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Fully Funded PhD Studentship (Home Fees)

Project Title: Developing Fair and Robust Cancer Risk Prediction Models Using Health Data

Supervisor: Professor Angela Wood (Professor of Biostatistics and Health Data Science)

Start date: January 2027 (or earlier)

We are offering an exciting fully funded PhD studentship at the University of Cambridge, embedded within Cancer Data Driven Detection (CD3) - a major £10 million national research programme bringing together leading experts in cancer epidemiolog...

Dr Tristan Sjoeberg Postgraduate Scholarship

Primary Supervisor - Professor Dorothee Bakker

**Scientific background **

The Southern Ocean takes up about 10% of the carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted by human activity, thus slowing down climate change. Investigation of the unique year-round Rothera CO2 timeseries (2010-2020) has highlighted how wintertime sea ice cover controls CO2 uptake by Antarctic coastal waters [1]. Rapid sea ice decline, strong glacial melt and warming raise concerns on how these cl...

This 3.5-year PhD project is fully funded; students who are eligible to pay tuition fees at the Home rate are eligible to apply (more details can be found here). The successful candidate will receive an annual tax-free stipend set at the UKRI rate (£21,805 for 2026/27) and tuition fees will be paid. The start can be September 2026, January 2027, April 2027 or July 2027.

We recommend that you apply early as the advert may be removed before the deadline.

High-power diode laser stacks are widely used...

Motivation

Achieving reliable, high-performance fusion requires a predictive understanding of turbulence and instability dynamics at the tokamak edge, where fluctuations spread nonlocally and strongly influence pedestal structure, confinement, and the approach to disruptive events. These processes are difficult to diagnose experimentally and too computationally intensive to model in real time with first-principles simulations, motivating new approaches that blend physics-based modelling with mode...

How do we build grid batteries that are cheap, safe and made from abundant materials?

Zinc-ion batteries (ZIBs) are a promising answer – zinc is low-cost, non-toxic and works in water-based electrolytes. But current ZIBs still suffer from limited lifetime and efficiency because the electrolyte, cathode and their interface are not optimised together.

This PhD will tackle that challenge head-on. You will design “smart” aqueous or gel electrolytes and matched cathode coatings that work as a single sy...

Layered double hydroxides (LDHs) are tuneable two-dimensional nanomaterials with demonstrated promise as platforms for the delivery of biological molecules via aerosol formulations. Their unique material properties—namely, adjustable particle size, plate-like morphology, and surface charge—enable enhanced penetration through biological barriers, optimised uptake by target cells, and control over release kinetics. In aerosol science, such material characteristics are critical for influencing depo...

Become part of the next generation of dementia researchers with our Alzheimer’s Society Doctoral Training Centre (DTC) Vascular and Immune Contributors to Dementia (VIDA).

VIDA is a multi-institutional partnership funded by the Alzheimer's Society supporting the next generation of dementia researchers with fully funded PhDs to understand the vascular and immune contributors to dementia.

The DTC is training 29 PhD students over eight years with researchers using cutting-edge science to understand t...