PhD Opportunity in Geochemistry and Astrobiology: Mineral Precipitation, Habitability, and Life Beyond Earth The Open University in United Kingdom

Rice University’s Rice Space Institute is recruiting a Postdoctoral Associate for the Center for Planetary Origins to Habitability (CPO2H). The position is centered on Earth science, planetary science, astrobiology, astronomy/astrophysics, space science, geophysics, geochemistry, cosmochemistry, and planetary interiors , with a strong emphasis on independent research that advances the center’s mission. The successful candidate will collaborate with Rice researchers across Earth and planetary sci...

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...

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...

Funded PhD opportunity at Newcastle University focused on microplastics , heavy metals , river and estuary pollution , and coastal processes . The project investigates how microplastics transport heavy metals through rivers and estuaries, building on work related to the recent River Tyne nurdle spill . The research combines fieldwork , laboratory experiments , and hydrodynamic modelling to understand the role of plastics in moving legacy contamination through aquatic systems. This is a strong fi...

University of East Anglia (School of Environmental Sciences) is advertising a funded PhD project on the formation, emplacement, and ore-forming processes of the Rogaland Anorthosite Complex in southern Norway. The project is supervised by Dr Zoja Vukmanovic and focuses on one of Earth’s most unusual intrusive rock suites: anorthosites. The research will investigate the Egersund-Ogna massif and associated Fe-Ti oxide ore bodies, with an emphasis on magma dynamics, emplacement mechanisms, and the ...