Towards clinical application of exhaled volatile organic compound biomarkers: optimising breath sampling methods.
Project Description Sampling breath volatile organic compounds (VOCs) has the potential for real time detection and monitoring of a wide range of diseases. Over 1000 VOCs have been detected in breath to date and provide a potential non-invasive source of biomarkers and information about the underlying metabolic state of the body. Whilst increasingly large scale […]
Design of polymers for cell surface engineering
Project Description A fully funded PhD studentship (UK tuition fees) is available in the group of Dr Arno at the University of Birmingham (group website: https://arnolab.com) in areas of polymer chemistry with an emphasis on the development of a new range of polymers for applications in drug delivery and cell engineering. The project will focus […]
Millimetre Wave RF Circuits and Systems
Project Description Applications are invited for a 3.5 year Ph.D. studentship on the theme described below, as part of The University of Sheffield’s Communications Research Group and EPSRC Millimetre Wave Measurement Laboratory. The full studentship is available to UK home students. International students are eligible for a maintenance allowance and for partial funding towards tuition […]
Next Generation SDR Techniques for Millimetre Wave Systems
Project Description Applications are invited for a 3.5 year Ph.D. studentship on the theme described below, as part of The University of Sheffield’s Communications Research Group and EPSRC Millimetre Wave Measurement Laboratory. The full studentship is available to UK home students. International students are eligible for a maintenance allowance and for partial funding towards tuition […]
PhD studentship in Program Synthesis
Project Description One fully funded PhD position to work with Dr Elizabeth Polgreen in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, on a project titled “Program Synthesis: Advances and Applications”. Program synthesis is the task of automatically generating code that satisfies a given specification. This project focuses on program synthesis techniques where the […]
Aerodynamics and Noise of Next-Generation Distributed Propulsion System
Project Description he transportation technology has greatly advanced in the past two decades, leading to rapid development in the area of Urban Air Mobility (UAM), which sees the unmanned aerial vehicles and short-haul electric aircrafts to gradually become an integral part of our daily life. The UAM market is currently projected to reach an industrial […]
Investigating the utility of exercise to enhance the yield of haemopoietic stem and progenitor cells in peripheral blood
Project Description Haemopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPC’s) are donated by approximately 2000 healthy individuals for patients with a variety of blood cancers and genetic disorders in the UK every year, however; there are barriers that limit this process working optimally. Previous research has shown that exercise can increase the number of HSPC’s in the […]
Synthesis and Self-assembly of Regioregular Phthalocyanines
Project Description Phthalocyanines (Pcs) are a fascinating class of chromophore with wide-ranging applications from liquid crystals[1] to phototherapeutic agents[2] and from photocatalysts[3] to solar cell materials.[4] When synthesized by the statistical tetramerization of substituted phthalonitrile derivatives lower than C2v symmetry, an inseparable mixture of four isomers is commonly formed, with the clear drawback that these […]
Functional Data Analysis in Finance
Project Description In Functional data analysis (FDA), the variable of interest can be naturally viewed as a smooth curve or function, rather than scalars in univariate analysis or vectors in multivariate analysis. The field has witnessed rapid development over the last two decades. While the central ideas and methods of FDA has achieved a certain […]
PhD in Geographical and Earth Sciences : Tracking the evolution of C-complex asteroids using carbonates
Project Description This project will explore the evolution of C-complex asteroids during the first few million years of Solar System history. The goal is to understand their importance as reservoirs of water and organic matter, and their role in transferring these bioessential compounds to early Earth and other planets. Context and significance: C-complex asteroids accreted […]
