PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Geochemistry in United Kingdom

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Hydrometallurgy The University of Exeter is recruiting a full-time Postdoctoral Research Fellow to conduct fundamental and applied hydrometallurgy research on innovative approaches for the leaching of unconventional copper ores. The project will involve collaboration with researchers across multiple disciplines and with industry partners, with a focus on sustainable mineral processing and extractive metallurgy. The successful candidate will develop research object...

PhD opportunity in Geology and Geophysics at the University of Edinburgh , drawing on the expertise of the Earth and Planetary Sciences Research Institute (EPS) within the School of GeoSciences. The programme supports original research across geology , geophysics , geochemistry , and geodynamics , with strong links to GIS, climate modelling, satellite data analysis, fieldwork, laboratory studies, and numerical computation. Students work with a supervisory team and an academic adviser, and can ac...

PhD opportunity at The Open University in a project titled Life on the Rocks: Mineral Precipitation and its Role in Habitability . This project sits at the intersection of Earth Science , Biology , Chemistry , and Astronomy , with a strong focus on geochemistry and astrobiology . The research uses novel samples collected from the Earth's seafloor to study how mineral precipitation shapes habitable environments and what these processes may reveal about the possibility of life beyond Earth, includ...

University of Portsmouth is recruiting a Senior Research Associate for a NERC Pushing the Frontiers project on hypervelocity impact melting and early crustal evolution . The project combines mineral chemistry , microstructures , EBSD , isotope geochemistry , petrogenetic modelling , and thermodynamic modelling . The successful candidate will also have access to advanced analytical facilities across partner institutions, including femtosecond LA-ICP-MS/MS , MC-ICP-MS , NanoSIMS , and EPMA . This ...

PhD opportunity at the University of East Anglia in the School of Environmental Sciences on Earth’s carbon cycle , CO2 polyisotopologues , and atmospheric isotope measurements. This project investigates whether rare isotopic species of atmospheric CO2 can provide new quantitative constraints on ecosystem productivity and carbon cycling from local to global scales. The work builds on the UKRI NERC POLYGRAM project and uses existing and newly collected datasets from Weybourne Atmospheric Observato...

University of East Anglia (School of Environmental Sciences) is advertising a funded PhD project on the formation, emplacement, and ore-forming processes of the Rogaland Anorthosite Complex in southern Norway. The project is supervised by Dr Zoja Vukmanovic and focuses on one of Earth’s most unusual intrusive rock suites: anorthosites. The research will investigate the Egersund-Ogna massif and associated Fe-Ti oxide ore bodies, with an emphasis on magma dynamics, emplacement mechanisms, and the ...