Are you holding Master’s degree and ready to elevate your academic journey to the highest level? University of Liverpool, England, has announced a multiple fully funded PhD positions awaiting talented individuals like you. Don’t miss your chance to be part of our vibrant academic community. Explore the exciting PhD positions available and submit your application today!”
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(01) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–A Robotic Soft Matter Scientist: Transforming the Sustainability of Personal Care Products
The world needs to increase the sustainability of its consumer goods without compromising on quality. We have recently shown that by complexing certain active ingredients (the often-expensive molecules in a formulation that give improved performance) with metal ions, we can incorporate them into a product as solid particles in a way that drastically reduces waste.
In this project, you will develop an experimental platform that marries robotics with cutting-edge techniques in data science and computer vision. Your work will feed directly into Unilever’s Climate Transition Action Plan to achieve a 42% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from its formulations by 2030.
Deadline : 30 June 2024
(02) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–Accelerated Inorganic Materials Discovery Driven by Magnetic Resonance
This studentship will explore experimental and computational Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy approaches to probe the fast oxide ion transport (e.g., self-diffusion coefficients, diffusion pathways, dimensionality of motion) of oxide in inorganic materials aimed at establishing design rules for the discovery of next generation fast conductors. The project will (1) develop automated, programmable approaches to data analysis of the NMR measurables that access motion over several time- and length-scales, (2) exploit statistical modelling frameworks to quickly predict NMR properties with high accuracy, validated by experimental NMR measurements, and (3) harness these approaches to build and accelerate structural and diffusion models (e.g., compositional, positional disorders). Examples of current research effort focusing on NMR for oxide and lithium ion transport, and beyond are given.
Deadline : 30 June 2024
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(03) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–Accelerating computational materials discovery with diverse toolsets for verification and optimisation
Two PhD studentships (1 chemistry, 1 computer science) are available that will tackle the challenge to develop and implement an automated robot-based workflow that will accelerate the materials discovery process. They build on our recent physical science progress in automated synthesis of extended inorganic solids [5] and computer science progress in the diffraction data analysis required to define discovery [6]. The two students will work closely together with a multidisciplinary supervisory team to develop and integrate the methods and tools towards an automated high-throughput workflow that will revolutionise the discovery of functional inorganic materials.
Deadline : 31 December 2024
(04) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–Accelerating energy landscape exploration through optimisation, approximation and parallelisation
Many heuristic methods (random walks, probabilistic selection, genetic algorithms) for energy landscape exploration in Crystal Structure Prediction (CSP) [1] are very important material discovery tools [2]. However, the future of CSP lies in efficient search methods with an explainable outcome and a mathematical guarantee [1,3].
The proposed project will bring new algorithmic approaches and focus on:
- Improving performance guarantee of heuristic methods
- Design of new unbiased search methods
- Development and implementation of parallel algorithms to speed up the exploration.
Deadline : 30 June 2024
(05) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–Adrian Henri – Early Happenings in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s
This project will focus on the work of Adrian Henri, the Liverpool-based poet and painter who played a pioneering role in bringing happenings to Britain. Henri’s poetry made significant cultural impact through the publication of the ground-breaking anthology The Mersey Sound, showcasing his work together with Roger McGough and Brian Patten. The publication went on to sell over half a million copies and to become the bestselling poetry anthology of all time. Performance was key to Henri’s practice and he collaborated with musicians across different fields of music. This doctoral project seeks to contextualise and develop new insights into Henri’s practice, with particular focus on his development of happenings in the UK. There will be opportunities to develop experience within Tate Liverpool’s curatorial programme.
Deadline : 2 July 2024
(06) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–Advanced Information Storage
Digital information can be stored in different types of devices depending on the use and how frequently the data need to be accessed. In a typical computer, data that are infrequently accessed are stored in hard disk drives (HDDs). These can be magnetic devices with high storage density in which binary numbers (“0” and “1”) are encoded in the polarity (spin “up” and “down”) of a magnetic medium. Magnetic data storage is cheap and non-volatile, meaning the data persists after power to the device is cut off, but the speed of accessing the data is relatively slow because the read/write procedures involve moving mechanical parts. Data being frequently required, on the other hand, needs to be accessed on a much faster timescale. Memory devices dedicated to this purpose are volatile random-access memories (RAMs) — solid-state electronic devices in which information is electrically stored. The slow non-volatile and fast volatile memories are physically separated in computers (known as von Neumann architecture), resulting in significant latency as the fast processors must wait for the slow data fetching. This has become the key performance bottleneck for the artificial intelligence (AI) related workloads.
Deadline : 31 July 2024
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(07) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–An investigation of the neural basis of changes in tactile acuity during healthy ageing and its impact on emotional wellbeing
The sense of touch refers to the perception of tactile stimuli through specialised receptors called mechanoreceptors. During tactile exploration, humans typically use their hands, which are densely innervated by these mechanoreceptors. These receptors transduce incoming tactile information, resulting in high sensory acuity. However, as humans age their tactile acuity decreases, which is linked to changes in the peripheral nervous system. Despite this, tactile perception through active exploration (when we use motor control to touch our environment) declines at a slower rate than observed with passive stimulation (when the mechanoreceptors are activated by stroking in absence of movement). Therefore suggesting that tactile acuity during active touch may be supported by additional, or compensatory, central neural mechanisms.
Deadline : 7 June 2024
(08) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–Analysing the role of statins in cardiovascular protection
Drug-induced cardiovascular toxicity is a major problem affecting a number of cancer chemotherapy drugs (Cross et al., 2015). Due to the increasing number of patients treated by chemotherapy and biological drugs (often in combination and at progressively higher cumulative doses), the incidence of cardiotoxicity is continuously growing. The inherent lack of significant cardiac regenerative capacity means that damage to the heart is often accumulative and irreversible, potentially manifesting many years after chemotherapy treatment has finished in patients. Drug-induced cardiovascular toxicity can occur with a range of cancer drugs, such as the anthracycline doxorubicin, trastuzumab (Herceptin) and cyclophosphamide (Yeh, et al., 2009).
Deadline : 16 January 2025
(09) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–Analysis of the role of liver sinusoidal endothelial cells in methotrexate-induced liver toxicity
Liver sinusoidal endothelial cells (LSECs) comprise approximately 50% of the non-parenchymal hepatic cells. They play a vital role in hepatic microcirculation and provide a physiological barrier to the movement of xenobiotics from the bloodstream to hepatic tissue. Methotrexate (MTX) is a chemotherapy and immunosuppressive drug, used at a high dose to treat leukaemia, breast cancer, lung cancer and at a lower dose to manage a variety of autoimmune diseases. The most common adverse effects include hepatotoxicity and blood abnormalities with the mechanism of MTX-induced hepatotoxicity obscure. Our preliminary data from a rat model of MTX injury has shown that MTX can adversely affect liver endothelial cell physiology.
This project will utilise cryopreserved human LSECs to analyse the effect of MTX on endothelial cell physiology, intracellular signalling and gene expression. The project will also utilise a novel 3D multi-cellular liver microtissue composed of primary human hepatocytes, LSECs and human liver fibroblasts to allow analysis of MTX effects on multiple hepatic cells in a more physiologically relevant model.
Deadline : 29 November 2024
(10) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–Antifouling membranes for sustainable water purification and desalination
The EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Net Zero Maritime Energy solutions (N0MES) has a 4-year funded PhD place available for an exceptional researcher. With the support of the University of Liverpool (UoL), Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) and 33 maritime energy sector partners, N0MES PGRs will pursue new, engineering-centred, interdisciplinary research to address four vital net zero challenges currently facing the North West, the UK and beyond:
a) Energy generation using maritime-based renewable energy (e.g. offshore wind, tidal, wave, floating solar, hydrogen, CCS);
b) Distributing energy from offshore to onshore, including port- and hinterland-side impacts and opportunities;
c) Addressing the short- and long-term environmental impacts of offshore and maritime
environment renewable energy generation, distribution and storage; and
d) Decommissioning and lifetime extension of existing energy and facilities.
Deadline : 20 May 2024
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(11) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–Assessing how climate change will impact Cumbrian Coastal Lines (low value of service, but strategically important routes), with a focus on critical infrastructure for freight and energy material transport
The Cumbrian coastal rail-line is a critical infrastructure for local communities and the movement of materials, products and waste within the energy sector. The route is however exposed along several sections to the threat of climate change (sea level rise, changes in storminess, erosion, landslides, heat and flooding).
The studentship would assess the risks and threats posed to Network Rails Cumbrian coastal line assets, from current and future climate change.
- Hazard and risk mapping of the most significant threats to determine the sites at greatest risk from current and future climate change impacts (increased storminess, heat, sea level and fluvial/pluvial flooding), including compound hazard risk.
- Undertake a detailed assessment of critical infrastructure identified at stage 1 to determine future opportunities, management and adaptation plans.
- Providing a toolkit for future adaptation to develop climate resilient futures for different critical infrastructure.
Deadline : 20 May 2024
(12) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–Automated experimental functional materials discovery for net zero technologies
This project, suited to a student with a Physical Sciences or Engineering background, will develop and implement a robot-based materials synthesis workflow that uses a suite of software tools to assist in the key decisions that an experimentalist must make to discover a new functional material. The student will acquire expertise in robotic synthesis platforms, materials synthesis and characterisation and in programming and software organisation, benefitting from the combined physical and computer science supervision. Their project will impact inorganic materials discovery in the most general way imaginable, for example building on our new family of electrolytes for solid state batteries [3].
Deadline : 30 June 2024
(13) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–Automated Powder Coating Platform for Long-Life Lithium-ion Batteries
Li-ion cells age due to unstable electrode interfaces. To maintain cycle-life, coatings are applied to active materials to mitigate against degradation processes. The generation of coatings for each active material powder morphology and type has, thus far, been via an Edisonian approach. Thereby, opportunities exist to develop methods that can rapidly and autonomously optimise the chemistry, distribution, and thicknesses of these coatings to maximise cell performance.
An inorganic synthesis route for coating formation on Li-ion positive electrode powders, utilises a “Sol-Gel” synthetic procedure to form a nanoscale metal-oxide film. The synthesis of inorganic coatings comprises 5 primary steps: solid powder dosing, liquid component dosing, reaction heating/mixing, solvent evaporation/removal, and calcination. The PhD project goal is to combine these existing, and discrete, elements into a fully automated system using a robotic arm. The student will be trained at the interface between the physical and computer sciences to drive implementation of digital and automated methods in (electro)chemistry and frontier battery materials research.
Deadline : 30 June 2024
(14) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–Beam gas curtain monitor for the High Luminosity LHC
The QUASAR Group, based at the Cockcroft Institute, has pioneered the development of a supersonic gas jet as a non-invasive beam profile monitor. By varying the gas species, density and thermodynamic parameters, the resulting event/detection rate can be varied over a very wide range, thus making the monitor a versatile device for various particle beams. It was developed specifically to monitor the profile of the primary proton beam in the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider, in parallel to the profile of the electron beam in the so-called Hollow Electron Lens. The monitor has already demonstrated to work exceptionally well for both, protons and heavy ions, at LHC top energies.
To fully exploit the potential of this novel beam monitor, in particular for high beam current applications and overlapping beams, detailed simulation studies are required that further the understanding of the jet generation and formation process, jet-beam interaction, as well as image acquisition and analysis.
This PhD project will combine numerical studies using available commercial tools, as well as purpose-developed fluid dynamics and Monte Carlo tools to study the gas jet dynamics in various configurations. In addition, machine learning will be applied to optimize data analysis. All results will be benchmarked against data which the student will obtain from measurements using the existing setup at CERN’s Electron Beam Test Stand (EBTS). Furthermore, the integration of the beam monitor into the wider accelerator control system offers exciting prospects for the development of virtual diagnostics that help optimize experimental output.
Deadline : 31 May 2024
(15) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–Bio-Guard: Innovative Biofouling Solutions for Buoyancy Materials
The EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Net Zero Maritime Energy solutions (N0MES) has a 4-year funded PhD place available for an exceptional researcher. With the support of the University of Liverpool (UoL), Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) and 33 maritime energy sector partners, N0MES PGRs will pursue new, engineering-centred, interdisciplinary research to address four vital net zero challenges currently facing the North West, the UK and beyond:
- Energy generation using maritime-based renewable energy (e.g. offshore wind, tidal, wave, floating solar, hydrogen, CCS);
- Distributing energy from offshore to onshore, including port- and hinterland-side impacts and opportunities;
- Addressing the short- and long-term environmental impacts of offshore and maritime environment renewable energy generation, distribution and storage; and
- Decommissioning and lifetime extension of existing energy and facilities.
Deadline : 20 May 2024
(16) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–Carbon dioxide utilisation from captured industry emissions
The overall objective of the project is to develop new electrochemical approaches to carbon dioxide utilization. Electrocatalytic carbon dioxide reduction to useful fuels and feedstocks (e.g. CH4, CH3OH, CO) has been reported by numerous groups world-wide, including our own [1,2]. However integration with capture technologies is not yet viable. This studentship, which is part-funded by an industrial partner will explore the use of electrochemical approaches for both carbon dioxide capture and utilization. The successful candidate will work within our interdisciplinary research team to develop novel electrocatalysts/electrode structures and explore the viability of their deployment in real-world scenarios.
Deadline : 1 August 2024
(17) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–Computational exploration of substrates and interfaces for thin film solar cells
In this PhD project you will aim to understand the interaction of the layers at the interface of the transparent conducting oxide and the solar absorbing material and how this effects optical properties. Using a combination of machine learning and physical modelling, the student will computationally investigate the band alignments between transport and solar absorber layers and the atomic structure of the interfaces between the two. They will study the effect on optical performance and potential device efficiency so that increased understanding will enable the discovery of new materials with improved properties. This material discovery will utilise novel approaches to compare the electronic structure of materials and leverage materials datasets recently developed by the team.
Deadline : 31 May 2024
(18) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–Computational identification of catalytic covalent organic frameworks
Materials like zeolites, which have internal porosity, are widely used as catalysts. By containing chemical reactions within the pores of the material catalysts can be more selective and more active than catalysts in solution. Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are a class of crystalline, permanently porous, two-dimensional or three-dimensional polymers with tuneable topology and functionality. COFs containing catalytically active sites should exhibit the enhanced selectivity of other catalytic systems in which the substrate is confined within a pore, but confinement effects of catalytic COFs are relatively unexplored to date.
In this project high-throughput computational modelling will be used to identify COFs in which the size, shape and surface chemistry of internal porosity will allow access of the catalytic substrate to the active site and drive selectivity by reducing the number of accessible conformations for the substrate, transition state and product. The project will focus on COFs functionalised with metal-complexes for metallophotoredox catalysis and chiral organocatalysts for asymmetric photoredox organocatalysis.
Deadline : 30 June 2024
(19) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–Computationally driving automated functional materials discovery for net zero technologies with machine reasoning and decision-making
This project, suited to a student with a Computer Science or Mathematics background, will formally define the nature and consequences of the decisions that need to be made in the automated workflow and identify both the optimal combination of existing methods and tools to accelerate discovery and the gaps in capability that currently exist. The student will develop new methods and tools to address those gaps. Their project has the scope to span the entire process from initial suggestion of experimental targets through the autonomous assessment of experimental data produced by the automated workflow to the ultimate definition of experimental success in realising, rather than merely proposing, a new functional material. It offers the student the opportunity to both develop new methods and to participate in implementing them in a new workflow that will change how we find the materials that society will need in the future.
Deadline : 30 June 2024
(20) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–Deploying safer robot chemists in real laboratory environments
Robotic chemists [1] are a totally new and disruptive development in human-centric labs, and these systems are already beginning to carry out complex experiments that require skills beyond sample transportation (e.g., sample weighing [2] and scraping samples from vials [3]. This raises several interesting questions regarding safety in a mixed robot/human lab environment. We will address this here by developing novel methods for adding safety and environmental constraints within learned robotic skills, thus allowing robots to operate more efficiently in complex and variable multiuser human lab space. Specifically, the student will:
- Develop novel new methods for safer robotic chemists
- Deploy and validate the system in real-world materials discovery experiments (specifically, high-throughput crystallisation)
- Contribute to the ongoing research efforts at the UoL related to AI-driven robotic scientists
- Collaborate with external partners in our collaborative network of ongoing multidisciplinary projects (e.g., University of Toronto).
Deadline : 30 June 2024
(21) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–Developing a framework for regulatory conformance of innovative experimental nuclear
Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs) are a next-generation nuclear reactor technology outlined by Generation IV International Forum, fulfilling sustainability, economics, safety, and proliferation resistance goals. MSRs have drawn significant attention from industry and research communities in recent years due to the numerous safety, operational, and sustainability benefits. MSRs have the potential to close the nuclear fuel cycle, significantly reduce the amount of nuclear waste produced, and even operate on spent nuclear fuel from existing nuclear reactors, while opening the opportunity for significantly reducing the fuel cycle and the production cost of energy.
Deadline : 30 June 2024
(22) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–Developing a simulator for a zero power nuclear reactor experimental facility for innovative
Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs) are a next-generation nuclear reactor technology outlined by Generation IV International Forum, fulfilling sustainability, economics, safety, and proliferation resistance goals. The interest in MSRs attention from industry and research communities has significantly increased in recent years due to the numerous safety and operational benefits. MSRs have the potential to close the nuclear fuel cycle, significantly reduce the amount of nuclear waste produced, and even operate on spent nuclear fuel from existing nuclear reactors, while opening the opportunity for significantly reducing the fuel cycle and the production cost of energy.
Deadline : 30 June 2024
(23) Fully Funded PhD Position
PhD position summary/title:–Developing industrial AI support tools for processing legal cases in medical negligence
Two PhD positions are available within a project that is co-created between the University of Liverpool and Fletchers Solicitors, a Law firm specialising in clinical negligence and personal injury law. As one of the UK’s largest firms in the sector, Fletchers have vast experience from handling legal cases over many years. Each one of their cases is made up of thousands of (unstructured) files – primarily word documents, PDFs and emails. As a result, interpreting their historical caseload and extracting new insight is incredibly challenging, which means that despite their vast experience as a firm, their lawyers often only have their past cases and understanding of the law to guide their decision making and work. Additionally, they spend a lot of time reading or reviewing files, writing drafts, or extracting key information from large bodies of text – as a ‘no win, no fee’ business, spending time only in the ‘right’ places is key to their success.
Deadline : 30 June 2024
About The University of Liverpool, England –Official Website
The University of Liverpool (abbreviated UOL; locally known as The Uni of) is a public research university in Liverpool, England. Founded as a college in 1881, it gained its Royal Charter in 1903 with the ability to award degrees, and is also known to be one of the six ‘red brick’ civic universities, the first to be referred to as The Original Red Brick. It comprises three faculties organised into 35 departments and schools. It is a founding member of the Russell Group, the N8 Group for research collaboration and the university management school is triple crown accredited.
Ten Nobel Prize winners are amongst its alumni and past faculty and the university offers more than 230 first degree courses across 103 subjects. Its alumni include the CEOs of GlobalFoundries, ARM Holdings, Tesco, Motorola and The Coca-Cola Company. It was the UK’s first university to establish departments in oceanography, civic design, architecture, and biochemistry (at the Johnston Laboratories). In 2006 the university became the first in the UK to establish an independent university in China, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, making it the world’s first Sino-British university. For 2021–22, Liverpool had a turnover of £612.6 million, including £113.6 million from research grants and contracts. It has the seventh-largest endowment of any university in England. Graduates of the university are styled with the post-nominal letters Lpool, to indicate the institution.
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