PhD Opportunities in Mining Engineering in United States

North Carolina State University’s Center for Geospatial Analytics is recruiting doctoral students for three fully funded GeoAI fellowships beginning in Fall 2027. The opportunities are part of the PhD in Geospatial Analytics program and bring together geospatial science, artificial intelligence, environmental modeling, and decision support. The first fellowship focuses on autonomous AI for GIS and natural-hazard simulation . The student will develop an agentic GeoAI system able to plan and execu...

Arizona State University is offering two fully funded PhD research assistantships in the Integrated Algae Biorefinery Lab within the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment. The research focuses on integrated algae biorefinery technologies for converting biomass into useful products while addressing environmental and resource-recovery challenges. PhD researchers will investigate biomass valorization, critical mineral recovery, and wastewater treatment through a combination of...

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...

Funded Master's and PhD research opportunity in flood risk and engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. The project focuses on compound flooding, including interactions among debris, structures and waves, and the assessment of flood risk. Students will use numerical modelling, machine learning and remote sensing to investigate complex flood hazards and their consequences. The research is based in the COMPOUND Flood Lab within the Maseeh Department of Civil, Architectural and Environment...

The University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs is accepting applications for its interdisciplinary PhD in Sustainable Development program. The program prepares researchers and practitioners to investigate complex global challenges through research on global development, public policy, governance, economic growth, poverty reduction, and social transformation. Its scope is international and welcomes applicants connected to the United States, Latin America, and Africa, with the oppo...

Baylor University’s Department of Biology is recruiting 2–3 funded PhD students for a Fall 2027 start. The research focuses on microbiomes and the ways microbial communities influence health, organisms, and environments. The group uses long-read metagenomics, microbial genomics, and bioinformatics to study diverse biological systems. Projects may address the relationship between microbiomes and childhood undernutrition, fish mucosal microbial ecology, and microbial communities in the built envir...

Georgia Southern University is recruiting a doctoral student for an interdisciplinary, EPA-funded research project on sustainable wastewater treatment and nutrient recovery. The project focuses on recovering nitrogen and phosphorus from wastewater using 3D-printed alginate hydrogels integrated with natural deep eutectic solvents (NADES) and a synthetic microalgal-bacterial consortium. The PhD researcher will contribute to hydrogel optimization through laboratory experiments, pilot-scale evaluati...

The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s Environmental Laboratory (EL) offers a research appointment within a broad environmental science and engineering environment. As one of seven laboratories in USACE-ERDC, EL focuses on solving environmental challenges for the U.S. Army, the Department of Defense, and the nation through applied research and development. Participants will work under the guidance of a mentor in a real-world laboratory setting and gain hands-on experience with ...

Fully Funded PhD Position in Water Resources Science is available at the University of Minnesota Duluth in the United States. The thesis will investigate how sediment and sunlight exposure influence the generation of 6PPD-quinone from tire wear particles, an emerging environmental contaminant relevant to water quality and pollution science. The project is associated with Dr. Bridget Ulrich and Dr. Melissa Mauerer-Jones in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Natural Resources Res...