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 Large Language Model for Intelligent System Software
Summary of PhD Program:
Large Language Models (LLMs) have profoundly transformed the way we study, work, and think. Models such as ChatGPT have the potential to free individuals from the intricate and labour-intensive processes involved in writing and coding. Developing system software, such as compilers, is an exceedingly complex task that often requires investments of hundreds of millions of dollars. This project aims to explore the extent to which LLMs can be harnessed to assist in the development of system software.
Application Deadline: 27 June 2025
2. 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.
Application Deadline: 30 June 2025
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3. 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: 30 June 2025
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Numerical Modelling of Hydrogen Explosions in semi-Confined Spaces
Summary of PhD Program:
This project aims to develop the current methods for assessing the consequences of explosions. This may include whether hydrogen deflagration to detonation transient (DDT) can be ruled out, and subsequently what local pressures would be seen if DDT does or doesn’t occur. The outcomes of the proposed project may provide significant improvements to safety case development for nuclear decommissioning and beyond. This project will lead to a start-of-the-art CFD tool for investigating hydrogen explosion safety within nuclear facilities. It may also generate new simplified hand calculation methods for estimating localised overpressures.
Application Deadline: 30 June 2025
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electrical injection of THz spin excitations in topological solid state devices
Summary of PhD Program:
To support the future growth of the digital economy, we must explore computing paradigms that overcome the inherent limitations of semiconductors. A proposed way to do this is to use the spin of electrons to carry information: a field known as spintronics. This technology promises to provide a route to low power, high speed computers of the future. An emerging area within spintronics is Terahertz spintronics, where interactions between electrons at trillionths of a second are used. This is 1000 times faster than the current state of the art in silicon.
Application Deadline: 30 June 2025
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in BBSRC CTP: See What You Taste: Flavour Analysis Using Cutting-Edge Imaging Techniques
Summary of PhD Program:
Chocolate making is one of the most enigmatic and complex processes in food manufacture. With raising concerns around sustainability, climate changes, equitable and fair access to resources, and the need for creating healthier food products, this project tackles fundamental aspects of flavour molecule distribution during processing. Specifically, the project considers complex tribomechanical and tribo-rheological processes that are critical in the chocolate making.
Application Deadline: 30 June 2025
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Characterisation of dissolved hydrogen diffusion and bubble nucleation in waste suspensions
Summary of PhD Program:
This project is part of the Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in SATURN (Skills And Training Underpinning a Renaissance in Nuclear). It is led from the University of Manchester and includes leading nuclear research universities in the North of England and Scottland (University of Leeds, University of Sheffield, Lancaster University, University of Liverpool, University of Strathclyde). We aim to deliver the next generation of nuclear researchers to help the UK achieve its Net Zero targets and beyond, in a collegial cohort environment.
Application Deadline: 30 June 2025
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Pneumatic transport of wet granular wastes under vacuum
Summary of PhD Program:
This project is part of the Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in SATURN (Skills And Training Underpinning a Renaissance in Nuclear). It is led from the University of Manchester and includes leading nuclear research universities in the North of England and Scottland (University of Leeds, University of Sheffield, Lancaster University, University of Liverpool, University of Strathclyde). We aim to deliver the next generation of nuclear researchers to help the UK achieve its Net Zero targets and beyond, in a collegial cohort environment.
Application Deadline: 30 June 2025
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Artificial Intelligence in Medical Imaging and Diagnostics
Summary of PhD Program:
This research will explore innovative AI methodologies aimed at supporting clinicians in interpreting complex imaging data and generating meaningful diagnostic insights. The project will involve leveraging advanced natural language processing and medical image analysis to transform imaging data into clinically relevant information. Additionally, it will explore the use of multimodal fusion techniques to combine data from multiple sources, integrating both visual and textual information to deepen our understanding of patient health.
Application Deadline: 2 July 2025
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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Stress modulated antiferromagnetism in a BiFeO3-based thin film
Summary of PhD Program:
In the challenge to develop new, high density logic and memory devices, the concept of employing electron spin transport as the data vector (i.e. spintronics) is of great interest due to the potential for very low energy consumption devices. Antiferromagnetic materials play a pivotal role in many current and envisioned spintronic devices through the phenomenon of magnetic exchange bias at the interface between a ferromagnet and an antiferromagnet. This phenomenon allows such heterostuctures to act as spin-valves to control the conduction of electrons according to their spin. The ability to modulate the exchange bias, for example by switching the antiferromagnetism on and off, would be a valuable concept in spintronic device design.
Application Deadline: 15 July 2025
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Assessing the Value and Reimbursement Pathways for Histotripsy in UK Oncology
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD studentship will develop a (simulation) model to assess the economic value, cost-effectiveness and system benefits of histotripsy. The research will explore technology use across multiple tumour types, including brain tumours, where there is a clinical unmet need for minimally invasive methods of treating surgically unresectable lesions. It will also evaluate alternative evidence generation and reimbursement frameworks to inform adoption pathways for this technology.
Application Deadline: 22 July 2025
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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Image guided intervention supported with mixed reality
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD studentship will broadly explore development of cutting-edge AI solutions for image registration, anatomy segmentation, and immersive technology. The selected candidate will work with preoperative MRI/CT scans to create 3D models of organs and intra-operative surgical videos. The candidate will develop surgical planning and implement new technologies for its integration as VR/AR assistive platform. The research directions will be adapted based on the progress and consultation with clinical colleagues and supervisor, ensuring impactful outputs. The candidate will have opportunity to collaboratively work with computational scientists and surgeons exploring novel ways to transform research and practice in surgical care.
Application Deadline: 31 July 2025
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Algorithms and complexity
Summary of PhD Program:
The Algorithms group at the University of Leeds (UK) is offering a fully funded 3.5-year PhD studentship on Parameterized Complexity and Approximation. Parameterized Complexity is a vastly growing area within theoretical computer science that allows for the development of exact and approximation algorithms for computationally hard problems by exploiting the structure of inputs and doing a multivariate complexity analysis. The goal of this project is to develop more efficient parameterized approximation algorithms and preprocessing algorithms (also known as kernelization) for a wide range of NP-hard graph problems.
Application Deadline: 4 August 2025
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Data-parallel data structures
Summary of PhD Program:
As a result of increased core count both on Intel Xeon Phi and nVidia Tesla platforms, global interest in SMP (shared memory parallelism) and SIMD (single instruction multiple data) computations has rekindled. For complex computations, however, development of data structures and algorithms has lagged behind serial methods. The goal of this PhD is therefore to build systematically towards data structures, tools and libraries that effectively exploit the massive parallelism now available.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Water-accelerated Reaction Discovery In Silico
Summary of PhD Program:
On water reactions are a class of organic reaction which can be performed in aqueous media. The organic compounds do not dissolve in water, but form droplet. These reactions are typically accelerated up to hundred of times compared to reactions in organic solvents. Thus, on water processes epitomise green chemistry, avoiding the need for hazardous organic solvents while delivering enhanced productivity and simple purification of the products. However, the range of known on water reactions is limited, which hinders their wider application in sustainable industrial processes.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Spectral geometry
Summary of PhD Program:
Spectral geometry lies at the intersection of differential geometry, partial differential equations, and analysis. To a large extent it is motivated by questions originating in the study of real-life phenomena, such as vibration, heat propagation, oscillation of fluids, and quantum mechanical effects. For example a model question, posed by Mark Kac half a century ago is, Can one hear the shape of a drum? The challenge is to understand the geometry of an idealized drum from the set of its vibration frequencies, that is the Laplace eigenvalues. The question Kac poses is closely linked to other topics in spectral geometry, including shape optimization, spectral asymptotics, and spectral invariants.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in Optimisation Algorithms for Distributed Computing
Summary of PhD Program:
Optimisation algorithms for task offloading in Edge computing should perform decision making for a combined, Edge-Cloud system. In a typical scenario, users submit tasks to Edge servers. Some tasks can be processed by the Edge, which capacity is limited, and the results are then returned back to users. Remaining tasks are moved to the Cloud, with abundant capacity and typically with faster servers, but there are additional costs and time incurred by data transfer. Thus, a number of a challenging optimsation problems arise aimed at finding solutions which minimise task completion times, computation and data transfer costs, and maximise the system throughput rate.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
18. Fully Funded PhD Position in Hydrogen Energy Application and Safety Consideration
Summary of PhD Program:
Hydrogen gas has the potential to play a key role in the future of green energy. Carbon-free energy is essentially required to reduce the greenhouse gases (GHG). These emissions are the main reason for the climate change. Therefore, employing hydrogen in domestic and industrial purposes is one of the crucial challenges today for decarbonisation. There are many hydrogen and hybrid projects to reduce or eliminate CO2 gases. In addition, there is no difficulties in igniting hydrogen as it also burns with wide range of mixtures compared to other fuels.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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19. Fully Funded PhD Position in Strain control of ferrimagnets
Summary of PhD Program:
Magnetic random access memory (MRAM) using electrical current to switch magnetic layers has been on the market for a few years. It has the potential to replace much of the memory hierarchy in computer architectures but the device footprint and energy consumption are still too large to be competitive. To address the latter, there are several ongoing investigations into the use of electric field to manipulate nanomagnets, either by directly applying a gate voltage or indirectly via piezoelectric strain.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
20. Fully Funded PhD Position in All Natural Composites
Summary of PhD Program:
All polymer composites is a growing area of research and development in which the Leeds Soft Matter Physics group has been one of the foremost pioneers. Research to date, on melt processable polymer systems, has led to a number of major patents and via a University spin-off company, to commercial applications. In the view of replacing synthetic polymers by renewable matter, all-natural based composites have great potential.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
21. Fully Funded PhD Position in Machine learning for chemical manufacture
Summary of PhD Program:
This project aims to develop an Industry 4.0 approach revolutionizing the transfer from laboratory to production using advanced data-rich and cognitive computing technologies. We will develop new algorithms based on Bayesian Optimisation and evolving Kinetic Motifs that merge data analysis and the generation of further experiments. Cloud based machine learning services (hubs) will generate experiment setpoints delivered through the cloud to automated laboratory platforms (LabBots).
