PhD Jobs

Number of awards available: One Value of award: A non-taxable subsistence allowance of approximately £35190 in total plus Home/EU fees for a period of 36 months of registration. The project: The COgnitive Assisted Living Ambient System (COALAS) project is funded by the European Regional Development Fund’s Interreg IVA Programme, and...

A 4-year studentship is available in the UCL Chemistry Department to work with Professor Nora de Leeuw and project partners AWE on a computer simulation project to gain atomic-level insight into the physico-chemical properties of the PuO 2 material and its interaction with hydrogen, which is relevant to our understanding of the corrosion behaviour of...

A 3-year PhD studentship is available in the UCL Chemistry Department to work with Professors Jawwad Darr, Nora de Leeuw and colleagues on a project developing transition metal-doped iron sulfide nanoparticles for the catalytic conversion of carbon dioxide to fuel and fine chemicals. The project, which is in collaboration with Johnson Matthey and Air...

Much economic data is not what it seems, especially data that informs economic policy! A leading example comes from the National Accounts data produced in the UK by the Office for National Statistics (but all industrialised countries have the same problem). Consider data on for example GDP, which is critical to an assessment of policy, this is published...

Mandarin, the official Chinese language, has the greatest population of speakers in the world. With China rising to the second biggest economy and most powerful global power, the demand for learning Chinese has significantly grown in recent years. Different from English, Mandarin has five lexical tones, high level (mā, “mother”), rising...

University of Bristol and University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry A funding initiative by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) has established the Bristol Nutrition Biomedical Research Unit (BRU) as a partnership between University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust and the University...

Research in energy demand is critical to address the challenges posed by climate change. The recognition that our current life-style is unsustainable will be a key driver for research and innovation for many years to come. The sector needs high quality PhD qualified graduates, drawn from a range of different 1st degree disciplines: note that direct...

Project Details: A studentship is available in the group of Dr Julien Gautrot, focusing on the chemistry and biocompatibility of composites. The research will develop novel chemical routes to bio-compatible composites, in collaboration with FormFormForm (FFF), a dynamic company exploring materials design and innovation. Composites play an essential...

Supervisor: Dr Yoshikatsu Hayashi and Prof Slawomir J. Nasuto Overview : We make split second decisions and actions at each step of our lives. Engaging in such activities is critically dependent on ability to anticipate future outcomes. Anticipation has been postulated as one of the most generic forms of information processing in perception, motor...

Project Details: The institute of Bioengineering at QMUL is currently advertising the following multidisciplinary 7 PhD studentships: Mechanoregulation of nucleus architecture and genome function in pluripotent stem cells. (Prof David Lee and Dr Julien Gautrot) Nano-scale regulation of mechano-transduction and stem cell fate decision. (Dr Julien...