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PhD opportunities: University of Aberdeen

Compare 106 doctoral research opportunities connected with University of Aberdeen, including project summaries, funding and application deadlines.

Agricultural Sciences

AI-enabled carbon farming for climate-resilient smallholder agriculture

University of Aberdeen

About the Project Carbon farming has significant potential to support climate change mitigation while improving the resilience and livelihoods of smallholder farmers. However, reliable measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) of carbon outcomes across fragmented and heterogeneous farms remains costly and challenging to scale.

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
16 October 2026
Funding
Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Agricultural Sciences

ETHIO-SENSE: Real-Time Soil Health, Carbon and Climate-Smart Crop Monitoring for Smallholder Farming Systems in Ethiopia

University of Aberdeen

About the Project Agriculture in Ethiopia faces major challenges from declining soil fertility, land degradation, climate variability and reduced crop productivity. Smallholder farmers often lack access to timely information to support decisions on fertiliser use, water management and sustainable farming practices. Growing interest in regenerative agriculture and carbon sequestration is creating opportunities to improve food security and climate resilience.

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
16 October 2026
Funding
Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Agricultural Sciences

Quantitative Verification of Supply Chain Models in the Agri-Food Efficiency Systems: Ensuring Efficiency, Fairness, and Sustainability

University of Aberdeen

About the Project This project will develop a formal verification framework to address sustainability challenges in complex multi-agent systems (MASs). These systems capture interactions between autonomous agents—individuals, organisations, or digital entities—whose decisions involve uncertainty, incentives, and trade-offs.

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
16 October 2026
Funding
Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Medicine

Mechanism of thrombosis in monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS)

University of Aberdeen

About the Project Myeloma, a type of blood cell cancer, has an incidence of around 6000 new cases in United Kingdom, with approximately 500 new cases in Scotland every year. A relatively more common condition, especially in older adults, termed Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) is not considered a cancer, but it has been associated with increased risk of progression to myeloma. Plasma cells are derived from B lymphocytes, a type of white blood cell.

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
31 October 2026
Funding
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Biochemistry

A synbio approach to generate artificial molecular muscles

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. “Molecular muscles” is a term referring to molecules that can contract and stretch under a chemical signal.

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
Year-round applications
Funding
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Petroleum Engineering

AI-Assisted History Matching and Optimization for Subsurface Reservoirs

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

Advanced Materials and Manufacturing for Reliable Hydrogen Storage

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

Dynamics

Advanced Modelling of Frictional Interfaces in Renewable Energy Structures

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. Friction is crucial to the efficiency and reliability of renewable energy systems, such as wind turbines, hydroelectric power, and wave energy systems.

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
Year-round applications
Funding
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Applied Mathematics

Advanced Modelling of Nonlinear Engineering Systems: AI-Integrated Approaches

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

Artificial Intelligence

Adversarial goal recognition and ambiguous policies

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. Adversarial scenarios (such as games) offer unique challenges where understanding and predicting opponent moves can be critical.

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
Year-round applications
Funding
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Pure Mathematics

Algebraic topology and graphs

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. Graphs are among the most basic combinatorial objects studied in mathematics, consisting simply of a collection of objects and connections among them.

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
Year-round applications
Funding
Dr Richard Hepworth-Young Dr M Grant

Applied Chemistry

Application of CCUS in Critical Mineral Extraction from Subsurface Reservoirs

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

Applied Geology

Application of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Oil and Gas Production Systems

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

Artificial Intelligence

Application of digital holography for marine science

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. Underwater digital holography is a powerful technique to study marine organisms and marine pollution (e.g. micro-plastics), marine evolution, etc.

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
Year-round applications
Funding
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Civil Engineering

Automated Hybrid AM–Lightweight Steel Framing (LSF) Systems for Zero-Waste Construction

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

Applied Mathematics

Beyond Pairwise Interactions: Exploring Higher-Order Dynamics in Complex Systems

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. Complex systems are everywhere — from swarming birds and interacting cells to the spread of ideas or diseases through society.

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
Year-round applications
Funding
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Pure Mathematics

Boundary Value Problems for Clifford-Analytic Operators on Singular Domains

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 PhD project is at the intersection of complex analysis, partial differential equations, and geometric analysis.

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
Year-round applications
Funding
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Analytical Chemistry

CO2 catalytic conversion using renewable hydrogen sources

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 experimental project will deal with the global challenge of mitigating CO 2 emissions to the atmosphere, by using CO 2 as a raw-material to produce fuels and fuel-precursors.

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
Year-round applications
Funding
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Applied Mathematics

Chaos-based cryptography

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. We all live today in a cyber world. Much of the world data traffic is encrypted because of security threats, occurring among different societies, and within several societal levels.

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
Year-round applications
Funding
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Pure Mathematics

Coarse geometry of groups with bi-invariant metrics

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. Coarse geometry is the study of asymptotic properties of metric spaces.

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
Year-round applications
Funding
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Pure Mathematics

Coarse homotopy groups and large scale geometry of groups with bi-invariant metrics

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. Following Gromov, this project is concerned with coarse geometry of metric spaces.

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
Year-round applications
Funding
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Pure Mathematics

Combinatorial Representation Theory: Partitions and Basic Sets

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. The representation theory of many families of finite groups can be presented in terms of combinatorial objects.

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
Year-round applications
Funding
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Computational Chemistry

Computational Design and Study of Peptide-Like Foldamers for Supramolecular and Medicinal Chemistry

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. Foldamers represent a new frontier in molecular design, bridging biology and synthetic chemistry to create functional molecules with programmable shapes and properties.

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
Year-round applications
Funding
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Artificial Intelligence

Computational Forgiveness Strategies

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

Artificial Intelligence

Computational Modelling and AI-Based Digital Twins for Hydrogen and Energy Storage in Petroleum and Energy Infrastructure

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. The global transition towards net-zero energy systems increasingly relies on hydrogen technologies, energy storage, and the repurposing of existing petroleum infrastructure.

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
Year-round applications
Funding
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Applied Mathematics

Control of Nonlinear Engineering Systems: Traditional and AI-Integrated Approaches

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

Artificial Intelligence

Democratising AI for underserved applications

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 focuses on democratising machine learning for underserved domains by introducing a quality-centric framework for building reliable and efficient AI systems.

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
Year-round applications
Funding
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Dentistry

Dental implications of GLP-1 receptor obesity medicines

University of Aberdeen

About the Project The study of the oral effects of medications is of utmost importance in an aging multi-morbid yet dentate population. Obesity treatment medicines such as GLP-1 receptor agonists Wegovy and Mounjaro are now widely prescribed due to the high prevalence of metabolic syndrome in the UK and beyond. Scant knowledge of the oral effects of GLP-1 receptor agonists exists, but it is largely based on small and low quality studies.

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
Year-round applications
Funding
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Organic Chemistry

Design and synthesis of liquid crystal molecules exhibiting new nematic phases

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

Aerospace Engineering

Design of lightweight composite stiffened shell structures using topology optimisation

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. The aim of this project is to create new optimisation methods for the design of composite lightweight stiffened shell structures.

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
Year-round applications
Funding
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Human Computer Interaction

Designing Sustainable and Scalable Models for Community-Based Computing Engagement: A Human-Centred Approach

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. Despite growing investment in computing education, widening participation in computing and STEM remains a persistent challenge.

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
Year-round applications
Funding
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Applied Mathematics

Development of a Multi-Scale Optimisation Framework for Nanoparticle-Enhanced Closed-Loop Geothermal Systems

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

Applied Chemistry

Development of novel phosphide and sulfide catalysts for sustainable hydrogenation processes

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. In recent years, it has been reported that metal sulfide, phosphides and mixed sulfide/phosphide catalysts are effective catalysts for a variety of hydrogenation processes.

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
Year-round applications
Funding
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Applied Chemistry

Digital design of crystallization process for applications in pharmaceutical manufacturing

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. Crystallization of active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) is ubiquitous in the development of various pharmaceutical solid forms as a means of purification and product formulation.

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
Year-round applications
Funding
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Biochemistry

Discovery of novel pharmaceuticals from marine and desert microorganisms

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

Applied Mathematics

Distributed Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems with Multi-Vector Integration for Energy Transition

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. Distributed Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems (DHRES) are critical enablers of the energy transition.

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
Year-round applications
Funding
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Aerospace Engineering

Droplet Impacts with Functional Surfaces

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

Applied Chemistry

Electrification of biogas upgrading via plasma-catalysis

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. Process streams containing methane present huge potential as a feedstock for chemicals synthesis.

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
Year-round applications
Funding
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Civil Engineering

Enhancing the performance, condition, safety and reliability of offshore wind energy infrastructure systems using optimal inspections and structural health monitoring

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. Wind turbines are exposed to frequent structural damage increasing the cost of wind energy generation.

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
Year-round applications
Funding
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Artificial Intelligence

Explainable Learning Analytics: Towards Fair and Trustworthy AI in Higher Education

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. Learning analytics has evolved from descriptive dashboards to predictive and prescriptive models that promise personalised support and institutional insights.

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
Year-round applications
Funding
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Artificial Intelligence

Explainable, Ethical, Green Artificial Intelligence

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

Applied Mathematics

Exploring Venus’ atmosphere using data assimilation

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. The space agencies NASA and ESA both plan to send spacecraft to explore Venus in the early 2030s [1].

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
Year-round applications
Funding
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Artificial Intelligence

Fair-LLMs: Accelerating Fairness-Aware, Privacy-Preserving LLMs for Health Research

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

Civil Engineering

Fate, transport, and impact of microplastics in the environment

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. Recent research indicates that microplastics are now ubiquitous in the environment: they have been found in lakes, rivers, and even groundwater.

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
Year-round applications
Funding
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Chemical Engineering

Fluid flow in subsurface reservoirs with application to CCUS

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

Applied Chemistry

Frustrated Hydrogen Bonds for Functional Materials

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. Hydrogen bonding is a fundamental chemical interaction that shapes the structure and properties of many systems across nature and technology.

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
Year-round applications
Funding
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Artificial Intelligence

Generative LLMs as Personalised Health Coaches: Longitudinal Analysis and Generative Intervention Planning from Multimodal Muscle Fatigue Data

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 PhD project builds directly upon the successful development of a high-fidelity, multimodal wearable system for real-time muscle fatigue monitoring.

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
Year-round applications
Funding
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Applied Mathematics

Giant planet atmospheric modelling

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. Fifty years on from the first spacecraft fly-by of a giant planet in 1973, many aspects of giant planet atmospheres remain poorly understood.

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
Year-round applications
Funding
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Artificial Intelligence

Goal and Plan Recognition for in Complex Settings

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. Goal recognition is the task of identifying the intended state of affairs of an agent, given evidence about its currently executing plans [ 1 ].

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
Year-round applications
Funding
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Applied Mathematics

Graph-based techniques for image processing

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

Analytical Chemistry

Green methods to revalorise plastic wastes: transformation into sustainable materials and chemicals

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

Artificial Intelligence

Guarantee-Driven Mapping: Coordinated LiDAR-Vision Robots for Dense 3D Reconstruction

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

Electrical Engineering

HVDC with hybrid MMC-LCC converters

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. High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) transmission has seen rapid development with the introduction of MMC (Modular Multilevel Converters) around 2010 [1].

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
Year-round applications
Funding
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Artificial Intelligence

Human–Wearable–Robot Interaction: Enabling Seamless Control of Mobile Manipulators via Biosensing Interfaces

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. Human–wearable–robot interaction is emerging as a frontier field that bridges human sensing, artificial intelligence, and robotic control.

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
Year-round applications
Funding
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Chemical Engineering

Hydrogen Pipeline Transport: Materials, Reactive Phenomena, and System Design

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

Artificial Intelligence

Integrating AI-Driven Optimisation and High-Fidelity Laser-Fluid-Structure Interaction Modelling

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-material-fluid interactions involve complex multi-physics phenomena.

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
Year-round applications
Funding
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Electrical Engineering

Integration of LC DC Circuit Breakers into DC transmission grids

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

Artificial Intelligence

Intelligent Control and Motion Planning for Autonomous Robots

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. Autonomous robotic systems require effective control and navigation algorithms to operate safely and efficiently in dynamic and uncertain environments.

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
Year-round applications
Funding
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Pure Mathematics

Interactions between higher categories and homological algebra

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

Investigation of direct lithium extraction from geothermal brines

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

Laser induced breakdown spectroscopy

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

Artificial Intelligence

Learning to Leverage Complex Morphologies: Data-Driven Modeling and Intelligent Control for Unconventional Robots

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

Artificial Intelligence

Lightweight Deep Learning in internet of medical things (IoMT)

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. In a world where we have needed to be connected but apart, the need for enhanced remote and at-home healthcare has become clear.

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
Year-round applications
Funding
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Artificial Intelligence

LogicLLMs: Empowering LLMs with Logical Reasoning

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

Computer Vision

Low Complexity Models for Computer Vision Applications

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

Analytical Chemistry

MAPS - Machine-learning Assisted Prioritisation of natural product Scaffolds

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. Natural products (NPs) have historically been the foundation of modern medicine, from penicillin to paclitaxel [1].

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
Year-round applications
Funding
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Applied Mathematics

Machine-learning Analysis and Modelling of Histone Chaperone Function

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 aims to elucidate the mechanisms by which histone chaperones function.

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
Year-round applications
Funding
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Analytical Chemistry

Mapping ceramides in atherosclerotic plaques to understand the role of lipids in cardiovascular disease

University of Aberdeen

About the Project This studentship aims to uncover the mechanistic basis of why fats, and in particular a subset of fats called ceramides, are independent risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD) by studying the lipid composition of atherosclerotic plaques - the deposits of fat, cholesterol and dead cells that accumulate in arteries and lead to CVD and heart attacks.

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
Year-round applications
Funding
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Applied Mathematics

Mathematical Modelling of Clonal Dynamics and Mutation-Driven Transformation in Human Haematopoiesis

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. Haematopoiesis, the lifelong process by which blood cells are produced from haematopoietic stem cells (HSCs), offers a remarkable example of dynamic equilibrium.

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
Year-round applications
Funding
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Artificial Intelligence

Medical Video Classification

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. The aim of this project is to develop and investigate machine learning methodologies for medical video classification.

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
Year-round applications
Funding
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Petroleum Engineering

Microscale investigation of hydro-mechanical properties of subsurface rock

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. Hydro-mechanical properties of porous rock are fundamental to the success and safety of various subsurface engineering applications.

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
Year-round applications
Funding
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Applied Mathematics

Modelling the Self-Regulatory Feedback of the Androgen Receptor under Testosterone Influence

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. Sex steroids, including androgens, play a central role in regulating cellular function, metabolism, reproduction and cancer.

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
Year-round applications
Funding
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Chemical Physics

Molecular Quantum Dynamics of Isomerising molecules

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

Artificial Intelligence

Multimodal Federated Learning in Healthcare

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. Multimodal AI has demonstrated remarkable success by integrating diverse data sources to achieve more comprehensive and accurate analysis than unimodal approaches.

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
Year-round applications
Funding
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Artificial Intelligence

Multimodal Sensor Fusion and Large-Language-Model-Driven Muscle Fatigue Wearable Monitoring Systems

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. Muscle fatigue is a critical issue in sports performance, rehabilitation, and occupational health.

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
Year-round applications
Funding
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Artificial Intelligence

Neuro-Symbolic Decision-Making for Autonomous Agents: a Dual Process Theory Approach

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. There is a growing body of research on Neuro-Symbolic Artificial Intelligence, reflecting efforts to integrate learning-based and logic-based reasoning.

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
Year-round applications
Funding
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Applied Mathematics

Nonlinear Dynamics in Unconventional Robotics: Modeling, Control, and Emergent Behaviours

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

Applied Mathematics

Nonlinear Time-Series Analysis for Sparsely Sampled, Noisy Stellar Light Curves

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. Nonlinear analysis of light curves of variable stars has revealed complex patterns in their dynamics [1,2].

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
Year-round applications
Funding
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Applied Mathematics

Numerical modelling of cracked materials under dynamic loading

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

Applied Mathematics

Optical Fibre Applications for Sensors, Lasers or Communications

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. Signal and system modelling, numerical simulation and analysis of Optical Fibre for sensors or lasers or communications. Optical fibres are widely used in many fields.

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
Year-round applications
Funding
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Applied Mathematics

Optimal design of fibre reinforced composite pipes and umbilicals

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

Artificial Intelligence

Painting Music – using Explainable AI for music composition

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. Painting Music is a collaborative project with a local artist Kate Steenhauer. The project looks to convert Kate’s painted brushstrokes into music, using AI as the digital composer.

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
Year-round applications
Funding
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Biomedical Engineering

Personalized Digital Twins for Chronic Disease Management with Wearables and Explainable AI

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. Chronic diseases such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease represent a growing global health burden, requiring continuous monitoring and individualized care strategies.

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
Year-round applications
Funding
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Artificial Intelligence

Phase Transitions and Emergent Behaviour in Large Language Models

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

Civil Engineering

Pipeline decommissioning: quantifying the risks to the commercial fishing industry

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. Over 44,000 km of subsea pipelines have been installed in the North Sea to support oil and gas extraction, many of whichoccur within important commercial fishing grounds.

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
Year-round applications
Funding
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Analytical Chemistry

Plastic upcycling using renewable hydrogen sources

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

Artificial Intelligence

Practical Reasoning Agent

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. Agent interpreters based on the Beliefs, Desires, and Intentions (BDI) model traditionally perform means-ends reasoning using plan libraries composed of reactive planning rules.

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
Year-round applications
Funding
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Chemical Engineering

Recycled polymer electrolytes for sustainable sodium ion batteries

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

Accounting

Regime-Dependent Volatility and Return Dynamics: A Comparative RS-DCC-GARCH Analysis of Large- and Small-Cap Stocks

University of Aberdeen

About the Project The long-standing notion that small-cap stocks exhibit a “high-risk, high-return” pattern has been a cornerstone of asset pricing theory since Fama and French (1993) introduced their influential three-factor model. Numerous studies, including Switzer (2010), Blitz (2016), and Blitz, Van Vliet, and Baltussen (2019), provide empirical evidence supporting this relationship.

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
Year-round applications
Funding
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Pure Mathematics

Representation theory of Lie algebras and quantum groups

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. Lie algebras originally appeared in the work of the Norwegian mathematician Sophus Lie as infinitesimal symmetries of geometric objects called nowadays manifolds.

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
Year-round applications
Funding
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Artificial Intelligence

Repurposing of the pipeline infrastructure for transportation of Hydrogen, natural gas and their blends, Carbon Dioxide in UKCS for NET ZERO Innovation

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. Net Zero technology research is a new theme of developing novel innovations with the advent of hydrogen and decarbonisation projects across all the sectors.

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
Year-round applications
Funding
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Artificial Intelligence

Responsibility-aware Decision-making and AI Alignment in Multiagent Systems

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. Artificial Intelligence (AI) increasingly operates in environments where multiple autonomous systems interact with each other and with humans.

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
Year-round applications
Funding
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Artificial Intelligence

Robust Machine Vision and AI for Perception in Autonomous Robotic Systems

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. Autonomous robotic systems increasingly rely on machine vision and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to perceive, interpret, and interact with complex real-world environments.

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
Year-round applications
Funding
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Chemical Engineering

Simulation and optimization of the dark fermentation and hydrodeoxygenation processes for the production of renewable fuel and valuable compounds from biomass

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

Machine Learning

Small Language Models

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 aims to build compact models that achieve LLM-level accuracy while being efficient enough for everyday devices.

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
Year-round applications
Funding
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Inorganic Chemistry

Synthesis and Investigation of Novel Electrolytes for Application in Next Generation Solid Oxide Fuel Cells

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. Ensuring reliable, clean energy sources is one of the greatest challenges facing society today.

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
Year-round applications
Funding
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Applied Mathematics

System-Level Optimisation of Offshore Wind and Green Hydrogen for Energy Transition

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

Pure Mathematics

The space of maps between classifying spaces

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. The theory of p-local groups developed by C. Broto, R. Levi and B.

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
Year-round applications
Funding
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Analytical Chemistry

Thermo-catalytic conversion of plastic waste into Hydrogen and carbon materials.

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

Computer Vision

Training-free AI model

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 aims to develop a training-free AI model to deploy in edge device like Jetson Nano Orin.

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
Year-round applications
Funding
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Applied Mathematics

Trees and musical tuning

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. A mathematical tree is a graph in which any two distinct vertices are connected by a unique path.

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
Year-round applications
Funding
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Artificial Intelligence

Uncertainties in Large Language Models

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

Artificial Intelligence

Underground Hydrogen Storage (UHS) integration with CCUS and NET ZERO Innovation applications for depleted hydrocarbon reservoirs and aquifers

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. Net Zero technology research is a new theme of developing novel innovations with the advent of hydrogen and decarbonisation projects across all the sectors.

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
Year-round applications
Funding
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Artificial Intelligence

Understandable LLM guardrails via Symbolic Reasoning

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. LLMs are fast becoming ubiquitious. At the same time, there is significant concern about how malicious behaviour by these systems.

Location
Aberdeen, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline
Year-round applications
Funding
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Applied Mathematics

Understanding emerging behaviours in networks of pulse-coupled oscillators

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

Using Electronic Noses (ENoses) in brewery and distillation processes

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