UKRI has now announced the successful bids for two flagship doctoral training initiatives designed to strengthen the UK’s talent pipeline.
On behalf of our colleagues at the Environmental Biotechnology Innovation Centre (EBIC), one of EBNet’s successor organisations, we are delighted to share its new programme in Engineering Biology for Environmental Applications (EngBio4Env), which will take transformative advances made in engineering biology over the last few years and translate them into practical, real-world solutions.
EngBio4Env will train 52 doctoral candidates to tackle these key areas:
- Drive the UK’s transition to a circular bioeconomy and net-zero economy.
- Develop field-ready biotechnologies for pollution remediation, resource recovery, and real-time environmental monitoring.
- Lead in sectors such as bio-based green economy, environmental resilience, clean growth, and data-driven environmental governance.
- Address critical skills shortages in microbial community engineering, AI-driven bioprocess optimisation, bespoke biosecurity solutions, and process scale-up for industrial applications.
- Influence policy through robust environmental techno-economic and risk assessments.
The EngBio4Env programme also includes EBIC partners Newcastle University, the University of Glasgow and the University of Southampton, as well as Brunel University of London; and is further supported by the National Measurement Laboratory and the National Physical Laboratory.
