Departmental PhD Scholarship

PhD Scholarship Project: Lignin valorisation for the circular economy at Imperial College London , Department of Chemical Engineering. This PhD project focuses on the valorisation of lignin, the most abundant renewable source of aromatic carbon on Earth. The research will convert lignin into well-defined aromatic and aliphatic building blocks using reductive catalytic fractionation, mechanocatalysis, and related depolymerisation strategies applied directly to lignocellulosic biomass. You will wo...

University of Nottingham Ningbo China is offering a PhD Scholarship in High-Performance Catalysts for CO2 Hydrogenation (reference 26TM_XF ) in the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering , Faculty of Science and Engineering. This opportunity is centered on chemical engineering , catalysis , CO2 hydrogenation , materials science , and related chemistry topics. The advertised research areas include rational design and synthesis of catalysts for efficient CO2 hydrogenation, investigat...

Bath Engineering & Design Studentships at the University of Bath are offering a PhD project in critical material recovery and regeneration across the hydrogen value chain through scaled electrochemical engineering . This project sits in the Department of Chemical Engineering and is supervised by Dr James Matthew Courtney and Prof Frank Marken . The research explores how to recover, regenerate, and recycle critical materials used in hydrogen technologies, with a focus on electrochemical technique...

PhD opportunity at Monash University Malaysia under the Global Excellence and Mobility Scholarship (GEMS 2027) in sustainable ammonia production through thermocatalytic nitrogen conversion . This project sits at the intersection of chemical engineering , materials science , chemistry , and environmental science . The research aims to develop advanced thermocatalytic systems for efficient nitrogen activation and ammonia synthesis under milder, more sustainable conditions. Key themes include ratio...

PhD Scholarship Project at Imperial College London in the Department of Chemical Engineering. This funded PhD focuses on vanadium recovery , spent sulfuric acid catalysts , low-carbon cement additives , techno-economic analysis , and life-cycle assessment . The project builds on preliminary work at Imperial College London to develop a circular process for selectively leaching vanadium from spent vanadium pentoxide catalysts and valorising the silica-rich residue as a supplementary cementitious m...