PhD Studentship in Bayesian Modeling of High-dimensional Structural Data The University of Manchester in United Kingdom

University College London (UCL), Department of Statistical Science, is advertising a short-term research opportunity in computational statistics and machine learning with the Fundamentals of Statistical Machine Learning research group. The role is based in London, United Kingdom and runs from January to August 2027 (8 months). It is described as a research position suitable for several profiles: a strong MSc student preparing for a PhD, a current PhD student seeking a research visit, or a finish...

Funded PhD opportunity at the Earlham Institute, Norwich, United Kingdom. This project is titled From Explanation to Experiment: Agentic AI for Interpreting Nucleotide Foundation Models and sits at the intersection of computer science , bioinformatics , genomics , machine learning , biomedical engineering , and computational mathematics . The PhD will develop agentic explainable AI methods for DNA and RNA foundation models. The research aims to move beyond model explanations toward biologically ...

PhD opening at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg, Germany, in the Junior Research Group Brain Mosaicism and Tumorigenesis headed by Dr. Pei-Chi Wei . The project sits at the intersection of cancer biology , bioinformatics , genomics , statistics , and medical science . The lab studies how replication stress, transcription–replication conflicts, and DNA repair pathways shape DNA double-strand breaks, copy-number alterations, and genome instability. The PhD work will focus on ...

Fully funded PhD opportunity at the University of Leeds in the UK for a student interested in statistics , medical statistics , mathematics , and infectious disease modelling . The project focuses on developing new statistical methods to detect unusual patterns in healthcare-associated infections . It builds on the Farrington model and aims to introduce modern spatiotemporal and adaptive approaches that can support real Infection Prevention and Control teams. This is a 3.5-year funded PhD and is...

PhD studentship opportunity in molecular biology and computational modelling at the University of Edinburgh . The project is a CASE EastBio PhD studentship , meaning it is carried out in collaboration with an industrial partner. The research aims to engineer topologically complex DNA structures inspired by the unusual mitochondrial DNA network of trypanosomatid parasites. This is a strong fit for applicants interested in DNA biology, molecular systems, parasite biology, and quantitative/computat...