Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, 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 The role of membrane perturbations in antibiotic resistant Gram-negative bacteria
Summary of PhD Program:
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a critical public health threat. Gram-negative bacterial pathogens cause a wide range of infections and are prone to resist multiple antibiotics. Polymyxin antibiotics, destabilising bacterial membrane leading to cell lysis, are the last-resort antibiotic against these pathogens. Alarmingly, the rise in resistance to polymyxins across the globe (including the UK), underscores the urgent need to address this challenge.
Application Deadline: 31st March 2025
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Process Industries: Net Zero – Biorenewable antioxidants production for enhanced sustainability of polymeric materials
Summary of PhD Program:
Several types of polymeric materials undergo rapid degradation under both storage and use, unless antioxidants and stabilisers are added to suppress undesirable reactions. This project is co-funded by Thomas Swan & Co. Ltd. and will be focused on the identification and further development of routes for effective extraction and modification of biorenewable antioxidants and stabilisers in order to enhance the sustainability of polymeric materials. The candidate will research biomass sources and extraction techniques, exploit chemical modification pathways, and investigate performance of the novel preservatives in final application scenarios.
Application Deadline: 22nd April 2025
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Process Industries: Net Zero: Development of Sustainable Manufacturing Processes for Confectionery Products
Summary of PhD Program:
The PINZ CDT will train the next generation of process and chemical engineers, and chemists, to develop the new processes, process technologies and green chemistries required for the process industries’ transition to Net Zero. Climate change is one of society’s greatest challenges. As the world’s largest food and beverage company, Nestlé has pledged its commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and achieving net zero emissions from their global manufacturing processes by 2050.
Application Deadline: 25th March 2025
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Process Industries: Net Zero – Decarbonisation of thermal separation processes for removing water and organic solvents from high-performance ingredients
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project is part of the CDT in Process Industries: Net Zero. The successful PhD student will be co-supervised by academics from the Process Intensification Group at Newcastle University. Established in 1925, Croda is the name behind sustainable, high-performance ingredients and technologies in some of the world’s most successful brands: creating, making and selling speciality chemicals that are relied on by industries and consumers everywhere. This project will help to support Croda’s “Net Zero by 2050” strategy, enabling them to invest in low-carbon, intensified processes that meet their future manufacturing needs.
Application Deadline: 25th March 2025
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Process Industries: Net Zero – Data Driven Optimisation for Process Scale-up
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project is part of the CDT in Process Industries: Net Zero. The successful PhD student will be co-supervised by academics from the Process Intensification Group at Newcastle University. Nestling has designed a containerised cultivation and processing plant for a broad range of microorganisms with a focus on mycelium. The system is fully automated; the SCADA system is connected to the cloud and provides performance data, enabling the monitoring of critical process parameters (CPPs) and critical quality attributes (CQAs).
Application Deadline: 3rd April 2025
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in High-throughput nanoscale crystallisation of linear and macrocyclic peptides
Summary of PhD Program:
4 year Chemistry PhD in chemical crystallography for pharmaceutically relevant molecules, on high-throughput crystallisation and single crystal X-ray crystallography (SCXRD) of linear and macrocyclic peptides. Many modern drug molecules are complex linear and cyclic synthetic polypeptides. Crystallisation of such molecules presents a very challenging problem, however success in such an endeavour is key for both structural elucidation by single crystal X-ray diffraction analysis (SCXRD) and for cost effective purification. This project will develop new high-throughput Encapsulated Nanodroplet Crystallisation (ENaCt) methods, based on previous work in the group (Chem 2020, 6, p1755; JACS 2023, 145, p23352; ChemSocRev 2023, p1995), for the crystallisation and analysis of medically relevant complex polypeptides.
Application Deadline: 22nd April 2025
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in translational neuroscience: Reducing anxiety-like behaviour in nonhuman primates using molecular genetic tools
Summary of PhD Program:
The project will combine behavioural, electrophysiological, and chemogenetic approaches. We will use behavioural tasks designed to measure anxiety-like behaviour in nonhuman primates. Non-replicating viral vectors will be used to deliver an excitatory chemogenetic receptor to a specific interneuron type. Expression will be restricted to this cell type using an enhancer sequence recently developed by our collaborators. Multi-channel electrodes will be used to record from large populations of cells from the amygdala, while subjects perform tasks; neural activity under vehicle and treatment conditions will be contrasted, and correlated with changes in behaviour.
Application Deadline: 31st March, 2025
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Digital Health and Human Computer Interaction
Summary of PhD Program:
We are offering an exciting fully funded PhD opportunity to join the SMaRT-PD project within the Faculty of Medical Sciences at Newcastle University. SMaRT-PD is an innovative research initiative focused on designing a Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS) to help people with Parkinson’s disease manage and monitor their symptoms more effectively.
Application Deadline: 18.04.2025
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Brain, Brawn, and Bugs: cognitive and physical factors of insect dexterity
Summary of PhD Program:
This interdisciplinary project will examine how insects achieve this dexterity, by studying foraging in praying mantises and bumblebees using behavioural experiments, micro-CT scanning, myogram reading, and advanced motion analysis. Working with scientists at Liverpool, Sussex, and Edinburgh, we will study how dexterous behaviour changes throughout lifetime, providing possible novel models for studying how ageing affects human dexterity.
Application Deadline: 30th April 2025
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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Water Resources: Parametric protection from drought risk and water scarcity in the 21st century
Summary of PhD Program:
This project will develop a state-of-the-art Hydrosystems modelling framework to systematically and strategically identify industry-relevant index-based parameters for sector-specific drought insurance that account for climate change and changing water security risks. The results from the project will help to communicate 21st century drought and water security risks to the climate-vulnerable energy, agriculture and industry sectors, and quantify the benefits of adopting parametric drought policies.
Application Deadline: 21 March 2025
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Water Resources: Next-Generation Flood Models: Physics-informed neural networks for urban resilience
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project introduces a ground breaking approach to real-time urban flood modelling through physics-informed neural networks (PINNs). The framework embeds fundamental physics laws, such as the Shallow Water Equations, into the neural network’s loss function. This ensures physically consistent predictions, even when historical data is limited, and addresses the limitations of traditional data-driven methods, which often fail to generalise to unfamiliar scenarios.
Application Deadline: 21 March 2025
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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in 3D-Printed Reactors for Shrinking Chemical Processes
Summary of PhD Program:
In this project, novel laboratory-scale continuous reactors will be designed and 3d-printed, and applied to a variety of real reactions from industry, currently performed in batch, to demonstrate “process intensification” and rapid, scalable process development/optimisation. Previous work in the area by the Process Intensification Group has demonstrated that many batch processes can be made significantly “greener” via this method of process development.
Application Deadline: 24th April 2025
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Real-Time Cryo-Electron Microscopy to Investigate Enzyme Allostery
Summary of PhD Program:
Allosteric regulation of enzymes involves ligands binding to sites other than the active site, causing a structural change that alters the enzyme’s function. Recent advances in cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) using time-resolved methods have enabled visualisation of multiple structural states of enzymes during allosteric regulation. This PhD project combines time-resolved cryo-EM, biochemical and biophysical techniques to capture structural snapshots in the allosteric regulation of methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR), a folate metabolising enzyme with implications in cancer and neurological diseases.
Application Deadline: 30th March 2025
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Process Industries: Net Zero 3D Heat Pipe Technology
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project will develop next generation 3D Heat Pipes, to maximise thermal transport efficiency within advanced electronics for space and terrestrial applications. Vapour chambers and loop heat pipes are proposed for development into a 3D format. Vapour chambers are ultra-thin heat pipes used to rapidly spread heat in the x-y plane. They have various applications in electronics cooling/heat spreading. 3D vapour chambers are a recent advancement combining a state-of-art 2D vapour chamber with a traditional heat pipe structure to allow heat spreading and dissipation across all 3 dimensions.
Application Deadline: 25th March 2025
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15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Developing Self-Healing Coatings for Hydrogen Storage Systems
Summary of PhD Program:
Hydrogen has emerged as a promising, clean, and versatile energy carrier, playing a key role in achieving global sustainability goals. One of the biggest challenges lies in its the safe and efficient storage, particularly due to hydrogen embrittlement – a phenomenon where hydrogen permeates storage materials, compromising their structural integrity. The research will focus on this critical issue by developing a Self-Healing, Hybrid Coating to enhance the safety and durability of steel-based hydrogen storage systems. The coating will ensure safer, more efficient hydrogen storage by preventing material degradation and failure.
