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PhD opportunities
Apply now for a PhD studentship, starting October 2026, in the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Cyber-physical systems for Medicines Development and Manufacturing (CEDAR). Applications online via the CEDAR webpage.
Unfunded research projects for PhD, MEng, MSc and/or summer projects are available. Projects include
Applicants for PhD studentships will require funding to cover tuition fees and stipend. Please see the following pages for further information on funding and how to apply: https://www.strath.ac.uk/engineering/chemicalprocessengineering/researchphds/phdfaqs/
Research projects for MEng, MSc and/or summer projects are also available.
Former group members
Angharad Wood, PhD student, 2021-2026 Nisha Middleton, PhD student, 2021-2025 Matthew Carruthers, CCP5 sponsored summer student 2025 Samira Anker, CMAC cofunded PhD student, 2020-2024, graduated March 2025 Magda Hudek, IBioIC/BBSRC funded PhD student, (primary supervisors Paul Mulheran and Val Ferro), 2020-2024; graduated June 2025 Ville Remsu - EPSRC-sponsored summer student, 2024 Adam Salisbury - CCP5 sponsored summer student, 2023; Accelerated Knowledge Transfer KE associate, 2024 Dominic Wadkin-Snaith - UKRI postdoctoral associate 2021-2024 Mark Christie - Leverhulme Trust funded PhD student (primary supervisors Karen Faulds and Jan Sefcik) 2020-2023 Mozhdeh Mohammadpour - Leverhulme Trust funded postdoctoral researcher, 2020-2023 Abdullah Muhammad - Analytical Chemistry Trust Fund sponsored summer student, 2023 Maxime Charpentier - CORE PhD student (primary supervisor Joop ter Horst), 2018-2022; graduated 2023 Joao Gregorio - Solvay-cofunded PhD student, 2018-2022, graduated July 2023 David McKechnie - EPSRC-funded PhD student, 2017-2021, graduated July 2022 Ehud Kirsh - CCP5-funded summer student, 2020 Kieran Somers - visiting Postdoctoral Research Fellow, NUI Galway, November 2019 Paul Rapp - PhD student 2014 Calum Laing - EPSRC-sponsored summer student, 2019 Mohammad Talha Dar - RI@S-sponsored summer student with Mark Haw, 2019 Marc Isele - Erasmus+ exchange student, University of Konstanz, Dec 2018 - March 2019 Jazmin Vesga - Carnegie Trust funded postdoctoral researcher, 2018 Francesco Pelizza - PhD student 2014-2018, graduated November 2018 Aurelien Collas - Exchange student from INP-ENSIACET, Toulouse, France, 2018 Calum MacRae - CCP5-sponsored summer student, 2018 Sudhansu Sekhar Jena - PhD student (primary supervisor Joop ter Horst), 2017 Annika Krieger - Exchange student from Radboud University, Netherlands, 2017 (primary supervisor Joop ter Horst) Jordan Cree - CCP5-sponsored summer student, 2017 Marta Cruz Fernandez - Research student, 2016-17 Francesca Laitano - visiting PhD student from University of Calabria, Italy, 2016-17 Bruce Gibson - BP-sponsored summer student, 2016 Andrej Berg - Erasmus student from University of Konstanz, Germany, 2015 Benjamin Smith - visiting researcher, 2014