Technically this isn’t a Biotechnology PhD, but we are including it due to the wastewater link  – and the strong need for integrated thinking across disciplines if we are to achieve more sustainable systems: The Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Green Industrial Futures is now recruiting its third cohort …
Application deadline: 27 Nov 2025 Start date: Oct 2026 This is fully-funded ( 4-year) opportunity to work on Examination of intermediate compounds in anaerobic digestate and their effect on phosphorous removal using electrocoagulation. The work will extend current research on industrial biotechnology to investigate nutrient removal and recovery from anaerobic …
Applications are invited for a fully-funded 3-year PhD starting in October 2026, on Assessment of the sources, transport and fate of PFAS in soil, sediment, surface and groundwater and biota in England, with a focus on the River Thames catchment. The PhD will be based in the Faculty of Science …
Deadline: 6 August 2025 Don’t miss these funded PhD studentships at Cranfield University which are closing soon: Unveiling and enhancing nature-based solutions for mitigating emerging micropollutants Establishing the potential for improved management of intermittent sewage discharges with nature-based solutions These topics build on the work carried out by Dr Tao …
Deadline: 15 June 2025 Location: University of Liverpool This PhD project brings together expertise in nanoscale surface science and local scale electrochemistry, cell-surface interaction probes, microbiology and imaging across physical and biological sciences to study the electrochemical process that occurs both at the local site and single cell level and …
Deadline: 3 February 2025. This is a competition funded PhD Project (UK Students Only). Based at the Department of Biology, University of York. Supervisors: Dr. Matthew Reilly (Biology), Prof. James Chong (Biology) and Prof. Alison Parkin (Chemistry). Based in the internationally recognised Centre of Excellence for Anaerobic Digestion (CEAD) the …
PhD opportunity: Bio-engineering of biochar for enhanced remediation of contaminated environments, Heriot-Watt University. Deadline: Wednesday, January 15, 2025. This is a funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only) based in the School of Engineering & Physical Sciences at Heriot-Watt University with Dr Tony Gutierrez. This project proposes an innovative systematic approach …
The University College Cork, Ireland has 3 PhD Studentships in MaREI’s Circular Economy Energy and Environmental Systems Research Group available – apply by 24th January 2025. PhD 1: Optimal pathways for valorisation of digestate derived from agricultural feedstocks PhD 2: : Optimal pathways for biogenic CO2 conversion to biochemicals or …
The BBSRC-funded London Interdisciplinary Biosciences Programme (LIDo) is an exciting collaboration between eight of London’s world-class universities and specialist institutions, working closely with a constellation of external partners from industry, government, and charities. Since 2012, LIDo has been providing fully-funded PhD studentships to pursue innovative interdisciplinary research projects. Research opportunities …
The Norwich Research Park Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership (NRPDTP) offers fully funded PhD studentships at one of the largest, successful centres for biological and biotechnological research and training in Europe. The NRPDTP is unique in bringing together the resources of five world-class research institutions on a single site – the …
This PhD position is available at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, to start next year either in May/June or Sep/Oct 2025. The project is on “Bio-engineering of biochar for enhanced remediation of contaminated environments”. This project proposes an innovative systematic approach that will marry specific physicochemical properties of biochar with selected bacterial …
Application deadline: 15th January 2025 (17:00 UK time) This PhD opportunity will be in the Gutierrez Lab research group at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland. All applications must include a CV and the names and contact details of 2-3 referees. About the project: Based on a 2016 House of Commons report, there are …
The NBIC Industrial Advisory Board Collaborative Training Partnership (CTP) PhD programme is a doctoral training programme directed at industrial research challenges and delivered by NBIC industry partners in collaboration with NBIC member research organisations. The proposed PhD projects will be assessed against criteria related to how well they address NBIC’s interventional themes of …
Very short deadline: Tuesday 28 February 2023. To apply, please email Dr. Tony Gutierrez (tony.gutierrez@hw.ac.uk), and include a CV and the names and contact details of at least 3 references. This is a James-Watt PhD studentship which is open to UK and also Overseas students – stipend and fees are …
Application deadline: Sunday 14th February 2022 This project aims to identify the biological and geochemical/physical processes involved in controlling the fate of plastics (of different polymer types) under different environmental settings. It will utilise sophisticated techniques in microbial ecology, such as DNA-based stable-isotope probing (DNA-SIP), to trace the fate of isotopically-labelled …
