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Funding not stated 25 Oct 2026

PhD Position: Physics-Informed Generative AI for Synthetic Energy Data

Radboud University

  • Nijmegen, Netherlands
  • Computer science » Modelling tools Computer science » Programming Engineering » Computer engineering Engineering » Elect

Can you help unlock the data needed for the energy transition? In the NWO-funded SHARE project, you will develop AI models that generate realistic, privacy-preserving synthetic energy data for grid planning and decision-making. Working with real-world data from Alliander, you will publish at leading machine learning venues while building tools with tangible impact on the Dutch energy sector. The Dutch energy transition depends on data that almost no one is allowed to see. Distribution system operators (DSOs), municipalities and energy communities need high-resolution grid and consumption data

Fully funded 26 Oct 2026

National Fellowship Coordinator

University of South Carolina

  • Columbia, United States

National Fellowship Coordinator Department: HNRS Fellowships and Scholar Programs Advertised Salary Range: Part/Full Time: Full Time About UofSC From the Upstate to the Lowcountry, the University of South Carolina system is transforming the lives of South Carolinians through the impact of our eight institutions and 20 locations throughout the state. More than 50,000 students are enrolled at one of eight institutions, including the research campus in Columbia and comprehensive four-year universities in Aiken, Upstate and Beaufort. In addition, our Palmetto College campuses in Salkehatchie, Unio

Fully funded 28 Oct 2026

Graduate Student Assistant- BRASA

The University of Kansas

  • Lawrence, United States

Position OverviewThe Department of Spanish & Portuguese seeks a motivated part-time Graduate Student Assistant to provide essential support for the Brazilian Studies Association. BRASA will be coming to the University of Kansas in July of 2026 and will be housed at KU for six years. The Graduate Student Assistant will serve as a point of contact for BRASA membership and KU’s local committee. This position reports directly to Prof. Luciano Tosta (incoming BRASA Executive Director), and Jennifer Duhamel (incoming Administrative Director), and supports the overall administrative operations of the

Fully funded 28 Oct 2026

Graduate Research/Teaching Assistant

Sul Ross State University

  • Alpine, United States

Instructions to applicants: 1 of 2 positions open. Please submit an updated curriculum vita and a letter of application outlining educational and professional goals, aspirations, and how the assistantship will further those goals. PLEASE NOTE: All applications should contain complete job history entries, which includes job title, dates of employment, name of employer, supervisor’s name and phone number and a description of duties performed. If this information is not submitted, your application may be rejected because it is incomplete. Resumes and curriculum vitae do not take the place of this

Fully funded 28 Oct 2026

PhD Studentship: Bayesian Modeling of High-dimensional Structural Data

The University of Manchester · Department of Mathematics

  • Manchester, United Kingdom
  • Department of Mathematics
  • Dr Nilabja Guha

Application deadline: All year round This 3.5-year PhD project is fully funded and home students are eligible to apply. The successful candidate will receive an annual tax-free stipend set at the UKRI rate (£21,805 for 2026/27) and tuition fees will be paid. We expect the stipend to increase each year. The start date is October 2026. We recommend that you apply early as the advert may be removed before the deadline. In many applications such as biological sciences, social science, and engineering, we encounter high-dimensional observations. Bayesian approach can provide a flexible modeling fra

Fully funded 29 Oct 2026

PhD Studentship: Developing and applying camera monitoring tools for inshore fish assemblages

University of Plymouth · Marine Sciences

  • Devon, United Kingdom
  • Marine Sciences
  • Oliver Tills

DoS: Ben Ciotti ( benjamin.ciotti@plymouth.ac.uk , tel.: 01752 586183) 2 nd Supervisor: Oliver Tills ( oliver.tills@plymouth.ac.uk , tel.: 01752 586093) 3 rd Supervisor: Adam Waugh ( Adam.Waugh@naturalengland.org.uk ) 4 th Supervisor: Fabio Favoretto ( fabio.favoretto@plymouth.ac.uk ) 5 th Supervisor: Ziad Ibbini ( ziad.ibbini@plymouth.ac.uk ) Applications are invited for a four-year PhD studentship. The studentship will start on 1 st January 2027. Project Description This PhD focuses on developing and deploying underwater cameras systems to reveal patterns of habitat use by inshore fish assem

Funding not stated 30 Oct 2026

W 3 professorship for History of the Middle Ages (Late Middle Ages)

Universität Freiburg, Historisches Seminar

  • Freiburg, Germany
  • History » Medieval history

The Institute of History at the Faculty of Humanities is offering a W 3 professorship for History of the Middle Ages (Late Middle Ages) (NF Birgit Studt). This professorship is also suitable for highly qualified early-career researchers. The future holder of the position should represent German and European history of the late Middle Ages in its full breadth in research and teaching. For the area of responsibility of the chair special consideration is required to be given to the historical auxiliary sciences, whereby digital methods for the development, editing, or presentation of medieval sou

Fully funded 30 Oct 2026

AstraZeneca Non-Clinical PhD Studentship in Development of an Integrated Pre-Clinical Pipeline for Safety Assessment of Small Molecule and Peptide-Based Radioconjugates

University of Cambridge · Department of Radiology

  • Cambridge, United Kingdom
  • Department of Radiology
  • Professor Luigi Aloj

Applications are invited for an AstraZeneca Non-Clinical PhD Studentship in Development of an Integrated Pre-Clinical Pipeline for Safety Assessment of Small Molecule and Peptide-Based Radioconjugates Using In Vivo PET Imaging and Multimodal Ex Vivo Tissue Analysis. The Department of Radiology at the University of Cambridge, in partnership with AstraZeneca, is offering a funded PhD studentship to develop innovative approaches for the safety assessment of next-generation radiopharmaceuticals. We are seeking a motivated, enthusiastic and inquisitive student with an interest in molecular imaging,

Fully funded 30 Oct 2026

PhD Studentship: Unorthodox health activism in Britain after 1948

University of Strathclyde · Department of Humanities - History

  • Glasgow, United Kingdom
  • Department of Humanities - History
  • Dr Hannah Elizabeth

Alternative approaches to health, and the communities and activists who promote them, grew in prominence during the COVID-19 pandemic, but they have always been an important aspect of health in Britain. This project aims to further our historical understanding of these unorthodox approaches to health in Britain after 1948. What was it like to be part of these health movements? How did people become involved? What effects on everyday experiences of health did membership of unorthodox health movements create? How have public health practitioners, health policy makers and health workers responded

Fully funded 30 Oct 2026

PhD Opportunities

University of Huddersfield · School of Human and Health Sciences

  • Huddersfield, United Kingdom
  • School of Human and Health Sciences

The School of Human and Health Sciences offers various scholarship opportunities for MSc by Research and PhD. These are for UK applicants only and for the January 2027 start. All scholarships are awarded on a competitive basis. Fee Waiver Scholarships PhD Applications – To apply you need to select one of our advertised projects and apply against the topic. Funding: Fee waiver Duration : 3 years full-time, or 6 years part-time Location : Huddersfield / Online MSc by Research applications – To apply you need to select one of our advertised projects and apply against the topic. Funding: Fee waive

Funding not stated 30 Oct 2026

Élaboration et mise en forme de composites matrice polymère recyclé/liant polymère/panic érigé par thermocompression et injection

Université de Sherbrooke

  • Sherbrooke, Canada
  • Technology » Materials technology Engineering

Parmis les objectifs du projet proposé figurent: O1) Déterminer les mélanges afin d'atteindre les performances du cahier des charges O2) Étudier l'effet des paramètres de moulage sur la mise en forme par thermocompression et extrusion/injection des composites. O3) Effectuer une caractérisation physico-mécanique des composites moulés. O4) Étudier l’incidence des paramètres géométriques (longueur des renforts) et de chimie de surface sur la mise en forme et les propriétés des composites. O5) Caractériser les propriétés fonctionnelles (tenue mécanique, isolation thermique et acoustique) des compo

Fully funded 30 Oct 2026

RIKEN Research Engineer Fellow (FY2027)

RIKEN · RIKEN Information R&D and Strategy Headquarters (R-IH)

  • wako, Japan
  • Computational Science

RIKEN Mathematical, Computational & Information Sciences Position Title: RIKEN Research Engineer Fellow (FY 2027) Position Type: Fellowship / Research Engineer Position Location: Wako, Saitama (with concurrent host laboratories in Wako, Tsukuba, Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe, or Harima), Japan Subject Areas: Interdisciplinary / Data Science / Computer Science / Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning / Computational Science / High-Performance Computing (HPC) / Bioinformatics & Computational Biology / Quantum Computing / Physics (Nuclear, Particle, Synchrotron & Accelerator) / Photonics & Image Proc

Self funded 30 Oct 2026

PhD Studentship: Ranks and Types in Positive Logic

University of East Anglia · EMP

  • Norwich, United Kingdom
  • EMP
  • Dr Jonathan Kirby

Primary Supervisor: Dr Jonathan Kirby Model theory is traditionally done with “classical first-order logic”, the logic which allows unlimited use of the operators AND, OR, NOT, with the EXISTS and FOR ALL quantifiers. More recently, positive logic has emerged as a useful generalisation. For a theory in positive logic, one can specific how much you are allowed to use the NOT operator and the FOR ALL quantifier: either without restriction (to get the classical case) or much less. Positive logic is more appropriate to use directly for some applications in algebra, such as for modules, and for the

Fully funded 31 Oct 2026

PhD Scholarships in “live” electron microscopy in catalysis at the atomic-scale - DTU...

Technical University of Denmark (DTU)

  • Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark

Are you driven to observe catalysts in action atom-by-atom, in real time, under realistic conditions? Do you want to use state-of-the-art electron microscopy to answer fundamental questions at the frontier between catalysis, chemical, materials and quantum sciences? We are recruiting PhD scholarships to explore catalytic materials using state-of-the-art operando, atomic-resolution transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Why join VISION? At VISION, you will join a highly collaborative, international, and interdisciplinary research environment where advanced electron microscopy and spectroscopy,

Fully funded 31 Oct 2026

PhD Candidate in Quantifying the Benefits of Wayside Detection for Railway Infrastructure

NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology · Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

  • Trondheim, Norway
  • Engineering
  • Associate Professor Albert

This is NTNU NTNU is a broad-based university with a technical-scientific profile and a focus in professional education. The university is located in three cities with headquarters in Trondheim. At NTNU, 9,000 employees and 43,000 students work to create knowledge for a better world. You will find more information about working at NTNU and the application process here. About the position As a PhD Candidate with us, you will help turn early railway fault detection into better maintenance decisions and more reliable operations. You will work in an applied research environment with railway-sector

Funding not stated 31 Oct 2026

Academic Career in Pilsen 2027

University of West Bohemia

  • Pilsen, Czech
  • Other

The project primarily aims to increase the number of researchers and academic staff from abroad and to apply their current experience from international science and research teams to support the development of research and development in the Pilsen Region, an effort in which the University of West Bohemia (UWB) plays a crucial part. Selected staff will provide support to research and teaching teams at UWB in consideration of their respective fields of specialisation. The staff will engage in research and teaching activities to apply their international experience to further promote the quality

Fully funded 31 Oct 2026

AMP - Acoustically assisted Manufacturing of functional Polymers

University of Warwick · School of Engineering

  • Coventry, United Kingdom
  • School of Engineering

Funding for: UK, EU and International Students What if sound could be used to engineer the internal structure of materials during manufacturing? AMP will develop new acoustic methods to organise filler particles and control crystallisation in polymer composites, progressing from laboratory-scale experiments to high-temperature polymer melts. By combining experimental acoustics, materials processing, modelling and advanced characterisation, you will help create functional composites with tailored directional properties for applications including smart sensing, tactile technologies and resilient

Fully funded 31 Oct 2026

McHarg Fellowship - 2027-2028

University of Pennsylvania

  • United, United States

McHarg Fellowship - 2027-2028 Location: Philadelphia, PA Open Date: Aug 31, 2026 Deadline: The McHarg Fellowship is a teaching and research fellowship award given by the McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology to an emerging voice in landscape architecture and its related fields. The Fellowship is awarded competitively on an annual basis and the selected fellow is expected to be in residence at the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design, in Philadelphia, full-time for one academic year, from the beginning of the Fall semester (August) through the end of the following Spring semest

Fully funded 31 Oct 2026

Graduate Assistant for School Counseling

University of West Georgia

  • Carrollton, United States
  • Dr. Carey Crawford

Job Title: Graduate Assistant for School Counseling Location: UWG Recruiting Location Regular/Temporary: Temporary Full/Part Time: Part-Time Job ID: 303883 About Us Since 1906, the University of West Georgia (UWG) has been home to those who seek a transformative college experience. UWG is a leading residential, doctoral comprehensive university that offers a broad undergraduate and graduate curriculum based on a liberal arts foundation.Nestled among the pines on a picturesque 645 acres is the University of West Georgia- a hidden gem approximately 40 miles west of Atlanta. Serving approximately

Fully funded 31 Oct 2026

PhD Studentship: Powering the Future: Terahertz Technology for Next-Generation Batteries

University of Warwick

  • Coventry, United Kingdom

From electric vehicles to grid-scale energy storage, the future of clean energy relies on breakthroughs in battery technology. This PhD will develop cutting-edge terahertz spectroscopy methods to unlock scalable manufacturing of next-generation solid-state batteries. The project: Solid-state electrolytes are attracting growing interest for next-generation solid-state batteries due to their improved thermal stability, reduced flammability, enhanced durability, and potential for higher energy density. However, manufacturing high-performance electrolytes remains challenging, as their microstructu

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