University of Cambridge, United Kingdom invites online Application for number of Fully Funded PhD Degree 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 Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Centre for Climate Repair Studentship – Direct Air Capture – Process modelling and scaling up material production
We face a climate change crisis, and it is now accepted that we not only need to dramatically reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, but that we also need to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. The Forse Group in the Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry are working on “direct air capture” (DAC), an approach where sponge-like materials are used to capture carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere. The traditional sponge materials for this process have issues including poor long-term stability and/or the need for very high temperatures (up to 900 ºC) to regenerate the sponges for reuse.
Deadline : 16 May 2025
(02) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Centre for Climate Repair Studentship – Methane Mitigation: Catalysts
There is an urgency to mitigate methane due to its high heat trapping potential being 84 times more than that of carbon dioxide. This is especially challenging now since most methane gases are released in small doses over large areas of natural wetlands and thawing permafrost. Current methane mitigation methods rely on high temperature processes, and this is not feasible and not efficient if deployed near natural methane sources.
With the advancements in renewable technologies, it has become attractive to utilize these ‘free’ electrons to tackle problems related to sustainability such as that mentioned above. In this studentship, you will engineer nanostructures and investigate catalytic properties under charge modulation for methane removal. You will determine the effects of charge application, methane concentration, different modes of perturbation, etc. with the objective of developing an active material. My group specializes in coating and thin film methods and catalytic systems, and the big picture goal is to find an alternative material that is just as active as expensive precious metals such as palladium and platinum, the two best thermal methane oxidation catalysts in industry.
Deadline : 16 May 2025
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(03) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Centre for Climate Repair Studentship – Protecting Glaciers – Physical barriers Sea Bed Curtains
This PhD project stems from a novel idea as to whether giant underwater curtains could slow ice-sheet melting.
With ice in polar regions disappearing at record rates it is important to investigate potential options to keep land-based, glacier ice on land whilst greenhouse gas levels are reduced; not just emissions, but atmospheric levels.
A number of glaciers, including the large Thwaites glacier in Antarctica, are at risk of increasing slippage and loss due to warmer water finding its way to the grounding line at the toe of the glacier. The warming of deep saline water currents is increasing the rate of melting of these kinds of glaciers, and thereby increasing the risk of higher rates of irreversible sea level rise.
This project will involve collaboration with the University of Lapland, Aker Solutions (an engineering consulting company based in Norway with a UK office), and a number of other universities looking at the possibility of creating physical barriers to impede the flow of deep saline, warm water encroaching upon the grounding line of glaciers. The concept involves the installation of buoyant flexible curtains tethered to the ocean floor in front of glaciers.
Deadline : 16 May 2025
(04) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Centre for Climate Repair Studentship: Ice Thickening – Freezing flow through snow
How far does water spread through cold snow? This question is fundamental to understanding the surface hydrology of Greenland, the infiltration of seawater into fractured ice shelves, and the feasibility of flooding snowpack for Arctic refreezing. As water flows through cold snow, the water freezes, shrinking the pore space, and restricting the water flow, until eventually everything is frozen in place. This project would investigate flow in a porous medium, including phase change, from an experimental and numerical perspective.
Initial experiments in the DAMTP Temperature Controlled Laboratory will quantify the spreading and freezing that occur as cold water flows through pre-cooled glass beads in a straight duct. We will then progress from uniform glass beads to artificial snow. Further experiments will look at the impact of warm and/or salty water, where snow is expected to initially melt, before refreezing as the water cools. In tandem, numerical simulations of the process will be developed, calibrated to match experimental results. The numerical model will be used to extend from 1D flow to the radially spreading case.
Deadline : 16 May 2025
(05) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Centre for Climate Repair Studentship: Protecting Glaciers – Melting and flow through snowpack
The melting of glacial firn occurs at very large length scales, across more than 100km inland from the margin of the Greenland ice sheet. The resultant meltwater ultimately makes its way from the melt region to the ocean either over the glacial surface, or funnelled through moulins and crevasses to the base of the ice sheet where it significantly enhances the sliding speed particularly early in the melt season. As the meltwater percolates through the porous firn it leads to high-permeability pathways which promote flow, and further localise melting. This process occurs in the small pore spaces of the firn, but also at larger scales in the form of rivulets, tributaries and streams which form on the glacial surface. The feedback between melting and flow leading to localisation may ultimately lead to meltwater carving its way through the glacier.
This project would combine laboratory experiments on the melting of idealised porous media with larger scale numerical simulations of the Greenland ice pack. First, warm water will be rained onto a porous matrix of pre-frozen together glass beads on a slope to examine how the flow of the distributed water becomes channelised as the connections between beads opens. Subsequent experiments will utilise crushed ice to examine the flow, melting and hence focusing with initially distributed flow down a slope. Finally, these experiments will be complemented by catchment-scale modelling of melting and flow using Basilisk, and coupled to a hybrid parameterisation of turbulent flow, dissipation and heating, and hence melting in supraglacial river networks. The results will be used to ask how either texturing the surface of the ice, or providing obstacles to channelised flow, might limit drainage to the bed and hence limit ice motion towards the terminus and ocean.
Deadline : 16 May 2025
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(06) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Centre for Climate Repair Studentship: Protecting Glaciers – Non Physical Barriers Seabed Curtains
With ice in polar regions disappearing at record rates it is important to investigate potential options to keep land-based, glacier ice on land whilst greenhouse gas levels are reduced; not just emissions, but atmospheric levels. A number of glaciers, including the large Thwaites glacier in Antarctica, are at risk of increasing slippage and loss due to warmer water finding its way to the grounding line at the toe of the glacier. The warming of deep saline water currents is increasing the rate of melting of these kinds of glaciers, and thereby increasing the risk of higher rates of irreversible sea level rise.
This project will involve collaboration with the University of Lapland, Aker Solutions (an engineering consulting company based in Norway with a UK office), and a number of other universities who are looking at the possibility of creating physical barriers to impede the flow of deep saline, warm water encroaching upon the grounding line of glaciers. However, this research project will look at different options for reducing the rate of supply of warm water to the base of glaciers.
This project will explore how the creation of bubble curtains or pumped flow might reduce the rate of melting of glaciers. Bubble curtains are already used to contain the debris created in the construction of wind turbines but have not been used in the context of reducing the rate of supply of warm deep saline water to the grounding line of glaciers. Fluid curtains are also used to disrupt exchange flows in other applications, for example overhead air curtains in the doorways of retail environments in high summer to reduce air-conditioning loads.
Deadline : 16 May 2025
(07) PhD Degree – 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 : 16 May 2025
(08) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Sigrid Rausing MIASU PhD Studentship in the Social Anthropology of Inner Asia
Applications are invited for the Sigrid Rausing MIASU PhD Studentship in the Social Anthropology of Inner Asia. The studentship, funded by a generous donation from the Sigrid Rausing Trust, will cover the University Composition Fee (tuition fees) and maintenance at the home fee rate. Applications from international students are welcome. Whilst we endeavour, where possible, to award full studentships, international students may be required to cover the fee gap between the home and overseas fee rates. The studentship is available for full-time students only and normally tenable for three years.
Deadline : 30 April 2025
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(09) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: EPSRC DLA Studentship – AI for reconstructing supply chains
This project aims to map, model and explore systemic risk and monopolisation in service supply chains. We have never attempted modelling certain types of service supply networks from data before. Service supply chains are exhibit dependencies coupled over firms, countries and digital threads which are largely untraceable. We therefore ask, can they be predicted? In certain service industries firm level dependencies are highly concentrated in terms of number of users, resulting in systemic risk. The project will use very large scale data to predict dependencies in a number of service sectors. Once dependencies are predicted, the project will then use network scientific methods to model risk and centralisation, offering evidence and guidance to policy makers for regulatory options such as horizontal decentralisation.
Deadline : 31 March 2025
(10) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: EPSRC DLA Studentship – Particle-driven convection in a stratification: The mystery of ocean plastics
Ocean plastics harm marine life, the environment and human health. Although we know that large amounts of plastics are entering the oceans, our measurements of the concentration of plastic particulates in the ocean are much lower than we would expect. This research will help to answer this mystery, by investigating how particles settle in a stratified ocean.
This project will use laboratory experiments to investigate particle-driven convection, which occurs when particles settle through a stably stratified interface. Even though the initial stratification is stable, particle settling leads to an unstable interface in the density field, driving an instability. Using experimental techniques, such as PIV and PTV, shadowgraph imaging and dye attenuation, experiments will be used to characterise the flow and develop an understanding of the important physics.
Deadline : 31 March 2025
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(11) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Studentship in Logistics Automation
A PhD studentship is available to work on Logistics automation. The student appointed will work with the Distributed Information and Automation Laboratory (DIAL) at the Institute for Manufacturing (IfM).
One of the key areas of focus for the project is to systematically analyse the impact of automation for small and medium scale enterprises. This includes, but is not limited to, the automation solutions developed through the ongoing Shoestring Logistics project at IfM. Examples of such automation are warehouse automation, autonomous delivery vehicles coordination, human-robots coordination, etc. A second focus is the development of novel algorithms and systems to support logistics automation systems such as these.
Deadline : 31 March 2025
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(12) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Studentship
Applications are invited for a fully-funded 4-year PhD studentship based in the Department of Pathology at the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Dr Heather Machado starting October 2025.
Our body’s immune system is one of the most powerful tools in the fight against cancer. An improved understanding of how the adaptive immune system evolves in the context of cancer, including the effects of chronic inflammation and the phenotypic changes from premalignancy to cancer progression, could lead to improved cancer outcomes. However, these immune dynamics are difficult to study directly in humans due to longitudinal sampling constraints. To overcome these obstacles, this project will apply state-of-the-art lineage tracing techniques and single-cell multiomics to track CD8+ T cell dynamics in an inflammatory premalignancy and the resulting liver cancer.
Deadline : 28 March 2025
(13) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Studentship: Investigating the causes and consequences of R-loop dysregulation in cancer
RNA-DNA hybrid structures, including R-loops, form on the genome and have physiological roles in regulating gene expression. However, dysregulation of R-loops can threaten genome maintenance and has been linked to cancer, neurodegeneration and autoimmunity. We investigate, at the molecular level, how R-loops and RNA-DNA hybrids become pathological, impacting genome stability and innate immunity.
We recently discovered that dysregulation of R-loop metabolism by cancer-associated mutations leads to the excision of R-loops. Excised RNA-DNA hybrids are exported from the nucleus and build up in the cytoplasm of cells, activating an innate immune response (Crossley et al., Nature 2023). We developed new biochemical, genomics and imaging approaches to study RNA-DNA hybrids across different cellular compartments. PhD projects are expected to gain mechanistic and translational insights into this novel and fascinating population of nucleic acids. Projects will be tailored to the successful individual(s) based on interests and previous experience, incorporating one or more of the following areas:
- Genome biology and cellular dynamics of RNA-DNA hybrids, eg their biogenesis from oncogene activation, retroelements and mitochondria.
- RNA-DNA hybrids in innate immunity and cellular responses, eg senescence.
- Extracellular RNA-DNA hybrid release.
- Developing genomics and computational approaches for interrogation of RNA-DNA hybrids in cells and patient samples.
Deadline : 24 March 2025
(14) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Designing Catalysts for Production of Sustainable Aviation Fuels
A fully funded 3.5 year Ph.D. studentship is available to UK nationals and outstanding international students, with Professors Lynn Gladden, Mick Mantle and Andy Sederman, to start 1 October 2025.
The transition to net zero is driving a new phase in the development of innovative catalysts and processes because the reactants required for these ‘net zero’ processes come from new sources, and the products of the reaction are required with increasingly high specifications. This project addresses Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF) which is considered, if adopted in an environmentally responsible way, to have the potential to cut the greenhouse gas emissions of the aviation sector by up to 80% compared with traditional jet fuels (World Economic Forum) and can also be used as an energy vector where high energy density is required.
Fischer-Tropsch (FT) catalysis is one of the primary catalytic conversions used to produce SAF, using green hydrogen and biogenic or captured carbon dioxide. Magnetic resonance techniques are now sufficiently advanced that they can provide unique insights in to how a catalyst operates under reaction conditions. Whilst FT processes have existed for many years, the new feedstocks used in SAF as well as the new product specifications required mean that there is real need to re-design the catalysts and processes conditions to deliver carbon-neutral fuels and contribute to delivering net zero.
Deadline : 23 March 2025
(15) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: New Analytical Methods to Advance the Design of Porous Materials
A fully funded 3.5 year Ph.D. studentship is available to UK nationals and outstanding international students, with Professors Lynn Gladden, Mick Mantle and Andy Sederman, to start 1 October 2025.
Porous materials are central to the production of fuels, agrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, clean water and gas storage. Depending on the product required, the porous materials are known as catalysts, sorbents, membranes etc., but they all have common characteristics in that their performance is determined, to differing extents, by their chemical composition and the size (typically of nanometre to micron dimensions) of the pores that they contain.
Surprisingly, we still know relatively little about how molecules behave when confined within the pores of these materials, and yet it is clear that the chemical composition of the materials as well as their pore size have very significant effects on their performance. Pores are small, with curved surfaces and the macroscopic material is almost always optically opaque. The group in Cambridge has developed a wide range of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) methods to understand how molecular adsorption and mobility, and the phase behaviour of mixtures of molecular species changes when moving from the bulk phase to the confined ‘world’ of a nanometre to micron scale pore. Importantly the magnetic resonance methods can be performed at the operating conditions at which the porous materials will be used so that we learn how the materials are really ‘working’.
Deadline : 23 March 2025
(16) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD in electrohydrodynamics
A fully funded PhD at the University of Cambridge, under the supervision of Professor Alex Routh is available. It is in collaboration with a Dynamic Smart Glass manufacturer. Dynamic Smart Glass windows become opaque or clear in response to an external trigger. Example uses can be temperature modulation in cars through to maintaining a pleasant environment in a house.
To optimize the operation of such systems, we will examine the dynamics of colloidal particles in an applied electric field. The aim is to understand the resulting particle motion and accumulation under the electrodes. The project will be a combination of experimental rig design, construction and measurement as well as mathematical modelling. The exact balance of the project will be determined by the student’s interests.
Deadline : 23 March 2025
(17) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Understanding the Mechanisms of Underground Storage of Carbon Dioxide and Hydrogen
A fully funded 3.5 year Ph.D. studentship is available to UK nationals and outstanding international students, with Professors Lynn Gladden, Mick Mantle and Andy Sederman, to start 1 October 2025.
Underground storage of carbon dioxide and hydrogen will play an important role in the energy transition and the delivery of net zero because the storage can be done at scale. However, the demands of underground carbon dioxide (UCS) and underground hydrogen storage (UHS) are very different. In the case of UCS, we need to store large quantities of carbon dioxide for the long term, whilst UHS requires the temporary storage of hydrogen through the seasons such that it can be recovered for use as an energy vector when needed. UCS is, of course, much more widely studied than UHS.
The aim of this project is to understand the micro-scale physical and chemical processes occurring in rocks when carbon dioxide and hydrogen are injected into them. The scientific challenge here is that a depleted hydrocarbon reservoir, where gas storage would take place, is very different from a pure synthetically made porous material. In addition to chemical and structural differences of different rock types, the pores into which the carbon dioxide or hydrogen is injected contain varying levels of sea-water and residual hydrocarbon. This is a very complex system, but if not studied including this complexity it is unlikely that relevant insights will be obtained.
Deadline : 23 March 2025
(18) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Studentship – Role of the ribotoxic stress response in determining cell fate in human skin exposed to UV-light
Applications are invited for a 3.5 year PhD studentship based within the MRC Toxicology Unit, University of Cambridge. The student will be working on a collaborative project jointly supervised by Anne E. Willis (MRC Toxicology Unit and Paul O’Mahoney (NIHR Health Protection Research Unit).
Human skin provides a barrier against the external environment and is therefore exposed to a variety of environmental insults. When skin is exposed to ultraviolet (UV) radiation from sunlight, both acute and long-term local responses are stimulated including, inflammation, epidermal hyperplasia, carcinogenesis and keratinocyte cell death. Many of the harmful effects of UV-light on skin have been attributed to DNA damage and the activation of DNA damage signalling pathways. More recently, however, it has become clear that UV-induced RNA damage also plays a major role in the acute response of skin to UV radiation [1,2]. UV-induced lesions within RNA cause stalling of translating ribosomes, which leads to activation of the ribotoxic stress response (RSR) [2, 3]. To date, the RSR has been implicated in acute cell cycle arrest, the inflammatory response, epidermal thickening and keratinocyte cell death [1-3]. However, a more complete understanding of RSR’s role in the response of skin to UV, and the mechanisms through which this is achieved, remain to be determined.
Deadline : 21 March 2025
(19) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Pat Brooks SCTS in Small Animal Medicine
A three-year Senior Clinical Training Scholarship in Small Animal Medicine (Residency) is available, to start on 11 August 2025. The training programme covers all aspects of small animal medicine, including cardiology, oncology, medical neurology, diagnostic imaging and clinical pathology, and is approved by the European College of Veterinary Internal Medicine.
The Scholar will register for the Diploma of the European College of Veterinary Internal Medicine. The training programme requires participation in the Department’s clinical service, including the out-of-hours rota, in addition to small-group teaching of veterinary students.
An applicant must be a Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, or hold a veterinary degree that qualifies them for membership. Completion of an appropriate internship or a minimum of two years’ experience in small animal practice, during which you have gained knowledge of UK veterinary regulations and practices, is essential.
Deadline : 16 March 2025
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(20) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: EPSRC DLA Studentship – Shaping and Enhancing Magnetic Fields with Bulk Superconductors
Bulk superconductors can act as high-performance permanent magnets, trapping and focusing magnetic fields. To date they have been shown to be able to produce magnetic fields an order of magnitude larger than conventional permanent magnets.
The aim of the project is to demonstrate that Bulk Superconductors can be used to shape and enhance the magnetic field generated by superconducting solenoidal magnets.
This project will involve the growth and characterisation of the superconducting properties of bulk superconductors using seeded melt growth. The project will involve developing suitable methods for the shaping of bulk superconductors and mapping the resultant magnetic field profile in the bore of a superconducting magnet. While primarily experimental some numerical modelling may be required.
The project aims to demonstrate that combining the two distinct technologies of wound superconducting solenoids and superconducting bulks can be used to provide enhanced and shaped magnetic fields suitable for a range of scientific and industrial applications such as NMR.
This project will be supervised by Prof. Durrell with co-supervision by Prof. David Cardwell. The industrial partner will provide a named industrial supervisor, support to the project and will offer an expenses paid internship during the period of the PhD at their premises in Oxfordshire.
Deadline : 15 March 2025
(21) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: EPSRC ICASE Studentship – Inside Infrastructure: Unlocking Hidden Structural Insights with Muon-Enhanced Digital Twins
In the field of infrastructure monitoring, current practices heavily rely on visual inspections that detect surface-level defects, which can miss underlying issues critical to structural integrity. In contrast, muon flux tomography (MFT) a game changing technology likened to an MRI for infrastructure can provide detailed internal imaging that enables a much deeper understanding of structural health. This ICASE studentship focuses on pioneering data fusion and processing techniques to integrate MFT data into a digital representation of the infrastructure asset suitable for Building Information Modelling (BIM). In collaboration with GScan, a leader in MFT technology, this EPSRC-funded PhD project will develop an advanced processing framework that enables accurate, high-resolution BIMs of reinforced concrete tunnel and bridge structures. By refining MFT data processing, improving spatial resolution, and optimising integration with BIM, this research will create a new tool for structural monitoring and predictive lifecycle management, enhancing infrastructure resilience and longevity.
Deadline : 14 March 2025
(22) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Intelligent Digital Platform for Real-Time, Product-Driven Decisions and Circular Economy Opportunities across Supply Chains
Project 1: The digital integration of product lifecycle information and R-process models to provide real-time insights for circular economy business decisions. The realisation of circular economy-based business models is currently limited by a lack of digital information, tools and insights to support operational decisions. While industry has recently started to acquire large volumes of product lifecycle data, tools and platforms are still required to generate information and insights to effectively support decisions. Furthermore, the implications (e.g. yields, emissions, costs) of R-processes (e.g. recycle, remanufacture, refurbish), which are central to the circular economy, are not accessible to decision makers in a definite and timely fashion. This topic will develop an architecture and platform to integrate product lifecycle information and digital R-process models for on-demand insights.
Project 2: Development of an intelligent agent-based platform to support the dynamic exploration of opportunities for circular economy across supply chains. Several recent global events have exposed the volatility, vulnerability and importance of supply chains. The supply chains that will drive the circular economy is expected to exhibit even more volatility, since these supply chains will likely be disturbed by frequent changes in supply and demand, as well as the introduction and enforcement of international regulations. This topic will develop a digital marketplace platform, based on AI agents, that can explore and negotiate opportunities within and across supply chains on behalf of business actors. Agents in this ecosystem will be able to share information, execute strategies (likely employing machine learning or large language models) and interface with human decision makers.
Project 3: Development of an intelligent product platform to enable product-driven decisions and operations for a circular economy. This topic will focus on the development of a digital platform that maintains the digital representations of physical products, which allow these products to execute autonomous functions related to their contribution to a circular economy. For instance, the digital representations of products may alert decisions makers of optimal timing/conditions for the execution of R-processes, based on acquired product lifecycle data and the deployment of prediction and optimization models. This product-driven mechanism will serve as a key enabler for the prioritization of circularity as a means towards sustainability within existing business models.
Deadline : 13 March 2025
(23) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Strategic Decision-Making approaches for Sustainable Technology and Innovation Management
This candidate will work in one of the following outlined areas:
Project 1: Integrating digital technologies in the boardroom: options and potential of emerging digital tools to augment socio-cognitive decision-making processes This research investigates the integration of emerging digital technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Virtual Reality (VR), Simulation, or Digital Twins into corporate boardrooms to enhance socio-cognitive decision-making and support sustainable strategic transitions. Climate uncertainty and ecosystem degradation are forcing firms to reconsider their strategic approaches and adopt innovative, regenerative practices. However, socio-cognitive challenges, such as entrenched mindsets and resistance to change, could limit the effectiveness of existing tools like roadmapping and scenario planning. Emerging technologies offer transformative potential to augment current tools and frameworks. AI can analyze complex datasets to identify trends, predict outcomes, and provide actionable insights, allowing managers to make data-driven decisions. VR and immersive simulation can facilitate experiential learning, enabling leaders to visualize the impacts of strategic choices on environmental and social systems. Digital Twins can create real-time, virtual replicas of organizational processes and external systems, offering a sandbox for testing strategies before implementation. However, as the digital technologies are emerging, we do not have yet guidelines about how to integrate them and our DM-ET Group has started to work in this direction. This new project aims to build an understanding of the principles for integrating these technologies with established decision-support tools. Collaborating with IfM Engage, this research will involve participating and supporting companies in their journey towards the development of sustainable transitions experiments with organizations to explore the options and evaluate the potential of one of these tools. This project seeks to enable firms to make transformative, future-proof decisions and establish leadership in sustainability transitions but exploring the obstacles faced by industry today, developing guidance on how digital technologies could be integrated in analogical processes and potentially provide prototypes of their integration for testing.
Project 2: Bridging across elements under tension in companies’ sustainable transitions: balancing short- and long-term visions, profit- and value-driven logics This research project aims to address the critical challenge of aligning short-term corporate actions with long-term sustainability objectives. As businesses face increasing pressure to adapt to climate uncertainties and resource constraints, the ability to balance immediate operational needs with transformative, forward-looking strategies becomes essential. However, many organizations struggle to achieve this balance, as short-term decision-making often takes precedence due to financial, market, and stakeholder pressures. In collaboration with IfM Engage, the project will explore methodologies and tools that enable firms to bridge the gap between decision tensions such as short-term imperatives and long-term sustainable transitions, economic or social value-driven logics. It will investigate the role of integrated decision-making frameworks such as scenario planning, roadmapping, or other approaches in aligning organizational visions across different time horizons, and for transitioning from incremental to transformational innovation.
This project might also/alternatively involve an analysis of the models and systems (i.e. the outcome of the decision-making processes) that balance desirability, profitability, and sustainability in innovation or/and of the process that helps bridging these socio-cognitive and organizational barriers via using combinations of approaches. In collaboration with IfM Engage, building on past work at our DM-ET Group, the project will ground research in the real world in real-world corporate environments, ensuring practical relevance and impact. Outcomes of this research might deliver a framework for fostering coherence between short-term actions and long-term strategies, tools for visualizing the implications of decisions across time horizons, and actionable guidelines for embedding sustainability into the corporate agenda. By bridging these perspectives, this project seeks to empower organizations to achieve resilience, competitiveness, and sustainability in a rapidly evolving global landscape.
Project 3: The role of collaboration in sustainable decisions: how is open innovation implemented to support sustainable transitions? This research project examines how collaborative frameworks, particularly through Open Innovation (OI), can be implemented to drive sustainable transitions within organizations. Amidst growing climatic uncertainties, businesses face immense pressure to adopt regenerative and transformative strategies. Collaboration is essential in addressing these challenges, as no single entity possesses all the resources or expertise required to navigate the complexities of sustainability. Open Innovation, which promotes the sharing of ideas, knowledge, and resources across organizational boundaries, offers significant potential to enable this transition. How are companies using Open innovation mechanisms to push the building of ecosystems? With ecosystems we mean the “evolving set of actors, activities, and artifacts, and the institutions and relations, including complementary and substitute relations” (Grandstrand and Holgersson (2020, p3), particularly those (sustainable ecosystems) which consider improving the environment as their main goal (Pham and Vu, 2022). What are the socio-cognitive and organizational barriers which hinder the adoption of collaborative strategies or limit their effectiveness and how are they alleviated? Building on past research in OI at our DM-ET Group, this research will explore the dynamics of collaboration in sustainable decision-making, focusing on how OI principles can overcome barriers and lead to meaningful outcomes. In collaboration with IfM Engage, this research will investigate how firms co-create innovative solutions with stakeholders, such as suppliers, customers, and even competitors, to address sustainability challenges. Case studies of successful OI implementations will be analyzed to identify best practices and lessons learned which can be translated in decision-making support tools and practices.
Deadline : 13 March 2025
(24) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Krishnan-Ang PhD Scholarship in Urological Cancers
Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) accounts for 75% of renal cell cancers. It is defined by bi-allelic knockout of the VHL gene consistent with a classical “two-hit” model of carcinogenesis. We previously demonstrated through multiregional whole genome sequencing that the first hit, loss of chromosome 3p occurs 5 to 20 years prior to the second hit – either via a point mutation or epigenetic silencing of the VHL gene. There is a further delay of between 10 and 30 years prior to diagnosis. Over this time, the small cluster of two to three hundred cells grows to a clinically detectable cancer at least 1-2 cm in diameter, where longitudinal radiological data have revealed highly variable growth rates, typically between 2 and 3 mm per year.
With the increased detection of kidney cancers though cross-sectional imaging, there is an increasing need to effectively risk stratify tumours to those that require urgent treatment and those that can be managed in a more conservative manner.
Deadline : 3 March 2025
(25) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Studentship: MHC class I antigen processing and presentation in virus immune detection and evasion
Applications are invited for a fully-funded 4-year PhD studentship based in the Department of Pathology at the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Dr Arwen Altenburg starting October 2025.
Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I molecules play an essential role in alerting immune cells to cellular changes in infected and cancer cells. They do this by presenting peptides derived from pathogen and tumour proteins to immune cells. To evade immune detection, viruses have evolved strategies to manipulate MHC class I or other proteins in the antigen processing and pathway. Our research explores the MHC class I pathway in virus infections to enhance our understanding of MHC class I biology and virus-host interactions. Through the characterisation of these dynamics, we aim to enable future innovation of vaccines and therapeutics.
Deadline : 2 March 2025
(26) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD positions to study precision medicine for respiratory diseases
Asthma and COPD are widespread chronic respiratory diseases that impose a heavy social and economic burden. Traditional treatments often follow a “one-size-fits-all” approach, merely suppressing symptoms without achieving true health improvements. The MSCA Doctoral Network RESPIRE-EXCEL is set to revolutionize this by introducing precision medicine tailored to individual patients. We are looking for 15 enthusiastic PhD students to join our innovative project. As a PhD student in RESPIRE-EXCEL, you will be part of a dynamic, international team of young researchers. You will undertake your own research project at your host organization, focusing on your specific area of interest. To broaden your expertise, part of your PhD will be conducted at other RESPIRE-EXCEL partner organizations via internships.
Deadline : 2 March 2025
(27) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Optimising Thrombectomy Treatment for Acute Ischemic Stroke – Leveraging Clinical Imaging and Physics-Based Computational Modelling to Improve Care
A PhD studentship funded by the W.D. Armstrong Trust Fund at the University of Cambridge is available for the project ”Optimising Thrombectomy Treatment for Acute Ischemic Stroke – Leveraging Clinical Imaging and Physics-Based Computational Modelling to Improve Care.” This project will be co-supervised jointly by Dr Shelly Singh-Gryzbon and Dr Nicholas Evans, and it has a start date of 1 October 2025.
In this project, we aim to improve outcomes in mechanical thrombectomy for ischemic stroke by leveraging clinical imaging and computational modelling. A clinical registry from Addenbrooke’s Hospital comprising of CT angiography and non-contrast CT brain images for ~250 stroke patients will be used to develop patient-specific 3D models and perform computational simulations to:
1.) identify biomechanical and hemodynamic factors associated with successful clot retrieval,
2.) discover mechanistic relationship underpinning clot-anatomy interactions leading to clot retrieval difficulty, and
3.) develop a predictive tool to assess thrombectomy success or complications based on patient-specific imaging data.
Deadline : 28 February 2025
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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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