There are 77 self-funded or funded PhD studentship.
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A Mobile Robotic Chemist for Reaction Optimisation (ICASE studentship with AstraZeneca)
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Thursday 30th June 2022
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr John Ward Prof Andy Cooper\n
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
A Multi-Omics approach to understanding cardiovascular risk in patients with End-Stage Kidney Disease
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 1st December 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Anirudh Rao Dr Gary McDowell Prof GYH Lip Dr P Sharma
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
An uncertainty quantification framework for improving the in-flight shape prediction
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Thursday 30th June 2022
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Sebastiano Fichera Prof John Mottershead Dr Edoardo Menga Mr Francesco Gambioli
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Automation of biodegradation testing using robots
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 31st July 2022
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Andy Cooper
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Bioengineering a full thickness cornea
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 16th December 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Hannah Levis Prof Rachel Williams Dr Kate Black
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Biosynthesis, Self-Assembly and Engineering of bacterial organelles
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 2nd November 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Liu Prof J Hinton
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Brett PhD Student Fellowships in Entrepreneurship
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 27th May 2022
- Subject area: Business and Finance
- Supervisors: TBC
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Cataract surgery interocular lens digital optimisation tool
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Thursday 30th June 2022
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Ahmed Abass Dr H Levis Mr Vito Romano
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Computational Modelling of Ageing Brains: Virtual Populations for In Silico Clinical Trials
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Thursday 16th June 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr. Wahbi El-Bouri Dr Navjot Kukreja Prof GYH Lip
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Defining the role of WT1 in cellular and molecular processes during gastrulation, in embryos and gastruloids
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Tuesday 21st February 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Bettina Wilm
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Developing new cancer therapeutic agents from foodstuff: characterizing galectin interaction with novel inhibitors
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 17th February 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Lu-Gang Yu Dr Edwin Yates
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Developing of instrumentation technologies for a future zero power reactor experiment on molten salt reactors
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 31st May 2022
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Professor Bruno Merk Prof CP Welsch Prof Andrew Boston Dr Sergey Burdin
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Development of HBMIM model for 3D automatic monitoring of heritage building
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Thursday 30th June 2022
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Hyungjoon Seo Prof K Krabbenhoft Dr Xue Zhang
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Development of Inhaled Therapeutic Polymeric Nanoparticles for the Treatment of Respiratory Infections
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Thursday 30th June 2022
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Prof. Raechelle D’Sa Dr D Ferreira
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Discovery of high-temperature superconductors using Deep Learning
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 23rd December 2022
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof M J Rosseinsky Dr V Gusev Dr M Gaultois Prof Rahul Savani
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Discovery of new materials for applications on glass using Deep Machine Learning and Data Analytics
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 15th February 2023
- Subject area: Maths and Computing
- Supervisors: Prof J Y Goulermas Prof M J Rosseinsky Dr M Gaultois
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Discovery of new p-type transparent conducting materials for applications in the flat glass industry
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 15th February 2023
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof M J Rosseinsky Dr J Alaria Dr Troy Manning
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Discovery of solid state electrolytes using Deep Learning
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 23rd December 2022
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof M J Rosseinsky Dr V Gusev Dr M Gaultois Prof Rahul Savani
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Diversifying the histone code: defining the role of non-canonical phosphorylation in chromatin structure
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 15th February 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Claire Eyers Prof A Jones Prof J Higgins
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Dynamic Nuclear Polarisation-enhanced NMR Spectroscopy for Advanced Materials Understanding
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 1st June 2022
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof. Frédéric Blanc
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
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Electron microscopy of catalysts for renewable transformations
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 20th January 2023
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof M J Rosseinsky Prof N Browning
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Electronic, Magnetic, Optical and Thermal Properties of new Inorganic Materials
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Saturday 3rd December 2022
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof M J Rosseinsky FRS Dr Luke Daniels Dr J Alaria
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Engineering more water-use efficient crops: functional genomics of CO2 fixation during Crassulacean acid metabolism
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 11th February 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr. James Hartwell
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Enhanced Solid-State NMR of Amorphous Solid Dispersion in Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 1st June 2022
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof. Frédéric Blanc
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Enhancing clinical metabolomic studies through improved laboratory and bioinformatics tools
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Tuesday 8th November 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor W B Dunn Dr Andrew Davison Prof R Goodacre
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
EPSRC Funded Project: Faster Uncertainty Quantification of Hydrocodes (EPSRC CDT in Distributed Algorithms)
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Thursday 30th June 2022
- Subject area: Maths and Computing
- Supervisors: Prof Leszek Gasieniec Dr Luke Mason
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
EPSRC iCASE Project: Optimal Sensing of Multi-Dimensional Datasets in Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM)
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Thursday 30th June 2022
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Prof N Browning Dr Louise Hughes
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Experimental Discovery and Electrochemical Characterisation of New Solid-State Materials for Beyond Lithium Ion Batteries
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 31st May 2022
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Matt Rosseinsky Dr Ruiyong Chen Dr John Claridge
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Experimental discovery of new Inorganic Materials
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 31st May 2022
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Matt Rosseinsky Dr Luke Daniels Dr John Claridge
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Experimental Discovery of New Inorganic Materials for Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) Applications
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Thursday 8th December 2022
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof M J Rosseinsky Dr Luke Daniels Dr J Claridge
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Exploiting Deep Learning-based protein structure prediction for function annotation and structural biology
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 19th January 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof D J Rigden Dr R Keegan
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Exploring reactions under stress in the mantle using mineral analogues
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Thursday 7th July 2022
- Subject area: Earth Sciences and Geography
- Supervisors: Professor John Wheeler Prof Holger Stunitz Dr Simon Hunt
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
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Fundamental studies and applications of polymer mechanochemistry
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 31st May 2022
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof. Boulatov
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Graduate Teaching Fellow Posts – Law (2022/23)
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 31st May 2022
- Subject area: Law
- Supervisors: TBC
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Graduate Teaching Fellow Posts – Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology (2022/23)
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 31st May 2022
- Subject area: Law
- Supervisors: TBC
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Holistic Condition Monitoring Methodology for Power System Assets using Machine Learning
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Thursday 1st September 2022
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Christos Zachariades
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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iCASE PhD Studentship: Deciphering Reaction Mechanisms of Biomass Upgrading over Zeolitic Materials via Advanced NMR
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Wednesday 1st June 2022
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof. Frédéric Blanc
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Identification and characterisation of novel flavivirus protease cleavages sites in mammalian and insect cells using N-terminomics
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 12th June 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Trevor Sweeney Dr Edward Emmott
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Improving Photosynthetic Efficiency - Engineering and Evolution of Light-Harvesting Complexes via Synthetic Biology
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 7th October 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr DP Canniffe
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Investigating a novel treatment for retinal scaring
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 16th December 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Carl Sheridan Dr Victoria Kearns
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Investigating the ability of circadian clocks to mitigate degeneration of the back of the eye
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 16th December 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Victoria Kearns Dr V Pekovic-Vaughan Dr C Sheridan Dr H Levis
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Joint models for longitudinally measured outcomes and non-terminal recurrent event processes – developing a framework
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 15th February 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Laura Bonnett Dr Maria Sudell
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Lateral Flow Test Development for Small Molecules
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Monday 1st August 2022
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Prof Simon Maher
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Leaky Blood Vessels and Basement Membranes (Diabetes, Inflammation, Cancer)
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 16th December 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Kevin Hamill Dr C Sheridan Prof G Bou-Gharios
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Machine Learning of Behavioural Models for Improved Multi-Sensor Fusion (EPSRC CDT in Distributed Algorithms)
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Thursday 30th June 2022
- Subject area: Maths and Computing
- Supervisors: Dr Murat Uney
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Machine learning techniques for artwork authentication and attribution and accelerator physics
- Application deadline: Tuesday 11th April 2023
- Subject area: Maths and Computing
- Supervisors: Dr Pavel Buividovich Dr T Charles
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Mechanistic understanding of cancer drug induced cardiotoxicity using patient derived induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) derived cardiomyocytes
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Monday 1st August 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Parveen Sharma Dr Richard Rainbow
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Metal-organic framework derived catalysts for CO2 utilisation
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 22nd November 2022
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof. Matt Rosseinsky FRS Prof. Andrew Cooper FRS
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Methods of modulation of mitochondrial function in glaucoma
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 16th December 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Ms Neeru Vallabh Dr C Sheridan Dr Amy Chadwick Prof R Goodacre
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Modelling scar formation in endometriosis
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 5th April 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Bettina Wilm Prof Dharani Hapangama Dr N Liptrott
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Molecular basis for the architecture, function, and regulation of photosynthetic machinery
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 2nd November 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Liu Dr D Canniffe
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Molecular characterisation of a novel transporter for the atypical antipsychotic clozapine
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Thursday 6th April 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr David Dickens Prof Sir M Pirmohamed
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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New materials for catalytic conversion of CO2 to chemicals
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 22nd November 2022
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof. Matt Rosseinsky FRS Dr John Claridge
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
New materials for Sustainable Biomass Oxidation Catalysis
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 22nd November 2022
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof. Matt Rosseinsky FRS Dr John Claridge
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
New porous frameworks for Sustainable Biomass Catalysis
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 22nd November 2022
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof. Matt Rosseinsky FRS Dr John Claridge
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
New porous materials for CO2 Catalysis
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 22nd November 2022
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof. Matt Rosseinsky FRS Dr John Claridge
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Next-generation mass spectrometry diagnostics to guide patient management post-SARS-CoV-2 infection
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 17th May 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Ed Emmott Dr Anna Smielewska Prof P McNamara Dr Jordan Skittrall
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Novel non-coding RNAs in regulating cancer epigenome
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Tuesday 7th March 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr. Aditi Kanhere
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Nutrition and Exercise Human Clinical Trial for common older age conditions, including Physical Function, Sarcopenia and Frailty, Dementia, Cognitive Impairment, and cardiovascular disease
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Saturday 8th April 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Masoud Isanejad
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Organic Materials Discovery
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 31st July 2022
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Andy Cooper
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Organic materials discovery using automated/robotic workflows
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 31st July 2022
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor Andy Cooper
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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PhD in Applied Electronics: Portable Mass Spectrometry
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Monday 1st August 2022
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Prof. Simon Maher
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
PhD in Fundamental Electromagnetics: Foundational Theories of Electricity and Magnetism relating to Charged Particle Interactions
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Monday 1st August 2022
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Prof Simon Maher
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
PhD Studentship in Physical Crystallography of Advanced Inorganic Materials
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 2nd December 2022
- Subject area: Chemical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof M J Rosseinsky FRS Dr Claridge
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Probabilistic programming for discovery of sustainable materials
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Sunday 31st July 2022
- Subject area: Maths and Computing
- Supervisors: Prof Rahul Savani Prof M J Rosseinsky Dr V Gusev Dr M Gaultois Dr Dmytro Antypov
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Raising Digital Living Standards through Empirically Informed Technology Policies and Strategies
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Friday 27th May 2022
- Subject area: Arts and Humanities
- Supervisors: Professor Simeon Yates
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
Reconstruction of Transverse Beam Distribution using Machine Learning
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Tuesday 31st May 2022
- Subject area: Physical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Carsten P Welsch Dr Federico Roncarolo
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Regenerative medicine treatment for the blinding disease Glaucoma
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 16th December 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Carl Sheridan Dr L Bosworth Dr R Oldershaw Prof Colin Willoughby
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Sarcopenia and frailty diagnosis, management, and treatment in older patients with long term conditions (heart failure, diabetes, stroke, CKD)
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Tuesday 7th February 2023
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Masoud Isanejad
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Searches for Higgs pair production with the ATLAS Experiment at the LHC
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Thursday 20th April 2023
- Subject area: Physical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Carl Gwilliam Dr Katharina Behr
- Eligibility: Open to EU/UK applicants
Spray-On Solar Cells: Scalable Additive Manufacturing of Flexible Perovskite Photovoltaics
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Thursday 30th June 2022
- Subject area: Engineering and Planning
- Supervisors: Dr Amanda Hughes Dr Kate Black Dr Laurie Phillips
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants
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Tissue mechanics: A driver of pathogenesis in B-cell non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas (B-NHL) and a therapeutic opportunity?
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Wednesday 29th June 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Kathy Till Dr Mark Morgan
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Transferring mass spectrometry from the laboratory to the clinic for metabolic biomarkers in human health and disease
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Friday 18th November 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor WB Dunn Dr Simon Maher
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
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Ultra-high resolution radiation sensors
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Thursday 30th June 2022
- Subject area: Physical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof Gianluigi Casse
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Understanding metabolism in the blood cancer multiple myeloma and its precursor condition MGUS
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Tuesday 8th November 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Professor W B Dunn Professor C M Bunce
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Understanding why cardiovascular dysfunction is one of the leading causes of mortality in patients with Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver disease (NAFLD)
- Funding: Self-funded project
- Application deadline: Monday 1st August 2022
- Subject area: Biological and Medical Sciences
- Supervisors: Dr Parveen Sharma Dr Theresa Hydes Dr A Chadwick
- Eligibility: Open to students worldwide
Using Machine Learning to train a Digital Test Pilot for missions in turbulent environments (CDT in Distributed Algorithms)
- Funding: Funded studentship
- Application deadline: Thursday 30th June 2022
- Subject area: Maths and Computing
- Supervisors: Professor Mark White
- Eligibility: Open to UK applicants