University of Cambridge, United Kingdom invites online Application for number of Fully Funded PhD Positions at various Departments. We are providing a list of Fully Funded PhD Programs available at University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Eligible candidate may Apply as soon as possible.
(01) PhD Positions – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Ashby PhD Scholarship in Mechanics and Materials
A competition for the fully funded Ashby PhD Scholarship in the area of Mechanics and Materials is now open at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge. The Scholarship, endowed in honour of Prof M F Ashby, is open to all applicants, covers the University fee for home or overseas students, and provides a maintenance allowance at the standard UKRI rate, currently £20,780 per year.
The area of Mechanics and Materials is interpreted widely, encompassing experimental, theoretical and computational methods. However, it is expected that the PhD will be supervised by a member of Academic staff working within the Mechanics, Materials and Design Group, as listed here. The precise topic of the PhD and the Supervisor can be agreed after the Scholarship is awarded.
Deadline : 5 January 2026
(02) PhD Positions- Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: AZ funded Non clinical PhD Studentship
Experimental and computational framework for optimising dosing strategies to mitigate T-cell exhaustion in T-cell engager therapies
Applications are invited for a fully funded 4-year non-clinical PhD studentship jointly supervised by Prof Graham Ladds (Pharmacology) and Dr Alberto Ippolito (AstraZeneca) with the successful applicant having the opportunity to work across both sites.
Project details: T-cell engager (TCE) therapies are increasingly prevalent in the clinical pipeline of pharmaceutical companies. While TCEs are promising therapeutic agents due to their high potency, a major pitfall is T-cell exhaustion, which reduces therapeutic effect of TCEs so preventing rapid regression of the tumor lesion. In this project you will evaluate the concept of “dosing holidays” and how they may mitigate T-cell exhaustion.
You will combine interdisciplinary approaches of extensive in-vitro experiments that quantify effector cell kinetics with translational pharmacokinetic pharmacodynamic modelling to inform, evaluate and design potential schedules to mitigate T-cell exhaustion.
Deadline : 14 November 2025
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(03) PhD Positions – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: BHF CRE interdisciplinary PhD studentships in cardiovascular sciences (non-clinical)
Applications are invited for 3-year non-clinical PhD studentships (https://www.cardiovascular.cam.ac.uk/students/bhf-cambridge-cre-3-year-interdisciplinary-phd-studentships-cardiovascular-science) based at Cambridge University.
The BHF Cambridge Centre of Research Excellence (CRE) (https://www.cardiovascular.cam.ac.uk/research/cambridgecre/bhf-cambridge-centre-excellence-cre-theme-leads-and-co-applicants) is a world-leading Interdisciplinary Research Centre. Our overarching scientific objective is to advance understanding of pathobiology, diagnosis, prevention, and therapy of cardiovascular disease, including implementation of new diagnostics/treatment, by applying our combined expertise in hypothesis-driven and assumption-free approaches. We achieve this through interdisciplinary capabilities in clinical, experimental, population and data sciences.
Deadline : 23 November 2025
(04) PhD Positions – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: CRUK CI PhD Studentship: The Structure and Function of the Genome
Professor Sir Shankar Balasubramanian is seeking a student to work on the structure and function of the genome. This position will be primarily based in the Balasubramanian Lab in the CRUK Cambridge Institute, and will involve collaborative interactions with the group’s sister lab in the Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.
For further information about the research group, including their most recent publications, please visit their website at http://www-balasubramanian.ch.cam.ac.uk.
This is a unique opportunity for PhD study in the world-leading Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI), to start a research career in an environment committed to training outstanding cancer research scientists of the future.
The Institute’s particular strengths are in genomics, computational biology and imaging; and significant research effort is currently devoted to cancers arising in the breast, pancreas, brain, and colon. We now aim to expand our use of AI to generate new research hypotheses and explore further areas of cancer biology. Our Core Facilities provide researchers with access to state-of-the-art equipment, in-house expertise and training. Scientists at CRUK CI aim to understand the fundamental biology of cancer and translate these findings into the clinic to benefit patients.
Deadline : 13 November 2025
(05) PhD Positions – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: DTP iCase interdisciplinary PhD studentship in Public Health and Primary Care (non-clinical)
Despite decades of research, coronary heart disease (CHD) and stroke remain the leading causes of death worldwide, highlighting the urgent need for novel prevention strategies. This PhD project aims to (1) identify pharmaceutical targets shared between >300 non-cardiovascular diseases (non-CVDs) and either CHD or stroke, and (2) evaluate opportunities for drug repurposing that could simultaneously address non-CVD indications while reducing cardiovascular risk. An example of this project’s translational potential is the interleukin-6 inhibitor class, approved for non-CVD indications (e.g. rheumatoid arthritis) and now under investigation for cardiovascular benefits (e.g. ziltivekimab in the ZEUS trial, NCT05021835, sponsored by Novo Nordisk, the project’s industrial partner).
The student will use a combination of statistical genetics and real-world evidence approaches to identify high-priority therapeutic targets with cross-disease potential. For example: (i) Mendelian randomization: using genetic variation as a “natural experiment” to test whether a risk factor (such as a protein) causes disease; (ii) Colocalization: determining whether genetic signals for two traits (e.g. CHD and another disease) likely share the same causal variant; (iii) Target trial emulation: analysing observational health data in a way that mimics a clinical trial. Mendelian randomization and colocalization will be applied to genome-wide associations study data from >2M participants in large biobanks (e.g. UK Biobank, the Million Veteran Program, Our Future Health) to identify loci with shared genetic architecture across diseases, building on the supervisory team’s experience with similar work (e.g. Karjalainen, Nature, 2024). These loci will be mapped to therapeutic agents using resources such as Open Targets and DrugBank, as in a previous study from our team which identified repurposing opportunities for approved medications (Gaziano, Nature Medicine, 2021). Real-world prescribing and outcome data from >60M individuals will be used to assess repurposing potential, using a target trial emulation approach and leveraging the supervisory team’s experience with whole-population NHS England datasets (e.g. Kerr, Lancet, 2024; Allara, Lancet Public Health, 2025).
Deadline : 2 December 2025
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(06) PhD Positions- Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: EPSRC FIBE3 CDT MRes+PhD in Future Infrastructure and Built Environment: Unlocking Net Zero
We have funding for a number of 1+3 MRes/PHD studentships, in collaboration with industry, as part of our EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Future Infrastructure and Built Environment: Unlocking Net Zero (FIBE3 CDT), under the four following themes:
- Current and disruptive technologies
- Circularity and whole life approach
- Al-driven digitalisation and data
- Risk-based systems thinking and connectivity
Deadline : 15 April 2026
(07) PhD Positions – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: EPSRC FIBE3 CDT PhD studentship with AtkinsRealis: Enabling a natural capital approach to infrastructure transitions
This project develops a methodology to incorporate services from natural capital in infrastructure delivery strategies. The project identifies infrastructure services (e.g., climate resilience, mobility, carbon storage) and the potential for natural capital to provide these services alongside built infrastructure. The project will bridge existing approaches to identify and value services from natural capital with methodologies for national infrastructure assessment and delivery. The project combines a focus on systems thinking with a data-driven approach to quantify natural capital services and integrate them in infrastructure modelling platforms. These can support actions by stakeholders in the infrastructure systems to effect change and improved outcomes.
Deadline : 15 April 2026
(08) PhD Positions – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: EPSRC FIBE3 CDT PhD studentship with Tracey Concrete: Low-carbon cements for precast concrete in aggressive ground
This is a four-year (1+3 MRes/PhD) studentship funded through the Cambridge EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Future Infrastructure and Built Environment: Unlocking Net Zero (FIBE3 CDT). Further details can be found at https://www.net-zero-fibe-cdt.eng.cam.ac.uk/
The project is funded in collaboration with Tracey Concrete, a market leader in precast concrete manufacturing employing innovative production processes and are actively exploring the incorporation of new materials, technologies and designs in their operations to achieve zero-carbon construction elements.
The construction industry is under increasing pressure to reduce its carbon footprint while ensuring long-term performance of infrastructure, particularly in environments that accelerate material degradation. This PhD aims to develop and advance the use of low-carbon cements in precast concrete in aggressive ground for a range of buried structures. Precast concrete involves various types of concrete and offers a controlled environment for material innovation and quality assurance, making it an ideal platform for deploying alternative binders and next-generation low carbon cements.
The research will focus on characterising and evaluating the mechanical performance, durability, and sustainability of both commercially available and novel cements in concrete embedded in a range of aggressive ground conditions. These are contexts in which durability standards are critically important.
A central motivation for the project is the recognised limitation of the BRE Special Digest 1, last updated in 2005, which remains the primary reference for concrete in aggressive ground. Since its publication, significant advances have been made in low-carbon binder technologies yet current standards fail to reflect their performance characteristics. This gap hinders wider adoption in practice.
Deadline : 15 April 2026
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(09) PhD Positions – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: ESRC CAM DTP Studentship (Fixed Term)
Department of Psychology, Institute for Technology and Humanity, Digital Education Futures Initiative (DEFI) Innovation Lab; University of Cambridge
The Cambridge ESRC Doctoral Training Partnership [CAM-DTP] is pleased to offer an interdisciplinary studentship available for admission in October 2026.
The studentship will be co-supervised by Dr Deborah Talmi (Department of Psychology), Dr Alexandru Marcoci (Institute for Technology and Humanity) and Dr Imogen Casebourne (Digital Education Futures Initiative (DEFI) Innovation Lab).
Project description: As AI transforms higher education, we must empirically investigate how it can complement and extend rather than replace human expertise in assessment and feedback. This PhD will examine AI-supported grading and feedback through systematic research addressing critical questions about effectiveness, implementation, equity, ethics and educational impact.
We invite applications to explore which human-AI collaboration models best maintain quality while improving efficiency, equity, inclusivity, and learning outcomes. This question is best addressed through a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods, and would benefit from experimental approaches that also consider moderating factors (e.g., discipline, assignment type, student demographics, educator practices, and institutional contexts).
Deadline : 2 December 2025
(10) PhD Positions – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: ESRC CAM DTP Studentship – Pesticide Harm: Minds, Policies and Practice (Fixed Term)
The Cambridge ESRC Doctoral Training Partnership [CAM-DTP] is pleased to offer an interdisciplinary studentship available for admission in October 2026.
The studentship will be co-supervised by Professor Tristan Bekinschtein (Department of Psychology) and Dr Rachel Carmenta (Tyndall Associate Professor in Climate Change and Global Development, University of East Anglia).
Project description: This interdisciplinary PhD will investigate how chronic pesticide exposure impacts brain, physiology and cognitive performance, emotional well-being, and protective behaviours in rural communities, with a focus on Chile.
The project combines cognitive neuroscience with participatory environmental research and policy analysis.
The student will analyse the multivariate data from the participants and communities and explore how they, and the institutions, understand pesticide risk and responsibility, what barriers exist to protective actions like PPE use, and how more effective, context-sensitive interventions could be developed.
Deadline : 2 December 2025
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(11) PhD Positions – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: LCLU PhD Studentship (Fixed Term)
The Leverhulme Centre for Life in the Universe and the University of Cambridge are committed to widening participation in postgraduate students at the University of Cambridge. Research within the Centre aims to develop a deeper understanding of life, its emergence, and its distribution in the Universe by addressing four questions:
What are the chemical pathways which led to the origins of life that are compatible with benign conditions for life in different planetary environments?
How do we characterise the environments on Earth and other planets that could act as the cradle of prebiotic chemistry and life?
What observational facilities and methods will allow investigation of bodies beyond the Solar System, the remote sensing of their atmospheres and the search for signatures of geological and biological evolution?
How can philosophical and mathematical concepts refine our understanding of what we mean by life, leading to new interdisciplinary collaborations and modes of scientific enquiry?
We have a fully funded PhD studentship available for home (UK) students starting October 2026. This studentship will cover fees and stipend for home students at the UKRI + LCLU uplift of £1,000 per year for 4 years and research cost support will be provided.
Deadline : 7 January 2026
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(12) PhD Positions – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Manipulation of host translation by neurotropic enteric viruses PhD Studentship
Project Title: Manipulation of host translation by neurotropic enteric viruses
Many common enteric viruses can also infect cells of the central nervous system, causing encephalitis, meningitis, and other complications. Picornaviruses and astroviruses stand out for their ability to infect cells of both gut and neuronal origins. This project seeks to understand the molecular basis of how enteric viruses can manipulate host translation in terminally differentiated neurons and gut epithelia. We are using cutting-edge technologies, such as single-cell omics, organoid infection models, and ribosome profiling to address fundamental questions of host-pathogen interaction in the tissue-specific environment.
Deadline : 3 December 2025
(13) PhD Positions – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: MRC BSU PhD Studentship
The Medical Research Council (MRC) Biostatistics Unit (BSU) is one of the largest groups of biostatisticians in Europe, and a major centre for research, training and knowledge transfer in biostatistics. We develop, apply and promote innovative statistical and data science approaches to advance biomedical science and human health. The BSU current research portfolio is organised into five main themes that span the scientific research spectrum from basic science to population health and respond to current scientific needs in biomedicine.
We welcome applications from students who wish to apply innovative statistical methods to real biomedical problems in order to deliver key insights into human health and disease. Three or four highly competitive fully funded (covering University fees and stipend) three-year studentships will be available from October 2026. Whilst these are open to all, our funding eligibility requirements mean that at least 2 of these will be offered to UK applicants. Our departmental funding includes a generous travel and training budget.
Deadline : 7 January 2026
(14) PhD Positions – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Neural systems development and cognitive impairments in chromatin-related disorders PhD Studentship
Chromatin-related disorders (CRDs) are a large group of rare genetic conditions affecting cognition and mental health. Although it is now relatively easy to diagnose CRDs, we are at an early stage of understanding how pathogenic variants in CRD genes disrupt epigenetic regulation and influence brain development, leading to this complex spectrum of lifelong difficulties. This patient-centred PhD will involve collecting and analysing deep phenotyping data (including structural and functional neuroimaging) to discover neural system abnormalities contributing to cognitive dimensions within CRDs. The student will contribute to local, national and international collaborative efforts to integrate patient phenotyping with molecular and cellular datasets to understand gene-brain-behaviour relationships.
Deadline : 3 December 2025
(15) PhD Positions – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD in Nano-assembling 3D MetaMaterials (Fixed Term)
The world-renowned Cavendish Laboratory is seeking an enthusiastic, self-motivated student who enjoys working as part of a team to undertake a PhD in the NanoPhotonics Group (NP) led by Professor Jeremy J Baumberg, FRS (https://www.np.phy.cam.ac.uk/), as part of UK targeted collaboration on 3D Metamaterials.
Metamaterials provide emergent properties by combining nano-scale building blocks to elicit properties far beyond simple averaging over the component materials involved, instead giving exciting opportunities for new functionalities that are not found in natural materials. However there are very few examples of them being yet practical, because of the difficulty of realistic scale-up. Potential applications are for energy absorption and harvesting, mechanical intelligence, enhanced sensors, anti-fouling protection and much more.
Going beyond existing work using expensive fabrication of planar 2D metamaterials, this project explores routes to use nano-assembly to create 3D metamaterials, using a variety of building blocks from noble metal nanoparticles, to DNA nanostructures and precision colloidal architectures. We have previously explored many intriguing opportunities to make actively tuning metamaterials, such as incorporating electro-chromic or thermo-responsive molecules, and you would push this work into completely new areas. You would build new nano-optical rigs to probe their properties, as well as develop ways to manipulate and advance the nano-assembly processes. You would also be involved in scale-up on roll-to-roll pre-pilot kit, to explore applications for these advanced materials.
Deadline : 1 November 2025
(16) PhD Positions – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (Fixed Term)
The Centre for Doctoral Training in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (NanoDTC) at the University of Cambridge invites applications for its 3.5-year interdisciplinary PhD programme. The programme combines hands-on training, cohort-based learning, and cutting-edge research, preparing graduates for careers in academia, industry, startups, and beyond. We welcome applicants from the Physical Sciences, including Chemistry, Physics, Materials, and Engineering. Shortlisting is based on written applications (qualifications, aspirations, experience), with final selection via interview focusing on independent thinking.
Deadline : 3 January 2026
(17) PhD Positions – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Programme for Health Professionals at the Universities of Cambridge and East Anglia and at the Wellcome Sanger Institute
The Universities of Cambridge and East Anglia, together with the Wellcome Sanger Institute, invite applications for up to 7 fellowships in the PhD Programme for Health Professionals, to be taken up by the end of 2026. The fellowships provide funding for clinical salary, University Composition Fees and research consumables for 3 years. Prior to commencement, the Programme can provide up to three months of additional salary support, enabling successful applicants to experience research in different groups, before making an informed choice of project and supervisor.
Fellowships based in campuses in Cambridge or Norwich offer diverse research training opportunities with world-leading researchers in The Schools of Clinical Medicine and Biological Sciences at the Universities of Cambridge, Wellcome Sanger Institute and other MRC, Wellcome & Cancer Research UK funded institutes, Centres & Units in the wider Cambridge area, as well as the School of Health Sciences and Norwich Medical School at the University of East Anglia with other partners on the Norwich Research Park.
Applicants must be qualified in clinical, dental or veterinary medicine or be a non-medical health professional, and be registered with a national professional regulatory body in the UK. Medical and dental applicants must be eligible for/already have GMC/GDC registration and be in a training grade (i.e., not a Consultant, University Faculty or equivalent position) in the UK or RoI. Veterinary applicants can have achieved board certification following completion of clinical residency but should not hold an academic position within the University. Nonmedical healthcare professionals may be at different stages in their clinical careers but should possess relevant research experience to be able to take advantage of this opportunity. They also would not be expected to be University Faculty or equivalent position.
Deadline : 4 November 2025
(18) PhD Positions – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student in Human-Computer Interaction and Critical Computing (Fixed Term)
A doctoral studentship is available in the forthcoming Aspirational Computing Lab (February 2026) in the Department of Computer Science and Technology (CST) at the University of Cambridge.
The goal of this PhD programme is to launch one “deceptive by design” project that combines the perspectives of human-computer interaction (HCI) and critical computing. High-level topics include:
social identity cues in the design of LLM-based chatbots or social robots
trust and reliance on conversational agents designed to be charming and disarming
so-called “dark patterns” and manipulative tactics in the user interfaces of a range of technologies
voice and vocal cues that subtly change behaviour
Other critical computing topics that may be difficult to research in certain nations at this time-including all matters of diversity, equality, and inclusion (DEI), accessibility and inclusive design, feminism and intersectionality, trans and gender diversity studies, and misinformation and information deception-will also be considered.
Deadline : 2 December 2025
(19) PhD Positions- Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Studentship (Fixed Term)
The reliable production of EAF processed steels requires a robust understanding of the kinetics of microstructure formation and how they are influenced by compositional and processing variations. In this PhD, synchrotron X-ray diffraction will be used to track the evolving crystallography in steel samples over a wide range of cooling rates and isothermal dwells. The diffraction data will be interpreted to quantify the phase fractions and lattice parameter evolution, which in turn will allow quantification of the phase transformations taking place. This approach has advantages over other methods as it utilises direct measurement of the crystal structures of the phases present and is sensitive to low volume fractions. Ancillary microstructural examination using electron microscopy will confirm the phase identifications from the synchrotron X-ray data. The data acquired will be compared with existing transformation kinetics models to assess their reliability and, where necessary, will provide the data needed to underpin their refinement.
Applicants should have (or expect to be awarded) a good UK Master’s degree (or overseas equivalent) in a relevant science subject (Materials Science, Chemistry, Physics, Engineering) and should be self-motivated, able to take ownership of their research, and effectively communicate their research findings. Training in all the computational and experimental methods will be provided in the projects, although relevant previous experience would be advantageous.
Deadline :2 December 2025
(20) PhD Positions – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Studentship (Fixed Term)
The microstructures of steel are sensitive to small variations in composition and the conditions experienced during processing. This can lead to variability in their properties that constrain the values that may be quoted in product datasheets. Discrimination of the microstructural constituents using metallographic approaches is challenging due to the fine scale of features and limitations of stereology. Similarly, crystallographic methods such including laboratory X-ray diffraction cannot readily distinguish between closely related structures. An alternative approach to characterise the microstructure is through acoustic methods that exploit the different elastic behaviour of the phases present. In this PhD resonant ultrasound spectroscopy will be utilised to determine the elastic response of selected steels in varying microstructural conditions and correlate the results with the microstructures obtained using microscopy methods. This initial work will utilise untextured samples to avoid complications arising from acoustic anisotropy. Once established, the capabilities of the technique will be extended to consider samples that include crystallographic texture and the monitoring of phase transformation in-situ during heat treatments.
Deadline : 2 December 2025
(21) PhD Positions – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Studentship (Fixed Term): Towards full object analysis of precious metal artefacts
Partnering with the Goldsmiths’ Company Assay Office in London, this project will analyse and authenticate precious silver metal artefacts by uncovering their hidden chemical and structural signatures. Using powerful techniques such as micro-XRF, synchrotron diffraction, SIMS, and 3D X-ray CT, it will reveal how variations in composition, microstructure, and metal-making processes shape an object’s unique metal pedigree. The research will probe beneath surfaces to detect impurities and internal features, while also exploring new methods for embedding invisible authenticity markers. Finally, advanced data tools and neural network algorithms will turn these high-resolution insights into searchable, verifiable databases, seeking to better inform assay decision making.
Deadline : 2 December 2025
(22) PhD Positions – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Studentship in Autism and Addiction Research
The Autism Research Centre (ARC), Cambridge University, invites applications from motivated individuals wishing to pursue a funded PhD starting in October 2026 testing if autistic people are at elevated risk of developing addictions. This scholarship offers the equivalent of full funding at the home student rate for 3.5 years. We are particularly interested in candidates with a strong academic background in psychology, neuroscience, medicine, or a related scientific field, and a keen interest in autism research. This studentship will be based at the ARC under the supervision of Professor Simon Baron-Cohen and Dr Carrie Allison.
Deadline : 2 December 2025
(23) PhD Positions – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Studentship: (Fixed Term)
The transition to EAF steelmaking creates challenges for the reliable production of thin rolled steel products where residual element accumulation may compromise processability and properties. This PhD will utilise thermodynamic modelling to obtain predictions of equilibrium and, where possible, non-equilibrium phases for a matrix of compositions covering flat rolled products including elevated levels of Cu, Mo, Ni & Sn. Direct comparisons will be made with experimentally identified phases from high throughput samples. Subsequent characterisation will be performed using a combination of scanning transmission electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction and, where necessary, synchrotron X-ray diffraction, nano-secondary ion mass spectroscopy, and 3D atom probe tomography. The data acquired will be used to modify thermodynamic database parameters to improve the predictions.
Deadline : 2 December 2025
(24) PhD Positions – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Studentship: Energy Storage and Electrochemical Carbon Dioxide Capture
Applications are invited for two 3.5-year PhD studentships based in the Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Alexander Forse. The first project will develop improved electrochemical energy storage devices known as supercapacitors, and the second project will develop new low-cost electrochemical processes for capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Research in the Forse group centres around the development of new materials for climate change mitigation. In the first available project, we will develop improved understanding supercapacitor energy storage devices. Building on recent work from the group that discovered the role of disorder in enhancing energy storage, we will seek to understand the mechanisms through which disorder enhances capacitance. In the second project, we will develop new electrochemical processes for capturing carbon dioxide in a highly energy efficient way. New materials and molecules will be developed, and the mechanisms of carbon capture will be studied in situ with new spectroscopic techniques, so that improved materials can be designed.
Deadline : 1 December 2025
(25) PhD Positions – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Studentship: Imaging-Based AI Screening for Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus
Falls have been reported to precede a diagnosis of NPH in 80-90% of cases. Given that a significant proportion of patients presenting with a fall undergo cranial imaging, and a number of imaging hallmarks have been shown to be of diagnostic value in NPH, the project will seek to implement an automated segmentation approach for evaluating CT head imaging performed after a fall for features of hydrocephalus. CT-based volumetric segmentation and falls-based screening have been separately reported in the context of hydrocephalus but not previously combined to enable automated flagging of at-risk individuals for further diagnostic evaluation.
This project is funded through the NIHR HealthTech Research Centre in Brain Injury (HRC) Fellowship Programme, which has been designed to support the research needs across its 5 themes: prevention & education, acute care & monitoring, restoration & rehabilitation, diagnostics and life-course. Central to the programme are the 7 core academic projects, across 4 academic partners. The HRC rolling educational programme will be delivered through a mixture of tutorials, workshops, web-based training resources, networking events and peer-led activities.
Deadline :14 January 2026
(26) PhD Positions – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Studentship: The Biochemistry and Chemical Biology of the Genome and Epigenome
We invite applications from creative and motivated individuals to join Professor Sir Shankar Balasubramanian’s group for a 4-year PhD studentship, working on a multidisciplinary project exploiting both chemistry and biology to explore fundamental mechanisms of genome function (http://www.balasubramanian.co.uk).
Our projects involve developing and using cutting edge technologies in chemical biology, molecular biophysics, structural biology and particularly genomics. Students will contribute to one or more of our primary research areas below:
Our main area of interest is on the structure and function of DNA (and RNA) secondary structures called G-quadruplexes (G4s). Studies suggest G4s are important for the control of transcription, translation and other key biological mechanisms. We aim to elucidate their role, their interactions with proteins and explore small molecule-based intervention strategies for cancer [e.g. see Genome Biology, 2025, 25, 155; Nature Chemistry, 2025, 17, 875; PNAS, 2024, 12(7), e2320240121; Nature Communications, 2022, 13:142; Genome Biology, 2021, 22, 117]
Deadline : 13 November 2025
(27) PhD Positions – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Studentships in Computer Architecture, Semiconductor Design and Compilers (Fixed Term)
The Cascade Centre https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/cascade/ at the University of Cambridge has five PhD studentships available to start in October 2026. We’re looking for strong computer science candidates with interests in any of the areas of computer architecture, compilers, design verification and AI / machine learning.
Deadline : 2 December 2025
(28) PhD Positions – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Studies of chlamydial inclusion biogenesis PhD Studentship
Chlamydia trachomatis is an obligate intracellular pathogen that remains the leading bacterial cause of sexually transmitted disease worldwide and infectious blindness (trachoma), a neglected tropical disease. Chlamydia build a specialised membrane-bound replicative compartment within host cells termed an ‿inclusion‿ where the bacteria survive and replicate within a protective niche. To avoid host recognition the inclusion becomes decorated with chlamydial proteins that subvert host cell functions, preventing degradation yet enabling nutrient acquisition. Using a combination of biochemical, bioimaging and cell biology approaches, this project aims to investigate the poorly understood mechanisms by which bacteria selectively transport material into the inclusion
Deadline : 3 December 2025
(29) PhD Positions – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: TCRS Studentship in Depression Research (Fixed Term)
Applications are invited for a fully funded PhD studentship in Depression Research, to begin in October 2026. The studentship has been generously funded through a philanthropic donation and will cover full fees (UK or international) and a stipend for four years.
The studentship is suited to an exceptional candidate proposing mechanistic research relevant to the understanding and/or treatment of Major Depressive Disorder. We particularly welcome proposals that align with the research interests of the Prediction and Learning Lab, led by Professor Rebecca Lawson, which focuses on prediction, learning, and mental health using computational approaches. Please note that this studentship does not support research involving animal models.
Deadline : 2 December 2025
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The University of Cambridge is a collegiate research university in Cambridge, United Kingdom. Founded in 1209 and granted a royal charter by Henry III in 1231, Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world and the world’s fourth-oldest surviving university. The university grew out of an association of scholars who left the University of Oxford after a dispute with the townspeople. The two English ancient universities share many common features and are often jointly referred to as Oxbridge.
Cambridge is formed from a variety of institutions which include 31 semi-autonomous constituent colleges and over 150 academic departments, faculties and other institutions organised into six schools. All the colleges are self-governing institutions within the university, each controlling its own membership and with its own internal structure and activities. All students are members of a college. Cambridge does not have a main campus, and its colleges and central facilities are scattered throughout the city. Undergraduate teaching at Cambridge is organised around weekly small-group supervisions in the colleges – a feature unique to the Oxbridge system. These are complemented by classes, lectures, seminars, laboratory work and occasionally further supervisions provided by the central university faculties and departments. Postgraduate teaching is provided predominantly centrally.
Cambridge University Press, a department of the university, is the oldest university press in the world and currently the second largest university press in the world. Cambridge Assessment, also a department of the university, is one of the world’s leading examining bodies and provides assessment to over eight million learners globally every year. The university also operates eight cultural and scientific museums, including the Fitzwilliam Museum, as well as a botanic garden. Cambridge’s libraries, of which there are 116, hold a total of around 16 million books, around nine million of which are in Cambridge University Library, a legal deposit library. The university is home to, but independent of, the Cambridge Union – the world’s oldest debating society. The university is closely linked to the development of the high-tech business cluster known as ‘Silicon Fen’. It is the central member of Cambridge University Health Partners, an academic health science centre based around the Cambridge Biomedical Campus.
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