Details of the currently funded PhD studentships open to applications.
Project: Next generation cell imaging: developing new genetically encodable super-scattering Raman probes
Supervisors: Professor Dafydd Jones, Professor Paola Borri and Dr Louis Morrill (Chemistry)
Deadline for applications: 24 March 2023
Start date: 1 October 2023
Funders: EPSRC
Project: Resilient Meristems: A systems biology approach to understanding the effects of stress on meristem form and function
Supervisors: Dr Angharad Jones and Professor Hilary Rogers
Deadline for applications: 30 April 2023
Start date: 1 October 2023
Funders: School of Biosciences
Project: Seeing the unseen: Novel methods for monitoring ecological networks
Supervisors: Dr Fredric Windsor, Dr Sarah Perkins and Professor Paul Rosin (Computer Science and Informatics)
Deadline for applications: 30 April 2023
Start date: 1 October 2023
Funders: School of Biosciences
Project: Heavy-metal-free colloidal quantum wells as efficient and spectrally narrow emitters for displays, biomarkers and single photon sources
Supervisors: Dr Francesco Masia, Professor Paola Borri and Professor Wolfgang Langbein
Deadline for applications: 31 May 2023
Start date: 1 October 2023
Funders: EPSRC
Competition Funding - OneZoo CDT
The following projects are in competition for funding from OneZoo CDT across multiple projects from four institutions (Cardiff University, Aberystwyth University, Queen’s University Belfast, and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine).
Project: Surveillance, detection, and environmental drivers of avian influenza-like viruses in African birds
Supervisors: Dr Isa-Rita Russo, Professor Jo Cable, Dr Ceri Fielding (Medicine) Dr Tomasz Jurkowski, and Dr Connor Bamford (Queen's University, Belfast)
School: School of Biosciences
Deadline for applications: 1 May 2023
Start date: 1 October 2023
Funders: OneZoo
Project: Diagnostics, surveillance and environmental drivers of TB in Borneo
Supervisors: Professor Jo Cable, Professor Glyn Hewinson (Aberystwyth University), Dr Tomasz Jurkowski and Professor Kamruddin Ahmed (Universiti Malaysia Sabah)
School: School of Biosciences
Deadline for applications: 1 May 2023
Start date: 1 October 2023
Funders: OneZoo
Project: Ancient Zoo: Parasite diversity and zoonotic events in ancient Britain
Supervisors: Dr David Stanton, Dr Richard Madgwick (SHARE), Dr Sarah Perkins, Dr Iain Chalmers (Aberystwyth University) and Dr Selina Brace (National History Museum, London)
School: School of Biosciences
Deadline for applications: 1 May 2023
Start date: 1 October 2023
Funders: OneZoo
Project: Trans-national zoonoses. The interacting role of environmental and socio-political processes on zoonotic pathogen futures.
Supervisors: Dr Jo Lello, Professor Milja Kurki (Aberystwyth University), Dr Sarah Perkins, Dr Sara MacBride-Stewart (SOCSI) and Professor Nicola Ferrari (University of Milan)
School: School of Biosciences
Deadline for applications: 1 May 2023
Start date: 1 October 2023
Funders: OneZoo
Project: Within-host drivers of zoonotic disease dynamics
Supervisors: Dr Sarah Perkins, Dr Cedric Berger, Dr Ceri Fielding (Medicine), Dr Jamed Rudge (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine), Dr Heidi Hauffe (Fondazione Edmund Mach, Italy) and Dr Francesco Nicolli (Universita degli Studi di Ferrarar)
School: School of Biosciences
Deadline for applications: 1 May 2023
Start date: 1 October 2023
Funders: OneZoo
Project: Modelling disease spread and non-pharmaceutical interventions in enclosed spaces
Supervisors: Dr Thomas Woolley (Mathematics), Dr Katerina Kaouri (Mathematics), Professor Wassim Jabi (SHARE), Dr Arwyn Edwards (Aberystwyth University) and Dr Brendan Collins (Welsh Government)
School: School of Mathematics
Deadline for applications: 1 May 2023
Start date: 1 October 2023
Funders: OneZoo
Project: How is climate change driving the re-emergence and evolution of anthrax
Supervisors: Professor Les Baillie (PHARMY), Dr Justin Pachebat (Aberystwyth University), Dr Tim Jones and Professor Mitat Sahin (Kafkas University)
School: School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Deadline for applications: 1 May 2023
Start date: 1 October 2023
Funders: OneZoo
Project: Environmental distribution, aquacultural consequences and development of nature-based water treatment technologies for mass pharmaceutical interventions during global pandemics
Supervisors: Dr Ben Ward (Chemistry), Professor Jo Cable, Professor Devin Sapsford (Engineering), and Professor Luis Mur (Aberystwyth University)
School: School of Chemistry
Deadline for applications: 1 May 2023
Start date: 1 October 2023
Funders: OneZoo
Project: Predicting zoonotic disease dynamics from digital archive records
Supervisors: Professor Christopher Jones (COMSC), Dr Sarah Perkins, Dr James Rudge (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) and Laurence Livermore (The Natural History Museum)
School: School of Computer Science and Informatics
Deadline: 1 May 2023
Start Date: 1 October 2023
Funders: OneZoo