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1. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Using Artificial Intelligence to study cellular changes in high consequence viral infections
Summary of PhD Project
This project is based at the University of Liverpool and focuses on using artificial intelligence and machine learning to study cellular morphology during infection with high-consequence viruses such as SARS-CoV-2, MERS, and Ebola. The student will employ confocal and live-cell imaging, sequencing, and AI techniques to quantify and analyse how viruses manipulate cells and to evaluate the effectiveness of medical countermeasures.
Application Deadline: 22 August 2025
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2. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Plasma catalysis over zeolites for the conversion of plastic waste into sustainable aviation fuels
Summary of PhD Project
This funded PhD project will explore the integration of plasma catalysis with zeolite-based catalysts to optimize the conversion of plastic waste into valuable fuels and chemicals. Two project project will be structured across four years, with the first two years spent at the University of Liverpool and the following two years at National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
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3. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Advanced AI-empowered Secure, Green, and Robust 6G networks
Summary of PhD Project
With the rapid development of wireless technologies, it is expected that future telecommunication systems can serve an enormous number of heterogeneous wireless devices with high-rate and low-latency communications. This funded PhD project aims to face these critical challenges and address them to ensure their successful deployment and operation.
Application Deadline: 1 October 2025
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4. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Understanding Microbial Colonisation of Surfaces via Correlative Spectroscopic Imaging
Summary of PhD Project
Microbial attachment to surfaces is the first step to biofilm formation, sophisticated microbial communities encased in a protective matrix. The impact of biofilms on global economies is almost $5trillion per annum. Biofilm prevention is key for multiple industrial sectors. This PhD project aims to improve understanding of microbe-surface interactions and attachment using advanced imaging techniques.
Application Deadline: 1 September 2025
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5. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Solution synthesis of multi-anion functional materials
Summary of PhD Project
The project is based in the Materials Innovation Factory at the University of Liverpool, a state-of-the-art facility for the digital and automated design and discovery of materials. The project will make use of tools developed in the multi-disciplinary EPSRC Programme Grant: “Digital Navigation of Chemical Space for Function” and the Leverhulme Research Centre for Functional Materials Design, that seek to develop a new approach to materials design and discovery, exploiting machine learning and symbolic artificial intelligence, demonstrated by the realisation of new functional inorganic materials.
Application Deadline: 31 August 2025
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6. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Single-Molecule Electroluminescent Devices as Single-Photon Sources
Summary of PhD Project
Recent advancements in nanoscience have enabled the reliable and reproducible wiring of molecules into electrical circuits. A single molecule can be sandwiched between two metallic electrodes (a “molecular junction”) and an electrical current can be driven through, enabling the assessment of their electronic and charge transport properties at the smallest scale possible. As electrons flow through the molecule, a tiny fraction of their energy is slowly and steadily converted into light – single-molecule junctions behave like an extremely small OLED.
Application Deadline: 30 September 2025
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7. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Selective C-H functionalisations in industrially important alkylarenes
Summary of PhD Project
This PhD project will focus on designing conceptually new metal-mediated selective C-H functionalisations of arenes without directing groups. This will be achieved by exploring the unique reactivity of transition metal complexes that coordinate arenes in a rare eta-4 mode. This coordination mode bends the aromatic ring and enables the arene to undergo a range of unconventional C-H (e. g. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 11564) and C-C bond activations (e. g. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019,141, 6048; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 3266).
Application Deadline: 31 August 2025
8. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Organic Radicals and Diradicaloid for Single-Molecule Electronics and Quantum Information Processing
Summary of PhD Project
We have pioneered the synthesis and characterisation of organic radicals as single molecule junctions (Angewandte Chemie 2022), demonstrating their unique promise, along with enhanced, non-ohmic/non-linear charge transport (Angewandte Chemie 2024), and with very interesting transistor-like behaviour. However, there are still challenges and unknowns that we want to tackle and explore.
Application Deadline: 30 September 2025
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9. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Mapping Bacterial Interactions in Biofilm Colonies
Summary of PhD Project
Biofilms are complex communities of microorganisms often attached to a surface and encased within protective matrix. They represent a key challenge in healthcare, due to their increased tolerance to treatments. Thus, development of biofilm prevention strategies is crucial. This project aims to combine advanced imaging and spectroscopic techniques to better understand early biofilm formation events.
Application Deadline: 1 September 2025
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10. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Improving Mechanistic Understanding of the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction (HER) using High-Entropy Alloy (HEA) Catalysts via Computational Techniques
Summary of PhD Project
In this project, we will employ density functional theory (DFT) combined with machine-learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) to investigate the interplay between inter-element interactions, structural and electronic properties of HEAs and their root causes affecting HER activity. Furthermore, we will develop simple chemical models and descriptors that elucidate these relationships, providing a deeper understanding of the principles governing HER activity in HEAs and aim at offering rational designs of optimal HEA compositions and structures for efficient HER catalytic performance.
Application Deadline: 1 October 2025
11. Fully Funded PhD Programs in High-throughput exploration of multicomponent metal organic frameworks (MOFs)
Summary of PhD Project
New porous materials are important for advances in key technologies such as carbon dioxide sequestration and storage or catalysts for clean manufacturing. The assembly of multiple metal and organic linkers in the well-defined and complex crystal structures of multicomponent metal organic frameworks (MOFs) will deliver materials with enhanced properties. However, at present we do not have the experimental tools with the scale and speed to efficiently explore the vast chemical space available.
Application Deadline: 31 August 2025
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12. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Experimental Discovery of New Ionic Conducting Materials
Summary of PhD Project
This project will explore the enormous range of possibilities for the synthesis of new lithium- and magnesium-ion conducting materials based on this discovery. It will combine synthetic solid-state chemistry, advanced structural analysis, and measurement of the conductivity and electrochemical properties of the new materials, enabling the successful candidate to develop a diverse experimental skillset.
Application Deadline: 31 August 2025
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13. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Electrochemistry of Microbial Cells
Summary of PhD Project
Bacteria are capable of complex metabolic activities which affect them and the environment surrounding them, for example inducing corrosion. Our understanding of microbial-surface electrochemistry is lacking, which limits our ability to deal with its consequences. This project aims to improve understanding of the fundamental phenomena of microbial electrochemistry from single-cell to population levels using advanced characterisation techniques.
Application Deadline: 1 September 2025
14. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Discovery of new inorganic materials for net zero applications
Summary of PhD Project
This PhD project will tackle the synthesis in the laboratory of inorganic materials with unique structures that will expand our understanding of how atoms can be arranged in solids. The selection of experimental targets will be informed by artificial intelligence and computational assessment of candidates, working with a multidisciplinary team of researchers to maximise the rate of materials discovery.
Application Deadline: 31 August 2025
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15. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Automated solid state synthesis robotic workflow
Summary of PhD Project
This project will develop and exemplify a robotic workflow to perform solid state chemistry reactions, consisting of an automated weighing and mixing stage, coupled with a high temperature furnace to perform the reactions. Automated powder diffraction will be integrated to identify new materials within the phase fields being explored. The student will work closely with colleagues in the group of Professor Andy Cooper who have pioneered the use of autonomous robotic chemical synthesis for functional materials discovery.
Application Deadline: 31 August 2025
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16. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Social influences on fertility in group-living mammals
Summary of PhD Project
Social competition for limited resources among group-living animals can lead to inhibition of fertility or reproductive suppression, particularly in less competitive individuals that may experience heightened levels of stress. This project will investigate the conditions under which social relationships inhibit or promote the fertility of low-ranking individuals in group-living mammals, with consequences for understanding variation in reproductive skew within and across species.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
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17. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Metabolic Network Approaches for Modelling the Human Microbiome
Summary of PhD Project
This PhD project, in collaboration with Unilever, focuses on the fascinating world of the skin microbiome, the diverse community of microbes that live on our skin. These microbes do not live in isolation; instead, they establish complex ecological interactions where they exchange metabolites that help maintain skin health. This project aims to understand how these microbial communities function, how they support each another through metabolic exchange, and how they can be influenced to promote healthier skin.
Application Deadline: 31 August 2025
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18. Fully Funded PhD Programs in Hierarchical Assembly of Precision Polymer Nanomaterials into Advanced Nanomedicine
Summary of PhD Project
This PhD project aims to construct synthetic materials with precise structural control across multiple length scales that span the molecular to macroscopic world. The resulting hierarchical materials will be used to understand how material structure affects biological interactions and will be used as advanced therapeutic delivery systems for innovative disease treatment.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
