PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in United Kingdom

The University of Edinburgh is inviting applications for its Mathematics Education PhD programme, based in the School of Mathematics and the College of Science and Engineering. The programme explores mathematics education research within a vibrant community of educators and provides opportunities to engage with related groups, including the Edinburgh Physics Education Group and the interdisciplinary Centre for Research in Digital Education. Students can study full time over four years or part ti...

The University of Edinburgh is offering a Mathematical Physics PhD for 2027 entry through the Centre for Doctoral Training in Algebra, Geometry and Quantum Fields (AGQ). The programme is based in the School of Mathematics and is available full-time over four years or part-time over eight years, with an optional internship pathway. Research spans mathematical and theoretical physics, including geometry, quantum field theory, gauge theory and gravity. Students may explore quantum gravity, black ho...

The University of Oxford is offering a 3.5-year DPhil studentship in Control and Engineering Biology on the project “Learning and controlling cellular dynamics.” The research sits at the intersection of engineering, biology, control theory and machine learning. Potential directions include developing mathematical and computational models of cellular behaviour, designing feedback-control strategies, and building experimental tools using microfluidics, automated microscopy and light-controlled gen...

University College London is recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Molecular Quantum Theory to join the Molecular Quantum Theory Group in the Department of Chemistry, led by Dr Hugh Burton. The successful researcher will work on the international project “Quantifying Utilizable Entanglement in Chemistry from First Principles.” The research will investigate quantum correlations and entanglement in chemical processes, including fermion-fermion and fermion-boson entanglement in molecules, th...

The University of Manchester is recruiting a full-time Research Associate in Organic Synthesis to join the Miller research group at the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, within the Department of Chemistry and School of Natural Sciences. The project focuses on carbohydrate skeletal editing and organic synthesis methodology development. The successful researcher will design, plan and conduct high-quality research; establish new transformations for editing sugar scaffolds; optimise synthetic r...

The University of Manchester is seeking a full-time Research Fellow to join a Wellcome-funded project evaluating the impact of upcoming UK social media restrictions on young people’s mental health and wellbeing. Based in the School of Environment, Education & Development within the Education Division, the Research Fellow will coordinate participant recruitment and data collection for ecological momentary assessment and interviews, contribute to qualitative and quantitative analyses, prepare evid...

The University of Southampton is offering a competition-funded, industrially sponsored PhD project in the predictive design of heterogeneous catalysts for CO₂ utilisation. The research will use computational chemistry and complementary experiments to determine how catalyst structure controls CO₂-conversion activity, selectivity and stability. The project will investigate CO₂ activation and product formation, develop a molecular-level mechanistic model, and use computational predictions to guide ...

PhD opportunity: Optimal Perturbations in Turbulent Flows at the University of Southampton, United Kingdom. This competition-funded Doctor of Philosophy project investigates which disturbances produce the largest response in turbulent flows. The research combines fluid mechanics, dynamical systems and chaos theory to understand how turbulence amplifies disturbances and generates organised patterns of motion. The successful researcher will develop a chaotic resolvent framework for analysing forci...

PhD project: Multiscale Graph Neural Networks with Micromechanics for Concrete Prediction The University of Southampton is offering a competition-funded Doctor of Philosophy project in the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences. The research combines civil engineering, materials science, computational mechanics and artificial intelligence to predict concrete mechanical properties across multiple structural scales. Concrete strength depends on interactions among cement paste, fine and coars...