Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? University of Edinburgh, Scotland 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 Image Reconstruction using FPGA-based Generative AI
Summary of PhD Program:
The project aims at building accelerators based on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) and suitable to deliver computer vision tasks through Generative AI. Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are promising candidates in this direction: they exploit adversarial learning and feature extraction to execute a multitude of applications, including image dataset generation, image-to-image translation, face frontalisation.
Application Deadline: May 20, 2025
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Fouling Control of Water Treatment Membranes through Optimal and Sustainable Cleaning Strategies
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project will formulate tailored CiP strategies for membranes in Scottish Water (SW) treatment plants. The overarching goal is twofold: i) to identify the CiP temperature resulting in optimal membrane performance; ii) to identify CiP formulations (or mixtures thereof) suitable for application at ambient feed water temperatures (i.e., in cold water). Considering that CiP at SW membrane plants is often carried out at ambient water temperature (Tamb = 10 °C or lower), we anticipate significant improvements in cleaning efficiency if CiP were carried out at slightly higher temperatures.
Application Deadline: June 22, 2025
Follow FellowshipBard for daily updates!
3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Evaluating the sustainability of polymer membrane fabrication and applications
Summary of PhD Program:
The project will be carried out at the Institute of Materials and Processes (IMP). The student will attain skills in lifecycle assessments, synthesis of microporous materials, polymer membrane fabrication and evaluation. The student will also learn various experimental techniques like gas adsorption analysis, polymer synthesis, FTIR, SEM, TEM, NMR, and AFM. These skills will be essential for a student perusing industrial careers in the water/carbon capture sector; in addition they will be important for an academic career in Chemical Engineering/Materials Engineering.
Application Deadline: February 20, 2025
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Energy-Efficient Storage Technologies and Quantum Materials
Summary of PhD Program:
With the advent of 5G networks, Internet of Things (IoT), particularly in the defence and security area, there is an exponential growth on the amount of data generated worldwide. It is estimated that by 2025, more than 175 Zettabyte (1 Zettabyte=109 Terabytes) of data per year will be produced. Indeed, information technology is predicted to consume 21% of the world electricity supply by 2030. There is hence a pressing economic and societal urge to find more energy efficient solutions. To make progress in the targeted area of quantum storage technologies, new materials and/or processes need to be created or found.
Application Deadline: May 15, 2025
Find Fully Funded PhD in UK
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Elucidating molecular transport mechanisms through atomistic simulations
Summary of PhD Program:
Using molecular dynamics (MD) simulation and free energy calculations, this project aims to computationally design highly selective RO membranes by elucidating the mechanisms governing SNC sorption and transport. The project will focus on SNCs that are insufficiently rejected by state-of-the art RO membranes, e.g., boric acid, a toxic constituent of seawater, and N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA), a carcinogenic disinfection by-product whose insufficient removal during RO-based wastewater reuse (rejection ~ 60%) demands additional, and costly, advanced oxidation processes (e.g., high-energy UV).
Application Deadline: June 22, 2025
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electro-mechanical Control of Wave Energy Converters using MEGA-PTO
Summary of PhD Program:
The main objective of this PhD is to develop control strategies for wave devices using an integrated axial flux permanent magnet generator with a magnetic gear. An electro-mechanical wave-to-wire model will be developed, and used with two Italian partners Cheros Engineering and Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna of Pisa (SSSA), to investigate control strategies of devices produced by the following wave energy developers, Mocean Energy (UK), Pure Marine (Ireland) and CETO Wave (Ireland), all partners in the project.
Application Deadline: September 30, 2024
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Developing a Systematic Food Texture Characterisation Methodology for Advanced Manufacturing
Summary of PhD Program:
This project aims to develop and combine mechanical and rheological testing methodologies that will characterize texture rapidly and reliably, in real time, during the manufacturing and storage period. The experimental program will be complemented by state-of-the-art artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) methodologies in order to correlate improved texture with optimized manufacturing and storage processes.
Application Deadline: January 18, 2025
Find Fully Funded PhD in USA
8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Determining the water retention behaviour of unsaturated hydrophobic granular soils
Summary of PhD Program:
The first step towards understanding the hydromechanical behaviour of an unsaturated soil is to characterise its water retention properties. For hydrophilic soils, traditional techniques for example psychrometry or tensiometry allow us to construct the retention curve with little difficulty. However, the nature of the water phase within hydrophobic granular soils prevents us from using these methods. This project will explore new methods to construct a water retention curve for hydrophobic granular soils by combining experimental observations of the water phase in the material with numerical simulations of the resulting water pressure.
Application Deadline: December 1, 2024
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Designing Structured Surfaces with Superwettability Properties
Summary of PhD Program:
The underlying theme of this PhD project is to study the rich interplay between fluid flow dynamics, surface chemistry, geometry, roughness, and solid elasticity in the context of wetting phenomena. Depending on the interests of the student, they can focus on modelling or combine modelling and experiments to develop engineering design principles for structured surfaces with superwettability properties. We will consider both model surfaces with regular patterns (e.g., posts, holes) and non-ideal, industrially relevant substrates (e.g., complex fibres, meshes).
Application Deadline: January 16, 2025
Find Fully Funded PhD in Europe
10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Design of microflyers for environmental monitoring
Summary of PhD Program:
In the next decade, distributed sensor network systems made of small flying sensors, from dust-scale to insect-scale, will enable a step change in monitoring natural disasters and remote areas. They will contribute to protecting the environment by providing data on the contamination of physical and biological systems and on the impact of human activities. To date, a key limitation of this technology is that small sensors can remain airborne only for few tens of minute.
Application Deadline: May 1, 2025
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Design of Superconducting Electric Machines for Zero Emission Transport
Summary of PhD Program:
Join the frontier of zero emission transport with a PhD opportunity focused on advancing the decarbonisation of large-scale transport, particularly electric aircraft. Highly efficient and power-dense electric machines are paramount in this endeavor, and superconducting electric machines stand out as a promising solution. With efficiencies exceeding 99% and power densities surpassing 20 kW/kg, superconducting electric machines hold the potential to revolutionise long-haul electric aviation.
Application Deadline: August 31, 2024
Explore PhD Salary, Jobs, & Career Growth
12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Data-Driven Computational Sensing and Imaging
Summary of PhD Program:
This project will consider a range of algorithmic and machine learning technologies including: low rank models and/or auto-encoder type architectures to identify low dimensional data representations; physics-informed and physics aware neural networks that ensure the machine learning solutions adhere to necessary physics within the sensing problem; machine learning solutions targeted reducing computation or processing time; robustness to noise, outliers and adversarial attacks; and Bayesian and variational architectures that can provide uncertainty quantification.
Application Deadline: February 28, 2025
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Biomass conversion to fine chemicals via photocatalysis processes
Summary of PhD Program:
Photocatalysis has recently emerged as a promising way for benzyl alcohol conversion because of the low energy consumption, mild reaction conditions and high selectivity. However, the reaction mainly promoted by UV light, which is a very small portion of sunlight resource. This project will develop visible-light driven photocatalysts with suitable band levels to facilitate sunlight absorbtion and create separated electrons and holes for redox reactions, particularly the photocatalytic coupling of benzyl alcohol to C-C coupling compounds with non-toxic and high selectivity catalytic process.
Application Deadline: April 30, 2025
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Aerodynamics of the gliding seeds of the Javan cucumber vine
Summary of PhD Program:
The membranous wings of the Alsomitra macrocarpa fruit are very thin, varying from a few micron to some tens of microns. The wing has a swept and tapered planform, resembling that of a flying wing (see figure). Such a wing is one of the most efficient fixed-wing aircraft designs, since the entire body provides lift; however, without electronic stablisers, “flying wing” aircraft are difficult to control. The Alsomitra macrocarpa fruit, however, has overcome this design weakness by having a center of gravity located close to (but in front of) the aerodynamic center of the wing due to the swept planform.
Application Deadline: December 31, 2025
Explore Our Career Blog
15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Aerodynamics of high-performance yacht sails
Summary of PhD Program:
In the present project, it is proposed to test large-scale flexible sails in a wind tunnel to measure forces and the flying shape of sails, and then to build a rigid small-scale model to be tested in a water tunnel in order to perform flow measurements with LDV and PIV. Experimental measurements will be complemented with computational fluid dynamics (CFD) in order to test a wide range of conditions, which are tested with difficulty experimentally. In particular, numerical experiments will be performed with LES and DNS on 2D extruded geometries in order to investigate the natural-transition mechanisms on LEV.
Application Deadline: December 31, 2025
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Additive manufacturing of functional materials for electrical machines
Summary of PhD Program:
Additive manufacturing has impacted many industries, but it’s use in electrical machines is still limited, despite a wide scope for improvements. This PhD project will focus on exploiting the power of additive manufacturing to deliver high performing functional materials to allow increases in performance of electrical machines. Both soft magnetic materials and conductive materials are required for electrical machines, and additive manufacturing can process them both successfully and with performance benefits such as reduced eddy current losses, higher slot fill factors and complex cooling integration.
