PhD Opportunities in Computational Modelling

The Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL) is recruiting a PhD researcher to join Nicola Molinaro’s Brain Rhythms and Cognition group in Donostia–San Sebastián, Spain. The PRO-LISTEN project examines how the adult brain adapts to learning and understanding an additional language. The research focuses on Spanish and Basque and uses naturalistic speech, longitudinal magnetoencephalography (MEG) recordings and computational modelling to investigate language-related brain dynamics ove...

The Thermal Sciences & Engineering Team in the Energy Sciences Division of the DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory is offering an internship focused on high power composite thermal energy storage . The project centers on phase change composites with high thermal conductivity , an area aimed at advancing thermal management systems and energy storage technologies. The internship is strongly interdisciplinary and combines modeling, fabrication, and testing . The selected student will work on exploring ...

POLY4EV is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network coordinated through the University of Padova and involving a wide European consortium of universities, research institutes, and industrial partners. The network offers 15 PhD projects focused on designing innovative polymer materials that can improve the efficiency and sustainability of electric vehicles. The research spans several connected themes: polymeric additives for EV lubricants, advanced thermal management materials, and polymeric bin...

[Fully funded studentship covering course fees up to home fee level, plus a tax-free stipend at the UKRI standard rate of no less than £22,460 per annum, with additional support for research expenses and conference attendance.] This DPhil project in cognitive neuroscience at the University of Oxford explores how the timing and coordination of brain network activity shape human cognition. Based in the Department of Psychiatry, the studentship focuses on the neural dynamics that support flexible b...

The University of East Anglia in Norwich, United Kingdom, is offering a full-time PhD studentship in ultrafast spectroscopy with structured light , supervised by Dr Kayn Forbes. The project begins on 1 October 2027 and explores how specially designed light fields can reveal molecular and material dynamics beyond the reach of conventional spectroscopy. The research will combine pump–probe spectroscopy, structured-light photonics, analytical theory, and computational modelling. It will investigate...

[Fees plus a stipend of £21,805 per annum for 2026/7.] PhD Studentship at the University of Exeter This funded PhD project explores cut and project schemes in hyperbolic space with applications to acoustic metamaterials . The studentship sits in a mathematically rich research area linking geometry, structured materials, and wave control, and is supported by EPSRC. The project is designed for a student interested in advanced mathematics and its applications to physical systems. The research will ...

Maastricht University is recruiting a full-time PhD candidate in network modelling for food safety and regulatory decision-making , in collaboration with Sciensano, Belgium’s public-health research organisation. The project develops new multi-layer network modelling approaches for heterogeneous and relational food-safety data. Research will address model specification, estimation, validation, interpretation, uncertainty assessment, and robustness analysis, with applications to contaminants, cons...

PhD project: Watching aggregation in liquids with terahertz spectroscopy The University of Southampton is offering a competition-funded Doctor of Philosophy project in the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, focused on how molecular-scale dynamics connect to mesoscale structure in complex liquids. The research will use intense terahertz spectroscopy to monitor structural evolution as molecules or particles aggregate, separate into phases, or coalesce into larger domains. The work will ...

Swansea University is offering a fully funded PhD studentship in Health, Wellbeing and Data Science through the ESRC Welsh Graduate School for the Social Sciences (WGSSS). The opportunity is based in the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Science in Swansea, United Kingdom, and is open to UK and international students. The pathway investigates pressing health and social challenges using observational, descriptive, trials-based, computational, and population-level methods. Potential research ma...