PhD Studentship: Biodiversity Digital Twin: Leveraging Environmental DNA and Artificial Intelligence for Monitoring Biodiversity Loss University of Birmingham in United Kingdom

CENTA PhD Studentships are available through the University of Warwick School of Life Sciences as part of a consortium of universities and research institutes working within the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) remit. These are doctoral research opportunities in environmental and life sciences, with training across scientific and technical skills, research management, engagement/impact/enterprise, and personal effectiveness. The page highlights PhD projects and funded studentships, in...

[4-year funded PhD studentship with stipend at the UKRI rate (£21,805 for academic year 2026/27) plus a £2,000 annual uplift; covers tuition fees and bench fees. Visa and associated costs are not funded.] The Oxford Interdisciplinary Life and Environmental Science Training Programme (ILESLA) is a 4-year full-time PhD studentship based at Oxford Brookes University and delivered within a wider Oxford partnership. It offers a place on a BBSRC/NERC-funded training programme spanning biological and e...

Applications are open for the 2027 CENTA PhD studentships, with projects across environmental science, Earth systems, climate, biodiversity, water, pollution, environmental modelling, data science, and Earth observation. The post highlights two projects involving Heiko Balzter at the University of Leicester, focused on Earth observation, environmental change, and using data and modelling to understand a changing environment. These are project-based PhD opportunities open to UK and international ...

[4-year studentship including payment of tuition fees, a stipend of £21,805 for 2026/27, and a Research Training Support Grant of £5,000 per year.] This PhD studentship at the University of East Anglia explores the evolutionary and ecological impact of the Western lifestyle on the human gut microbiome. The project sits within the Norwich Research Park Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership and is supervised by Prof Falk Hildebrand and Dr Wilfried Haerty, bringing together expertise from the Q...

[Fees and a stipend of £21,805 per annum for 2026/7.] PhD studentship at the University of Exeter on physics-informed AI and experimental modelling of ocean mixing , focusing on how fracture zones connect deep-ocean mixing, tracer transport, abyssal upwelling, and large-scale ocean ventilation. The project addresses a major climate-science challenge: how small-scale turbulent mixing in the deep ocean shapes basin-scale overturning circulation and the transport of heat, carbon, and nutrients. It ...