmental factors on the solubility of dissolved hydrogen in waste sludges. It will also seek to understand the dynamics of bubble nucleation under partial vacuum as a method of controlling hydrogen release.
Application Deadline: 11 April 2025
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19. Fully Funded PhD Position in Zapping Nuclear Waste: Plasma Science for a Cleaner Future
Summary of PhD Program:
This project will revolve around a ground-breaking application. It will investigate whether APPs can remove radioactive contamination from materials used in nuclear sites. This will lead to the reduction of chemical waste and will allow for minimising environmental impact. Moreover, it will explore whether APP treatment can transform nuclear decommissioning, allowing easier disposal and if possible, even achieve repurpose, contributing to a more circular and responsible nuclear economy.
Application Deadline: 11 April 2025
20. Fully Funded PhD Position in Pneumatic transport of wet granular wastes under vacuum
Summary of PhD Program:
As the UK prepares to invest in new nuclear power plants, industry and research organisations are also looking towards developing the next generation of effluent and waste treatment processes. Overcoming challenges to the decommissioning of legacy nuclear facilities is critical to building confidence in the long-term future of nuclear as a low-carbon energy source in the UK. On sites, such as Sellafield in the UK, there are a variety of waste sludges and granular materials that require safe, reliable transportation to treatment plants.
Application Deadline: 11 April 2025
21. Fully Funded PhD Position in Impacts of green growth and degrowth pathways using societal exergy analysis: country-level case studies
Summary of PhD Program:
This fully funded PhD place provides an exciting opportunity to pursue postgraduate research in the study of the upcoming global energy transition and the impacts on the energy-economy systems and wider sociomacroeconomic impacts. The PhD project is part of a four year Leverhulme Trust project entitled “Impacts of green growth and degrowth pathways using societal exergy analysis”, which uses the novel, interdisciplinary methods of Exergy Economics (combining thermodynamics, energy analysis and economics) to assess energy-emissions-economic impacts and implications of current ‘economic green growth’ and alternative potential ‘energy degrowth’ pathways, at a global and case study country level.
Application Deadline: 24 April 2025
22. Fully Funded PhD Position in Opinion dynamics of rational agents
Summary of PhD Program:
In this project you will develop models of opinion dynamics based on the idea that the expression of ideas, opinions and beliefs is a choice made by rational agents in pursuit of specific goals. You will join a research team focused on understanding the collective behaviour of humans and animals in terms of rational decision-making theory.
Application Deadline: 30 April 2025
23. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanistic basis of photobiomodulation – an in vitro cellular and microbiome study
Summary of PhD Program:
The study will employ a combined approach employing in vitro models of the human colonic microbiota and co-culture cell models (epithelial cells and immune cells) to study the influence of photobiomodulation (PBM) on microbiota energy metabolism, mitochondrial metabolism and cell redox. The in vitro colonic microbiota model employed at University of Leeds, was specifically designed to mimic colonic carbohydrate fermentation and the most recent iteration, MiGUT, has been miniaturised and multiplexed to allow higher throughput and improved experimental design.
Application Deadline: 30 April 2025
24. 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.
