Do you have a Master’s degree and are looking for fully funded PhD opportunities? University of Edinburgh, Scotland is now accepting applications for several funded PhD programs across a range of research areas.
1. Fully Funded PhD in Elucidating molecular transport mechanisms through atomistic simulations
Summary of Funded PhD Program
Membrane-based processes for water treatment, such as reverse osmosis (RO), hold promise in tackling water scarcity locally and globally. Nevertheless, conventional polyamide membranes for RO exhibit low rejection of Small, charge-Neutral Contaminants (SNCs), which endanger human health and biota. Progress towards highly selective membranes has been hindered by insufficient understanding of the mechanisms that underlie separation efficiency: how water and contaminants sorb into, and diffuse through, polyamide membranes.
Application Deadline: June 22, 2025
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2. Fully Funded PhD in Electrolytes in Zinc ion Batteries
Summary of Funded PhD Program
This project focuses on the development and optimization of advanced electrolytes for high-performance zinc-ion batteries. Unlike lithium, zinc is abundant, non-toxic, and operates in aqueous environments, making it safer and more affordable. However, challenges such as zinc dendrite formation, limited electrolyte stability, and slow ion mobility need to be addressed for ZIBs to compete with LIBs in commercial applications.
Application Deadline: November 24, 2025
3. Fully Funded PhD in Dropwise Condensation and heat transfer on Patterned Liquid-Like Surfaces
Summary of Funded PhD Program
Condensation is a heat transfer process in which a vapor releases energy/heat as it changes its phase to become a liquid, which typically occurs when the vapor is cooled below its dew temperature, often upon making contact with a cooler surface. This process is critical in numerous applications, including in HVAC systems, power generation, and refrigeration. The effectiveness of dropwise condensation in transferring heat makes it essential in condensers, where minimizing the surface area for dropwise condensation and optimizing conditions for heat transfer can significantly enhance system efficiency.
Application Deadline: November 30, 2025
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4. Fully Funded PhD in Droplet Dynamics on Topographically Patterned Slippery Liquid-Infused Porous Surfaces
Summary of Funded 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
5. Fully Funded PhD in Droplet Dynamics on Patterned Liquid-Like Surfaces
Summary of Funded PhD Program
Friction is a key limiting factor affecting the motion of liquids in contact with solid surfaces. When water droplets interact with a solid surface, friction can severely limit the speed at which they move, or hamper their motion altogether. Fundamentally, friction between droplets and solid forces is an open field of research in fluid mechanics, with important applications in a range of fields, from microfluidics to self-cleaning and heat transfer.
Application Deadline: October 21, 2025
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6. Fully Funded PhD in Developing a Systematic Food Texture Characterisation Methodology for Advanced Manufacturing
Summary of Funded PhD Program
Food texture is related to the way our senses perceive and feel the rheological and mechanical properties of edible substances. For example a potato chip is crispy; an apple is crunchy; butter is soft; bread is firm; candy is hard; yogurt is smooth; cream is thick; cake is moist, and honey is sticky. Food texture is critical for the consumer and impacts on a product’s market share. It is affected by the composition, manufacturing process, storage conditions and aging. It impacts the final quality and nutrition value of the food product. Food industry strives to improve texture while enhancing the product’s nutritional value and health benefits.
Application Deadline: January 18, 2025
7. Fully Funded PhD in Designing Structured Surfaces with Superwettability Properties
Summary of Funded 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: August 31, 2025
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8. Fully Funded PhD in Design and testing of microflyers for environmental monitoring
Summary of Funded 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
9. Fully Funded PhD in Data-Driven Computational Sensing and Imaging
Summary of Funded 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
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10. Fully Funded PhD in Compressive behavior of self-expanding concrete-filled CFRP tube columns
Summary of Funded PhD Program
Today’s urban landscape is defined largely by steel and concrete buildings, bridges and roads, which have started to degrade at an increased rate in the last 30 years due to corrosion of steel, degradation and scour, creep and cracking of concrete. The expenses for concrete building rehabilitation and maintenance are immense: €200B was spent on restoration of concrete structures alone in 2018 (for the EU27 countries). The proposed research addresses these problems by focusing on circular concrete columns, which are critically important structural elements in construction of buildings, parking garages and bridges or piers.
Application Deadline: March 1, 2025
11. Fully Funded PhD in Causal AI in understanding medical images
Summary of Funded PhD Program
The appearance of a medical image depends on acquisition factors such as scan modality (e.g. CT, MRI, X-Ray), scanner properties (e.g. detector size and characteristics), scan acquisition parameter choices (e.g. radiation dose), any tissue enhancement techniques (e.g. injected contrast), any phenomena giving rise to artefacts (e.g. metal implants causing streak artefact), and the position and pose of the patient. Thus, even for the same patient at the same timepoint, one image may have a different appearance to another; this variation makes it challenging for both human experts and automatic algorithms to interpret a scan.
Application Deadline: January 31, 2025
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12. Fully Funded PhD in Bottom-up assembly of multi-compartment synthetic cells
Summary of Funded PhD Program
Do you want to design and construct synthetic life-like cells? A major goal of synthetic biology is to create life-like artificial cells from non-living components, i.e. the bottom-up approach. This exciting project will focus on designing, constructing, and testing synthetic cells with multiple sub-compartments. Just like their living counterparts (i.e. eukaryotic cells), synthetic cells with different inner compartments allow multiple and advanced functionalities.
Application Deadline: December 31, 2024
13. Fully Funded PhD in Biomimetic membranes for applications in electrosynbionics and biosensing
Summary of Funded PhD Program
The project will begin with a literature review. This will be coupled to a technoeconomic analysis of biomimetic membranes, the aim of which will be to assess suitability of different materials for applications involving mass production. For training purposes, the student will reproduce selected literature results before moving on to systems of their own design. They will design, build and characterise complex membrane structures, demonstrating the ability to engineer the membrane shape. They will test the effect of using their structures in selected devices
Application Deadline: January 10, 2025
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14. Fully Funded PhD in Biomass conversion to fine chemicals via photocatalysis processes
Summary of Funded 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
15. Fully Funded PhD in America’s Cup yacht hydrofoils
Summary of Funded 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
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16. Fully Funded PhD in Aerodynamics of the gliding seeds of the Javan cucumber vine
Summary of Funded 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.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
17. Fully Funded PhD in Aerodynamics of high-performance yacht sails
Summary of Funded 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: Open until filled
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