Are you looking to take your education and career to the next level? Do you have a passion for research and a desire to make meaningful contributions to your field of study? If so, a Postdoctoral Fellowships may be the perfect choice for you.
Attention all aspiring scholars and researchers! The University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England is accepting applications for our prestigious funded PhD programs. Apply to the University of University of Cambridge’s PhD program today and take the first step towards a rewarding and fulfilling academic career.
1. PhD Program in Cosmic dust as a feedstock for prebiotic chemistry on Mars and exoplanets
About PhD Position
Uncovering the processes that led to the origin of life on Earth, and are required for life to emerge elsewhere in the galaxy, remains one of the outstanding questions in science. What is clear is that for ‘geo-‘chemistry to transform into ‘bio-‘chemistry requires a planetary environment with a rich feedstock of simple molecular components. In many respects the modern Earth is hostile environment for likely origin of life chemistry. However, in Earth’s deep past, and potentially in the deep past of many rocky planets, their surfaces may have been fertilized with the debris left over from planet formation.
Application Deadline: 16 May 2023
2. PhD Program in Flavin-nanozyme Design for Improvement of Enzymatic CO2 Upcycling Pathways
About PhD Position
The 3 year PhD project will comprise of design of organic and inorganic hybrids of flavin to design library of artificial enzymes to aid useful chemical conversions within cell-free enzymatic upcycling systems of CO2. There is also an element of sensing as assays and sensing strategies will be needed to be developed to assess the efficiency of artificial enzymes.
The work will be done in the Fruk lab at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology and in close collaboration with Hitachi Lab Cambridge under the co-supervision of Dr. Willam Rostain. We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated student eager to work in the interdisciplinary field of nano-bio technology, with interest in enzyme technology and use of enzyme for sustainable manufacturing of high value chemicals. A background in chemistry and biochemistry is desirable.
Application Deadline: 1 May 2023
3. PhD Program in Sensor development
About PhD Position
Early fault detection and maintenance can significantly improve the lifespan of expressways. The student will first investigate different sensing modalities (acoustic, optical and electromagnetic, etc ) and their feasibility in the given application with project partners. Characterization and modelling of individual sensors will then be performed. Optimal distribution and placement of the sensors will be studied to reduce production cost and maintain robustness to damage. Data-driven algorithms for detecting and differentiation onset of damage from normal load conditions will be developed. Finally, the framework will be tested in real-world conditions and possibly extended to other application domains.
Application Deadline: 16 May 2023
4. Two PhD Program in Domestic retrofit as a challenge of high volume manufacturing
About PhD Position
All of the UK’s 28 million homes must be retrofitted to the highest levels of energy performance in the 28 years remaining to deliver the UK’s legal commitment to zero emissions. A small number of expensive and slow one-off projects have demonstrated that this can be done, with Victorian buildings retrofitted to performance near to thatof new Passiv Houses. However the costs of these projects has been very high and they have taken a long time. Converting from expensive one-off delivery to mass market coverage requires that we deploy the design and production skills and technologies of contemporary manufacturing to the practices of one-off small-scale construction.
Application Deadline: 16 May 2023
5. PhD Program in Smart Microbes for sustainable and resilient land regeneration
About PhD Position
The project is funded in collaboration with major UK design and build environmental contractor, McAuliffe Group and its specialist technical soils and groundwater remediation arm, Geostream UK Natural and engineered microorganisms have played a significant role in recent academic and commercial approaches for the treatment of damaged land. These approaches have included ground improvement, via biomineralisation through microbial-induced calcite precipitation (MICP), bioremediation via sorption and/or precipitation processes, and biological self-healing within the MICP environment. Those approaches have so far been mainly researched or applied in isolation to meet different design requirements and deliver different outcomes.
Application Deadline: 16 May 2023
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6. PhD Program in The development of a construction design
About PhD Position
This project has the potential to offer a step change in industry, by quantifiably influencing design decisions, based on Safety and Wellbeing lifecycle impacts. Like NCAP ratings in the car industry, a benchmark measure based on objective criteria and data, would aim to transform safety and wellbeing outcomes for those in the construction industry and those that manage and maintain assets in operation. The work will need to have an appreciation of modern, healthier, and safer alternatives to construction, focusing on human risk factors and associated ergonomics. The project is unique, in that its intended output has the potential for real life application. Informal enquires about this post can be made to Dr Rob Foster (rmf41@cam.ac.uk )
Application Deadline: 16 May 2023
7. PhD Program in Performance-Based Concrete as a Route for CO2 reduction
About PhD Position
Cement production is responsible for 5-7% of man-made CO2 emissions. A rapid transition to lower carbon concrete is an imperative and the pathway relies on the urgent implementation of performance-related thinking. Design, procurement, performance and standards are intrinsically inter-linked and are key enablers individually and collectively. A robust digital evidence base for accurate prediction and measurement of concrete performance coupled with strategies to incentivize performance based design are fundamental strands to overcome the challenges of lower carbon concretes.
Application Deadline: 16 May 2023
8. PhD Program in Net-zero Energy Retrofits At Scale
About PhD Position
This project will quantify domestic net-zero transitions under uncertain climate futures for adaptation and mitigation using stochastic models. The model will be used to generate future scenarios of land use, environment, and energy use across the city that are sufficiently plausible to inform decision-making. Approaching building emission modelling through a trans-disciplinary lens, this project will harness new data sources and data science methods to model the impacts of retrofit technologies on energy equity as well as net-zero objectives. The models will be tested in terms of their computational tractability, reproducibility, and usability. Finally, the project will investigate new effective forms of communicating stochastic outputs in forms that can be understood by decision-makers.
Application Deadline: 16 May 2023
9. PhD Program in Advanced magnetic resonance in sustainable reaction engineering
About PhD Position
Specific research areas include: 1) Understanding heterogeneous catalytic reactions used for the production of sustainable transportation fuels. 2) Assessing the integrity and long term viability of subsurface storage media for carbon dioxide storage. 3) Advanced NMR and MRI technique development to tackle the challenges associated with measurement in the applied engineering systems in 1) and 2) above. This will also include accelerating imaging speed and improving image resolution and fidelity using non-linear acquisition and reconstruction techniques.
Application Deadline: 14 May 2023