Chemical Engineering
Sheffield Hallam University
About the Project This exciting project will directly support the UK nuclear industry by addressing the management and immobilisation of some of its challenging wastes and by-products ahead of long-term disposal. The UK faces a multi-decade challenge in managing legacy nuclear waste, particularly at sites such as Sellafield. Many waste streams remain without clearly defined treatment routes, creating technical, economic, and environmental pressures.
- Location
- Sheffield, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 1 October 2026
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Chemical Engineering
Maynooth University
About the Project The Department of Chemistry at Maynooth University is pleased to announce that a PhD Scholarship will be available for suitably qualified and successful applicants intending to commence their PhD studies in January 2027. We are recruiting a PhD student as part of a Research Ireland Pathways–funded project based in the Department of Chemistry.
- Location
- Dublin, Ireland, Ireland
- Deadline
- 9 October 2026
- Funding
- Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Chemical Engineering
University of Edinburgh
About the Project Surfaces in wet environments biofoul, which is a pressing issue affecting many industries, including water treatment industries: during membrane filtration, bacteria adhere on the membrane surface and biofouling forms, reducing water quantity and quality produced, increasing energy costs and requiring frequent harsh cleaning methods.
- Location
- Edinburgh, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 10 October 2026
- Funding
- Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)
Chemical Engineering
University of Strathclyde
About the Project This project will allow an in-depth theoretical understanding of interactions between atmospheric pressure non-equilibrium plasma and metal surfaces, including interactions with air-borne nanoparticles and clusters.
- Location
- Glasgow, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 15 October 2026
- Funding
- Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
Chemical Engineering
University of Reading
About the Project PhD Studentship: Individual differences and preferences for sweetness within the UK Project ID : 2606 RSM Type of studentship: PhD (4 years) Funding Source: 4-year PhD BBSRC Food Consortium Industrial Doctoral Landscape Award fully funded for UK home students Theme of project: Differences in perception of sweetness intensity and liking across demographic groups Primary Host Institution: University of Reading, Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences,…
- Location
- Reading, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 23 October 2026
- Funding
- Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Chemical Engineering
University College London
About the Project Vacancy information The Department of Chemical Engineering at University College London (UCL) is one of the leading departments in the UK, with an international reputation for research excellence and impact. Research in the department spans molecular-scale phenomena through to device and process systems engineering, with a strong focus on addressing global challenges in health, sustainability, and advanced technologies.
- Location
- London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 1 November 2026
- Funding
- Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Chemical Engineering
University of Cambridge
About the Project Applications are invited for a PhD studentship (home or international) in chemical engineering under the supervision of Professor Erwin Reisner within the Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge. The studentship targets the top candidates worldwide to join our international research team and on a 3.5-year scholarship starting in October 2027.
- Location
- Cambridge, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 2 November 2026
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Chemical Engineering
University of Cambridge
About the Project Applications are invited for a PhD studentship (home or international) in photocatalytic air-to-fuel conversion under the supervision of Professor Erwin Reisner within the Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge. The studentship targets the top candidates worldwide to join our international research team and on a 3.5 year scholarship starting in October 2027.
- Location
- Cambridge, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 2 November 2026
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Chemical Engineering
Loughborough University
About the Project High shear mixers such as rotor-stators, ultrasonicators, high pressure jets, are used for dispersion processes during the manufacture of numerous high value products. These may be in the form of liquid-liquid dispersions (emulsions), a dispersion of fine powder (nanoparticle, nanoclay, graphite dispersions) or three phase systems, for ex. Pickering emulsions.
- Location
- Loughborough, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 5 November 2026
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Chemical Engineering
Loughborough University
About the Project Coatings are used for a wide range of applications with formulations developed or adapted according to the needs specific to the surfaces they are used on- smoothness, brightness, scratch resistance are among these.
- Location
- Loughborough, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 5 November 2026
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Chemical Engineering
King’s College London
About the Project Multivalent batteries have attracted increased attention in recent years due to their high theoretical capacities stemming from a possible multi-electron transfer, and the prospect of reducing our reliance on critical battery materials such as lithium and cobalt. However, their supply chain resilience as well as their economic and environmental footprint have not yet been comprehensively understood.
- Location
- London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 15 November 2026
- Funding
- Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
Chemical Engineering
University of Strathclyde
About the Project Fibre composites are widely used in a range of applications, including aerospace and wind turbines, due to their light weight and high strength. Fibre composites are made from glass fibre and/or carbon fibre embedded within a thermosetting polymer epoxy-based matrix. Such fibre reinforced polymer (FRP) composites are notoriously difficult to recycle and predominantly end up in landfill (turbine/aircraft graveyards).
- Location
- Glasgow, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 30 November 2026
- Funding
- Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
Chemical Engineering
University of Edinburgh
About the Project A plastic wear model for ductile materials was recently developed within the supervisor’s group, based on the discrete element method (DEM). An initial model developed for flat surfaces [1] has since been extended to arbitrarily shaped closed surfaces representing abradable particles. Each particle is essentially a multi-sphere clump in which the non-interacting constituent spheres are arranged to form a hollow shell.
- Location
- Edinburgh, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 1 December 2026
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Chemical Engineering
University of Aberdeen
About the Project These projects are open to students worldwide, but have no funding attached. Therefore, the successful applicant will be expected to fund tuition fees at the relevant level (home or international) and any applicable additional research costs. Please consider this before applying. Owing to its abundance and its potential for zero emissions, hydrogen has gained significant attention in recent years as an alternative fuel source.
- Location
- Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Chemical Engineering
Imperial College London
About the Project This PhD project will contribute to the development of more efficient and cost-effective flotation strategies. The project will assess the potential of biodegradable collectors such as gas-to-liquid (GTL) oils and other non-polar reagents as alternative to traditional mineral oil-based collectors. The aim is to support the optimization of formulations that improve mineral recovery, selectivity, and environmental performance.
- Location
- London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
Chemical Engineering
University of Bradford
About the Project The transportation of hydrogen is a cornerstone of the emerging hydrogen economy. However, accurately measuring hydrogen flow rate presents unique challenges due to its physical properties and potential impurities. This project aims to enhance the understanding of the thermophysical properties of hydrogen in transport systems, aligning measurement accuracy with regulatory and legislative requirements.
- Location
- Bradford, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Chemical Engineering
University of Bradford
About the Project The steel and cement industry contributes approximately 8% and 7% of CO 2 emissions worldwide. The project will be built on the concluded EPSRC/UKCCSRC that addresses CO 2 sequestration in the steel and cement sectors using the Indirect Mineral Carbonation process. Indirect mineral carbonation is a promising pathway for permanent CO₂ sequestration, converting alkaline earth minerals into stable carbonates.
- Location
- Bradford, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Chemical Engineering
University of Strathclyde
About the Project Achieving carbon neutrality targets by 2050 is widely recognised as the most formidable challenge globally, whilst simultaneously a key opportunity to build a greener future for the next generations. To reduce carbon emissions in Chemicals and Materials sector, the essential problem is currently the majority of the chemicals and materials are derived from fossil fuels, i.e., 88% for chemicals, plastic and rubber, and 91% for chemical industry.
- Location
- Glasgow, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
Chemical Engineering
Monash University
About the Project Commission and operate a purpose-built cold experimental fluidized bed model to characterize fluidization regimes, particle segregation, and attrition using industrially-relevant DRI materials. A background in experimental design, familiarity with Data analysis tools (Python/Matlab) CFD-DEM, high performance computing is preferred. We will prefer domestic and female students.
- Location
- Melbourne, Australia, Australia
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Chemical Engineering
Kingston University
About the Project Hydrogen is central to global decarbonisation plans, with demand projected to grow substantially as industries move away from fossil fuels. However, hydrogen's exceptionally low minimum ignition energy (MIE), around 0.02 mJ, roughly 15 times lower than methane, creates serious safety challenges for its storage, transport, and industrial use at elevated pressures and temperatures.
- Location
- London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Chemical Engineering
University of Sheffield
About the Project Many industries looking to improve the sustainability of their manufacturing lines to maximise resource efficiency while reducing the environmental impact. The aim of this project is to reduce the waste of catalyst manufacturing process by applying advance continuous manufacturing technologies and material science.
- Location
- Sheffield, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Chemical Engineering
University of Bradford
About the Project The main research activities of my research group is to design, develop, novel formulation strategies and next-generation drug delivery technologies to enhance therapeutic efficacy and patient compliance. Despite extensive research in the field of cocrystals, there is still a large knowledge gap on development of cocrystal end-product formulations especially considering continuous wet granulation process.
- Location
- Bradford, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Chemical Engineering
University of Bradford
About the Project The Chemical and Pharmaceutical sector delivers a significant contribution to the world economy and the population as a whole. Granulation of powders is a key unit operation in many chemical industries and in particular, the detergent and pharmaceutical processing industries, where uniform granular products are essential for optimum operation of the active ingredients contained within the particles. Seeded granulation was recently introduced.
- Location
- Bradford, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Chemical Engineering
University of Birmingham
About the Project A PhD studentship is available on a project focused on the photophysical and charge-transport properties, as well as the self-assembly, of discotic liquid crystals for the development of multifunctional advanced materials, using a combination of computational and experimental methods. A PhD place on this project can be offered to a suitable home or overseas candidate, provided the candidate has external funding at the required level.
- Location
- Birmingham, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Chemical Engineering
University of Strathclyde
About the Project Crystallisation is widely used for purification of chemicals and pharmaceuticals and for making advanced materials for catalysis, separations and sensing applications. One of the main challenges in developing robust and efficient crystallisation processes is to control the process of crystal formation (i.e., nucleation).
- Location
- Glasgow, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Chemical Engineering
University of Sheffield
About the Project Intergranular films due to segregation of dopants, internal oxidation or other chemical reactions at interfaces govern the properties of many polycrystalline materials: segregation can lead to brittle fracture of steel or copper pipes. It influences the wear properties of hard ceramics. Internal oxidation of pores can weaken sintered aluminium alloys.
- Location
- Sheffield, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Chemical Engineering
University of Sheffield
About the Project Roller compaction is a process used by many industries such as pharma, food and fertilizers. Roller compaction is a continuous dry granulation process where the powder particles compressed by two rotating rollers to produce a ribbon like shape compact. Then depending on the end use, the ribbon may be crushed to produce granules. The properties of the ribbon are important as it will significantly influence the properties of the resulted granules.
- Location
- Sheffield, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Chemical Engineering
Edinburgh Napier University
About the Project The need for environmentally friendly and sustainable solutions to combat plastic pollution has never been more critical. Plastics, particularly single-use plastic bags, have had a detrimental impact on our ecosystems and contribute to environmental degradation. In response to this challenge, this Ph.D. project aims to develop biodegradable fibrous bags designed for nurturing plants, thus contributing to a more sustainable and greener future.
- Location
- Edinburgh, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Chemical Engineering
University of Strathclyde
About the Project This experimental study develops a nano-enhanced coolant and an optimized liquid-cooled battery module, and evaluates performance using thermophysical tests, cycling experiments, and an exergy analysis to quantify useful thermal potential and irreversibilities. Nanofluids are synthesized and characterized for thermal conductivity, viscosity, stability and density; coolant pump power and pressure drop are measured experimentally.
- Location
- Glasgow, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Chemical Engineering
University of Birmingham
About the Project Drag-reducing agents (DRAs) are chemicals for improving transport when pumping fluids of high Reynolds numbers, which consumes 10 to 25 percent of the global energy demand (Napierala (2022) Energies 15(3), 799). Being introduced at the upstream of a pipeline, DRAs can reduce the drag up to 80%, leading to a significant energy reduction (Xi (2019) Phys. Fluids 31, 121302), utilising less infrastructure, and decreasing the corresponding carbon footprint.
- Location
- Birmingham, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
Chemical Engineering
University of Birmingham
About the Project A global manufacturer of single-crystal components for gas turbines, Rolls-Royce are continuously improving the capability of their lost-wax investment casting process for future products. A key aspect is formulation improvements of the ceramic systems used to manufacture casting moulds.
- Location
- Birmingham, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)
Chemical Engineering
University of Birmingham
About the Project Consumer products in the form of aerosols comprise product bases, with a range of physical and chemical properties blended with propellant(s) in a range of base : propellant ratios. Aerosol packaging or hardware consists of specific pressure rated cans fitted with valves made up of several sections (stem, spray channel, orifice insert and actuator) with a range of designs and flow channel / orifice sizes.
- Location
- Birmingham, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Chemical Engineering
The University of Manchester
About the Project The transition to a low-carbon energy system requires sustainable methods for converting carbon dioxide (CO2) into useful fuels and chemicals. CO2hydrogenation offers a promising route to produce green fuels such as methanol and synthetic hydrocarbons, particularly when combined with renewable hydrogen.
- Location
- Manchester, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Chemical Engineering
University of Birmingham
About the Project Spent coffee grounds (SCG) are produced at scale by cafés, roasters, offices and households, yet are commonly downcycled or go to landfill. This PhD will develop electrochemical optimisation strategies to convert SCG-derived feedstocks into higher-value chemicals and materials, enabling a circular, low-waste route for valorisation.
- Location
- Birmingham, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Chemical Engineering
University of Bradford
About the Project The current state of the art for utilisation of wood pellets is co-firing and the co-generation of biomass combustion products. The safe and effective storage, transportation and processing of wood pellets is then highly important for bioenergy applications. The integrity of the quality of pellets during handling is key in ensuring that pellets do not degrade physically in the chain of manufacturing till feeding into a pulverised fuel burner.
- Location
- Bradford, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Chemical Engineering
University of Birmingham
About the Project This exciting PhD project aims to experimentally investigate the fundamental nucleation, liquid-film, and heat-transfer mechanisms that govern phase-change heat transfer on engineered surfaces, with a primary focus on boiling and/or condensation in compact thermal systems.
- Location
- Birmingham, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
Chemical Engineering
University of Aberdeen
About the Project These projects are open to students worldwide, but have no funding attached. Therefore, the successful applicant will be expected to fund tuition fees at the relevant level (home or international) and any applicable additional research costs. Please consider this before applying.
- Location
- Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Chemical Engineering
ETH Zürich
About the Project PhD position available: Electrochemical Biomarker Sensing with Artificial Enzyme (SDC18) as part of ENDOTRAIN MSCA Doctoral Network Visit the ENDOTRAIN pages here: Endotrain Doctoral Training Network | UiB Electrochemical Biomarker Sensing with Artificial Enzyme (SDC18) | UiB Application site: https://jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOPGethzpEnAl5ZR3hmYqkzxWH Location: ETH Zürich, Switzerland Supervisors: Prof. Andreas Güntner, Prof.
- Location
- Zurich, Switzerland, Switzerland
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Chemical Engineering
University of Aberdeen
About the Project These projects are open to students worldwide, but have no funding attached. Therefore, the successful applicant will be expected to fund tuition fees at the relevant level (home or international) and any applicable additional research costs. Please consider this before applying.
- Location
- Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Chemical Engineering
University of Sheffield
About the Project Producing fertilizers with the required specification while minimizing the waste of the manufacturing process is challenging. This research aims to improve the current fertilizer production method by designing the products to achieve the required specifications such as strength, size and dissolution/disintegration time.
- Location
- Sheffield, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Chemical Engineering
University of Bradford
About the Project The application of CO 2 injection for Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) has proven to be an effective technique for increasing oil recovery from mature reservoirs. However, the presence of CO2 impurities—such as nitrogen (N 2 ), methane (CH 4 ), hydrogen sulphide (H 2 S), and water—may significantly influence the thermodynamic and fluid flow properties, thereby impacting recovery efficiency.
- Location
- Bradford, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Chemical Engineering
University of York
About the Project Robotic hands and grippers are pivotal in robotic handling or interactions with objects, and similarly, a robot can intelligently manipulate an object. This leads to a requirement for a higher skill, like that in human hands. In contrast, robotic hands and grippers are designed to be underactuated, resulting in a lack of degrees of freedom, and dexterity.
- Location
- York, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Chemical Engineering
University of Aberdeen
About the Project These projects are open to students worldwide, but have no funding attached. Therefore, the successful applicant will be expected to fund tuition fees at the relevant level (home or international) and any applicable additional research costs. Please consider this before applying.
- Location
- Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Chemical Engineering
University of Aberdeen
About the Project These projects are open to students worldwide, but have no funding attached. Therefore, the successful applicant will be expected to fund tuition fees at the relevant level (home or international) and any applicable additional research costs. Please consider this before applying. Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) is a widely used technique to obtain the elemental constituents of a sample.
- Location
- Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Chemical Engineering
The University of Manchester
About the Project This PhD project focuses on the development of advanced multiphysics models to investigate aquifer-based compressed air energy storage (CAES) systems. The research will involve coupling fluid flow, heat transfer, geomechanics, and potentially reactive transport processes to better understand system performance, efficiency, and long-term operational stability.
- Location
- Manchester, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Chemical Engineering
University of Strathclyde
About the Project Saloplastics are salt complexes of oppositely charged polyelectrolytes, that can be processed like thermoplastics, and used as membranes and coatings in a wide range of applications. Appealing features of saloplastics include solvent-free processability in saline solutions, where the salts weaken the inter-polymer interactions enabling the creation of various morphologies including membranes and films.
- Location
- Glasgow, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Chemical Engineering
Curtin University
About the Project The Group of Surface Chemistry and Electrochemistry at Curtin Chemistry, Perth, invites applications for one PhD position focusing on silicon electrochemistry. Applicants should be highly motivated and have an honours or master degree (or equivalent) in chemistry, or other relevant discipline. Applicants do not need to be Australian citizens. Basic electrochemistry knowledge and experience synthesis is preferred, but not strictly required.
- Location
- Perth, Australia, Australia
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Chemical Engineering
University of Edinburgh
About the Project A PhD studentship is available in the molecular-simulation group of Professor Philip J. Camp, School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh in collaboration with Castrol Limited. Nanofluids are made up of nanometre-sized solid particles dispersed in carrier liquids. They have higher thermal conductivities than the carrier liquids alone, and so they are good candidates as thermal management fluids for cooling applications.
- Location
- Edinburgh, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
Chemical Engineering
Kingston University
About the Project Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) offers a key pathway for aviation decarbonisation by enabling the use of renewable, waste-derived carbon sources and captured CO₂ to produce jet fuel alternatives. As a drop-in replacement for conventional Jet A-1 fuel, SAF is compatible with existing aircraft and infrastructure while offering significant life-cycle greenhouse gas emission reductions.
- Location
- London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Chemical Engineering
Kingston University
About the Project Demand for energy and petrochemical products has been on the raise in recent decades leading to huge production, transportation and storage infrastructures all around the world. The industry needs to store and transport large volumes of fuels and petrochemicals which are highly reactive and normally in liquefied form, such as Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG).
- Location
- London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Chemical Engineering
University of Bradford
About the Project Although the batch reactive distillation process outperforms traditional reactor-distillation processes, due to simultaneous reaction and separation of products for many reaction systems, synthesis of many esters obtained via esterification with alcohols (such as methanol, ethanol) are still challenging.
- Location
- Bradford, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Chemical Engineering
Imperial College London
About the Project A PhD position in soft matter science and engineering is available for an October 2026 start date (or ASAP thereafter) in the department of Chemical Engineering, in close collaboration with industrial partners. The project will examine the molecular architecture and association of surfactants and polymers in the context of sustainable liquid formulations of academic interest and industrial relevance.
- Location
- London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
Chemical Engineering
University of Reading
About the Project Project Overview: We have a vacancy for a PhD student working in the area of physical chemistry. While lithium dominates current battery technology, there is considerable drive to move away from lithium salts to more abundant or lower cost alternatives. Alternatives such as zinc and sodium have been proposed, which are low cost, abundant and non-toxic.
- Location
- Reading, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Chemical Engineering
University of Bradford
About the Project Natural products have emerged as a key standard in novel and safe delivery of anticancer bioactive compounds. Apart from their ease of administration and delivery, natural/phytochemicals still face several hurdles, due to their physiochemical and pharmacokinetic properties. Nowadays, nanotechnology has been widely proposed to deliver herbal drugs, due to its drug delivery system which might potentiate the pharmacological profile of phytochemicals.
- Location
- Bradford, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Chemical Engineering
Edinburgh Napier University
About the Project The UK government is committed to reaching Net Zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Due to the global economic landscape and energy market, the pathway towards "Net Zero" must be accelerated to release the economic pressure on households and businesses. Among the strategies, increasing the solar capacity is vital for the goal of sustainable net-zero buildings, particularly on domestic and commercial rooftops.
- Location
- Edinburgh, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Chemical Engineering
The University of Manchester
About the Project Polymer extrusion is a fundamental stage in polymer processing, producing polymeric materials for a wide range of applications including packaging, construction, and healthcare. Yet, controlling the complex thermomechanical behaviour of polymer melts remains a major industrial challenge.
- Location
- Manchester, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Chemical Engineering
University of York
About the Project Plasmas are promising technology for the conversion of gases such as CO2, CH4 or N2 into more valuable ones, e.g. CO (starting material for alcohols and hydrocarbons), H2 (clean fuel applications) and NH3 (fertilisers). Such gas conversion processes are essential parts of the chemical industry, requiring significant amounts of energy and resulting in CO2 emission.
- Location
- York, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Chemical Engineering
The University of Manchester
About the Project Practical classes are a major part of student learning and help them associate theory with the real world. The three key outcomes for a successful practical class are that students acquire a procedural understanding with hands-on skills, students can communicate their results, and students are able to apply conceptual understanding to their work.
- Location
- Manchester, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Chemical Engineering
University of Birmingham
About the Project About the Project A PhD studentship is available in the School of Chemistry at the University of Birmingham on a project themed on the design and self-assembly of multifunctional advanced materials, using a variety of computational methods and data-driven approaches. A PhD place on this project can be offered to a suitable home or overseas candidate, provided the candidate has external funding at the required level.
- Location
- Birmingham, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Chemical Engineering
University of Aberdeen
About the Project These projects are open to students worldwide, but have no funding attached. Therefore, the successful applicant will be expected to fund tuition fees at the relevant level (home or international) and any applicable additional research costs. Please consider this before applying.
- Location
- Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Chemical Engineering
University of Sheffield
About the Project This PhD is one of a number of projects hosted by the Centre for Doctoral Training in Green Industrial Futures (CDT-GIF). We are offering pioneering research projects that will enable PhD researchers to explore key technologies and solutions that will support UK industry to reach net zero. Project Description The green industrial futures depend on a sustainable and resilient resource supply chain to achieve the net zero goal.
- Location
- Sheffield, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
Chemical Engineering
University of Sheffield
About the Project This PhD is one of a number of projects hosted by the Centre for Doctoral Training in Green Industrial Futures (CDT-GIF). We are offering pioneering research projects that will enable PhD researchers to explore key technologies and solutions that will support UK industry to reach net zero. Project Description Both carbon removal technologies (a.k.a.
- Location
- Sheffield, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
Chemical Engineering
University of Sheffield
About the Project This PhD is one of a number of projects hosted by the Centre for Doctoral Training in Green Industrial Futures (CDT-GIF). We are offering pioneering research projects that will enable PhD researchers to explore key technologies and solutions that will support UK industry to reach net zero.
- Location
- Sheffield, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
Chemical Engineering
The University of Manchester
About the Project Salt formation in porous media is a critical phenomenon influencing a wide range of natural and industrial processes, including subsurface energy systems (e.g., CO₂ storage, geothermal operations), electrochemical devices, soil salinization, and water desalination technologies. The precipitation, transport, and redistribution of salts within porous structures can significantly alter pore morphology, permeability, wettability, and overall system performance.
- Location
- Manchester, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Chemical Engineering
University of Bradford
About the Project Desalination of seawater has been gaining increasing momentum to overcome the freshwater scarcity around the world. Among the various technologies, RO (reverse osmosis) is one of the most promising seawater desalination technologies for freshwater production but is energy intensive. Variable seawater temperature and salinity affects the desalination process in terms of energy consumption, productivity, cost and operation.
- Location
- Bradford, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Chemical Engineering
University of Aberdeen
About the Project These projects are open to students worldwide, but have no funding attached. Therefore, the successful applicant will be expected to fund tuition fees at the relevant level (home or international) and any applicable additional research costs. Please consider this before applying.
- Location
- Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Chemical Engineering
The University of Manchester
About the Project Current fuel-cell technologies suffer from major limitations associated with the use of polymer electrolyte membranes (PEMs), including high material cost, fuel crossover, membrane degradation, water management challenges, and lack of long-term operational stability.
- Location
- Manchester, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Chemical Engineering
The University of Manchester
About the Project This PhD project will be carried out in the framework of an international collaboration with European partners who are willing to develop new processes for sustainable aviation fuels using new Fischer-Tropsch reactors. This is a project which combines experimental and modelling activities.
- Location
- Manchester, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Chemical Engineering
University of Strathclyde
About the Project The Hydrogen Economy will help to shift society away from fossil fuels and contribute to decarbonisation. Electrochemical processes are at the heart of the hydrogen economy providing a means to convert renewable energy into green hydrogen via electrolysis or converting hydrogen into electrical power using fuel cells. However, it is important to ensure that hydrogen-related processes do not rely on inherently unsustainable technologies or materials.
- Location
- Glasgow, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Chemical Engineering
University of Bradford
About the Project The reduction of emissions of greenhouse gases is agreed on in November 2016 in the Paris international agreement (IEA Dec. 2016). The agreement is expected to create a transformative change in the energy sector to combat climate change. In the recent report of 2018/24/PR by IPCC (the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), worldwide nations perceived the importance of reduction of pre-industrial temperature levels to less than 1.5°C.
- Location
- Bradford, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Chemical Engineering
Sheffield Hallam University
About the Project There is no funding attached to this project. The Industry and Innovation Research Institute (I2Ri) draws on talents, expertise and facilities across Sheffield Hallam University. The vision is to be the leading provider of applied research excellence delivering materials, computing, science and engineering innovations meeting the development needs of industry.
- Location
- Sheffield, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Chemical Engineering
University of Sheffield
About the Project The scale deposition and aggregation of calcium carbonate in the production facility is challenging problem in the petroleum industry. For this reason, preventing scale formation is critical for oil and gas industry. Different techniques have been used to reduce the formation of the scale where the measurements are carried out offline. This project aims to use a new inline measurement based on focused reflectance beam measurement (FBRM).
- Location
- Sheffield, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Chemical Engineering
University of Bradford
About the Project Climate change and population growth pose a threat to water security worldwide. Sea water desalination is traditionally a promising technology to provide fresh water. There are numerous existing technologies for seawater desalination, with extensive research focusing on optimizing process and operating conditions to save energy, cost and enhance performance metrics like the Gain Output Ratio (GoR), etc.
- Location
- Bradford, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Chemical Engineering
UNSW Sydney
About the Project Project Description The School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering (SPREE) is widelyregarded as the one of the leading Photovoltaics research hubs in the world.Building on its world-leading research, the school attracts leading internationalresearchers in the area of photovoltaic, consistently ranked amongst the leadersworldwide in the photovoltaic field through international peer review.
- Location
- Sydney, Australia, Australia
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Chemical Engineering
University of Aberdeen
About the Project These projects are open to students worldwide, but have no funding attached. Therefore, the successful applicant will be expected to fund tuition fees at the relevant level (home or international) and any applicable additional research costs. Please consider this before applying. This project is on developing Electronic-Nose (ENose) technology in collaboration with a spin-out company from the University of Aberdeen called ScensAi.
- Location
- Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Chemical Engineering
University of Strathclyde
About the Project One of the most risky and time-consuming steps of the manufacture of medicines is the scale-up, especially to generate powders and particles that further can be processed into formulations such as tablets. It is particularly difficult to control particle properties such as shape, size, size distribution, powder flow and compactability.
- Location
- Glasgow, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
Chemical Engineering
University of Bradford
About the Project The advancement and economic development of any nation depends mostly on its energy structure. As the world population keeps increasing, the demand for electricity also rises. Over the years, researchers have gone into their comfort zones in an effort to conceive alternative sources of electricity generation for a sustainable economy. The generation rate of Municipal Solid Waste is expected to increase to 2.2 billion tonnes per year by 2025 worldwide.
- Location
- Bradford, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Chemical Engineering
University of Bradford
About the Project Water management is very important in many countries in the world. Out of many aspects of water management, freshwater production by desalination technologies (thermal and membrane) and wastewater treatment by various technologies are the most important ones. Both these aspects of water management are energy intensive and use of renewable energies (solar, wind, geothermal) plays an important role in this regard.
- Location
- Bradford, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only