PhD Opportunities in Mining Engineering

PhD opening at the Digital Agriculture Lab, University of Wisconsin-Madison The Digital Agriculture Lab is planning to recruit one PhD student to begin in Fall 2027. The position is hosted in the Department of Biological Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is supervised by Associate Professor Dr. Zhou Zhang. Research interests: machine learning, deep learning, remote sensing, precision agriculture, and digital agriculture. Ideal background: applicants with prior resear...

PhD opportunity at the University of Bristol under the SWBio DTP Hub Doctoral Training Partnership. The project is titled “Will tomorrow's climate grow tomorrow's food? Modelling crop resilience across the U.K.” and focuses on agriculture, environmental biosciences, climate change, food security, environmental stress, and crop modelling. The project will advance the Joint UK Land Environment Simulator (JULES) , the land surface model used by the UK Met Office and the wider Earth system modelling...

PhD opportunity at the University of Leeds in robotics , mechatronics , computer vision , and environmental engineering . The project, titled Pervasive Robotic Control of the Invasive Alien Species Floating Pennywort (Hydrocotyle Ranunculoides) , focuses on developing autonomous aquatic robots to detect, collect, and manage floating pennywort in real river and canal environments. The research sits at the intersection of robotics , ecology , and environmental resilience . Possible research direct...

CSC-funded PhD position at the University of Groningen in the group of Prof. Paolo P. Pescarmona, focused on catalysis for CO₂ conversion into cyclic carbonates and polycarbonates. This opportunity is aimed at candidates with a relevant Master's degree who are eligible for CSC scholarship support. The post also specifies English-language requirements: IELTS 6.5 overall with at least 6.0 in each component, or an exemption where applicable, together with the University of Groningen PhD admission r...

Funded PhD position in Extreme Weather and Climate (high-impact weather events and risks) at the University of Delaware , USA. The opportunity is in Dr. Shuai Wang's Severe Weather (SWx) Lab within the Department of Geography and Spatial Sciences . The project focuses on extreme weather, climate variability, high-impact weather events, and associated risks, making it a strong fit for students interested in geography, earth science, environmental science, meteorology, atmospheric science, and cli...

PhD opportunity in Ecosystem Responses to Changes in Ocean Circulation at the University of East Anglia . The project sits at the intersection of oceanography , ocean biogeochemical modelling , ocean circulation , biogeochemistry , and climate , with a focus on understanding how marine ecosystems respond to circulation changes in the ocean carbon cycle. The post is being advertised by Tereza Jarníková and is supervised by Prof. Corinne Le Quéré , Prof. Alessandro Tagliabue , and Tereza Jarníková...

Exciting fully funded PhD opportunity at the University of Exeter , Centre for Ecology and Conservation, focused on developing technology and software to record and understand wild animal behaviour. This project sits at the intersection of Biology , Computer Science , and Environmental Science , with strong links to animal behaviour, wildlife monitoring, conservation science, and potentially great ape conservation. The post mentions collaboration with Alex Thornton , Monica Craciun , and Kimberl...

🌍 TERRA-MED announces 33 funded international PhD positions, including a project co-supervised by Hug March Corbella and Ismael Yrigoy Cadena. This PhD is hosted by the TURBA Lab (Urban Transformation & Global Change Lab) at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) in Barcelona, with collaboration from Universitat de les Illes Balears (UIB) in Palma. Project UOC4: “The role of energy and water security in adapting to extreme heat by vulnerable households.” The research examines the Water-Energy-Cli...

Two PhD positions are open in biostatistics within the Eclosion Lab , focused on citizen-science biodiversity data . One project is at KU Leuven in Belgium and concerns biodiversity monitoring with citizen-science data (L-BioStat). The other is at Hasselt University in Belgium and focuses on ecological statistics for citizen-science data (CenStat). The research is supervised by Thomas Neyens and Maxime Fajgenblat . The advertised methodological focus is on Bayesian occupancy models and hierarchi...