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 Intracellular Capillarity of Biomolecular Condensates
Summary of PhD Program:
The overall aim of this PhD project is to identify and develop governing principles of wetting and interfacial forces of biomolecular condensates in biological cells, which we broadly term as intracellular capillarity. Key questions to be addressed in the project can include: 1) how can we infer material properties of biomolecular condensates, such as surface tension, viscosity, and elasticity, inside the cells? 2) what are the roles of confinement and substrate deformation in the formation and growth of biomolecular condensates? 3) what biological functions are played by capillary forces in cellular organisation and how can we engineer them?
Application Deadline: January 16, 2025
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Integrated fabrication and sensing for soft robotics
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project aims to address this challenge by developing integrated fabrication techniques that embed sensing technologies directly into soft robotic structures. By combining expertise in flexible electronics, advanced materials, and 3D-printing-based fabrication methods, this project will enable the creation of multifunctional soft robotic systems with enhanced sensing capabilities. These systems will be capable of detecting touch, pressure, deformation and other physical parameters crucial for dynamic interaction with their environments.
Application Deadline: January 31, 2025
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3. 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. Specifically, the project targets deploying applications like this on FPGA-based Systems-on-Chip (SoCs) to be showcased in real-time systems, with an in-depth investigation on optimisation techniques to reach high throughput and low energy footprint (e.g., data quantisation and pruning).
Application Deadline: May 20, 2025
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in High-fidelity laser tomography of flow fields via data assimilation
Summary of PhD Program:
This project will develop data assimilation for high-fidelity flow-field reconstruction using LAT. Data assimilation (DA) algorithms seek to solve the equations governing fluid motion subject to databased constraints. Instead of training an end-to-end neural network using simulated data, DA algorithms integrate ground-true physics, into the network, so call physics-informed neural network. Therefore, high-fidelity flow-field images are expected to be reconstructed by DA-assisted LAT. The student who joins our group will learn the fundamentals of laser absorption tomography, computational and data-driven solutions for inverse problems.
Application Deadline: December 31, 2024
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Hardware-accelerated flow-field measurement using laser absorption spectroscopy
Summary of PhD Program:
This project will develop hardware-accelerated laser absorption spectroscopy technology and apply it to industrial gas measurement. The student who joins our group will learn the fundamentals of laser spectroscopic sensing and hardware acceleration techniques, and will be trained for carrying out experiments in both labs and real industrial conditions. The student will have a high chance of working with renowned international researchers and industrial collaborators.
Application Deadline: December 31, 2024
6. 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
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Experimental Fire Science: Improved real-time characterization of fuel properties during combustion
Summary of PhD Program:
The project will include the opportunity to gain expertise in the development and use of a variety of established and novel measurement instrumentation to monitor and characterize the variation in structure of a fuel as it burns. For example, utilizing established methods to quantify the spatial and temporal variation of solid fuel temperatures (e.g. colour pyrometry) and burning rate (continuous mass loss measurements). Alongside developing novel approaches to characterising and quantifying the variation in fuel structure (volume, geometry) and the resulting influence on linked physical properties (e.g. drag force, radiative absorption).
Application Deadline: December 23, 2024
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8. 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
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Droplet Dynamics on Topographically Patterned Slippery Liquid-Infused Porous Surfaces
Summary of PhD Program:
The interaction of droplets with structured surfaces is extremely important in microfluidics, with target applications in medical diagnostics, self-assembly and printing. In this project you will study the dynamic interactions of droplets with structured solid surfaces coated by a thin liquid lubricant layer. Depending on your skills and interests, you will tackle questions about the fluid dynamics of this system using experimental/computational approaches, or a combination of both.
Application Deadline: October 21, 2025
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10. 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
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Designing Structured Surfaces with Superwettability Properties
Summary of PhD Program:
The wetting behaviours of liquids on solid surfaces play an important role for a wide range of engineering applications, including coatings, electronics, oil recovery, microfluidics, and inkjet printing. For many of these applications, the key challenge is to control the static and dynamic wettability of a given substrate against various liquids. To achieve such control, especially over the full range of wettability landscape, surface chemistry, while crucial, is inadequate by itself.
Application Deadline: January 16, 2025
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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Design and testing 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 the impact of human activities. To date, a key limitation of this technology is that small sensors can remain airborne only for a few tens of minutes.
Application Deadline: December 31, 2025
13. 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
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Bottom-up assembly of multi-compartment synthetic cell
Summary of PhD Program:
The building blocks will be lipid vesicles, both large unilamellar vesicles (LUVs) and giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs), as well as membrane embedded and encapsulated proteins. To do so, the student will develop methodologies for lipid vesicle formation, including bulk techniques such as water-in-oil emulsions, and microfluidic systems (e.g. micro-droplets). Bottom-up synthetic cells can shed light on natural biological cell functions but can also be used for future industrial applications like biofuel production or in biomedical applications such as drug delivery.
Application Deadline: November 30, 2024
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15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Biomass conversion to fine chemicals via photocatalysis processes
Summary of PhD Program:
The conversion of biomass into value-added platform chemicals can greatly alleviate the reliance on fossil feedstock. Biomass alcohol such as benzyl alcohol is one of the important biomass-derived platform compounds and a significant feedstock, which are used to produce a series of value-added derivatives, such as benzaldehyde, hydrobenzoin, benzoin, and deoxybenzoin. Among these derivatives, the C-C coupling chemicals, hydrobenzoin, benzoin, and deoxybenzoin have higher value than the rest and can be used as the versatile intermediates for the production of high value-added downstream products, such as various chemical additives, dyestuff, pharmaceuticals as well as the precursor of photo initiator.
Application Deadline: April 30, 2025
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in America’s Cup yacht hydrofoils
Summary of PhD Program:
The project aims to develop an in-depth understanding of the unsteady hydrodynamics of America’s Cup hydrofoils, including issues related to cavitation and ventilation. It will be performed in partnership with world-leading yacht designers and professional sailors and potentially affiliated with an America Cup team.
Application Deadline: December 31, 2027
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in Aerodynamics of the gliding seeds of the Javan cucumber vine
Summary of PhD Program:
The Javan cucumber (Alsomitra macrocarpa) is a vine that climbs the trees of tropical forests toward the canopy and sunlight. At great heights, it grows pods that contain hundreds of winged seeds. As the wind blows against the opening of the pods, the samaras are peeled away and released. Unlike many gliding seeds that use auto-rotation, the seed of the Javan cucumber vine exhibits a stable gliding flight with its paper-thin wings. The seed’s design is efficient enough to achieve a slower rate of descent compared to that of rotating winged seeds.
Application Deadline: December 31, 2027
18. Fully Funded PhD Position in Aerodynamics of high-performance yacht sails
Summary of PhD Program:
The proposed project aims to investigate the fluid dynamics of yacht sails. Sails have unique flow features, which allow the generation of very high lift and high lift/drag ratio compared to wings and blades commonly used in other fields such as aeronautics and turbomachinery. The project aims to understand the underlying mechanisms of these flow features in order to further enhance the performance of sails and, importantly, to allow the cross-fertilisation of ideas in research fields where there is a need for fluid dynamic efficiency.
Application Deadline: December 31, 2025
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19. Fully Funded PhD Position in Adaptive and smart structures for operational variability and life extension
Summary of PhD Program:
The core objective of this project is to engineer a self-adapting structure that adjusts to the prescribed loading conditions. This adaptation is achieved by integrating local structures that accommodate stiffness variations along the global structure. The local structures will change their geometry and shape in response to the applied loads, resulting in emergent properties in the main global structure. Analytical modeling of the sub-structures will provide understanding and control for stiffness tailoring, which will translate into desirable mechanical properties in the main structure.
