Applicants are advised to review our "How to Apply" guide and submit an online application as soon as possible no later than the application deadline indicated in the project advert.
We are in the process of assessing applications received from recent rounds of recruitment. Please see the full list of available projects for academic year 2025-26 below. Some projects are still open for applications.
List of PhD projects available for October 2025 entry
- Digital Transformation of Chemical Analysis for Sustainable Materials Development (Open for applications)
- Intelligent optimisation of inline purification – delivering automated product profiling for pharma (Open for applications)
- Automated Approaches for Efficient, Scalable, and Sustainable Synthesis of Material Precursors
- Computational Identification of Catalytic Covalent Organic Frameworks
- Digital Discovery of Polymeric Materials
- Digital Exploration and Structural Modelling of Hybrid Glass Formers
- Digital Exploration of Novel Polymeric Materials for Structural Composites
- Digitally-led Discovery of Solid Electrolyte Materials for Net Zero Applications
- Explaining Structure-Property Relations in the Materials Space
- Guaranteed Structure Prediction With Machine Learning
- High-Throughput First-Principle Simulations of Charge Transport in Organic Semiconductors
- Optimisation Algorithms for Flow Chemistry
- Optimised Flow Pathways for Monodisperse Nanoparticles of Porous Materials
- Polarised Rheo-Microscopy and Dynamic Coarse-Grained Modelling of Hydrogels
- A Reliable and Reconfigurable Robot Learning Framework for Accelerating Materials Discovery (R3L4AMD)
- Machine Learning for Material Performance Predictions Across Climates
Eligibility
Candidates will have, or be due to obtain, a Master’s Degree or equivalent related to Physical Science, Engineering or Computational Science. Exceptional candidates with a First Class Bachelor’s Degree in an appropriate field will also be considered.
The minimum English Language requirements for international candidates is IELTS 6.5 overall (with no band below 5.5) or equivalent. Further information on English Language requirements is available here.
Funding
The EPSRC funded Studentship will cover full tuition fees of £4,786 pa. and pay a maintenance grant for 4 years, starting at the UKRI minimum of £20,780 pa. for academic year 2025-2026. The Studentship also comes with a Research Training Support Grant to fund consumables, conference attendance, etc.
EPSRC Studentships are available to any prospective student wishing to apply including both home and international students. While EPSRC funding will not cover international fees, a limited number of scholarships to meet the fee difference will be available to support outstanding international students.
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