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Compare 17 doctoral research opportunities connected with King’s College London, including project summaries, funding and application deadlines.
Anatomy
King’s College London
About the Project From the microscopic spines of a sea urchin to the layered architecture of a beetle's shell, nature has spent millions of years engineering structures of remarkable complexity and function.
Artificial Intelligence
King’s College London
About the Project For more information and to apply, please visit the institution website. One fully funded PhD studentship, open to UK and international applicants, is available in trustworthy generative AI for healthcare. The project sits in the broad area of statistical machine learning, with a focus on multimodal large language models, uncertainty-aware AI, and 3D medical imaging.
Climate Science
King’s College London
About the Project This is a 3.5 year PhD project at KCL affiliated to the Faraday Institution SAFEBATT project, which is a major project increasing the fundamental understanding of the root causes of cell failure and the mechanisms of failure propagation, and utilising this improved knowledge of the science of safety to inform the design of safer batteries and battery systems, as well as informing standards and stakeholders such as regulatory bodies and first responders.
Applied Mathematics
King’s College London
About the Project Gravitational wave (GW) astronomy is approaching a paradigm shift: within the next decade, next-generation observatories such as the Einstein Telescope and LISA will be sensitive enough to reveal not only every binary black hole (BBH) merger in the observable universe, but potentially entirely new, exotic sources of gravitational waves — including compact objects, such as boson stars, which are predicted by dark matter models.
Data Science
King’s College London
About the Project For more information and to apply, please visit the institution website. Entry point: 1 February 2027 Knowledge of protonation states and H atom positions in macromolecules can be critical in helping to formulate functional hypotheses and, generally, in providing a complete description of the biological processes under investigation.
Aerospace Engineering
King’s College London
About the Project This fully funded PhD studentship is supported by the European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant project MISSMAPS – MIcroScale Solutions for MAcroscale problems: flow control through Permeable Structures , led by Dr Yabin Liu at King’s College London.
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.
Epidemiology
King’s College London
About the Project To apply for this PhD, visit the institution website. Start date: 1 February 2027 A substantial body of research has demonstrated persistent divergence in health technology assessment (HTA) recommendations for identical medicines across countries, with roughly half of paired decisions disagreeing even among methodologically similar agencies.
Integrated Engineering
King’s College London
About the Project Children with life-limiting illnesses depend on precise, reliable pain management — yet almost no opioid formulations are designed with them in mind. For paediatric patients with a gastrostomy, the problem is even more acute: standard dosage forms were never designed for this route, leaving clinicians relying on improvised, off-label preparations with unpredictable and potentially dangerous results. Better options are urgently needed.
Cancer Biology
King’s College London
About the Project Prostate cancer remains one of the most common cancers in men, yet accurately predicting which individuals will develop clinically significant disease or experience disease progression remains a major challenge. Advances in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), biomarker discovery, and health data science have created unprecedented opportunities to improve risk stratification and support personalised clinical decision-making.
Acoustics
King’s College London
About the Project Two fully funded, 3.5 year PhD studentships will explore what happens when textbook assumptions about near-field waves are removed. The scientific challenge Near-fields --confined close to sources, interfaces and nanostructures-- can display three-dimensional polarisation, unexpected energy and momentum flows, topological textures, exact zeros, and unusual forces and torques.
Bioinformatics
King’s College London
About the Project Who are we? We are a vibrant, outward-looking, multi-disciplinary research group interested in understanding how genetic risk factors can impact on both susceptibility to infection and to autoimmune disease. We have a strong interest in comparing how genetic risk factors from different ancestries impact on risk of infection and in developing autoimmune disease.
Biochemistry
King’s College London
About the Project Cancer is a devastating disease: more than one in three people in the UK will develop cancer in their lifetime. Metastasis is the primary cause of cancer related deaths. Metastasis is caused by aberrant cell migration of cancer cells. Endocytosis is an essential process during development and tissue homeostasis ensuring diverse functions including modulation of growth factor signalling.
Biochemistry
King’s College London
About the Project Cancer is a devastating disease: more than one in three people in the UK will develop cancer in their lifetime. Metastasis is the primary cause of cancer related deaths. Metastasis is caused by aberrant cell migration of cancer cells. We have identified NHSL1 as a key regulator of cell migration (Law et al., Nature Communications, 2021) 9 . NHSL1 is part of the poorly characterized Nance-Horan syndrome protein family.
Applied Mathematics
King’s College London
About the Project The threat of large-scale, general-purpose quantum computers to existing public-key cryptographic solutions has led to global efforts to standardise post-quantum cryptography as a replacement. One of the front-runners for problems to base post-quantum cryptography on are hard problems on lattices.
Artificial Intelligence
King’s College London
About the Project Project Summary Cells employ RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) to control gene expression during development and stress. Many of these proteins contain intrinsically disordered regions and undergo dynamic regulation through post-translational modifications such as phosphorylation. Yet the mechanisms by which RBPs decode structured RNA elements, remodel their conformations, and assemble into functional complexes remain incompletely understood.
Analytical Chemistry
King’s College London
About the Project Please read the Funding note before contacting/applying Background of the Project: People with conditions like heart disease, diabetes, cancer, organ transplants, or immunodeficiencies face higher risks of infection, complications, and death. Prompt and accurate diagnosis is vital to improve outcomes in these vulnerable groups. However, clinical diagnosis of microbial infections is often challenging, and noninvasive methods tend to perform poorly.