PhD Opportunities in Computational Modelling in United Kingdom

[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 ...

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...

[ESRC studentship covers tuition fees and an annual tax-free living stipend at UKRI minimum rates; current stipend is £21,805 for 2026/27.] This PhD studentship at Swansea University sits within the ESRC Welsh Graduate School for the Social Sciences (WGSSS) pathway in Health, Wellbeing and Data Science . The project area brings together observational, descriptive, and trials-based methods with large population-scale datasets to tackle pressing health and social challenges. Research in this area ...

[Funding of fees plus a stipend of £21,805 per annum for 2026/7. Duration is 3.5 years.] University of Exeter is offering a 3.5-year PhD studentship in Quantum Information with Mechanical Systems (QuIMS) focused on modelling nonlinear quantum optomechanical devices . The project investigates whether suspended graphene resonators integrated with superconducting microwave cavities can serve as a platform for quantum information processing and quantum-enhanced sensing. The research centres on the n...

[Wolfson Marriott Graduate Scholarship covering course fees up to the home-fee rate plus a tax-free stipend at the UKRI rate (at least £22,460 annually), with support for research and conference attendance. Overseas-fee applicants must fund the difference in tuition fees.] DPhil Studentship at the University of Oxford in Psychiatry: Hormones, Prediction and Psychosis: How Reproductive Transitions Shape Belief Updating in the Brain . This funded doctorate explores why vulnerability to psychosis c...

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Researcher – Mechanical Engineering at the University of Birmingham (Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK). This is a PhD-level doctoral opening within SurPhase , a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Network funded under Horizon Europe . The programme is interdisciplinary and focuses on phase-change heat transfer , bringing together expertise in thermal sciences , surface engineering , advanced manufacturing , computational modelling , data-driven methods , durability ,...