Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? University of Southampton, 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 VR for educators improving health literacy in young people
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD will follow a human-centred, iterative, co-design methodology within a Design-Test-Evaluate thesis structure. To deliver the research the PhD student will build direct relationships with schools and end-users such as teachers, students and school administrators. This will be supported through LifeLab, an established scientific engagement and literacy programme. Mixed methods analysis will be used to inform the design, development, testing and optimisation of new VR tools.
Application Deadline: 15 Sep 2023
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in metabolic adaptation in stress tolerance
Summary of PhD Program:
This project will dramatically impact the fields of drug resistant microbial pathogens, chemo-resistant tumours, and synthetic food engineering. We study novel mechanisms of rapid cellular adaptation to stress. We are primarily interested in how membrane less organelles coordinate real-time adaptability of cellular functionality, particularly metabolic responses. Some cells are not well equipped to deal with stress. These include neurons and aging cells in which we study neurodegenerative brain diseases. Other cells cause disease by being ‘too adaptive’ to stress. These include pathogens and cancer cells that acquire drug resistance. Chemoresistance is one of the greatest health and food production challenges of our time. This project will focus on finding novel mechanisms that can be targeted for therapeutic development.
Application Deadline: 30 Nov 2023
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Development of RF MEMS for 6G communication
Summary of PhD Program:
Radio-Frequency Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (RF-MEMS) switch between on and off state, not by controlling the current through the device like a field effect transistor, but by mechanically opening and closing the current path. The RF-MEMS devices are now of such sophistication that they can switch billions of times and are capable of carrying high currents of 1A and electro-magnetic waves at frequencies above 10GHz. The RF performance limitation is surprisingly not solely associated with the device itself but predominantly with the semiconductor Si substrate on which it is fabricated.
Application Deadline: 29 Apr 2024
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Novel transceiver design for integrated sensing and communications
Summary of PhD Program:
This project will focus on designing a transceiver for Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) in future mobile radio systems. Supported by the advanced connectivity and bandwidth capabilities of future 6G technology, ISAC will enable a range of innovative services and applications, including intelligent transportation, security, healthcare and air quality monitoring.
Application Deadline: 15 Sep 2023
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Learning to swim with ray-inspired sensing and morphing
Summary of PhD Program:
During your PhD, you will engineer a novel bio-inspired propulsion and control system inspired by rays. Rays have arrays of pressure sensors all along their wings (pectoral fins). These sensors provide information about the flow state over their wing. Sensor distribution differs between rays that undulate with small amplitude travelling waves and those that flap with large amplitudes. Your project will utilise a neural network to understand how actuation and sensing relate in a ray-robot capable of undulation and flapping.
Application Deadline: 16 Sep 2023
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Passive propulsion in vortex wakes
Summary of PhD Program:
The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) has awarded the University of Southampton with 3 PhD studentships in bio-inspired underwater propulsion. You will become a part of a UK-wide cohort of PhDs in this area, which includes students at other UK-based universities. You will work with other students to organise industry-facing workshops and report your progress to DSTL.
Application Deadline: 16 Sep 2023
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Soft robotic buckling pulse jet propulsion
Summary of PhD Program:
During your PhD you will engineer a novel bio-inspired propulsion and control system inspired by jellyfish. The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) has awarded the University of Southampton with 3 PhD studentships in bio-inspired underwater propulsion. You will become a part of a UK-wide cohort of PhDs in this area, which includes students at other UK based universities.
Application Deadline: 16 Sep 2023
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in linking particle size to ocean carbon storage
Summary of PhD Program:
The size and shape of sinking particles is likely key to determining their remineralisation depth, as slower sinking particles are likely to be remineralised at a shallower depth. This leads to a “particle size-remineralisation feedback” hypothesis (Leung et al., 2021), such that under climate change-driven warming conditions plankton size structure shifts to smaller organisms, which leads to a shift to smaller sinking particles and so shallower remineralisation of organic carbon and nutrients. This latter would then increase nutrient availability in the upper ocean, which could drive increased primary production and carbon flux. The overall effect would be a dampening of the expected decline in the strength of the biological carbon pump as a result of climate change. If correct, then current IPCC projections, which omit this potential negative feedback, are overestimating reductions in future ocean carbon storage.
Application Deadline: 30 Sep 2023
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mapping ocean carbon storage from space to seafloor
Summary of PhD Program:
Recent studies (Cael 2021 L&O:L, Cael et al. 2021 GRL, Cael et al. 2018 GBC) suggest that this process, including its variability, can be predicted accurately from remote sensing data from Earth-observing satellites. You will use these published relationships and combine them with satellite data, along with other published relationships between ocean carbon transport and factors in the environment. Through this effort you will generate the first data-constrained estimate of how much carbon is transported into the ocean interior by plankton ecosystems, the variability of this process, and map these over space, depth, and time. You will then have ample opportunity to pursue further questions that arise from this project, or novel applications of the product that they have created. You will be embedded in a large international consortium project of world-class carbon cycle scientists and will have the opportunity to gain a variety of in-demand computational skills.
Application Deadline: 30 Sep 2023
10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Responsible and trustworthy AI
Summary of PhD Program:
The global artificial intelligence (AI) market is valued at over $387.4 billion and is projected to more than triple by 2029. For the world to realise the benefits brought by AI, it is important to ensure AI systems are responsibly developed, used throughout their entire life cycle, and trusted by the humans expected to rely on them. This PhD studentship is in the broad area of responsible and trustworthy AI. Potential research topics include:
- multi-robot systems
- autonomous systems
- multi-agent systems
- goal-driven systems
- recognition, human-computer interaction
Application Deadline: 30 Sep 2023
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Phosphonate cycling by marine phytoplankton
Summary of PhD Program:
Phosphonates are a large portion of the organic phosphorus in the oceans. The project will investigate how microbial eukaryotes contribute to global phosphonate environmental cycling. It will look at specific contexts such as harmful algal blooms and symbiosis. Phosphonates form up to a quarter of the total dissolved organic phosphorus in marine environments. As a researcher on this project you will investigate how microeukaryotes contribute to building and utilising marine phosphonates.
Application Deadline: 15 Sep 2023
12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Help hearing impaired listeners to understand speech better by audio-visual integration in wearable devices
Summary of PhD Program:
This project will address the research questions how can audio-visual fusion be used to improve the performance of wearable devices for people with hearing loss? Wearable assistive hearing devices have improved our daily lives over the past two decades. Personal sound amplifiers (like the Apple Airpod Pro) are now able to increase speech intelligibility for people with hearing loss in noisy situations. Combining sound amplifiers with visual devices promises future breakthroughs for the next generation of wearable assistive devices.
Application Deadline: 31 Aug 2024
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Stochastic data driven modelling for complex and large-scale dynamical systems
Summary of PhD Program:
The engineering design process for next generation aerospace engineering products is being revolutionised by the rapid development of artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies. Data-driven reduced order models have a significant influence and are increasingly integrated into the design and manufacture of aerospace engineering systems. This improves their automation, resilience, and efficiency. The project aims to shift the nonlinear modelling paradigm from using linear or linearised data driven approaches to truly nonlinear and universal approaches. The project will focus on overcoming these limitations by combining recent advances in the nonlinear dynamics theory.
