Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? King’s College London, London, 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 Studying biological variation in the environmental sensor and novel psoriasis drug target Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor (AHR): expression, regulation and biomarker potential
Summary of PhD Program:
Psoriasis is an immune-mediated, chronic inflammatory skin condition due to combination of genetic predisposition, environmental triggers, and dysregulated innate and adaptive immune responses [1]. The disease has a major impact on patient’s quality of life and pose a significant financial burden on the healthcare system. Recent progress in the identification of key cellular player and molecular pathways underpinning disease pathogenesis has led to the design and use of effective targeted therapies against key pro-inflammatory cytokines.
Application Deadline: 23 March 2025
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Large-Scale Continuous Nonlinear Optimisation
Summary of PhD Program:
This project will focus on the development and analysis of efficient and robust optimisation algorithms for the solution of general or application-directed nonlinear (possibly stochastic, non-smooth, or non-convex) continuous optimisation problems of large-scale (i.e., problems with millions to billions to variables). This research will involve deriving novel first- and/or second-order optimisation methods, conducting convergence analyses and developing associated efficient implementations.
Application Deadline: 25 August 2025
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Nominal Specification and Verification Environments
Summary of PhD Program:
Software verification techniques have been successfully used to prove correctness of low-level programs, but verification of high-level programming languages is challenging: it requires reasoning about name binding (e.g., visible/hidden channel names, scoping rules defining local and global variable names, parameter passing and substitution of values for variables). A standard approach to deal with name binding in verification tasks is to replace names with numerical codes (de Bruijn indices). While this avoids some of the difficulties of reasoning about names in programs, conducting a formalisation in de Bruijn style is labour-intensive and imposes a significant overhead to comprehending and reusing proofs.
Application Deadline: 31 May 2025
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanics of Creases in Thin Sheets
Summary of PhD Program:
In this project, you will develop fundamental understanding of how the material and geometric properties of a crease affect its out-of-plane bending behaviour and associated buckling instabilities. This will be achieved through a combination of mathematical modelling using thin shell theory and asymptotic methods; numerical simulations, either using a coarse lattice model or commercial finite element software; and laboratory experiments on thin polymeric sheets. The knowledge developed throughout this project will inform engineering applications of creased sheets across a wide variety of contexts, including origami-based materials, shape-morphing ‘groovy metasheets’ and deployable space structures.
Application Deadline: 10 July 2025
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Long time behaviour of generative models
Summary of PhD Program:
The proliferation of generative models, combined with pretraining on web-scale data, raises a crucial question: what happens when these models are trained on their own generated outputs? Recent investigations have hinted that such models would create loops that would lead to a phenomenon called model collapse, under which the performance progressively degrades with each model-data feedback iteration until fitted models become useless. Goal of this project is to rigorously define at the mathematic level these systems and phenomena, and to study them by means of tools from probability theory (e.g. Markov chains), stochastic calculus (SDEs theory) and functional analysis.
Application Deadline: 15 June 2025
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Applied Mathematics Research
Summary of PhD Program:
A particularly important feature of neurons in neural networks is their activation function: how the input that a neuron receive– from the outside world or from other neurons – to an output. This mapping can be modelled in a number of ways, but how different forms of activation functions affect learning dynamics and computational properties in neural networks is largely unknown. In this project, you will use methods from disordered systems and statistical physics to address this problem. In particular, you will study how the ability of neural networks may be optimized by adapting neuronal activation functions to different learning rules and input statistics.
Application Deadline: 01 March 2025
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Fluctuations in high-dimensional random landscapes
Summary of PhD Program:
High-dimensional random landscapes are important tools to model e.g. the energy functions of disordered systems, or the cost functions used in machine-learning algorithms [1]. Considerable efforts have been put in quantifying their average deepest minimum, or the number of critical points (minima, maxima and saddles), which are expected to influence heavily the dynamical properties. The more difficult question of characterising fluctuations around these averages has received less attention in comparison.
Application Deadline: 17 March 2025
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Causality Representation Learning based Language Models
Summary of PhD Program:
In storytelling, characters are the heartbeat of the narrative. Every action, choice, and conflict stems from who the characters are, what they want, and what they fear. A character-centric story places the individual at the centre, focusing not just on the plot, but on the emotional arcs, personal growth, and relationships that drive the narrative forward. However, in current research on large language models, the generated content is typically written in the third person and lacks interactivity.
Application Deadline: 31 May 2025
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Changes in Library Service Provision in England: Policy, Funding and Impact on Communities
Summary of PhD Program:
Between 2010 and 2020 the number of service providers who have reportedly ceased the statutory provision of library services in their area has tripled. This dramatic change in the landscape of English libraries has attracted numerous news headlines but has not been researched academically. The closure of numerous local authority libraries and the emergence of new subjects aiming at delivering library services, like community-run libraries, is acknowledged, but data remain scarce and disconnected.
Application Deadline: 07 March 2025
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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Nanomechanics of protein-protein interactions
Summary of PhD Program:
As a PhD student, you will develop and apply cutting-edge single-molecule methods, combining force measurements with single-molecule fluorescence readouts, to capture individual protein binding events in mechanically stretched proteins. The goal of the project is to unveil how mechanical forces regulate binding affinities in force-sensing proteins from a single-molecule perspective. The project will be based on experimental work, with additional opportunities for instrument development and theoretical modelling to interpret your findings.
Application Deadline: 05 March 2025
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Knowledge Orders before Modernity
Summary of PhD Program:
The Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarships Programme `Knowledge Orders before Modernity’ (KOM) is an innovative collaboration between King’s College London and the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) at the University of Kent. The programme explores the capacity of the handwritten word comparatively, after as well as before the advent of the printing press, outside as well as within western cultures. It seeks to challenge a conventional periodization which associates complex knowledge, complex archival mechanisms, and mundane recording with the development of western print culture.
Application Deadline: 27 February 2025
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12. 03 Fully Funded PhD Position in Biomedical Science
Summary of PhD Program:
Up to three 4-year fully-funded PhDs are available to commence in October 2025 (two studentships at UK Tuition Fees and one studentship at International Tuition Fees). The successful candidates will have both a King’s College London and an A*STAR Supervisor. Projects available for funding can be found in our Project Catalogue. All projects offer the opportunity to spend a minimum of 18 months and a maximum of 24 months at A*STAR in Singapore as part of the research and training programme.
Application Deadline: 23 February 2025
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Investigating the patterns of Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse among UK military veterans
Summary of PhD Program:
Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse (IPVA) is a global public health problem with significant physical and mental health consequences for those affected as well as financial implications for society. The majority of IPVA research is unidirectional, focusing on IPVA use (i.e., perpetration) or experience (i.e., victimization). However, when IPVA use and experience data are simultaneously included in analyses, bidirectional IPVA often emerges as a common pattern.
Application Deadline: 07 March 2025
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Computer Science
Summary of PhD Program:
Frame-based editing is a novel program manipulation paradigm that combines advantages from both text-based and block-based editors. It has been implemented in the Stride language [1], and in the online Strype system [2]. The visualisation possibilities embedded in frame-based editors provide opportunities for improved debugging and runtime visualisation functionality, beyond what is available in typical text-based or block-based systems. The goal of this project is to design and implement novel debugging/visualisation functionality in a frame-based system.
Application Deadline: 31 March 2025
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15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Impact of clonal haematopoiesis on ventricular remodelling after myocardial infarction: establishing high throughput screening for translatable therapeutic targets
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project aims to address the critical challenge of heart failure (HF) following myocardial infarction (MI), a leading cause of morbidity and mortality globally, especially among individuals under 60. The project seeks to investigate the role of clonal haematopoiesis (CH), a novel risk factor for HF characterised by the acquisition of mutations in haematopoietic cells, which drive dysfunctional inflammatory responses contributing to adverse cardiac remodelling post-MI.
Application Deadline: 03 March 2025
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care
Summary of PhD Program:
The Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery, and Palliative Care at King’s College London is at the forefront of groundbreaking research on a global scale. Our faculty community drives forward exceptional and influential research endeavours, dedicated to transforming health and care. In the 2021 Research Excellence Framework, an impressive 95% of our research output received the highest ratings of ‘world leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’.
Application Deadline: 30 March 2025
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in Cybersecurity Communication (Security Studies)
Summary of PhD Program:
The studentship will fund a doctoral research project aimed at improving communication between technical and non-technical cybersecurity stakeholders. This is important for government, where technical and policy communities interact on key cybersecurity issues and problems, and also for industry, academia and the media. Investigating existing communication dynamics and problems will lead to actionable guidance for use by cybersecurity stakeholders communicating and translating across technical/non-technical disciplinary and functional boundaries.
Application Deadline: 28 February 2025
18. Fully Funded PhD Position in Prediction of heart failure using computational cardiac models
Summary of PhD Program:
Heart failure is increasing in prevalence, affecting 1-2% of the population and accounts for 2% of all healthcare costs. Every year more than 100,000 cardiac CT scans are performed in England for the investigation of stable chest pain. Despite being performed for the investigation of coronary artery disease, in the years following a CT scan, heart failure is as common an outcome for patients as a heart attack. Cardiac CT thus provides an ideal event for opportunistic screening to identify patients at risk for heart failure who may benefit from preventative therapies.
Application Deadline: 09 March 2025
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19. Fully Funded PhD Position
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project will use a mission-inspired approach, whereby the overarching goal of the PhD and the way it is implemented are guided by user needs. Here, this refers to both the needs of health professionals (psychologists, psychiatrists, paediatricians) and the needs of infants and children with neurodevelopmental conditions (Autism, ADHD, intellectual disability and others) to improve early detection, prognosis, and tailored interventions using innovative neurotechnologies.
Application Deadline: 21 February 2025
20. Fully Funded PhD Position in Development And Testing Of Gene Editing For Epidermolytic Ichthyosis
Summary of PhD Program:
Gene editing technology can be used to make small-scale mutation corrections to cure genetic diseases. However, in cases where a disease can be caused by multiple mutations, it is generally more efficacious to use a strategy that permanently integrates entire healthy copies of a gene to replace mutant copies. Here, the student will use the novel DNA editing technology “eePASSIGE” to insert healthy copies of the KRT1/10 gene in keratinocytes/fibroblasts from patients with epidermolytic ichthyosis (EI) caused by mutations in KRT1/10. The relative efficacy and optimal conditions for gene correction will be evaluated by Sanger sequencing and by assessing restoration of mRNA and protein expression.
Application Deadline: 09 March 2025
21. Fully Funded PhD Position in Chemical origins of biological catalysis on early Earth
Summary of PhD Program:
Building on recent work that prebiotic reaction pathways efficiently produce a range RNA, peptide, and coenzyme precursors under simulated early Earth conditions, we want to investigate the conventional and prebiotic chemical synthesis of biological molecules with potential catalytic functions. Our goals are to develop robust and scalable chemical syntheses that are amenable to rapidly generating catalyst libraries. These will be used to investigate their organocatalytic properties in challenging prebiotic chemical reactions. This is an exciting opportunity to tackle the origin of life question using synthetic organic chemistry and analytical chemistry.
Application Deadline: 20 February 2025
22. Fully Funded PhD Position in Bridging Data for Equity: Linking Health Records to Address Ethnic Inequities in Mental Health and Social Care
Summary of PhD Program:
There are longstanding concerns that racially minoritised people in the UK are more likely to be compulsorily admitted to mental health units and are over-represented in crisis/ acute mental healthcare pathways. There are also concerns that social care pathways are not accessed equitably, and access to social care may play a role in preventing later adverse mental healthcare experiences.
Application Deadline: 24 February 2025
23. Fully Funded PhD Position in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and the Menopause: From understanding to management
Summary of PhD Program:
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is characterised by inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity. Although originally considered a childhood condition, it is now known to impact all ages, meaning taking a lifespan approach to ADHD is critical. Whilst this is increasing, research has identified that women are often undiagnosed, untreated and more likely to have depression and anxiety. This has led to calls to examine the role of female hormones in ADHD. The most significant hormonal fluctuations in women occur during the menopause transition which can last over a decade.
Application Deadline: 19 February 2025
24. Fully Funded PhD Position in ‘Art and Reconciliation’ — Persistent Illusions: the History Museum of Bosnia and Hercegovina’s Role in the Strategic Curation and Memorialisation of Mass Atrocity, and Peacebuilding
Summary of PhD Program:
This groundbreaking new research will allow the autonomous development of research at the Museum, opening the path to further funding opportunities, as well as enhancing research on evaluation methods and approaches to reconciliation, developed in previous partnership projects. Impact is in the proposal’s DNA, benefiting the UK, developed with and supported by FCDO (Deputy Director Strategy) to meet the UK’s ‘primary objective’ in the country. The project benefits the Museum directly, promotes inclusivity and reconciliation, benefiting individuals and communities in Bosnia, in relation to UN SDGs 4, 8, 11, 12 and 16.
