PhD Opportunities in Agriculture

Fully funded PhD opportunity in precision medicine and health inequalities at the Health Economics and Health Technology Assessment (HEHTA) unit, University of Glasgow. The project will analyse individual participant data from major UK clinical trials to investigate how preventive and treatment strategies can be better targeted. The research aims to improve health outcomes while reducing inequalities, bringing together precision medicine, causal inference, statistics, epidemiology and health eco...

Aarhus University PhD position: NCREDIBLE The Center for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics at Aarhus University is offering a PhD project entitled Better Nitrogen efficiency by improving Cow Resilience, Eating Dynamics, Breeding and Lifetime Efficiency (NCREDIBLE) . The project addresses how dairy cattle can contribute to more sustainable dairy production through improved biological efficiency and resilience. The research brings together quantitative genetics, dairy cattle breeding, animal resi...

The Johnson Lab in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Kansas is offering a fully funded PhD position beginning in Fall 2027 in photosynthesis and global ecology. The project will link plant physiology experiments with satellite remote sensing and Earth system modeling to improve understanding of photosynthesis and the global carbon cycle. The doctoral researcher will work across experimental plant science, ecological analysis, remote sensing, and Earth system s...

The University of Glasgow is offering a PhD studentship through the MRC DTP in Precision Medicine , based in a cancer research laboratory led by Professor G. Vignir Helgason. The project will investigate the role and function of top-scoring genes identified through a meta-analysis of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) leukemia stem-cell datasets, with a particular focus on RXFP1 . The research is centered on understanding gene function in CML leukemia stem cells and may contribute to precision medic...

University of Oxford DPhil in Structural Biology Christian Siebold’s group at STRUBI, the University of Oxford’s structural biology research environment, is seeking a DPhil student for the 2027 entry through the NDM Prize Studentships scheme. The project will investigate the structural and molecular mechanisms of Hedgehog signalling within the primary cilium. The student will examine how membrane proteins and signalling complexes function and organise in their cellular environment, addressing si...

The Hobday Group at the University of Edinburgh School of Chemistry is offering a PhD project on solid-state refrigerants, materials that can pump heat when squeezed and may provide alternatives to harmful refrigerant gases. The research will investigate why some materials show excellent solid-state refrigeration performance. The successful student will map the energetic pathways and molecular dynamics that control how these materials respond to pressure, building an understanding from the atomi...

The Smart Building Materials Lab in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Calgary is offering fully funded master's and PhD research positions in sustainable building materials. The research focuses on developing and applying low-carbon construction materials, advancing sustainable manufacturing, and supporting circular construction approaches. The positions also involve AI-enabled sensing and materials science, creating an interdisciplinary research environment at the interse...

The Olden Lab in the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences at the University of British Columbia is offering funded MSc and PhD opportunities in freshwater science in Vancouver, Canada. The positions focus on major freshwater research challenges, including freshwater conservation , climate change, sustainable water management, biodiversity, environmental DNA (eDNA), and machine learning. Students will be able to develop research connected to the conservation and management of freshwater...

This PhD opportunity at Durham University investigates how global bird communities are changing under land-use and climate change. The project addresses an important challenge in biodiversity science: bird monitoring data are often unevenly distributed and may not represent environmental changes across the wider regions where monitoring takes place. The doctoral researcher will link bird survey time series from three continents with environmental change data. The work will assess whether monitor...