PhD Advisors at University of Edinburgh 爱丁堡大学 UK
Quick answer: University of Edinburgh in the UK has 1384 faculty profiles in phd-match’s database, of which 234 currently show active PhD hiring signals (as of 2026-10-19). phd-match covers 174 universities across the US, the UK, Australia, China, Hong Kong, Canada, and Singapore, not just one country.
Research-focused faculty at University of Edinburgh, listed for PhD / Master's applicants. Find professors whose research matches your interests, and check hiring signals before you reach out.
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Professors at University of Edinburgh with active hiring signals for PhD students — reach out if your research matches.
Jane Cornwell
Senior Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law · University of Edinburgh
⭐ Jane welcomes proposals for PhDs in any area relating to her expertise and research interests.
Her particular interests include trade marks, design law and IP remedies, with a particular focus of the impact of European harmonisation in these fields , including trade marks, designs, patents and breach of confidence. Her present teaching and research interests focus on trade…
Navraj Singh Ghaleigh
Senior Lecturer in Climate Law · University of Edinburgh
⭐ Research students I welcome PhD applicants in my fields of research. I have supervised eleven doctoral candidates to completion, and am currently supervising a further four - see below for details.
As a climate lawyer my primary research foci are on the regulation of carbon dioxide removals (CDR) and climate constitutionalism. I am an interdisciplinary scholar and routinely co-author with non-lawyers and/or practitioners. My research profile extends across the breadth of cl…
Adam Robinson
Senior Lecturer · University of Edinburgh
⭐ Postdoctoral research associates: Dr James Young; PhD students: Thibaut Desguers, Aldo Eyres, Haris Hussain, Tarek Abdelsalam, Sebastian Hudson, James Ferguson
Energy storage, marine energy testing facility design, turbomachinery, ultra-high temperature energy storage, wave-current combined flows, experimental facility design
Aidan Brown
Lecturer · College of Science and Engineering
⭐ If you are interested in undertaking a PhD in any of these areas please get in touch. Click here for a list of projects. This list is not meant to be exhaustive and I am open to supervising sufficiently motivated and able students in any project that maps sufficiently well onto my own interests. Lin…
Physics of Living Matter, Soft Matter Physics, Computational Materials Physics
Alex Murphy
Professor of Nuclear & Particle Astrophysics · College of Science and Engineering
⭐ Alex currently offers the following PhD project opportunities: Direct detection of Dark Matter, From radioactive waste to core collapse supernovae, Nucleosynthesis Calculations.
Direct detection of dark matter, and nuclear astrophysics, especailly explosive scenarios.
Alexander Corbishley
Senior Lecturer in Farm Animal Practice · College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
⭐ Willingness to take Ph.D. students: Yes
Clinical farm animal veterinary medicine; Population health and metabolic status; Immunology and vaccinology; Zoonoses and antimicrobial resistance
Alexander Freer
Lecturer in Romanticism · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes. Areas of interest for supervision: Please feel free to contact me regarding supervision. I particularly welcome projects on poetry and poetics; on literature of the Romantic period; on the history and theory of criticism; and interdisciplinary projects engagin…
British Romantic writing; Poetry and poetic form, 18th century to present; Literary criticism and theory, 18th century to present; Economics and literature
Alexander Morozov
Professor · College of Science and Engineering
⭐ Alexander currently offers the following PhD project opportunities: Microswimmers in Complex Fluids, Purely Elastastic Instabilities and Turbulence, Transition to Turbulence, Transitions in fluid, viscoelastic and MHD turbulence.
My main research interests are in soft condensed-matter and include flows of Newtonian and complex fluids, flow instabilities and the transition to turbulence in these fluids, shear banding, and swimming of microorganisms.
Allyson Stack
Senior Lecturer · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to inquiries from potential doctoral candidates in literature whose projects aim to examine American fiction in the late 19th and early 20th century, particularly the work of Edith Wharton or Willa Cather. Also open to doctoral projects involve psychoanalytic theory, especailly the work of Jea…
U.S. fiction in the 19th and 20th centuries; expatriate American writers; the novel as a form; Contemporary fiction; feminist and psychoanalytic theory--particularly the work of Jean Laplanche and Luce Irigaray
Alvin Jackson
Richard Lodge Professor of History · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes
From the start of my research career I have focused on the study of modern Ireland from the 18th century through to the 21st century. I have written on political, social and cultural themes - and viewed Ireland using sustained and detailed comparative approaches (deploying Scots …
Alysa Ghose
Lecturer in Religion and Decolonisation · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes. Areas of interest for supervision: I am interested in supervising projects regarding religiosity and (post)/(de)coloniality and colonialism; Afrodiasporic religiosity; trance and/or 'possession;' religion and reproduction, gender, and sexuality; religion and k…
My work is focused in Cuba on questions of race, gender, kinship, sexuality, and nation. My first book project: 'Mothers, Spirits, and Hustlers: Gender, Race and Making Do in Cuban Espiritismo' examines Espiritismo Cruzado, a religious tradition of African inspiration, predicated…
Amy Dover
Lecturer in Illustration; Programme Director, MA Illustration · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ She is available to take on PhD students with similar research interests.
Natural History Art and ecology Drawing Critical Animal Studies Museum Collections
Andreas Hermann
Professor · College of Science and Engineering
⭐ Andreas currently offers the following PhD project opportunities:
- Quantum simulations of rocky planet interiors
- Superhydrides under pressure from combined experiments and calculations
My research is in the field of computational materials science: using first-principles, parameter-free computing methods to predict and understand properties of materials - such as their stability, elastic, electronic, and optical attributes. Focal points of my research are the r…
Andrew Gardiner
Senior Lecturer · College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
⭐ Willingness to take Ph.D. students: Yes
Veterinary education, veterinary primary care, community animal health and welfare, shelter medicine, ethics, veterinary history, cross-discipline animal studies. See under Media tab for some more information.
Andrew Huxley
Professor · College of Science and Engineering
⭐ Andrew currently offers the following PhD project opportunities: Composition tuning with solid state electro-transport to look for new states in superconductors. Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of Spatially Modulated Magnetic Phases Near to Quantum Criticality Listening to quantum critica…
Prof Huxley's research is into quantum states formed from strongly correlated electrons. Such states include superconductivity, different forms of magnetism, modulated or reduced symmetry electronic structures and topological states. This research includes synthesis of high purit…
Andrzej Szelc
Chair of Experimental Neutrino Physics · College of Science and Engineering
⭐ Andrzej currently offers the following PhD project opportunities: Direct detection of Dark Matter; Neutrino physics with LArTPC experiments (MicroBooNE, SBND and DUNE); Research and design of future particle detectors.
Neutrinos, Dark Matter, Advanced Detector Development Centre
Anja Klein
Senior Lecturer in Hebrew Bible/Old Testament · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes. Areas of interest for supervision: "Being a historical-critical scholar, I am passionate about the literary and theology history of the Hebrew Bible, and I do welcome any postgraduate research enquiries and applications in this field, in particular those with …
Dr Klein’s research focuses on the history of literature and theology of the Hebrew Bible, including the exegesis of the biblical scriptures in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Her fascination with Hebrew prophecy is reflected in her study on inner-biblical exegesis in the book of Ezekiel, …
Anne-Maree Farrell
Professor of Medical Jurisprudence, Chair of Medical Jurisprudence, Director of Mason Institute · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ She has specific interests in the following areas and would welcome inquiries about PhD supervision in such areas: Public health and health security: law, ethics and risk; Devolution and health law: politics, policy and law; Human tissue: law, ethics and risk (e.g. blood, cells, organs); Clinical ne…
Health law and bioethics; the relationship between politics, law and regulation in health and medicine; Public health and health security: law, ethics and risk; Devolution and health law: politics, policy and law; Human tissue: law, ethics and risk (e.g. blood, cells, organs); Cl…
Anthony Gorman
Senior Lecturer in Modern Middle Eastern History · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes
The history of the prison in the modern Middle East; Ethnic communities in the modern Middle East; Greeks of the Middle East; Anarchism and radical secular politics in the modern Middle East; The Middle Eastern press; Historians and Historiography of the modern Middle East; The E…
Anton Ilderton
Reader in Theoretical Physics · College of Science and Engineering
⭐ Anton currently offers the following PhD project opportunities: Strong external fields and non-perturbative physics
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Antonin Portelli
Professor · College of Science and Engineering
⭐ Generative AI for lattice field theory
Flavour Physics, Fundamental Theory, Lattice Gauge Theory
Arjun Berera
Professor · College of Science and Engineering
⭐ Arjun currently offers the following PhD project opportunities: Developing the direct numerical simulation of turbulence for GPU based computing with application to fundamental problems
My research areas are in Quantum Field Theory and Statistical Physics. My primary research interests are in early universe cosmology theory. I also have research interest in turbulence. My interests in cosmology have been focused on developing a more complete description of the…
Arkotong Longkumer
Professor of Anthropology and Modern Asia · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes. Areas of interest for supervision: I am interested in supervising students interested in Northeast India related to religion. More generally, I welcome any queries pertaining to the Himalayas, borderland areas (India, Burma, China), and largely to do with poli…
Indigenous religions, contemporary Hinduism, religious reform movements (especially in South/Southeast Asia), and local Christianities. Nationalism/transnationalism and religion; globalisation and religion; postcolonial studies (especially identity and performance); and anthropol…
Beatrijs de Groot
Lecturer in European Archaeology · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes
European and Mediterranean Prehistory, Technology and Society, Long-Term Cultural Dynamics, Ceramic Petrography, Spread of Farming, Mass Production in Archaeology
Ben Russell
Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes. Areas of interest for supervision: I am happy to supervise MScR or PhD students working on Roman and late antique archaeological topics, ideally those focused on Britain, Italy, Asia Minor or North Africa, and/or on building, sculpture or the economy.
Roman archaeology, Roman sculpture, building activities, craft practices, urbanism, ancient economy, stone trade, earthen materials, field archaeology
Benedikt Eckhardt
Professor of the History of the Ancient Mediterranean World · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes. Areas of interest for supervision: I am happy to consider supervision on all aspects of Hellenistic history, on Roman social, cultural and religious history, and on ancient Jewish history.
Hellenistic history, Roman social, cultural and religious history, ancient Jewish history
Benjamin Bateman
Senior Lecturer in Post-1900 British Literature · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes. Areas of interest for supervision: Benjamin is currently limited in his capacity to take on new doctoral students, but he is open to looking at proposals significantly engaged with queer theory, queer modernism, and/or HIV/AIDS literature.
Benjamin's primary research interests lie in modern and contemporary literature, queer theory, and the environmental humanities. His first book, The Modernist Art of Queer Survival--published by Oxford University Press in 2017--examines precarious and collaborative forms of survi…
Benjamin Harriman
Lecturer in Greek Literature and Philosophy · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes
Greek and Roman philosophy, with a particular focus on natural philosophy and metaphysics.
Benjamin Wynne
Lecturer in Particle Physics · College of Science and Engineering
⭐ Benjamin currently offers the following PhD project opportunities: Medical Physics
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Bill Aird
Senior Lecturer; Medieval History · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes. Areas of interest for supervision: Most aspects of The Norman World, and the history of the tenth, eleventh and twelfth centuries, except medieval military history (stricto sensu). Representations and constructions of medieval masculinity. Medieval royal gover…
Research interests include the history of the European Central Middle Ages, focusing on the Norman diaspora of the period, c. 900-1200, in Northern France, the British Isles and Ireland, and Southern Italy. They also include aspects of medieval ecclesiastical history, such as the…
Brittany Blankinship
Lecturer in Data Science · University of Edinburgh
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes
Brittany's research focuses on cognitive ageing, neurodegenerative diseases, language learning across the lifespan, multilingualism, and data science in the health and social care context. She also has a keen interest in the scholarship of teaching and learning, innovative teachi…
Cait MacPhee
Professor · College of Science and Engineering
⭐ Cait currently offers the following PhD project opportunities: Controlling bacteria aggregation for environmental remediation and biotechnological applications; Controlling the microbial generation of nitrous oxide in wastewater treatment; a pathway to reduce greenhouse gas emissions; Developing tra…
I have two broadly inter-related research interests: 1. I aim to understand the behaviour of proteins: the molecules that are responsible for the vast majority of functions in living organisms. The controlled self-assembly of proteins into well-defined structures and functional a…
Carlo Bruno
Reader · College of Science and Engineering
⭐ Carlo currently offers the following PhD project opportunities: Nuclear astrophysics using heavy ion storage rings
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Catriona Pickard
Professor of Prehistory and Archaeometry; Head of Archaeology · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes
My research focuses on reconstructing past diets, subsistence strategies, human-environment interactions through stable isotope analysis, aDNA, and related biomolecular approaches. This work spans the Palaeolithic to the post-medieval period, with a particular emphasis on coastal…
Charalampos Attipa
Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Clinical Pathology · College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes
Charalampos has a particular interest in how neutrophil extracellualr traps (NETs) and abnormal granulopoiesis affect immune responses in chronic infections. He has a keen interest in developing collaborative research projects on natural occurring canine and feline diseases that …
Charles Cockell
Professor of Astrobiology · College of Science and Engineering
⭐ Charles currently offers the following PhD project opportunities:
- At the desiccation limit for life
- Habitability of Extraterrestrial Environments
My research group is interested in astrobiology and microbiology. Our particular research focus lies in the study of life in extreme environments, understanding the diversity, processes and biosignatures of life in extremes, and the potential habitability of extraterrestrial envi…
Charles West
Professor of Medieval History · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes
Histories of simony and corruption; the Carolingian Empire; the global medieval peasantry
Charlotte Bosseaux
Professor in Audiovisual Translation Studies · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes
Her research interests include Audiovisual Translation (Subtitling, Dubbing, Voice-over), Trauma, Gender-Based Violence, Narratology, Modernism, especially Virginia Woolf, and Music Translation. She has published extensively in these areas of research interest, as well as in Corp…
Choi Keeryong
Lecturer · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ He welcomes PhD applications from students interested in working in the field of contemporary glass and ceramics and other craft related fields.
Contemporary craft, Glass and ceramic, Digital crafting, Bicultural identity, Cultural uncanny
Chris Brackley
Lecturer in Theoretical/Computational Condensed Matter Physics · College of Science and Engineering
⭐ Chris currently offers the following PhD project opportunities: Physics of genome structure in health and disease; Shaping the genome through formation of protein droplets
The spatial organisation of the genome within cells or the cell nucleus plays an important role in gene regulation and genome function. Many of the processes which control this organisation involve physical mechanisms, and concepts and tools from soft matter and statistical physi…
Christopher Rosenmeier
Senior lecturer in Chinese · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes
Christopher Rosenmeier's research focuses on the literature of the Republican period (1912-1949), especially popular literature and the Shanghai modernist writers of the 1930s. He has looked at the dynamics in the literary field and how some authors saw themselves as avant-garde …
Christopher Stock
Reader · College of Science and Engineering
⭐ Christopher currently offers the following PhD project opportunities: Scattering studies of ferroelectric semiconductors, Scattering studies of topological defects, The competition between magnetism and superconductivity in a d-wave superconductor
My research interests include the application of scattering techniques to the study of strongly correlated electronic and magnetic systems. The primary focus is on neutron scattering which is sensitive to both nuclear and magnetic cross sections. There are two particular topics o…
Christos Leonidopoulos
Personal Chair of Experimental Particle Physics · College of Science and Engineering
⭐ Christos currently offers the following PhD project opportunities: High energy frontier physics at ATLAS; Physics at the LHC: Experiment and Theory.
Electroweak Symmetry-Breaking mechanism, Exotic physics searches at the LHC, triggers, searches for new exotic particles, upgrades of the High-Level Trigger for the ATLAS experiment at the LHC, design of future colliders.
Ciprian Pruteanu
Lecturer in Extreme Conditions Physics · College of Science and Engineering
⭐ Ciprian currently offers the following PhD project opportunities: Is high pressure the end of hydrophobicity?
Extreme Conditions, Soft Matter Physics, Computational Materials Physics
Clare Muir
Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Anatomic Pathology · College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes
Understanding how phosphatidylinositol lipids control phagosome maturation in neutrophils and macrophages. Identifying host signalling pathways that could be used to improve pathogen killing in hard-to-treat infections.
Claudia Lederer-Woods
Professor of Nuclear Astrophysics · College of Science and Engineering
⭐ Claudia currently offers the following PhD project opportunities: Neutron Induced Reactions for Nuclear Astrophysics and Nuclear Technologies; Nucleosynthesis Calculations; Origin of nature’s rarest stable isotope
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Cordelia Beattie
Professor of Women's and Gender History; School Director of Postgraduate Taught Programmes · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes
My research interests broadly lie in the history of women and gender in pre-modern Britain and Ireland, especially in relation to marriage and the law.
Crispin Bates
Professor · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes. I welcome applications for PhD supervision, especially in the field of Indian and Indian Ocean social history in the modern and early modern periods.
South Asia and Indian Ocean; Comparative & Global History; Economic History; Imperialism; Politics; Society; War; Eighteenth Century; Nineteenth Century; Twentieth Century & After; Indian labour and labour migration, Gandhi and the Indian Independence Movement, Orientalism and co…
Daniel Orejon Mantecon
Senior Lecturer in Chemical Engineering (Multiscale Thermofluids) · University of Edinburgh
⭐ I am always open to enquire for supervision of self-funded and sponsored PhDs as well as hosting visiting researchers from all over the world. Here are some useful links with some potential Scholarships: School of Engineering University of Edinburgh: https://registryservices.ed.ac.uk/student-funding…
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Danielle Gunn-Moore
Personal Chair of Feline Medicine · College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
⭐ Willingness to take Ph.D. students: Yes
As a RCVS recognised Specialist in Feline Medicine, I am interested in all aspects of feline internal medicine, though I have current projects on Mycobacterial infections, feline genomics and dementia.
David Fairhurst
Reader · College of Science and Engineering
⭐ David currently offers the following PhD project opportunities: Lava to chocolate: the flow of solidifying liquids
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
David Grumett
Director of Research; Senior Lecturer, Theology and Ethics · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes
David's interests span theology, ethics and philosophy. He has published extensively on aspects of modern French Catholic theology, including the work of Henri de Lubac, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Maurice Blondel and Yves de Montcheuil. He has also produced work on theology and …
David Lewis
Senior Lecturer in Greek History and Culture · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes
Ancient Greek history, esp. the archaic and classical periods, with an emphasis on the history of labour. I'm more broadly interested in how practical and material aspects of the economy feed into social history, not just in terms of the different occupations and tasks performed …
David Sorfa
Senior Lecturer in Film Studies | Programme Director of Film Studies · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes. Areas of interest for supervision: I welcome PhD applications in the areas of film-philosophy, film theory and cinematic aesthetics. I am particularly interested in projects related to existentialism.
Film-philosophy and film theory; Existentialism; Phenomenology; Czech, European and English-language cinema
Davide Marenduzzo
Personal Chair in Computational Biophysics · College of Science and Engineering
⭐ Davide currently offers the following PhD project opportunities: Computational Physics of Liquid Crystal Composites, Theory and Multiscale Simulations of DNA and Chromatin, Theory and Simulation of Microbial Swimmers and Subcellular Liquid Crystals
The problems I am interested in are in the area of biological physics and soft condensed matter physics. In biological physics, I am interested in modelling DNA at several levels of complexity, either within bacteria or in eukaryotes, where it is associated with histones to form …
Davide Messina
Professor of Italian and Comparative Studies · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes
My research interests span a wide range of authors and topics from early-modern to contemporary Italian studies, engaging literary history and theory with cultural studies and the arts. Main research areas include modern and contemporary Italian studies, comparative literature an…
Diana Paton
William Robertson Professor of History; Caribbean history · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes
Caribbean history; history of Atlantic slavery and emancipation; history of gender in the Atlantic world; gender and global history.
Dongmin Yang
Reader and Deputy Head of Research Institute · University of Edinburgh
⭐ I welcome talented PhD candidates, postdoctoral fellows and academic/industrial visitors from various engineering disciplines to work on composites engineering and computational engineering. There are various scholarship opportunities at Edinburgh, click the links below for more details: CSC-Edinbur…
Composites Engineering (materials, manufacturing and structures) and Computational Engineering (multiscale, multiphysics, multiphase coupling)
Donncha O'Rourke
Senior Lecturer; Classics · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes. Areas of interest for supervision: I welcome inquiries from prospective PhD students who are keen to work on any aspect of Roman literary culture in the first centuries BC and AD, especially late-republican and Augustan poetry, and including (but not limited t…
My research focuses primarily on Latin poetry of the first century BC, and especially on Roman elegiac and didactic poetry. A further strand of my research relates to Hellenistic poetry, especially as received at Rome. More generally, I am interested in allusion and intertextuali…
Douglas Cairns
Professor of Classics · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes. Areas of interest for supervision: (i) Human Beings in the Iliad; (ii) Reading Quintus Reading Homer; (ii) Eros in the Greek Novel; (iv) Artemis in Magna Graecia; (v) Religion in Herodotus; (vi) Psychological Imagery in Ap. Rhod.; (vii) Xenophon’s Theory of Mo…
I work on Greek society and ethics, especially the emotions, and especially as these are reflected in Greek epic, tragedy, and lyric poetry. Watch a short video of Professor Cairns speaking about his research interests - Media Hopper. Current research interests: Ancient Greek emo…
Dr Ana Miret García
Lecturer in Architecture · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Current PhD students: Yifei Cheng. PhD Supervision Topics: Urban redevelopment & Urban peripheries, Public space & Urban design, Spatial justice & urban commons, Social sustainability, Qualitative methodologies and ethnography.
Urban redevelopment & Urban peripheries, Public space & Urban design, Spatial justice & urban commons, Social sustainability, Qualitative methodologies and ethnography, urban vitality, inclusive and sustainable public spaces, public participation, co-creation, Climate Change Adap…
Dr Andrew Cornford
Senior Lecturer in Criminal Law, Head of Subject Area: Criminal Law · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ He would welcome proposals from prospective research students in his areas of interest, especially for projects relating to criminal law theory and/or criminalisation.
Andrew’s research interests lie within criminal law and legal theory. His work to date has mostly focused on the substantive criminal law, especially questions relating to criminalisation and its legitimacy. His publications have examined the proper limits of the criminal law bot…
Dr Andrew McLean
Lecturer of Law and Political Economy · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ He welcomes approaches for PhD supervision for projects relating to his areas of interest.
antitrust, corporate law, and the financial sector
Dr Andy Aydın-Aitchison
Senior Lecturer in Criminology · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Andy continues to welcome applicants for doctoral study and post-doctoral mentoring.
Andy's interests cover the criminology of atrocity crimes, and policing with a focus on governance and democracy. He is currently focused on wartime detention camps in Herzegovina, atrocity and its aftermath in cinema, states' engagement with international criminal justice, and t…
Dr Deval Desai
Reader in International Economic Law, Co-Director of Advancement and Alumni Relations · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Deval welcomes proposals for postgraduate research in the areas of law and development, administrative law, regulation, and law and policy.
law and development, administrative law and regulation, theories of the state, and the role of knowledge and expertise in institutional reform processes
Dr Elizabeth J. Petcu
Senior Lecturer in Architectural History · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Petcu invites applications from prospective M.Sc. and Ph.D. candidates in her various areas of research, including the architectural culture of early modern Europe and colonial Latin America, the intersections between the history of architecture and the history of science, and the historiography of …
the intersections of visual and scientific inquiry in the artistic and architectural culture of the early modern world; how investigative practices and beliefs concerning nature are formed and mediated through images; the art and architectural culture of northern Europe and colon…
Dr Emmanuel Oke
Senior Lecturer in International Intellectual Property Law · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ He welcomes PhD proposals on topics relating to international intellectual property law (including international copyright law, international patent law, international trademark law, and international geographical indications law). Research proposals that focus on the interface between international…
international and comparative aspects of intellectual property law. Specifically, his research explores the interface between intellectual property and other branches of international law such as international trade law, international investment law, and international human right…
Dr Francisco Quintana
Lecturer in Global Law · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Francisco is interested in supervising postgraduate research in the areas of international law, global law and governance, law and geopolitics, history and theory of international law, law and political economy, regionalism, TWAIL, and beyond.
international law, global law and governance, law and geopolitics, history and theory of international law, law and political economy, regionalism, TWAIL
Dr Gavin Sullivan
Reader in International Human Rights Law · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Gavin is open to supervising PhD researchers and supporting postdoctoral researchers whose research interests are interdisciplinary, critical and engage with the areas discussed above.
law and technology, the transformative effects of AI and algorithmic governance, infrastructural geopolitics, and global security and human rights, using socio-legal and ethnographic methods. His wider research interests include international organisations and collective security…
Dr Kate Sloan
Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art History · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes
My research interests are in two areas, which often intersect. These are art and technology in the post-war period, and the history of modern and contemporary art school education. I am particularly interested in art and pedagogy that engaged with cybernetics, systems and behavio…
Dr Michael Hennessy Picard
Lecturer in International Environmental Law; School Academic Misconduct Officer; Programme Director LLM in Global Environment and Climate Change Law · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Picard welcomes proposals for postgraduate research in the areas of transnational waste law, international environmental law and earth-space sustainability regulation.
international environmental law, waste law, circular economy regulation, transnational regulation of global waste objects (including transboundary plastic pollution, recycling of shipwrecks, and (mis)management of outer space debris), regulatory frameworks for converting effluenc…
Dr Nikki Moran
Senior Lecturer in Music · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Currently welcoming proposals which align with the Musical Situations study group.
Music as social interaction, Situated cognition, Performance research, Improvisation and creativity, Non-verbal communication
Dr Smita Kheria
Senior Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Smita welcomes applications for doctoral study and post-doctoral mentoring. She is particularly interested in proposals for postgraduate research in the area of copyright and related rights, and also projects that use empirical methodologies to study issues in Intellectual Property Law.
copyright and related rights, creative practices and new technologies, and socio-legal research in intellectual property law.
Dr. Ioannis Panagiotou
Tutor in Composing for Screen, Lecturer in HMP Portland Prison · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ PhD Supervision Topics: Music Composition, Transdisciplinary Arts, Multimedia/Intermedia, Sculpture, Music for Media, Sound Design, Music for Games, Community Music
Music Composition, Transdisciplinary Arts, Multimedia/Intermedia, Sculpture, Music for Media, Sound Design, Music for Games, Community Music
Drew Rosen
Lecturer in Physics Education Research · College of Science and Engineering
⭐ Drew currently offers the following PhD project opportunities: Understanding the nature of student reasoning using dual-process theories of reasoning
Physics Education Research
Dylan Clements
Professor of Small Animal Orthopaedics, Academic Head of Companion Animal Science, Deputy Head of School for Academic Affairs · College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes
Veterinary clinical orthopaedics; Veterinary surgical education; The epidemiology of health aging in dog populations; The genetic basis and functional aspects of osteoarthritis
Einan Gardi
Professor E Gardi · College of Science and Engineering
⭐ Einan currently offers the following PhD project opportunities: Bootstrap Methods for Standard Model Processes; General properties of gauge-theory scattering amplitudes; Physics at the LHC: Experiment and Theory
Einan Gardi is well known for his work in perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics, notably in the context of resummation in event-shape distributions and inclusive B decays. His recent research activity focuses on the long-distance singularity structure of QCD scattering amplitudes …
Elton Santos
Reader in Theoretical/Computational Condensed Matter Physics · College of Science and Engineering
⭐ Elton currently offers the following PhD project opportunities: AI-Driven Discovery of Quantum Materials for Neuromorphic and Energy-Efficient Computing; Joint PhD studentship between the University of Edinburgh and the Institut Laue-Langevin (Grenoble)
Computational Materials Physics, Statistical Physics and Complexity
Elvire Corboz
Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Islam and Middle East · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes. Areas of interest for supervision: I typically have an interest in supervising projects in the following areas of research: contemporary Shi‘ism; modern Iraqi history and politics; modern Iranian history and politics; Sunni-Shi‘i relations; Shi‘i Islamism; Shi…
A scholar of contemporary Shi‘ism, my main research interests lie with clerical authority (the marja'iyya) and its transnational networks, Shi‘i communities and institutions in Britain, contemporary Shi‘i philanthropy, as well as Shi‘i Islamist movements in both Iraq and pre-revo…
Emile Chabal
Professor of Contemporary History; Programme Director for the MSc in Contemporary History · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes. I am very happy to supervise Masters and PhD students. I will also gladly consider co-supervision with other schools (Social and Political Sciences, French etc.) and/or cross-institutional supervision (including co-tutelle with European universities). Please c…
1. Eric Hobsbawm and the history of global Marxism; 2. French and European politics; 3. Migration, immigration and state rationality
Emilios Avgouleas
Professor, Chair of International Banking Law and Finance · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ I'm always willing to supervise for a PhD outstanding and innovative students who are willng to work very hard. Believers in the value of holidays before you reach PhD submission (or your 40th birthday) need not apply.
I have an active interest in public policy and financial reform. I currently conduct research on Long-term finance, public policy and sustainable markets, financial (blockchain) technology and market transformation, and systemic risk. I tend to focus on foundational and transform…
Emily Joan Ward
Lecturer in Medieval Scottish History · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes. Areas of interest for supervision: I would be happy to receive enquiries from prospective PhD students on a range of topics, especially those related to medieval Scotland or Europe across the central Middle Ages (c. 1000 - c. 1300). Projects which touch on the…
I am a comparative historian working on Britain and Europe between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries, with an especial interest in understanding change and continuity over this period. My research touches on themes such as life cycle and gender, rulership and authority, and d…
Emmanuelle Lacore-Martin
Senior Lecturer in French, Head of the Department of European Languages and Cultures (DELC) · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes
Literature, historiography, politics and culture in 16th-century France; Ancient sources of literary and medical Renaissance texts (Plato, Aristotle, Hippocratic Corpus, Galen); Intersection between anatomy and literature in Renaissance French texts (literary genres and poetic fo…
Encarni Medina-Lopez
Senior Lecturer · University of Edinburgh
⭐ We are actively seeking collaborators passionate about climate justice and engineering resilience: get in touch.
Ocean Observation, Coastal Resilience, Satellite Remote Sensing, Machine Learning, Marine Renewable Energy, Climate Justice
Esther Mijers
Senior Lecturer in Scottish History · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes
My research continues to develop in 2 related directions: the early modern history of Scottish universities/higher education/intellectual and cultural relations and the history of Scots in the 17th c Atlantic. Combined these come under the header of the history of Scotland and th…
Eugene Gregoryanz
Professor · College of Science and Engineering
⭐ Eugene currently offers the following PhD project opportunities: Effect Of Pressure On Molten Silicate Miscibility Gaps, Hot Dense Hydrogen, Nanofabrication as a Route to Ultrahigh Pressures, Studies of the Phase Diagrams of Hydrogen and Deuterium, Synthesis of Novel Materials at Extreme Conditions
High pressure studies of elements
Ewen Cameron
Professor · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes
My research focuses on four inter-related themes. The first is the history of the Scottish Highlands. I have published widely on this and am currently completing a volume in EUP’s History of Gaelic Scotland series; I co-edited (with Dr Annie Tindley of the University of Newcastle…
Fabian Hilfrich
Senior Lecturer; American History · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes
My research focuses on the history of U.S. foreign relations in the 19th and 20th centuries. I am particularly interested in how culture and ideology impact on and manifest themselves in foreign policy and international relations. In that context, I am focusing on how national an…
Fabien Arribert-Narce
Senior Lecturer; Head of French and Francophone Studies · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes. Areas of interest for supervision: Visual Culture, Intermediality and Word & Image Studies; Comparative Literature; Modern and Contemporary French & Francophone Studies.
Intermediality and image & text studies; Life writing and photography; Comparative literary and cultural studies, with an emphasis on Japan and the francophone world; Photo-literature from the 19th to the 21st century; 20th and 21st century French & Francophone literature, visual…
Felicity Green
Senior Lecturer · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes. Areas of interest for supervision: I welcome enquiries from students interested in pursuing PhD research in most areas of British and European intellectual history, c. 1500-1700.
I work on early modern European intellectual history, with an emphasis on late 16th century and early 17th century moral and political thought. I am especially interested in the following topics: the history of conceptions of the self or person; the reception and transformation o…
Felix Boecking
Senior Lecturer in Modern Chinese Economic and Political History; Postgraduate Research Director · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes. Areas of interest for supervision: I welcome supervision enquiries from prospective postgraduate students intending to work on most topics in the economic and political history of twentieth-century China. Please note that I would always encourage you to contac…
My research interests include China’s political economy in its historical context, the history of economics in the People’s Republic of China and the history of China’s foreign relations.
Fergus Cullen
Reader in Observational Astronomy · College of Science and Engineering
⭐ Each year the IfA advertises PhD studentship opportunities, usually listed in November/December with applications due the following January. If any of the topics above are of interest, please feel free to get in touch — you can also check whether I currently have a project on offer via the IfA's PhD…
Chemical evolution, Metal-poor stellar populations, The first galaxies
Filippo Fontanelli
Professor of International Law and Practice · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Dr Fontanelli welcomes PhD proposals in the areas of international economic law, human rights and public international law.
international economic law, human rights and public international law
Frank Cogliano
Professor · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes
My research is mainly concerned with the political, cultural and diplomatic history of revolutionary and early national America, with particular expertise on Thomas Jefferson and his time. I am the author or editor of twelve books and have published scholarly articles and book ch…
Franz Muheim
Professor · College of Science and Engineering
⭐ Franz currently offers the following PhD project opportunities: Flavour Physics with LHCb, Medical Physics, Neutrino physics with LArTPC experiments (MicroBooNE, SBND and DUNE), Research and design of future particle detectors
Prof Muheim's research interest is in experimental particle physics. He is an expert on heavy flavour physics and he investigates the difference between matter and antimatter by measuring CP violation in beauty and charmed mesons. He is a member of the LHCb collaboration at the L…
Gavin Kelly
Professor of Latin Literature and Roman History (Classics); Director of Faculty (History, Classics and Archaeology) · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ I enjoy supervising doctoral students on literature of the high and late Roman empire (both verse and prose, including commentaries and text critical studies), and on Roman political history of the same period, and am pleased to hear from those considering an application. I have also acted as host t…
My interests embrace both the literature and the history of the Roman empire, above all the fourth and early fifth centuries – a time of rapid political, social, and religious change, and also one of the most significant periods in Latin literary history. Most of my work melds te…
Gayle Davis
Professor of the History of Medicine · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes
My general research interest is the social history of medicine over the last two centuries. I am particularly fascinated by the uplifting histories of reproductive health and sexuality, madness and psychiatry, and death. In recent years, I have been exploring the interface betwee…
Giacomo Davide De Luca
Reader in Economics, Convenor of the Exam Board (Pre-Honours), PhD Placement Officer · University of Edinburgh
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes. Areas of interest for supervision: I am happy to supervise doctoral students on Political, and Development Economics related topics.
Political Economics, Development Economics, Crime, Health, Conflict and Institutions.
Gianluca Raccagni
Senior Lecturer in Medieval History; Director of the History and Games Lab Research Centre · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes. Areas of interest for supervision: I welcome the opportunity to supervise postgraduate research on any aspect of European and Mediterranean political culture in the central Middle Ages as well as Historical Games Studies and Design.
Mediterranean history and its links with the Nordic World; Political culture, with special emphasis on Communal Italy, the Papacy, and the Holy Roman Empire; The Crusades; Connections between academic research and the creative industries, and especially game design. Places: Europ…
Giulio Santori
Reader · University of Edinburgh
⭐ Currently open positions in my group: Open PhD projects: Structured Ionic Liquid for Vapor Sorption
Ultralow grade heat, Heat-powered adsorption water purification technologies, Heat-powered adsorption cooling, Data Centre Cooling, Cooling/Water nexus in Data Centres, Heat-powered adsorption direct air capture
Glen Cousquer
Lecturer and MSc Programme Co-ordinator in Conservation Medicine and One Health · College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
⭐ Willingness to take Ph.D. students: Yes
Action Research, Awareness Based Systems Change, One Health, Conservation Medicine, Animal Welfare, Animal Ethics, Wildlife Medicine, Animals in Society, Human Behaviour Change, Mountain Tourism, Professionalism
Glen McHale
Professor of Interfacial Science & Engineering · University of Edinburgh
⭐ I am always open to enquiries to supervise PhDs (self-funded, via University or Other Scholarships or sponsored PhDs) or host visiting researchers. University-funded PhD positions are either advertised on FindaPhD or applications can be made for agreed projects which, if a student receives an offer,…
Areas of research include smart and advanced materials, functional surfaces, static and dynamic wetting of surfaces (theory and experiment) and acoustic waves (fundamentals and sensor applications). These are encompassed within three broad categories, Interfacial Science and Engi…
Gordon Lynch
Professor of Religion, Society and Ethics · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes
My research has crossed the boundaries between ethics and cultural sociology. I am deeply interested in the role that moral meanings play in social life - whether in creating a sense of identity for individuals and groups, underpinning organisations' understanding of their work o…
Guillaume Robin
Senior Lecturer · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes
My research focuses on Neolithic art and monumentality, from the engraved megaliths of Atlantic Europe (Ireland, Britain and West France) to the painted and sculpted rock-cut tombs of the Central Mediterranean (esp. Sardinia). Combining computer techniques and theoretical approac…
Gurå Therese Bergkvist
Professor of Veterinary Anatomy · College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
⭐ Willingness to take Ph.D. students: Yes
My research interests are in molecular pathways that become dysregulated in cancer and dysregulation of osteoclasts in bone. I have a particluar interest in oral tumours in cats, and how they invade the bone of the mandible as well as feline tooth resorption. Osteoclasts are my f…
Hannah Holtschneider
Professor of Contemporary Jewish Cultural History · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes. Areas of interest for supervision: Holocaust history, representation and memorialisation; Jewish migration & transnational Jewish history (in the 20th century); Jewish religion and culture with a focus on Germany and the UK.
Holocaust history, representation and memorialisation; Jewish migration & transnational Jewish history (in the 20th century); Jewish religion and culture with a focus on Germany and the UK; Holocaust representations in history in a range of media; experiences of the Holocaust as …
Hannah Simpson
Lecturer in Drama and Performance; LLC Deputy Director of Learning and Teaching; LLC QAE Director · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes. Areas of interest for supervision: I welcome PhD project proposals in the areas of modern and contemporary theatre, the medical humanities and disability representation, trauma studies, sex studies, and in selected Francophone, Irish and Northern Irish literat…
I work primarily on modern and contemporary theatre across the UK, US, Ireland and Northern Ireland, and Europe. I focus particularly on the representation of the human body on stage and on the overlap between theatre and politics. I have a special interest in the work of Samuel …
Hatice Yıldız
Lecturer in Modern Gender History since 1750 · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes. Areas of interest for supervision: I am happy to supervise doctoral dissertations exploring gendered aspects of work (paid or unpaid) in the late Ottoman Empire and/or colonial India. I am particularly keen on supervising projects that focus on gender and prof…
My research lies at the intersection of gender, economic, and social histories of South Asia and the Middle East. I am concerned with the gendering of occupational categories that have emerged in conjunction with economic liberalisation and bureaucratic consolidation in the late …
Helen Bond
Professor of Christian Origins · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ I continue to teach both undergraduates and postgraduates, and welcome queries from potential doctoral students in all of the topics mentioned above.
I’m interested in all aspects of early Christianity and the social, cultural and religious context in which it emerged. My most recent work has been on Mark’s Gospel, the earliest biography of Jesus. I’m fascinated by why a follower of Jesus thought to write a biography of his ma…
Hephzibah Israel
Senior Lecturer in Translation Studies · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes. Areas of interest for supervision: I welcome enquiries from potential research students interested in any of the following areas: translation and religion, translation and history, postcolonial translations, literary translation, translation, power and interve…
My main area of research interest is in literary and sacred translations in the South Asian context. I have examined evolving attitudes to translation and translation practices in the modern Tamil literary and sacred landscapes. My study of the translations of the Tamil Bible has…
Huw Halstead
Lecturer in Public History · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes. Areas of interest for supervision: I am interested in hearing from prospective PhD students intending to work on public history, memory studies, and/or the history of everyday life (Alltagsgeschichte).
public history, memory, and everyday life, with a particular focus on the history of the Mediterranean world
Hwa Kian Chai
Senior Lecturer · University of Edinburgh
⭐ Accepting PhD projects.
Reinforced concrete structures modelling, analysis and design; Acoustic emission monitoring and data analysis; Low carbon cementitious composite materials development; Elastic wave tomography development and implementation; Structural appraisal, strengthening and retrofit
Ingo Loa
Reader · College of Science and Engineering
⭐ Ingo currently offers the following PhD project opportunities: Better Thermoelectric Materials Through High Pressure
My research concerns the effect of very high pressure in the kilo- to megabar range on the physical properties of solids.My work has covered a wide range of materials from elemental metals and intermetallic compounds, via bulk and nano-structured semiconductors, to transition met…
Iñaki Deza-Cruz
Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Public Health · College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes
My research focuses in the interface of human and animal health. I am interested in investigating current threats and untangling hazards within a One Health framework. I have developed complex models of arboviral transmission and mosquito population models. My current interests i…
J. Thomas Hewitt
Lecturer in New Testament and Christian Origins · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes. Areas of interest for supervision: I supervise a range of research focusing on various texts and corpora of the early Christianity and Second Temple Judaism and investigating topics such as christology, messianism, early scriptural interpretation (including, b…
My research interests concern intersections of early Christianity and ancient Judaism, ranging across issues such as the Pauline epistles, christology, messianism, ancient scriptural interpretation, apocalypticism, and mysticism. I am currently writing on literary depictions of t…
James Eglinton
Meldrum Senior Lecturer in Reformed Theology · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes
My current research interests lie in two areas: the neo-Calvinst theological tradition (and in particular, its leading theologian Herman Bavinck); and the relationship of theology to language difference. My most recent monograph was the first English scholarly biography of Herman…
Janja Soldo
Senior Lecturer in Latin Language and Literature · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ I welcome enquiries from postgraduates who want to work on Seneca the Younger and/or other letter writers. I am interested in supervising PhD students on any topic related to Seneca the Younger or ancient letter writing.
My research focuses primarily on ancient letter writers, in particular Seneca the Younger and Fronto, and letter collections more generally. In 2021, my first book was published with OUP: Seneca Epistulae Morales Book 2. A Commentary with Text, Translation & Introduction. Togethe…
Jenny Fraser
Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Biomedical Sciences · College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes
I am interested in the molecular pathways activated as cells adapt to various forms of stress and how these become dysregulated in disease. My current research focuses on 1) transdifferentiation of prostate cancer following androgen deprivation and the potential role of cell fate…
Jill Burke
Professor of Renaissance Visual and Material Cultures; HCA Research Director · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes. I currently have capacity to take on PhD students, and welcome discussions about potential topics.
Renaissance and early modern visual and material culture (c. 1450-1650), especially Italian; Gender and the body, the nude, sexuality representation in medical texts; Body modification - tattoos, cosmetics, shaping the body through diet and exercise; Recipe texts, experimental hi…
Jill MacKay
Programme Director, International Animal Welfare Ethics and Law, Senior Lecturer · College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
⭐ Willingness to take Ph.D. students: Yes
Research methodology, open science practices. Within education research: Digital education (effectiveness, utilisation and effects on experience), student learning, student experience, staff teaching experience, effective public engagement. Within veterinary sciences: human-anima…
Joanne Rowland
Senior Lecturer in Archaeology · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes. Areas of interest for supervision: I am especially interested in PhD candidates with topics related to prehistoric and early historic Egypt and broader Northeast Africa.
The archaeology of the Nile Delta across prehistoric and historic periods; The processes of Neolithisation in the Near East and North Africa; The origins of complex societies within Egypt - with special interest in the analysis of mortuary practices from c. 5000-2500 BC; Archaeol…
Job Thijssen
Reader · College of Science and Engineering
⭐ Job currently offers the following PhD project opportunities:
- Measuring particle size in messy systems using machine learning for sustainable (re)formulation
- Understanding the functionality and impact of components in sunscreen formulations on its interfacial properties
I am an experimental physicist by training, with research experience of soft matter physics. My research focusses on the physics and applications of soft materials. Examples of soft materials include colloids (e.g. milk), droplets (e.g. emulsions), gels (e.g. bijels), polymers, a…
John Keen
Professor John Keen (BVet Med PhD Cert EM (Int Med) Dip ECEIM, FRCVS. RCVS and European Specialist in Equine Internal Medicine) · College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
⭐ Willingness to take Ph.D. students: Yes
The equine cardiovascular system and its relationship to endocrinological disorders such as equine metabolic syndrome and pituitary pars intermedia dysfunction. Developing novel tools for equine clinical cardiology; Advanced cardiac imaging (equine); Clinical management of Equine…
John Loveday
Professor of High-Pressure Chemical Physics · College of Science and Engineering
⭐ John currently offers the following PhD project opportunities: Gas Hydrates, Ice and Water, Planetary Mineralogy, Quantum Effects in Hydrogen
The use of high pressure to produce new potentiasl materials for hydrogen storage and carbon sequestration.
The high-pressure behaviour of planetary ices.
The structures and transitions of ice and water
High pressure neutron scattering
John McCallum
Lecturer in Early Modern Scottish History · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes. Areas of interest for supervision: I would be very keen to hear from prospective students interested in PhD study in early modern Scottish religious and social history.
I am a historian of early modern Scotland, with particular interests in the social and cultural history of the Scottish Reformation. My previous work in this area has focused primarily on the local experience of Reformation (in the county of Fife), poor relief and the socio-econo…
Jon Henderson
Professor of Coastal and Marine Archaeology · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes
I am a prehistoric archaeologist whose research focuses on the role marine heritage can play in sustainable development strategies and, more widely, in addressing the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. My current research projects use knowledge and data from past human action in…
Jonny Geber
Senior Lecturer · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes
funerary archaeology; historical archaeology; social bioarchaeology; palaeopathology
Joshua Ralston
Reader in Christian-Muslim Relations · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes
Christian theological engagements with Islam and Muslim understandings of Christianity; Comparative Theology and Theologies of Religious Diversity, particularly in Protestant and Reformed thought; Protestant Theology, particularly Christology, ecclesiology, doctrine of God, and p…
Julie Gibbings
Senior Lecturer · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes. Areas of interest for supervision: I am currently accepting students interested in Modern Latin America (19th and 20th centuries), and would supervise a wide-range of topics including indigenous histories as well as histories of labour and capitalism, race and…
I am a historian of modern Latin America with a focus on Indigenous histories and collaborative methods, particularly in Guatemala. My research interests have ranged temporally across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and thematically from liberalism, political modernities,…
K L Czajkowski
Senior Lecturer in Ancient History · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ I am open to PhD supervision in any areas related to my research interests, including but certainly not limited to: the Roman Near East; legal culture in the Roman empire; Jewish history in the Roman era; Josephus; Philo's 'historical' works. Prospective students are warmly encouraged to get in touc…
At base, what I am interested in is how provincial agents interact with the Roman imperial order, and what those interactions tell us about both parties. Legal transactions often provide a fascinating way into this: different rules and understandings of them meet, are negotiated,…
Kate Davison
Lecturer in the History of Sexuality · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes
I am a historian of psy-sciences, sexuality, gender, emotions and politics in twentieth-century Central Europe and the British Commonwealth. My research interests span the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries in global, world and transnational perspective, as well as postcolonial…
Katerina Stergiopoulou
Lecturer in Modern Greek Studies · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes. Areas of interest for supervision: I would be delighted to receive expressions of interest in postgraduate research on any topic related to classical receptions (especially post-1900) or Modern Greek literature.
Classical Receptions; Modern Greek Literature and Culture; Translation theory and practice; Twentieth-century Anglo-American and European poetry; Modernism
Kelly Blacklock
Professor of Small Animal Soft Tissue Surgery · College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes
Oral mucosal melanoma; Veterinary clinical soft tissue surgery; Veterinary surgical education; Veterinary infection control; Women in veterinary surgery
Kevin J Hanley
Senior Lecturer and Deputy Head of Research Institute · University of Edinburgh
⭐ I welcome enquiries from any prospective student with the appropriate engineering/science background who is interested in undertaking a PhD. Note that unless a project is advertised which specifies that funding is available, PhD funding would need to be secured in advance through a scholarship, spon…
My research focuses on the simulation of systems of granular materials. This has broad applicability including in both the chemical engineering (pneumatic conveyors, silos, granulators) and civil engineering (dams, sand element tests) disciplines. My research also includes improv…
Kirsty Day
Lecturer in Medieval History · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes
Areas of interest for supervision: I am happy to consider research proposals relating to gender (conceived broadly) and/or 'Latin' Christianity in the central-late Middle Ages, medieval East-Central Europe, or the History of Emotions in the Middle Ages.
I am a social and cultural historian of medieval religion, specialising in how women and gender shaped the central-late medieval Church. My interests include cultures of power and authority, the Franciscan Order, gift theory, the History of Emotions, the papal curia, and East-Cen…
Kosala Dissanayake
Lecturer in Veterinary Biomedical Sciences · College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes. Areas of interest for supervision: Physiology of neuromuscular junction transmission in health and disease.
Synaptic vulnerability to excitotoxicity may be a common pathway to neurodegeneration in many neurodegenerative diseases, including motor neuron diseases such as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (MND/ALS), Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and Huntington disease. Therefore, u…
Latham Boyle
Reader in Theoretical Physics · College of Science and Engineering
⭐ Latham currently offers the following PhD project opportunities: Understanding the early universe, and the standard model of particle physics
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Lilah Grace Canevaro
Senior Lecturer; Classics · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes. Areas of interest for supervision: I welcome proposals from prospective PhD students in areas including: Greek Literature, Classical Reception, Comparative Literature, Literary Theory, Environmental Humanities.
My research is concerned with foregrounding underrepresented agents in Classics and its reception. By decentring typical protagonists and reading Greek literature from below, I promote inclusive strategies that give voice to women, the nonhuman and the working classes in ancient …
Lina Girdvainyte
Lecturer in Ancient History · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes
My research explores various intersections and interactions between ‘the Roman’ and ‘the local’ in the Eastern Mediterranean from the late third century BC to the early third century AD. Working with a range of epigraphic, literary, and legal sources, I investigate the impact of …
Linda Fibiger
Senior Lecturer; Human Osteoarchaeology · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ I am happy to discuss proposals for postgraduate research in the area of bioarchaeology, but especially conflict archaeology, violence, trauma, ethics and experimental bioarchaeology.
Human skeletal remains are central to understanding past lifeways and I am interested in all aspects of human osteology, palaeopathology and the contextual interpretation of the skeletal record. More specifically, this includes: Interpersonal violence and conflict; Experimental b…
Linden Bicket
Lecturer in Literature and Religion · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes
The spiritual contexts of modern Scottish Literature; Writing by literary converts of the inter-war Scottish Literary Revival; The Catholic imagination in twentieth-century British and American fiction and poetry; Patterns of faith and scepticism in literature; Catholic women wri…
Lindsay Jaacks
Professor · College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
⭐ We always like hearing from people enthusiastic about contributing to research on healthy, sustainable food systems. If we have open positions, you will be able to find them on the University of Edinburgh's jobs / careers website. We are also open to supporting external postdoc fellowships. Examples…
Global Health and Nutrition, agriculture, nutrition, health, pesticides, sustainable agriculture, food environments, citizen science
Liz Baggs
Professor · College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes. Areas of interest for supervision: I welcome approaches from prospective PhD students (UK and international), particularly those interested in studying: plant-soil interactions, plant genotype influences on soil processes, soil microbial pathways to greenhouse…
plant-soil interactions, plant genotype influences on soil processes, soil microbial pathways to greenhouse gas emissions, soil health, soil carbon sequestration
Liza Mijovic
Senior Research Associate · College of Science and Engineering
⭐ Liza currently offers the following PhD project opportunities: High energy frontier physics at ATLAS
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Lois W. McFarland
Lecturer in Religion and Literature · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes
biblical re-vision in contemporary speculative fiction, feminist and womanist re-vision and theory, queer theory, postcolonial theory, ecocriticism, affect theory
Louise Blanke
Senior Lecturer; Late Antique Archaeology · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes
I am specialised in the archaeology of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages in the Eastern Mediterranean, especially Egypt and Jordan. I am particularly interested in the emergency of Christianity and Islam and their impact on economy, built environment, and material culture …
Luigi Del Debbio
Professor · College of Science and Engineering
⭐ Luigi currently offers the following PhD project opportunities: Data science, Generative AI for lattice field theory, Parton Distribution Functions, Physics at the LHC: Experiment and Theory
Prof Del Debbio's research interests are in Quantum Field Theory. His main focus is on nonperturbative aspects of field theories, and their application to particle physics. Using both analytical and numerical methods he has worked on several aspects of Quantum Chromodynamics, low…
Luke Houghton
Lecturer in Latin · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes. Areas of interest for supervision: I would be delighted to receive expressions of interest in postgraduate research on classical, medieval, and Renaissance Latin literature, and on the reception of classical authors in later art and literature. I am happy to a…
My research concentrates primarily on classical Latin poetry and its reception in later art and literature, especially during the late Middle Ages and the early modern period. I have published extensively on the post-classical fortunes of Virgil and Horace, and on Neo-Latin liter…
Mahmood Kooria
Lecturer in the History of the Indian Ocean World · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes
The Indian Ocean World; global history of law, Islamic (legal) history; Africa-Asia connections; matrilineal-matriarchal cultures
Malcolm McMahon
Professor of High Pressure Physics · College of Science and Engineering
⭐ Malcolm currently offers the following PhD project opportunities: High-Pressure Alchemy: Turning Simple Metals into Complex Non-Metals; Probing f-electron Physics at Extreme Densities; Probing the Behaviour of Matter at Extreme Densities Using Dynamic Compression
Prof McMahon's research is in the behaviour of materials at extremes of pressure and temperature. At extreme pressures, where atoms are pushed close together, it was long assumed that all materials would become metallic, with simple, close-packed crystal structures. By investigat…
Marco Santini
Lecturer in Ancient History; Director of Teaching in Classics (Pre-Honours) · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes. Areas of interest for supervision: I welcome enquiries from any students interested in early/archaic Greek society, politics, and culture; in the Iron Age Mediterranean; and in Greece's interactions with Anatolia, the Levant, and the Near East broadly intended…
My main research interests lie in the political, social, and cultural history of the Eastern Mediterranean between the second and first millennia BC, with a special focus on the Aegean, Anatolia, and the Levant and their relations with the wider Near East during the Iron Age (ca.…
Marialuisa Aliotta
Professor of Experimental Nuclear Astrophysics · College of Science and Engineering
⭐ Marialuisa currently offers the following PhD project opportunities:
- Low energy reactions for quiescent stellar evolution
- Underground measurements of key nuclear astrophysics reactions
My research interests focus Experimental Nuclear Astrophysics, specifically on the laboratory investigation of nuclear reactions that occur in stars and govern their lifetimes and evolution. I am interested in exploring the processes that account for the synthesis of the chemical…
Marion Schmid
Professor of French Literature and Film · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes. Areas of interest for supervision: Having long experience in MSc and PhD supervision, Marion particularly welcomes postgraduate applications relating to her research interests in French and Francophone literature and film, Intermediality, Adaptation Studies, t…
Modern French literature, New Wave and post-New Wave cinema, the intersections between film, literature and the visual arts, the adaptation of literary works for the screen and stage, literature and art of the fin de siècle, as well as the process of artistic creation.
Martin Evans
Professor of Statistical Physics · College of Science and Engineering
⭐ Martin currently offers the following PhD project opportunities: Nonequilibrium Phase Transitions, Nonequilibrium Steady States, Statistical Mechanics of Biophysical Problems
Professor Evans' research focuses on the statistical mechanics of non-equilibrium systems. Such systems are all-pervasive in nature and form the central challenge of modern statistical physics -- the classical assumptions of thermal equilibrium do not apply to most real world sys…
Matjaz Vidmar
Deputy Director of Learning and Teaching for Interdisciplinary Courses and Lecturer · University of Edinburgh
⭐ I am currently not accepting any new MSc or PhD students as main supervisor. I am otherwise open to supervising PhD and MSc projects in innovation process management, organisational development, interdisciplinary engineering, futures design, technology strategies and prototyping methodology, especia…
My research centres on innovation management processes, entrepreneurship and organisational learning at the forefront of high-tech (systems) engineering, especially in space and satellite, geoinformation data and artificial intelligence. I lead the development of NanoSpace Lab, c…
Matteo Degiacomi
Reader in Biomedical Artificial Intelligence · College of Science and Engineering
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes
Specific interactions of simple molecules produce phenomena of increasing complexity, culminating with the finely tuned biological mechanisms that ultimately make life possible. Understanding the structure and dynamics of these molecules is an important step to shed light on thei…
Matthew Needham
Professor · College of Science and Engineering
⭐ Matthew currently offers the following PhD project opportunities:
Flavour Physics with LHCb
Medical Physics
Research and design of future particle detectors
I am a Chancellors Fellow in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Edinburgh. My main research interest is in indirect searches for physics beyond the Standard Model of Particle Physics in the decays of beauty mesons and neutrinos.
One of the puzzling features…
Meha Priyadarshini
Senior Lecturer; c.1450 - c.1830 (Early Modern) · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes. Areas accepting Research Students in: Early Modern Global Connections, Colonial Latin America, Asian Trade, Transpacific History, Material Culture Studies.
Broadly speaking my research covers the areas of global history, material culture studies, colonial Latin American history and the emerging new field of global Asian studies. I focus on the early modern period and am particularly interested in how we think about the connections b…
Michael E Davies
Professor · University of Edinburgh
⭐ I am currently looking for PhD students under the following themes listed below. There is the opportunity to get university funding. As these are highly competitive, you are recommended to complete a formal application as soon as possible in order to be considered for any university funding opportun…
Machine Imaging, Data-Driven Computational Sensing and Imaging, Sensor and Information Fusion
Michael Fuller
Lecturer in Science and Religion · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes
My current research interests range over topics in the history of science and religion, the phenomenon of ‘big data’ and its (mis)uses, and changing aesthetics in the staging of opera.
Michalis Sotiropoulos
Lecturer in Modern Greek Studies · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes. Areas of interest for supervision: I welcome enquiries from postgraduates who want to work on global, comparative, and intellectual approaches to the history of the Greek world after the fall of Byzantium and up to the 20th century.
My research focuses on what Franco Venturi described as a "political history of ideas" with an emphasis on the history of the modern Greek world, the Age of Revolutions, and more generally the Mediterranean during the 18th and 19th centuries. I have published extensively on these…
Miguel Martinez-Canales
Lecturer · College of Science and Engineering
⭐ Miguel currently offers the following PhD project opportunities:
- Alloys in the Earth's core
- Benchmarking DFT at extreme pressures
- Quantum simulations of rocky planet interiors
My research has been centered around First-Principles calculations in Condensed Matter Physics. More concretely, the systems I've studied can mostly be classified as crystalline solids. In that still large area, my pubblications have dealt with the following topics:
- Electronic…
Mike Carr
Senior Lecturer in Late Medieval History · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes. Areas of interest for supervision: I am currently supervising PhD students working on the medieval Mediterranean and I welcome enquiries from prospective students who wish to work on this area.
My research focuses on the history of the Mediterranean during the period 1000-1500, especially the interactions between Latin, Greek and Islamic cultures. I am particularly interested in the existence of "boundaries" in the Mediterranean and the role which merchants played in cr…
Milena Tripkovic
Senior Lecturer in Criminology · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Milena welcomes PhD proposals from the field of criminology, global crime, and comparative criminal justice.
Milena has researched various problems associated with crime and punishment. Her current research, which examines contemporary restrictions to citizenship rights of criminal offenders, is situated at the intersection of law, criminology and normative political theory and explores…
Mirko Canevaro
Professor of Greek History; Greek History · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes
My early research, culminated in the publication of his first monograph (The Documents in the Attic Orators, OUP 2013), was on key documents about Athenian law and institutions. This work was the necessary underpinning for my wider work on Greek political, legal and economic inst…
Moritz Pascal Reiter
Reader · College of Science and Engineering
⭐ Moritz Pascal currently offers the following PhD project opportunities: Investigation of nuclear structure via high-precision mass measurements at TITAN, TRIUMF; Mass measurements of the most exotic isotopes at the FRS Ion Catcher, GSI/FAIR
I am interested in studies of the nuclear structure far from stability – in particular precision measurements of very exotic isotopes. My research in this filed aims to understand the evolution of nuclear shells, formation of new sub shells and quenching of existing canonical she…
Neill Martin
Head of Department, Senior Lecturer in Scottish Ethnology, Director of the European Ethnological Research Centre · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes
non-narrative oral poetry; custom and belief, ritual; traditional drama; carnival and festive culture; invented traditions (especially in post-socialist Europe); ritual language
Nicholas Matheou
Lecturer in Global Medieval History & Marxism · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes
Global economic & social history (especially 700-1500); Armenian & Caucasian studies; the Eurasian steppe & Mongol world-empire; Byzantine studies, the Mediterranean & the Islamicate World; Marxism; pre-capitalist political economy; commercialisation & long histories of capitalis…
Nicholas Polydorides
Personal Chair in Computational Engineering · University of Edinburgh
⭐ I am constantly looking to hire talented students who want to pursue a PhD because they want to make an impact to a certain application. If you have a numerate background and an appropriate course average from your BEng, BSc or MSc then I would like to hear from you at the email address above. Oppor…
fitting electromagnetic data to their respective models in the context of tomographic image reconstruction and model parameter estimation; applied inverse problems; mathematical modelling, signal processing, statistical estimation and optimisation algorithms; electromagnetic imag…
Niels Gaul
A. G. Leventis Professor of Byzantine Studies and Head of Classics · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes. Areas of interest for supervision: I welcome applications from potential research students with interest in the Byzantine world: I supervise PhD students in both Classics and History. Areas of supervision: middle and late Byzantine history and culture; Byzanti…
I am a Byzantinist with research interests primarily in the middle and later Byzantine periods. My current work looks at classicising learning, the classical tradition and at the learned networks permeating Byzantine society, often from a cross-cultural vantage point; manuscript …
Norbert Radacsi
Senior Lecturer in Chemical Engineering · University of Edinburgh
⭐ The Radacsi group is looking for talented people all year around! Send you CV to Dr Radacsi, if you are interested in joining the group. https://www.radacsigroup.co.uk
My research interest lies in the application of nanotechnology to advance the engineering of new functional materials for medical applications.
Patrick Pietzonka
Lecturer in Theoretical Soft Matter, Statistical and Biological Physics · College of Science and Engineering
⭐ Patrick currently offers the following PhD project opportunities: Controlling space and time in active matter; Thermodynamics of timekeeping
statistical physics of systems driven far from equilibrium and subject to thermal noise; general physical laws that underlie living systems or simple models thereof like active matter
Paul Clegg
Professor · College of Science and Engineering
⭐ Enhancing cardiovascular long axial field-of-view positron emission tomography using photon-counting computed tomography
Molecular imaging; Methodology, data modelling and analysis; Medical imaging including PET and PET/MRI; Feature extraction using machine learning
Paul Foster
Professor in New Testament Language, Literature & Theology · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes. I welcome enquires for prospective PhD students from all over the world. I have supervised approximate 50 PhD students, many of whom now hold positions teaching New Testament in various schools and departments around the world. I am open to supervising full-ti…
Gospels
Synoptic Problem and Q
Judaism in the Greco-Roman world
Gospel of Peter
Textual criticism
Ignatius of Antioch
Paul J. du Plessis
Professor of Roman Law · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Paul du Plessis welcomes any enquiries from prospective LL.M or PhD students in any one of his major or minor fields of research. He is actively seeking PhD candidates in Roman law. He also supervises candidates in the fields of ancient history and history of ideas.
Paul J. du Plessis holds the Chair of Roman Law at the University of Edinburgh. As a legal historian, he delves into the intricate links between law and society throughout history. His research covers law's doctrinal and historical aspects, primarily focusing on Roman law. This s…
Pedro Feitoza
Lecturer in Latin American Christianity · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes
I work mainly on the social, cultural, and intellectual history of Christianity in modern Latin America. I am particularly interested in the diffusion of evangelical Christianity in Brazil; Protestant and Catholic social and political thought; print culture and the public sphere;…
Peter Clarke
Professor · College of Science and Engineering
⭐ Flavour Physics with LHCb
Research and design of future particle detectors
Peter Clarke is Professor of Physics at the University of Edinburgh. He has a 1st Class Honours degree in Electronics Engineering (Southampton University,1980) and a D.Phil in Particle Physics (Oxford 1985). He was a CERN Fellow before being appointed as a lecturer first at Brune…
Phil Woods
Professor · College of Science and Engineering
⭐ Phil currently offers the following PhD project opportunities: Nucleosynthesis in novae and X-ray bursts
Nuclear Physics and Nuclear Astrophysics
Philip Clark
Professor · College of Science and Engineering
⭐ New PhD Studentships available now in particle physics!
Prof Clark's research interests are the major unsolved questions in particle physics: the properties of the recently discovered Higgs boson and the nature of the fundamental particle mass generation mechanism. CP violation (matter-antimatter asymmetry) and understanding the rare…
Philippa Townsend
Lecturer in Ancient Mediterranean Religions · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes. Areas of interest for supervision: I welcome inquiries from students who would like to pursue postgraduate studies in areas relating to my research. I have served as primary, joint, and secondary supervisor for a number of PhD dissertations on the New Testamen…
Early Christian identity formation; Race and ethnicity in the Greco-Roman world; Sacrifice in the Greco-Roman world and early Christianity; Jewish-Christian relations; Non-canonical ('Gnostic') Christian texts and the construction of orthodoxy and heresy; Greek philosophical trad…
Prof Alastair Macrae
Personal Chair of Farm Animal Health and Production · College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
⭐ Willingness to take Ph.D. students: Yes
Monitoring of farm animal health including the links between nutrition, health and productivity in cattle and sheep. Production diseases in cattle and sheep, and links with nutrition. Epidemiology of production diseases in cattle and sheep. Monitoring and management of diseases i…
Prof Elaine Kelly
Personal Chair of Music and Politics · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Elaine is currently on research leave. She continues to welcome applications for PhD in areas relating to her research.
Music and Politics, German Democratic Republic/East Germany, Music and International Socialism, Transnational Music History, Cultural Diplomacy
Prof Emma Wild-Wood
Professor of African Religions and World Christianity · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes
My research interests focus on religious encounter in East-Central Africa, particularly Christian conversion and the growth of mission-initiated denominations between 1800 and the present day. A new focus is the intersection of health and faith in the region. I am primarily a so…
Prof. Jon Hillier
Chair of Mathematical Modelling & Global Food Systems · College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes
modelling of greenhouse gas emissions from terrestrial and aquatic foods, soil health assessment, carbon sequestration in farming, and sustainable nitrogen management in agriculture
Professor Ai-Lan Lee
Chair in Organic Chemistry · College of Science and Engineering
⭐ We have a vacancy for a postdoctoral research associate, please see: https://elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1001/job/12020. A PhD studentship is available to join the Lee Group, please see: https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/sustainable-photocatalytic-and-light-…
1. Decarboxylative Radical Reactions: We develop both light-mediated as well as metal- and light-free direct decarboxylative radical reactions, such as C-H functionalisations of heterocycles, hydrodecarboxylations and Giese reactions. We have also recently developed photocatalyst…
Professor R S McWilliams
Professor · College of Science and Engineering
⭐ Students interested in joining the group for a PhD are always welcome. Studentships are available through the School, through SUPA, or the Condensed Matter Doctoral Training Centre. Postdoctoral opportunities may be available.
I study high pressure and high temperature states of matter in the laboratory to address questions of scientific and technological interest. I am interested in materials relevant to natural systems such as planetary interiors and to technologies such as energetic materials and in…
Rachel Muers
Chair of Divinity · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes. Areas of interest for supervision: I warmly welcome enquiries from prospective PhD students in modern Christian theology, particularly as it intersects with ethical and political questions. Possible areas of interest include, but are very much not limited to: …
Modern Christian theology and ethics; theological method; feminism and theology; Quaker theology
Rebecca Tierney-Hynes
Senior Lecturer and LLC Postgraduate Research Director · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes. Areas of interest for supervision: Rebecca is happy to entertain proposals in any area of eighteenth-century literature and culture. She particularly welcomes projects on fiction or drama before 1780, and on eighteenth-century intellectual history.
Rebecca specialises in eighteenth-century fiction, drama and literary criticism. She is primarily interested in eighteenth-century theories of spectatorship and histories of emotion.
Richard A Blythe
Professor · College of Science and Engineering
⭐ Richard currently offers the following PhD project opportunities: Cafe-Bio, Modelling the impact of extreme events on the emergence of infectious disease variants, Nonequilibrium Phase Transitions, Statistical Mechanics of Language Change, Statistical physics of dividing and differentiating stem cel…
Prof Blythe's research concerns modelling and understanding complex far-from-equilibrium systems. These systems abound at all scales, from cells through driven materials to evolving ecosystems and societies. As yet we lack a complete theory for predicting the emergent macroscopic…
Richard Oosterhoff
Senior Lecturer, Early Modern History · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Richard Sowerby
Senior Lecturer in Early Medieval History · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes. Areas of interest for supervision: I welcome enquiries from prospective doctoral students who are interested in pursuing further work on any aspect of early medieval social and cultural history. Projects which intend to deal with matters of religion, belief, h…
My research focuses on the social and cultural history of early medieval Europe (c. 500–1100 CE). My work seeks to better understand the ways that early medieval men and women thought about the world in which they lived, and to explore the way that their beliefs, ideas and values…
Rob Kelly
Lecturer in Veterinary Parasitology · College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes
With a background in veterinary clinical practice, education and research; I have focused on assessing the impact of parasitic, and other infectious diseases, to develop pragmatic interventions to improve animal health and production. In future I wish to specialise in veterinary …
Rochelle Rowe
Dr Rochelle Rowe (PhD, F.R.Hist.S, SFHEA) · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ I am accepting research students in the following and related areas: Black Atlantic Histories, Histories of Beauty, Beauty Culture and Consumption, Black Feminisms, Black Histories in Britain, Modern Caribbean History, Black People in the Art of Europe and the Americas.
I am a cultural historian whose work focuses on race, gender, and the body. I am currently researching 'Performative Blackness and Black Histories in Scotland, 1839-1939' in partnership with Scottish cultural and heritage institutions. This project is supported by an AHRC Catalys…
Rodrigo Ledesma Aguilar
Reader · University of Edinburgh
⭐ If you are interested in becoming a PhD student or a postdoc in my group, please contact me via email.
multiphase flows, phase changes, capillarity and wetting, and engineered surfaces
Rohit Pillai
Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering · University of Edinburgh
⭐ I welcome enquiries from prospective PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, and visitors who are excited by multiscale simulation and want to work across molecular dynamics, continuum modelling, and HPC. If you contact me, the most helpful first email includes (i) a short CV, (ii) a paragraph on yo…
My research sits at the interface of molecular simulation, multiscale modelling, and thermal-fluid engineering, including: Molecular dynamics of phase change and interfacial transport, including ML potentials for more accurate/transferable simulations; Boiling/evaporation and vap…
Roman Zwicky
Professor · College of Science and Engineering
⭐ Roman currently offers the following PhD project opportunities: Infrared fixed-point interpretation of QCD-like theories
Strongly coupled gauge theories e.g. "conformal window"
Particle Physics Phenomenology (flavour physics)
Physics Beyond the Standard Model
Discrete (SU(3)) subgroups
Rowland Kao
Chair of Veterinary Epidemiology and Data Science · College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
⭐ Accepting PhD Students
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Rozemarijn Roland Holst
Lecturer in International Environmental Law · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ She welcomes proposals from prospective PhD applicants in her areas of research.
international law of the sea, environmental law, and climate change law. Research themes include the interaction between law, science and new technology; global commons; international law and critical political economy; international organisations law; and international dispute s…
Ryan Morris
PDRA · College of Science and Engineering
⭐ Ryan currently offers the following PhD project opportunities: Bacterial Biofilm Matrix Remodelling in Complex and Dynamic Environments
microbial collective behaviours and dynamics
Salam Rassi
Lecturer in Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes. Areas of interest for supervision: Christian-Muslim theological encounters in the Middle Ages; Syriac literature (theology, poetry, historiography, canon law) in contact with Islam; Arabic-speaking Christianity in the Middle Ages; Christian encounters with Isl…
Christian-Muslim interactions across theology, philosophy, and literature; historical theology; philosophy; history of science; literature; Arabic and Syriac manuscripts; Christian-Muslim relations; Syriac literature; Arabic-speaking Christianity; Christian encounters with Islami…
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