PhD: Demonstrating a Novel Route to Decarbonised Ordinary Portland Cement at Scale Imperial College London in United Kingdom

PhD studentship at the University of Cambridge in low whole-life carbon cementitious repair materials for future infrastructure , offered through the EPSRC FIBE3 CDT (Future Infrastructure and Built Environment: Unlocking Net Zero) in collaboration with M Group . The project sits in Civil Engineering and Materials Science , with strong links to Environmental Science and sustainable construction. Research topics include advanced and low-carbon cementitious repair materials (grouts, mortars, and c...

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...

PhD opportunity at the University of Edinburgh in cryo-DAC, biochar, carbon capture, molecular simulations, computational chemistry, and sustainable materials . This project, titled From Pollution to Permanent Carbon Storage via Cryo-DAC & Biochar , is being recruited through the E5 DTP at The University of Edinburgh . The research asks whether biochar can selectively capture CO2 from cold air , and which pore structures and surface chemistry features make this possible. The work combines molecu...

PhD in Railway Circular Economy at the University of Leeds (School of Civil Engineering). This PhD project explores sustainable solutions for railway track infrastructure through the principles of a circular economy. The research focuses on the scalable reprocessing of ballast, sleepers, rails, and other track components to convert network waste into high-quality secondary commercial materials. Possible research directions include: scalable reprocessing for spent railway ballast; structural perf...

PhD opportunity in smart bio-derived composites for self-healing, sensing, and lifetime extension in net-zero material systems at Aston University within the Net2Zero Centre for Doctoral Training . This project sits in the broader EPSRC/BBSRC CDT in Negative Emission Technologies for Net Zero, a partnership involving Aston University, the University of Nottingham, Queen’s University Belfast, and the University of Warwick. The research focuses on biochar , natural fibre composites , bio-based res...