PhD Opportunities in Signal Processing in United Kingdom

The University of Sussex is offering a fully funded PhD opportunity in metasurface-based diffractive computing for terahertz (THz) communications and sensing. The project will develop a new generation of THz neural radios that use wave propagation and reconfigurable metasurfaces to perform intelligent signal processing directly in the wave domain. The research combines machine learning, electromagnetic wave engineering, and advanced metasurface design to investigate real-time, energy-efficient s...

[UKRI stipend of £21,805 per year (2026/27 rate) plus full tuition fee waiver for a fully funded three-year PhD studentship.] Bangor University is offering a fully funded three-year PhD studentship in Joint Communications and Sensing within the Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Centre , part of the School of Computer Science and Engineering. The project sits within an internationally recognised research centre with strengths in digital signal processing, telecommunications, optical communications,...

Bangor University's DSP Centre is offering a fully funded three-year PhD studentship in physical-layer network security , with research spanning advanced telecommunications and device-, system-, and network-level technologies. The projects address physical-layer network security and related areas including optical, wireless, and optical wireless communications; joint communications and sensing; data networks; digital and analogue signal processing; mobile communications; high-speed digital circu...

[UKRI stipend of £21,805 per year (2026/27 rate) plus full tuition fee waiver; three-year fully funded studentship.] Bangor University’s Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Centre is offering a fully funded three-year PhD studentship in Data-Carrying Fibre-Based Sensing . The project sits within the DSP Centre’s broader research activity in digital signal processing, optical communications, fibre networks, and next-generation telecommunications technologies. The Centre is described as internationall...

[UKRI stipend of £21,805 per year (2026/27 rate) plus full tuition fee waiver for a fully funded three-year PhD studentship.] Bangor University’s Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Centre is offering a fully funded three-year PhD studentship in Converged Fibre, RF and Optical Wireless Networks . The project sits within a strong telecommunications research environment with state-of-the-art facilities and links to more than 35 global industry partners. Research themes include next-generation fibre an...

PhD opportunity at the University of Southampton in wide-area ocean environmental inference using networks of uncrewed maritime systems . This postgraduate research project sits in the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences and focuses on how acoustic measurements exchanged between uncrewed underwater and surface vehicles, together with distributed sensors, can be used to infer ocean environmental conditions over large areas. The research spans underwater acoustics , acoustic tomography , ...

University of Southampton is advertising a PhD project titled Passive acoustic monitoring for characterisation of under-ice environments . This research focuses on under-ice acoustics , passive acoustic monitoring , acoustic propagation modelling , signal processing , machine learning , and data analytics . The project will study how naturally occurring ice-generated sounds can be used to characterise environmental conditions in the Arctic and High North, with applications in sonar performance p...

University of Southampton is advertising a fully funded PhD studentship in Digital Biomarkers for Mobility Decline and Falls in Dementia . This project sits at the intersection of Biomedical Engineering , Computer Science , Neuroscience , Statistics , and Medical Science . The research will explore whether wearable sensor technology can detect early mobility decline before it becomes visible in routine clinical assessment. By analysing real-world movement data, the project aims to identify subtl...

PhD opportunity at Cranfield University in the UK on AI and machine learning for spectroscopic greenhouse gas detection . The project sits at the intersection of computer science , physics , environmental science , and electrical engineering , with a strong focus on tunable diode laser spectroscopy , optical sensors , advanced signal processing , and data-driven methods for methane and greenhouse gas measurement. You will work with a multidisciplinary team to develop and commercialise novel low-...