PhD Studentship: Raman Spectroscopy for Early On-Farm Diagnosis of Nephrocalcinosis (Kidney Stone Disease) in Salmon and Trout Aquaculture University of Exeter in United Kingdom

PhD opportunity for UK students at the University of York in a project on reducing chemical pollution through future farming systems . The advertised project is titled “Understanding consumers’ responses to underutilized crops and implications for the environment” and is associated with Eleanor Jew . This is a research-focused doctoral opening spanning environmental science , agriculture , and chemistry , with additional relevance to crop systems, consumer responses, and sustainability in farmin...

[PhD studentship funded by BBSRC through the Midlands Integrated Biosciences Training Partnership, in partnership with the University of Warwick, University of Birmingham, Aston University, Harper Adams University, Coventry University, and the University of Leicester.] This PhD studentship at the University of Birmingham focuses on designing synthetic proteins for the sustainable control of fungal plant diseases. The project sits at the interface of plant pathology, protein engineering, and AI-d...

Postdoctoral Associate opportunity at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), within the DiSTAP programme in Singapore. The project focuses on developing novel analytical, genetic, and biosynthetic technologies for food production, including new sensors for crop management and deeper understanding of plant biology. The role involves Raman instrumentation, spectral data acquisition, Raman spectral analysis using machine learning, and collaboration with plant biology resear...

Funded PhD opportunity at the University of Cambridge in collaboration with AstraZeneca: Machine Learning for Drug Discovery . This four-year, AstraZeneca-funded PhD studentship focuses on physics-guided representation learning and other machine learning approaches for drug discovery. The project offers access to rich proprietary drug-discovery datasets and close collaboration with scientists at AstraZeneca. Likely research areas include machine learning , statistics , mathematics , scientific c...

PhD opportunity at the University of East Anglia in soil carbon, soil health, microbiology, and landscape transition . This funded CASE PhD project, supervised by Prof Brian Reid in the School of Environmental Sciences , builds on the UKRI OpenLAND project to investigate how nature-based solutions and land-use change affect soil carbon stocks , carbon stability , and soil microbiome responses . The research combines field and laboratory work, including dry combustion, thermogravimetric analysis,...