Funded PhD in Nanotechnology for Ocean-Based Climate Mitigation at University of Plymouth University of Plymouth in United Kingdom

Funded PhD opportunity at Coventry University in the Centre for Discoveries in Life Sciences, delivered through the Midlands Integrative Biosciences Training Partnership (MIBTP). This project focuses on bioleaching , tantalum recovery , superalloy waste , critical minerals , and environmental biotechnology . The research will investigate microbial mechanisms for mobilising tantalum from superalloy-processing wastes and selectively removing contaminating metals such as calcium and tungsten. It co...

Research Associate in Marine Biogeochemistry at Imperial College London , based at Silwood Park Campus (hybrid). This is a full-time, fixed-term research post for up to 2 years, funded by UKRI through Horizon Europe . The role sits within the OceanSOS project, an interdisciplinary international consortium studying how seamounts and the currents they generate influence the biological carbon pump and marine carbon cycling. The successful candidate will work on marine biogeochemistry , ocean carbon...

PhD opportunity at the University of Warwick in a CASE project on combined chemical and biological treatments for man-made plastics . The project sits within the Midlands Integrative Biosciences Training Partnership and is supervised by Prof Timothy Bugg and Prof Sébastien Perrier . This research combines polymer degradation , microbiology , biochemistry , materials science , and polymer chemistry to develop new approaches for recycling and treatment of plastic waste. The work will investigate c...

PhD opportunity in programmable DNA nanotechnology for the selective recovery of critical and rare elements at The University of Edinburgh . The project is jointly supervised by Davide Michieletto and Jason Love and explores how DNA nanostructures could enable more selective, reusable, and sustainable recovery of rare-earth elements and other rare and precious metals. These elements are important for electronics, permanent magnets, and low-carbon technologies, but their clean separation and recy...

Funded PhD opportunities are available with The University of Edinburgh in microbial carbon cycling in soils . The research focuses on understanding the mechanisms that shape the balance of carbon in soils across different ecosystems, with an emphasis on microbial processes, fungal-bacterial interactions, and soil carbon dynamics. The work is interdisciplinary and may involve omics , stable isotope tools , organic chemistry , and modelling approaches . A forthcoming E5 DTP-funded project with Fo...