PhD opportunities in urban planning

Danny White, Assistant Professor at Colorado State University , is recruiting a PhD student for the White Water Research Group. The project focuses on aquatic habitat in mountain and desert river systems , combining field-based measurements of river hydraulics with 2D hydrodynamic modeling to quantify physical habitat characteristics across a range of flows. Fieldwork is a major part of the position and may include remote and backcountry river environments, wading, rafting, and collecting hydrau...

Aaron Leininger, Assistant Professor at Tulane University, is recruiting PhD students to join his group in the Tulane School of Science and Engineering. The opening is in Environmental Microbiology , with research likely centered on microbial processes in environmental systems, microbial ecology, and related topics at the interface of biology and environmental science. This is a PhD opening starting in Spring or Summer 2027 . The post does not mention funding details, tuition coverage, stipend, ...

Fully funded PhD project at Queen’s University Belfast within the SUSTAIN CDT on One Health , Artificial Intelligence , Machine Learning , Data Science , Veterinary Medicine , and Agricultural Sciences . The project, Combining Hazard Prediction and Animal and Plant Health Diagnostics for Enhanced One-Health Decision Support Under Climate Change , focuses on climate change, drug resistance, parasite transmission, and livestock health in smallholder farming systems, especially in Africa. The resea...

Funded PhD opportunity at the University of Aberdeen in quantitative verification of supply chain models , with a focus on agri-food efficiency systems , sustainability , fairness , and resilience . The project develops a formal verification framework for complex multi-agent systems where autonomous agents make decisions under uncertainty, incentives, and trade-offs. The methods combine formal methods , temporal logic , probabilistic verification , and game-theoretic reasoning to study whether s...

PhD funding is available at the Built Environment Technology Application (BETA) Lab , School of Design and Construction, Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture, Washington State University . The post announces 1 to 2 fully funded PhD openings in Civil Engineering , focused on construction engineering and management under the supervision of Dr. Hongtao Dang . Research interests include AI and spatial intelligence (agentic systems, machine learning, computer vision, spatial reasoning for ...