Studentships: self-funded and funded PhD projects

There are 18 self-funded or funded PhD studentship relating to Chemical Sciences.

A

Advancing Lithium-Sulfur Battery Technology Through Multifunctional Inverse Vulcanized Polymers: A Path Toward Sustainable Energy Storage Solutions

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Monday 2nd June 2025
  • Subject area: Chemical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Prof. Che-Ning Yeh Dr. Tom Hasell
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

Automated solid state synthesis robotic workflow

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Sunday 31st August 2025
  • Subject area: Chemical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Prof M Rosseinsky Dr Luke Daniels Dr T Manning
  • Eligibility: Open to UK applicants

C

Combining operando X-ray and Raman spectroscopy for battery material characterisation

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Monday 30th June 2025
  • Subject area: Chemical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Prof Laurence Hardwick Dr Yvonne Grunder
  • Eligibility: Open to UK applicants

D

Design and synthesis chemical probes for fluorescent imaging and mass spectroscopy

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Friday 25th April 2025
  • Subject area: Chemical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Dr W. David Hong Dr Victoria Ingham Prof Paul O’Neill
  • Eligibility: Open to UK applicants

Developing inverse vulcanised polymers as functional coatings

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Monday 30th June 2025
  • Subject area: Chemical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Tom Hasell Jo Fothergill
  • Eligibility: Open to UK applicants

Discovery of new inorganic materials for net zero applications

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Sunday 31st August 2025
  • Subject area: Chemical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Prof M Rosseinsky Dr Luke Daniels
  • Eligibility: Open to UK applicants

E

Eco-Friendly Modifiers for Sustainable Asphalt Pavements: Enhancing Ageing Resistance and Adhesion

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Monday 2nd June 2025
  • Subject area: Chemical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Dr Haopeng Wang Dr Ruoxiao Xie Prof. Tsan-Yao Chen Dr Wei-Tsung Chuang
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

Experimental Discovery of New Ionic Conducting Materials

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Sunday 31st August 2025
  • Subject area: Chemical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Prof M Rosseinsky Dr Luke Daniels Dr T Manning
  • Eligibility: Open to UK applicants

H

High-Throughout Materials Discovery and Analysis for Atmospheric Water Harvesting

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Thursday 31st July 2025
  • Subject area: Chemical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Prof A I Cooper Dr Isil Akpinar
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

High-Throughout Materials Discovery and Analysis for Water Contaminant Removal

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Thursday 31st July 2025
  • Subject area: Chemical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Prof A I Cooper Dr Isil Akpinar
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

High-throughput exploration of multicomponent metal organic frameworks (MOFs)

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Sunday 31st August 2025
  • Subject area: Chemical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Prof M Rosseinsky Dr A Katsoulidis
  • Eligibility: Open to UK applicants

I

Improving Mechanistic Understanding of the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction (HER) using High-Entropy Alloy (HEA) Catalysts via Computational Techniques

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Monday 2nd June 2025
  • Subject area: Chemical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Prof Hsin-Yi Tiffany Chen Dr Matthew Dyer
  • Eligibility: Open to students worldwide

M

Microbial Induced Electrochemistry at the Local Site and Single Cell Level

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Sunday 15th June 2025
  • Subject area: Chemical Sciences

Mitigating Synthesisability Loss in 3D Generative Models

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Sunday 25th May 2025
  • Subject area: Chemical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Dr Anthony Bradley Dr Gabriella Pizzuto
  • Eligibility: Open to UK applicants

O

Organic Radicals and Diradicaloid for Single-Molecule Electronics and Quantum Information Processing

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Tuesday 30th September 2025
  • Subject area: Chemical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Prof. Andrea Vezzoli Dr Amit Sil
  • Eligibility: Open to UK applicants

S

Selective C-H functionalisations in industrially important alkylarenes

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Wednesday 30th April 2025
  • Subject area: Chemical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Dr Alexey Sergeev
  • Eligibility: Open to UK applicants

Single-Molecule Electroluminescent Devices as Single-Photon Sources

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Tuesday 30th September 2025
  • Subject area: Chemical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Prof. Andrea Vezzoli Dr Amit Sil
  • Eligibility: Open to UK applicants

Solution synthesis of multi-anion functional materials

  • Funding: Funded studentship
  • Application deadline: Sunday 31st August 2025
  • Subject area: Chemical Sciences
  • Supervisors: Prof M J Rosseinsky Dr Luke Daniels
  • Eligibility: Open to UK applicants