PhD Opportunities in Environmental Science

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...

Cardiff University’s School of Biosciences is offering a fully funded PhD project within the MECAW and CAB research groups. The research will use genomics and movement ecology to investigate African felid evolution. The project brings together Cardiff University with National Museums Scotland and the Landmark Foundation. The student will work across an interdisciplinary research environment involving evolutionary biology, wildlife movement and genomic approaches to understanding the history and ...

PhD position in integrated power, gas and hydrogen systems at the Institute of Climate and Energy Research – Energy Systems Engineering (ICE-1), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, in Jülich, Germany. The research focuses on developing scenario-based modelling, simulation and analysis methods for coupled electricity and gas infrastructures in Europe. The project will investigate how electricity, natural gas and hydrogen systems interact under future energy-transition scenarios, supporting informed de...

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 Polar Remote Sensing Research Group at McGill University is recruiting at least one MSc student and one PhD student for the Fall 2027 intake. The project focuses on radar remote sensing of Arctic sea ice using multi-frequency synthetic aperture radar (SAR) . Students will investigate Arctic sea-ice conditions through radar-based remote sensing, contributing to polar observation and the interpretation of multi-frequency SAR data. The work is based in Dr. Mallik Mahmud’s lab within the Polar R...

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...