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Postgraduate Study - PhD and Research Degrees

Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy

We are one of the world’s best universities in interdisciplinary environment and sustainability, founded on strong fundamental disciplinary research and education. The faculty is home to ten departments in physical and environmental sciences, engineering and includes the globally recognised, triple accredited University of Exeter Business School.

For information on the research undertaken within our departments please click on the following the following department links: Computer Science, Earth and Environmental Science, Ecology and Conservation, Engineering, Geography, Mathematics and Statistic, Physics and Astronomy and the University of Exeter Business School

We are committed to undertaking research that will help to tackle some of the biggest problems of the 21st century: modelling climate change, sustainable urban water supply, malaria diagnosis, new optical imaging techniques to treat brain disease and bomb-proof materials. Much of the research is interdisciplinary, with academics collaborating to explore topics in more depth.

The faculty brings together excellence in science, engineering, economics and business to help create a sustainable future world through transformative research, education and engagement.  Our researchers play an active role across our interdisciplinary research institutes:

Application deadline midnight 2 December 2024

Research Projects

There are two opportunities to apply, either with your own research proposal or through one developed by our own faculty.

  1. Develop your own research proposal: We strongly encourage and welcome you to submit your own research proposal (see details in the 'How to Apply' section)
  2. Explore the selection of existing projects listed under the department sections below

If you are interested in one of the projects available, please contact the relevant supervisor to discuss your interest prior to submitting an application.

Project Title: Theorem prover-based testing (using Isabelle/HOL)
Lead Supervisor:  Prof. Achim Brucker
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  A.Brucker@exeter.ac.uk
Department:  Computer Science

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Project Title: Formal modelling and verification of security or privacy in Isabelle/HOL
Lead Supervisor:  Prof. Achim Brucker
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  A.Brucker@exeter.ac.uk
Department:  Computer Science

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 Project Title: AI-driven Datacentre Digital Twin for Sustainability - A step towards Net Zero
Lead Supervisor:  Professor Lu Liu
Second Supervisor:   Dr John K. Panneerselvam

Informal enquiries contact email:
  L.Liu3@exeter.ac.uk

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Project Title: Design of AI-based Automated Vulnerability Assessment & Intrusion Detection System (IDS) for Modern Computing Architectures.
Lead Supervisor:  Dr M. Khurram Bhatti, Associate Professor in Cybersecurity
Second Supervisor:   Dr. Lu Liu, Professor of Computer Science

Informal enquiries contact email:
  K.Bhatti@exeter.ac.uk

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Project Title: Human-in-the-loop Data-Driven Optimization for Biological Sequence Design
Lead Supervisor:  Professor Ke Li
Second Supervisor:   Professor Yiliang Ding

Informal enquiries contact email:
  K.Li@exeter.ac.uk

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 Project Title: Self-Learning AI-Based Digital Twins for Accelerating Clinical Care
Lead Supervisor:  Professor Lu Liu
Second Supervisor:   Dr John K. Panneerselvam

Informal enquiries contact email:
  L.Liu3@exeter.ac.uk

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 Project Title: The Mirror: Automatic Multi-modal Human Mental Behavioural Understanding
Lead Supervisor:  Professor Lu Liu
Second Supervisor:   Dr John K. Panneerselvam

Informal enquiries contact email:
  L.Liu3@exeter.ac.uk

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 Project Title: Digital Human: Automatic Multi-modal Human Behavioural Reaction Generation via Lightweight Deep Learning Models
Lead Supervisor:  Professor Lu Liu
Second Supervisor:   John K. Panneerselvam

Informal enquiries contact email:
  L.Liu3@exeter.ac.uk

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 Project Title: AI-driven Datacentre Digital Twin for Sustainability - A step towards Net Zero
Lead Supervisor:  Professor Lu Liu
Second Supervisor:   Dr John Panneerselvam

Informal enquiries contact email:
  L.Liu3@exeter.ac.uk

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 Project Title: Communication-Efficient Distributed Graph Neural Network Training
Lead Supervisor:  Jia Hu
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  J.Hu@exeter.ac.uk

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 Project Title: Accelerating Federated Foundation Models at the Wireless Edge
Lead Supervisor:  Jia Hu
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  J.Hu@exeter.ac.uk

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 Project Title: Automated Vulnerability Assessment & Design of Software-based Intrusion Detection and Mitigation System against Micro-architectural Attacks
Lead Supervisor:  Dr M. Khurram Bhatti, Associate Professor, Cybersecurity
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  K.Bhatti@exeter.ac.uk

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 Project Title: Open source security and secure software supply chains
Lead Supervisor:  Prof. Achim Brucker
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  A.Brucker@exeter.ac.uk

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Project Title: The Mirror: Automatic Multi-modal Human Mental Behavioural Understanding
Lead Supervisor:  Professor Lu Liu
Second Supervisor:   Dr John K. Panneerselvam

Informal enquiries contact email:
  L.Liu3@exeter.ac.uk

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 Project Title: Program analysis or fuzzing for improving the security, safety, correctness of software applications
Lead Supervisor:  Prof. Achim Brucker
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  A.Brucker@exeter.ac.uk

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 Project Title: Digital Human: Automatic Multi-modal Human Behavioural Reaction Generation via Lightweight Deep Learning Models
Lead Supervisor:  Professor Lu Liu
Second Supervisor:   Dr John K. Panneerselvam

Informal enquiries contact email:
  L.Liu3@exeter.ac.uk

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 Project Title: Security testing or reverse engineering of software systems
Lead Supervisor:  Prof. Achim Brucker
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  A.Brucker@exeter.ac.uk

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 Project Title: Building efficient and robust guardrails for large language (vision-language) models
Lead Supervisor:  Dr. Gaojie Jin
Second Supervisor:   Dr. Tianjin Huang

Informal enquiries contact email:
  G.Jin@exeter.ac.uk

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 Project Title: Frugal Models of Human Languages
Lead Supervisor:  Prof. Aline Villavicencio
Second Supervisor:   Dr. Rodrigo Wilkens

Informal enquiries contact email:
  A.Villavicencio@exeter.ac.uk

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Project Title: Ethical AI in Computer Vision: Balancing Pedestrian Privacy and Data Utility
Lead Supervisor:  Dr. Xingchen Zhang
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  X.Zhang12@exeter.ac.uk

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 Project Title: Formal modelling and verification (using Isabelle/HOL) of AI/ML systems
Lead Supervisor:  Prof. Achim Brucker
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  A.Brucker@exeter.ac.uk

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 Project Title: Security of Cyber-Physical Systems
Lead Supervisor:  Prof. Achim Brucker
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  A.Brucker@exeter.ac.uk

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 Project Title: Deep Learning for Multi-Modality Image Fusion in Computer Vision
Lead Supervisor:  Dr. Xingchen Zhang
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  X.Zhang12@exeter.ac.uk

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 Project Title: Robust and Efficient Multi-Modal Perception for AI Robots
Lead Supervisor:  Dr. Xingchen Zhang
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  X.Zhang12@exeter.ac.uk

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 Project Title: Application-Driven Multi-Modal Medical Information Fusion Using Deep Learning
Lead Supervisor:  Dr. Xingchen Zhang
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  X.Zhang12@exeter.ac.uk

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Project Title: Foundation models for big environment data processing and climate change adaptation
Lead Supervisor:  Chunbo Luo
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  C.Luo@exeter.ac.uk

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 Project Title: Multi-modality learning methods for big environment data processing and climate change adaption
Lead Supervisor:  Chunbo Luo
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  C.Luo@exeter.ac.uk

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 Project Title: Using Machine Learning to Manage Resources in Cloud and Edge Computing Systems
Lead Supervisor:  Dr. Wang Miao
Second Supervisor:   Geyong Min

Informal enquiries contact email:
  Wang.Miao@exeter.ac.uk

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Project Title: A Verification Environment for Distributed Systems Implemented in Go
Lead Supervisor:  Prof. Achim Brucker
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  A.Brucker@exeter.ac.uk

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 Project Title: Developing robust methods for phenological extraction from noisy SAR time series for forest monitoring
Lead Supervisor:  Milto Miltiadou
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  M.Miltiadou@exeter.ac.uk

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 Project Title: LLM security
Lead Supervisor:  Ronghui Mu
Second Supervisor:   Lu Liu

Informal enquiries contact email:
  R.Mu2@exeter.ac.uk

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 Project Title: Collaborative Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning
Lead Supervisor:  Dr Xiaoyang Wang
Second Supervisor:   Dr Aishwaryaprajna

Informal enquiries contact email:
  X.Wang7@exeter.ac.uk

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 Project Title: Knowing When to Stop: Dynamic Cost-based Bayesian Optimisation
Lead Supervisor:  Dr. George De Ath
Second Supervisor:   Prof. Richard Everson

Informal enquiries contact email:
  g.de.ath@exeter.ac.uk

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Project Title: Participative design in group design problems with interactive evolutionary computation
Lead Supervisor:  Dr David Walker
Second Supervisor:   Prof. Ed Keedwell and Prof. Andrew Howes

Informal enquiries contact email:
  D.J.Walker2@exeter.ac.uk

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 Project Title: Safe Offline Reinforcement Learning with Conditional Generative Modeling
Lead Supervisor:  Dr Xiaoyang Wang
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  X.Wang7@exeter.ac.uk

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 Project Title: Optimisation of industrial maintenance programmes with digital twins
Lead Supervisor:  Dr David Walker
Second Supervisor:   Prof. Jacqueline Christmas

Informal enquiries contact email:
  D.J.Walker2@exeter.ac.uk

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 Project Title: Trustworthy Intelligent Optimisation with Hyper-Heuristics
Lead Supervisor:  Dr David Walker
Second Supervisor:   Prof. Ed Keedwell

Informal enquiries contact email:
  D.J.Walker2@exeter.ac.uk

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 Project Title: Event Detection and Evolution in Online Social Networks
Lead Supervisor:  Professor Lu Liu
Second Supervisor:   Dr Khurram Bhatti

Informal enquiries contact email:
  L.Liu3@exeter.ac.uk

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Project Title: Decision making and visualisation in bi-level optimisation problems
Lead Supervisor:  Dr David Walker
Second Supervisor:   Tinkle Chugh

Informal enquiries contact email:
  D.J.Walker2@exeter.ac.uk

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 Project Title: Self-Learning AI-Based Digital Twins for Accelerating Clinical Care
Lead Supervisor:  Professor Lu Liu
Second Supervisor:   Dr Tianjin Huang

Informal enquiries contact email:
  L.Liu3@exeter.ac.uk

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 Project Title: Efficient Fine-Tuning and Pre-training Strategies for Developing Robust Multi-Modality Models
Lead Supervisor:  Dr. Tianjin Huang
Second Supervisor:   Dr. Gaojie Jin

Informal enquiries contact email:
  T.Huang2@exeter.ac.uk

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 Project Title: Efficient Knowledge Fusion and Adaption for Federated Learning
Lead Supervisor:  Dr Man Luo
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  M.Luo@exeter.ac.uk

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 Project Title: Efficient Data Generation and Knowledge Fusion for Urban Computing
Lead Supervisor:  Dr Man Luo
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  M.Luo@exeter.ac.uk

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Project Title: V2G Optimisation using Deep Reinforcement Learning
Lead Supervisor:  Dr Man Luo
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  M.Luo@exeter.ac.uk

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 Project Title: Interpretable tumor segmentation with medical Foundation Models (FMs)
Lead Supervisor:  Professor Xujiong Ye
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  X.Ye2@exeter.ac.uk

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 Project Title: Multi-agent deep reinforcement learning for functional RNA molecular design
Lead Supervisor:  Ke Li
Second Supervisor:   Krasimira Tsaneva-Atanasova

Informal enquiries contact email:
  K.Li@exeter.ac.uk

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 Project Title: Multi-agent deep reinforcement learning for functional RNA molecular design
Lead Supervisor:  Professor Ke Li
Second Supervisor:   Professor Krasimira Tsaneva-Atanasova

Informal enquiries contact email:
  K.Li@exeter.ac.uk

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 Project Title: Enhancing Lung Disease Decision-Making in Uncertainty with Counterfactuals and Causability Using Probabilistic Causal Models
Lead Supervisor:  Professor Xujiong Ye
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  X.Ye2@exeter.ac.uk

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Project Title: An efficient medical Vision language models (VLM) for healthcare applications
Lead Supervisor:  Professor Xujiong Ye
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  X.Ye2@exeter.ac.uk

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Project Title: Preference Elicitation of Requirements for Decision-Making in Self-Adaptive and Autonomous Systems using Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning
Lead Supervisor:  Dr Huma Sarmin
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
 h.samin@exeter.ac.uk

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Project Title: Multi-agent reinforcement learning control for renewable energy integration in smart grids
Lead Supervisor:  Dr Saptarshi Das
Second Supervisor:   Prof Mohammad Abusara

Informal enquiries contact email:
  S.Das3@exeter.ac.uk      

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 Project Title: Impact of small-magnitude volcanic eruptions on the historical climate
Lead Supervisor:  Dr Thomas Aubry
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  T.Aubry@exeter.ac.uk     

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 Project Title: Jurassic carbon cycle and palaeotemperature in time and space - the heterogeneity and evolution of the Laurasian Seaway
Lead Supervisor:  Dr. Clemens V. Ullmann
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  C.Ullmann@exeter.ac.uk              

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 Project Title: AI-Driven Landslide Susceptibility Mapping in Southeast China
Lead Supervisor:  Dr. Yasser Maghsoudi
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  Y.Maghsoudi-Mehrani@exeter.ac.uk       

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 Project Title: Mixing It Up: how are deep waters along the SW Atlantic continental slope mixed upwards?
Lead Supervisor:  Dr. Katy Sheen
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  K.L.Sheen@exeter.ac.uk

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 Project Title: Adversarial learning control and optimization for future smart grids
Lead Supervisor:  Dr Saptarshi Das
Second Supervisor:   Prof Mohammad Abusara

Informal enquiries contact email:
  S.Das3@exeter.ac.uk      

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 Project Title: Brachiopod evolutionary relationships and Ocean chemistry reconstruction based geochemistry and shell structures.
Lead Supervisor:  Dr. Clemens V. Ullmann
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  C.Ullmann@exeter.ac.uk              

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 Project Title: Reconstructing the ancient Asian Monsoon: lessons from the past to inform the future
Lead Supervisor:  Dr Kate Littler
Second Supervisor:   Dr Sev Kender

Informal enquiries contact email:
  K.Littler@exeter.ac.uk    

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Project Title: Characterising the immune repertoire of a global crop pest Myzus persicae
Lead Supervisor:  Dr Mark Hanson
Second Supervisor:   Bartek Troczka

Informal enquiries contact email:
  M.Hanson@exeter.ac.uk

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 Project Title: Evolutionary ecology of arboviral diseases
Lead Supervisor:  Professor Mario Recker
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  M.Recker@exeter.ac.uk 

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 Project Title: A Darwinian framework for phenotypically integrating genetic, developmental, physiological and sensory influences to adapt to an ever changing world.
Lead Supervisor:  Sasha Dall
Second Supervisor:   Bram Kuijper

Informal enquiries contact email:
  S.R.X.Dall@exeter.ac.uk

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 Project Title: A comparison of fitness measures.
Lead Supervisor:  Prof. David Hosken
Second Supervisor:   MD Sharma

Informal enquiries contact email:
  D.J.Hosken@exeter.ac.uk             

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 Project Title: Gulls as reservoirs and vectors of avian influenza and antimicrobial resistance
Lead Supervisor:  Associate Professor Neeltje Boogert
Second Supervisor:   Professor Camille Bonneaud

Informal enquiries contact email:
  N.J.Boogert@exeter.ac.uk            

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 Project Title: Environmental cues for long-distance migration in a beneficial insect
Lead Supervisor:  Dr Karl Wotton
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  K.R.Wotton@exeter.ac.uk             

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 Project Title: Colour change, camouflage behaviour, and chemical pollution
Lead Supervisor:  Martin Stevens
Second Supervisor:   Prof Jon Blount

Informal enquiries contact email:
  Martin.Stevens@exeter.ac.uk     

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 Project Title: Patterns and consequences of migrations of beneficial insects
Lead Supervisor:  Dr Jason Chapman
Second Supervisor:   Dr Karl Wotton

Informal enquiries contact email:
  J.Chapman2@exeter.ac.uk          

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 Project Title: Autoimmunity Gone Wild: using a wildlife model to understand interactions between environmental stress and genetic risk factors in autoimmune disease development
Lead Supervisor:  Assoc Prof Barbara Tschirren
Second Supervisor:   Assoc Prof Sarah Richardson

Informal enquiries contact email:
  B.Tschirren@exeter.ac.uk             

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 Project Title: Pathogen Host Shifts
Lead Supervisor:  Prof Ben Longdon
Second Supervisor:   NA

Informal enquiries contact email:
  B.Longdon2@exeter.ac.uk            

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Project Title: Climatic changes experienced by life on earth
Lead Supervisor:  Ilya Maclean
Second Supervisor:   Liang Ma

Informal enquiries contact email:
  I.M.D.Maclean@exeter.ac.uk      

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 Project Title: Behavioural evo-ecotoxicology: how do sublethal impacts of pharmaceutical contamination alter evo-eco processes in a freshwater invertebrate?
Lead Supervisor:  Professor Alastair Wilson
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  A.Wilson@exeter.ac.uk  

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 Project Title: Molecular basis of insect-plant interactions
Lead Supervisor:  Richard ffrench-Constant
Second Supervisor:   Professor Chris Bass

Informal enquiries contact email:
  R.Ffrench-Constant@exeter.ac.uk           

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 Project Title: Pollinator species traits and the response to environmental change
Lead Supervisor:  Professor Jeremy Field
Second Supervisor:   Dr Nick Royle

Informal enquiries contact email:
  J.P.Field@exeter.ac.uk    

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Project Title: A sustainable material for vibration mitigation: end-of-life tyres rubber and graphene
Lead Supervisor:  Prof Maria Rosaria Marsico
Second Supervisor:   Julian Mauricio Londono Monsalve

Informal enquiries contact email:
  M.R.Marsico@exeter.ac.uk          
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Project Title: Applications of AI and Machine Learning to Computational Fluid Dynamics
Lead Supervisor:  Prof Gavin Tabor
Second Supervisor:   Dr Xu Chu

Informal enquiries contact email:
  G.R.Tabor@exeter.ac.uk 
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Project Title: Hydrofoil and hull design for electric boats
Lead Supervisor:  Prof Justin Hinshelwood
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  J.Hinshelwood@exeter.ac.uk      
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Project Title: Engineering and Integration of Solid-State Hydrogen Storage Systems for Enhanced Efficiency and Safety in Urban Transportation
Lead Supervisor:  Professor Mi Tian
Second Supervisor:   Professor Monica Craciun

Informal enquiries contact email:
  M.Tian@exeter.ac.uk       
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Project Title: Intelligent vibration isolation systems
Lead Supervisor:  Prof. Maria Rosaria Marsico
Second Supervisor:   Prof. Monica Craciun- Dr Julian Mauricio Londono Monsalve

Informal enquiries contact email:
  M.R.Marsico@exeter.ac.uk          
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Project Title: Adaptive facade structures for net-zero buildings: Numerical simulation, design and testing
Lead Supervisor:  Dr Jiajia Shen
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  J.Shen3@exeter.ac.uk     
Department:  Engineering

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Project Title: Towards Sustainable AI: research into an integrated framework to address the environmental and social challenges of large-scale AI applications
Lead Supervisor:  Prof ZHONG FAN
Second Supervisor:   DR XIAOYANG WANG

Informal enquiries contact email:
  Z.Fan@exeter.ac.uk         
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Project Title: Advanced Control and Optimisation in Modern Power Systems with Renewable Integration
Lead Supervisor:  Dr Gianmario Rinaldi
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  G.Rinaldi3@exeter.ac.uk
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Project Title: Process optimisation for 3D printing
Lead Supervisor:  Dr. Jingchao Jiang
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  J.Jiang2@exeter.ac.uk     
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Project Title: Advanced nanocomposites for green hydrogen production via photocatalytic water splitting
Lead Supervisor:  Yongde Xia
Second Supervisor:   Prof. Yanqiu Zhu

Informal enquiries contact email:
  Y.Xia@exeter.ac.uk           
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Project Title: MOFs derived advanced functional materials for efficient electrochemical energy storage and conversion
Lead Supervisor:  Yongde Xia
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  Y.Xia@exeter.ac.uk           
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Project Title: Applications of thermodynamics machine learning in engineering
Lead Supervisor:  Hussein Rappel
Second Supervisor:   -

Informal enquiries contact email:
  H.Rappel@exeter.ac.uk 
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Project Title: 4D printing of functionalised nonlinear structures for net-zero buildings
Lead Supervisor:  Dr Jiajia Shen
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  J.Shen3@exeter.ac.uk     
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Project Title: Machine learning for urban flood modelling and risk mitigation
Lead Supervisor:  Guangtao Fu
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  G.Fu@exeter.ac.uk           
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Project Title: Machine Learning-Based Metocean Forecasting for Offshore Wind
Lead Supervisor:  Dr Ajit C Pillai
Second Supervisor:   Dr Ian Ashton

Informal enquiries contact email:
  A.Pillai@exeter.ac.uk      
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Project Title: Sustainable solid electrolytes for Li ion batteries
Lead Supervisor:  Zhenyu Zhang
Second Supervisor:   Xiaohong Li

Informal enquiries contact email:
  Zhenyu.Zhang@exeter.ac.uk       
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Project Title: Ab-initio Molecular Dynamics Modeling of Electrocatalysts for Green Hydrogen Production
Lead Supervisor:  Dr Habib Ullah
Second Supervisor:   Professor Shaowei Zhang

Informal enquiries contact email:
  hu203@exeter.ac.uk        
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Project Title: Computational Design of Sustainable Materials for Energy Applications
Lead Supervisor:  Dr Habib Ullah
Second Supervisor:   Shaowei Zhang

Informal enquiries contact email:
  hu203@exeter.ac.uk        
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Project Title: Smart monitoring system enabled by harvesting from wind, vibration and/or electromagnetic energy
Lead Supervisor:  Meiling Zhu
Second Supervisor:   Zheng Jun Chew

Informal enquiries contact email:
  M.Zhu@exeter.ac.uk        
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Project Title: Non-abelian wave control with classical waves
Lead Supervisor:  Professor Jensen Tsan Hang Li
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  J.Li13@exeter.ac.uk         
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Project Title: Early Diagnosis and Prediction of Obesity and Obesity-Related Comorbidities by using a Long-Term Stomach-Residence Capsule Robot
Lead Supervisor:  Professor Yang Liu
Second Supervisor:   Dr Rupam Das

Informal enquiries contact email:
  Y.Liu2@exeter.ac.uk         
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Project Title: Quantum Bayesian Inference and its applications
Lead Supervisor:  Hussein Rappel
Second Supervisor:   -

Informal enquiries contact email:
  H.Rappel@exeter.ac.uk 
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Project Title: Application of construction and demolition waste materials in concrete 3D printing
Lead Supervisor:  Akbar Javadi
Second Supervisor:   Farhad Namdari

Informal enquiries contact email:
  A.A.Javadi@exeter.ac.uk
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Project Title: Physics-informed machine learning (PI-ML) for structural health monitoring
Lead Supervisor:  Prakash Kripakaran
Second Supervisor:   Ki Koo

Informal enquiries contact email:
  P.Kripakaran@exeter.ac.uk          
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Project Title: Experimental and numerical modelling of erosion at offshore wind turbine monopiles
Lead Supervisor:  Prakash Kripakaran
Second Supervisor:   Diego Panici

Informal enquiries contact email:
  P.Kripakaran@exeter.ac.uk          
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Project Title: Multi-material 3D printing
Lead Supervisor:  Jingchao Jiang
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  J.Jiang2@exeter.ac.uk     
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Project Title: Combining 3D printing and deployable auxetic structures for innovative carbon construction
Lead Supervisor:  Prakash Kripakaran
Second Supervisor:   Lele Vinai

Informal enquiries contact email:
  P.Kripakaran@exeter.ac.uk          
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Project Title: Exploring and Exploiting Nonlinearity in Small-Scale Robots
Lead Supervisor:  Professor Yang Liu
Second Supervisor:   Dr Jiajia Shen

Informal enquiries contact email:
  Y.Liu2@exeter.ac.uk         
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Project Title: Meta-Nanoparticles with Strong Light-Matter Interactions for Net-Zero Applications:  from Solar-Driven Water Splitting to CO₂ Reduction
Lead Supervisor:  Dr Changxu Liu
Second Supervisor:   Prof David Wright

Informal enquiries contact email:
  C.C.Liu@exeter.ac.uk     
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Project Title: Non-abelian wave control with classical waves
Lead Supervisor:  Professor Jensen Tsan Hang Li
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  J.Li13@exeter.ac.uk         
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Project Title: Design and development of positive electrode materials for sodium-ion battery
Lead Supervisor:  Xiaohong Li
Second Supervisor:   Hannah Hughes

Informal enquiries contact email:
  X.Li@exeter.ac.uk             
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Project Title: Use of construction and demolition waste in 3D concrete printing
Lead Supervisor:  Prof. Akbar Javadi
Second Supervisor:   Prof. Farhad Namdari

Informal enquiries contact email:
  A.A.Javadi@exeter.ac.uk
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Project Title: 2D-material Sensors for Nanoscale NMR Spectroscopy
Lead Supervisor:  Prof Isaac Luxmoore
Second Supervisor:   Prof Geoff Nash

Informal enquiries contact email:
  i.j.luxmoore@exeter.ac.uk            
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Project Title: Development of a robotic knee brace for osteoarthritis patients
Lead Supervisor:  Prof Akbar Javadi
Second Supervisor:   Dr Xijin Hua

Informal enquiries contact email:
  A.A.Javadi@exeter.ac.uk
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Project Title: Sustainable transition of the energy system in China
Lead Supervisor:  Prof Xiaoyu Yan
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  Xiaoyu.Yan@exeter.ac.uk              
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Project Title: Sustainable transition of the urban water systems in China
Lead Supervisor:  Prof Xiaoyu Yan
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  Xiaoyu.Yan@exeter.ac.uk              
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Project Title: Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOF)-Based Drug Delivery for Targeted Neuromodulation in Neurological Disorders
Lead Supervisor:  Dr Rupam Das
Second Supervisor:   Prof Mi Tian

Informal enquiries contact email:
  rd609@exeter.ac.uk         
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 Project Title: New Targets for Early Osteoarthritis Diagnosis and Intervention: Linking Collagen Molecular Organisation with Tissue Biomechanical Function
Lead Supervisor:  Dr Junning Chen
Second Supervisor:   Chris Scotton

Informal enquiries contact email:
  J.Chen3@exeter.ac.uk    
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Project Title: Load/deformation behaviour of auxetic meshes with hybrid lattice design
Lead Supervisor:  Raffaele Vinai
Second Supervisor:   Prakash Kripakaran

Informal enquiries contact email:
  R.Vinai@exeter.ac.uk      
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Project Title: Tunable Collagenous Templates: A Biomimetic Approach for Creating High-Performance Biocomposites
Lead Supervisor:  Dr Junning Chen
Second Supervisor:   Prof. Yanqiu Zhu

Informal enquiries contact email:
  J.Chen3@exeter.ac.uk    
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Project Title: Study on the Gas-Water-Coal Coupling Mechanism of CO2-ECBM in Deep Non-coal Seam and the Safety of Storage System
Lead Supervisor:  Study on the Gas-Water-Coal Coupling Mechanism of CO2-ECBM in Deep Non- coal Seam and the Safety of Storage System
Second Supervisor:   Prof. Hylke Glass

Informal enquiries contact email:
  A.A.Javadi@exeter.ac.uk
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Project Title: Full life cycle sustainability assessment of space technologies
Lead Supervisor:  Prof Xiaoyu Yan
Second Supervisor:   Prof Markus Mueller

Informal enquiries contact email:
  Xiaoyu.Yan@exeter.ac.uk              
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Project Title: Digital Twin for Virtual Synchronous Generators in Microgrids
Lead Supervisor:  Prof Mohammad Abusara
Second Supervisor:   Saptarshi Das

Informal enquiries contact email:
  M.Abusara@exeter.ac.uk              
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Project Title: Optimal control of Virtual Synchronous Generators in Microgrids
Lead Supervisor:  Prof Mohammad Abusara
Second Supervisor:   Saptarshi Das

Informal enquiries contact email:
  M.Abusara@exeter.ac.uk              
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Project Title: Smart micro-robot for medical applications - modelling, simulation and control
Lead Supervisor:  Prof Halim Alwi
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  H.Alwi@exeter.ac.uk       
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Project Title: Water Distribution Asset Health Management using Machine Learning (AI) Algorithms
Lead Supervisor:  Prof Raziyeh Farmani
Second Supervisor:   -

Informal enquiries contact email:
  R.Farmani@exeter.ac.uk
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Project Title: Strategies for Alleviating Urban Heat Island Effect Using Different BIPV Combined with Hydrogen Heating Based on Digital Twin Technology
Lead Supervisor:  Aritra Ghosh
Second Supervisor:   Asif Tahir

Informal enquiries contact email:
  A.Ghosh@exeter.ac.uk   
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Project Title: AI-Driven Fluid Mechanics: Revolutionizing Energy Efficiency and Thermal Management
Lead Supervisor:  Dr.-Ing. Xu Chu
Second Supervisor:   Prof. Gavin Tabor

Informal enquiries contact email:
  X.Chu@exeter.ac.uk        
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Project Title: AI-Driven Digital Transformation for Power Systems
Lead Supervisor:  Dr. Dawei Qiu
Second Supervisor:   Prof. Zhong Fan

Informal enquiries contact email:
  D.Qiu@exeter.ac.uk         
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Project Title: Advancing Osteoporosis Detection with Biomechanics-enhanced Diagnostic Metrics for New 3D X-ray Imaging System
Lead Supervisor:  Dr Junning Chen
Second Supervisor:   Prof. Karen Knapp

Informal enquiries contact email:
  J.Chen3@exeter.ac.uk    
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Project Title: Biodiversity footprint of UK households
Lead Supervisor:  Prof Xiaoyu Yan
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  Xiaoyu.Yan@exeter.ac.uk              
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Project Title: Engineering Design of Novel Anion Exchange Membrane (AEM) Water Electrolyser for Hydrogen Production
Lead Supervisor:  Xiaohong Li
Second Supervisor:   Dr Zhenyu Zhang

Informal enquiries contact email:
  X.Li@exeter.ac.uk             
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Project Title: Seawater Electrolysis for Green Hydrogen Production from Renewable for Energy Storage
Lead Supervisor:  Xiaohong Li
Second Supervisor:   Prof Federico Caprotti

Informal enquiries contact email:
  X.Li@exeter.ac.uk             
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Project Title: Digital twinning for sustainable product design
Lead Supervisor:  Dr Wei Zhang
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  W.Zhang5@exeter.ac.uk
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Project Title: Autonomous Operations in Offshore Wind Energy - This project will investigate the existing industrial practices in the offshore wind industry for surveying, installation and maintenance to identify the potential to integrate autonomous systems.
Lead Supervisor:  Dr. Faryal Khalid
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  F.Khalid2@exeter.ac.uk  
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Project Title: Dynamical systems based sustainability appraisal of net zero transition pathways
Lead Supervisor:  Prof Xiaoyu Yan
Second Supervisor:   Prof Jean-Francois Mercure

Informal enquiries contact email:
  Xiaoyu.Yan@exeter.ac.uk              
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Project Title: AI-driven development of auxetic geometries for deployable 3D structures
Lead Supervisor:  Raffaele Vinai
Second Supervisor:   Prakash Kripakaran

Informal enquiries contact email:
  R.Vinai@exeter.ac.uk      
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Project Title: In-silico Simulation of Voluntary Control of Knee Orthosis for Patients with Knee OA via Neuromechanical Modelling
Lead Supervisor:  Dr Xijin Hua
Second Supervisor:   Professor Akbar Javadi

Informal enquiries contact email:
  X.Hua@exeter.ac.uk        
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Project Title: Carbon-Based Nanostructures for Advanced Energy Storage Applications

Lead Supervisor:  Anna Baldycheva
Second Supervisor:   Monica Craciun

Informal enquiries contact email:
  A.Baldycheva@exeter.ac.uk        
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Project Title:. Developing Superhydrophobic Construction Materials through Combined Chemical and Morphological Approaches to Prevent Mold Growth, Water Damage, and Enhance Thermal Insulation
Lead Supervisor:  Anna Baldycheva
Second Supervisor:   Monica Craciun

Informal enquiries contact email:
  A.Baldycheva@exeter.ac.uk        

 

Department:  Innovation, Technology, Entrepreneurship (UEBS)

Project Title:  AI and big data: The human-in-the-loop for product service development

Lead Supervisor:  Prof. Saeema Ahmed-Kristensen
Second Supervisor:  
TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:  
S.Ahmed-Kristensen@exeter.ac.uk

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Project Title: "Are tropical peatlands becoming a stronger methane source?"
Lead Supervisor:  Prof Angela Gallego-SAla
Second Supervisor:   Dr Sarah Chadburn

Informal enquiries contact email:
  A.Gallego-Sala@exeter.ac.uk     
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Project Title: Chinese Geophilosophy: science, folklore and heritage
Lead Supervisor:  Dr Pepe Romanillos
Second Supervisor:   Dr Laura Smith

Informal enquiries contact email:
  J.L.Romanillos@exeter.ac.uk      
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Project Title: Understanding the spatiotemporal origin of the warming in the Southern Ocean using  transient and biogeochimical oceanic tracers.


Lead Supervisor:  Associate professor Marie-Jose Messias
Second Supervisor:   Dr Malcolm Woodward

Informal enquiries contact email:
  M.Messias@exeter.ac.uk              
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Project Title: Reproductive Justice in China: Medicalization, family planning policies, and reproductive decision making
Lead Supervisor:  Dr Cordelia Freeman
Second Supervisor:   Professor Kate Fisher

Informal enquiries contact email:
  c.freeman@exeter.ac.uk
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Project Title: Evaluating the Impact of Large Wood on Water Quality in River Restoration
Lead Supervisor:  Diego Panici
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  D.Panici@exeter.ac.uk   
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Project Title: "Arctic peatlands - will they become a stronger sink?"
Lead Supervisor:  Angela Gallego-Sala
Second Supervisor:   NA

Informal enquiries contact email:
  A.Gallego-Sala@exeter.ac.uk     
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 Project Title: Extending the application of a (new) Rangeland Productivity Index in Africa, to improve spatially and temporally explicit assessment of human impacts on rangeland management.
Lead Supervisor:  Andrew Cunliffe
Second Supervisor:   NA

Informal enquiries contact email:
  A.Cunliffe@exeter.ac.uk
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Project Title: Unravelling accumulations of large woody debris to multi-span bridges and impacts on hydraulics, scour, and flood risk
Lead Supervisor:  Diego Panici
Second Supervisor:   Prakash Kripakaran

Informal enquiries contact email:
  D.Panici@exeter.ac.uk   
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Project Title: Characterising the hydraulic and hydrological response of beaver dams for resilience to hydrological extremes
Lead Supervisor:  Diego Panici
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  D.Panici@exeter.ac.uk   

Project Title: Effect of delays in networks
Lead Supervisor:  Jan Sieber
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  J.Sieber@exeter.ac.uk    
Department:  Mathematics and Statistics

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Project Title: Physical precursors of tropical Pacific sea surface temperature pattern trends.
Lead Supervisor:  Prof Mat Collins
Second Supervisor:   TBD

Informal enquiries contact email:
  M.Collins@exeter.ac.uk 
Department:  Mathematics and Statistics

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Project Title: Why is the predictable signal too weak in seasonal weather forecasts, and does this matter for projections of climate change?
Lead Supervisor:  Prof James Screen
Second Supervisor:   Prof Adam Scaife

Informal enquiries contact email:
  J.Screen@exeter.ac.uk   
Department:  Mathematics and Statistics

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Project Title: Modelling the partially ionised solar atmosphere
Lead Supervisor:  Andrew Hillier
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  A.S.Hillier@exeter.ac.uk
Department:  Mathematics and Statistics

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Project Title: Dynamic Turbulence Modelling for Convective Storm Simulation
Lead Supervisor:  Dr Georgios Efstathiou
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  G.Efstathiou@exeter.ac.uk           
Department:  Mathematics and Statistics

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Project Title: Statistical modelling and machine learning approaches for state-of-the-art genome engineering
Lead Supervisor:  Magdalena Strauss
Second Supervisor:   Jordi Solana

Informal enquiries contact email:
  M.Strauss@exeter.ac.uk
Department:  Mathematics and Statistics

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Project Title: Statistical methods for analysing the performance of multivariate, space-time forecasts
Lead Supervisor:  Dr Christopher Ferro
Second Supervisor:   Dr Stefan Siegert

Informal enquiries contact email:
  C.A.T.Ferro@exeter.ac.uk              
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Project Title: Multi-step look-ahead adaptive design of computer experiments
Lead Supervisor:  Hossein Mohammadi
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  H.Mohammadi@exeter.ac.uk     

Project Title: Modelling shape generation by the basement membrane
Lead Supervisor:  Dr David Richards
Second Supervisor:   Dr Stefan Harmansa

Informal enquiries contact email:
  David.Richards@exeter.ac.uk    
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Project Title: Computing with light
Lead Supervisor:  Prof Jacopo Bertolotti
Second Supervisor:   Dave Phillips

Informal enquiries contact email:
  J.Bertolotti@exeter.ac.uk              
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Project Title: Novel high throughput imaging to accelerate biological discovery: Combining cutting edge optical imaging techniques together with a range of small animal models to understand how we can modulate appetite and behaviour using small molecule drug candidates.
Lead Supervisor:  Dr Alex Corbett
Second Supervisor:   Dr Elizabeth Williams

Informal enquiries contact email:
  A.Corbett@exeter.ac.uk
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 Project Title: AI and Planetary Climates
Lead Supervisor:  Nathan Mayne
Second Supervisor:   Dr Simon Driscoll (Reading)

Informal enquiries contact email:
  N.J.Mayne@exeter.ac.uk
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Project Title: Deep Learning of Spin Dynamics for Quantum Biology

Lead Supervisor:  Prof. Daniel Kattnig
Second Supervisor:   Dr David Richards

Informal enquiries contact email:
  D.R.Kattnig@exeter.ac.uk             
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Project Title: Bio-inspired Microscopic Swimming
Lead Supervisor:  Geoff Nash
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  G.R.Nash@exeter.ac.uk 
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Project Title: Using Optical Sensors to Explore the Potential of Light-Driven Biocatalysis - Electrifying the engineered redox enzymes for single-molecule biotransformations
Lead Supervisor:  Frank Vollmer
Second Supervisor:   Srikanth Pedireddy

Informal enquiries contact email:
  F.Vollmer@exeter.ac.uk 
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Project Title: Optical metasurfaces for multifunctional infrared spectroscopy and hyperspectral imaging
Lead Supervisor:  Dr. Calum Williams
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  cw1137@exeter.ac.uk    
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Project Title: Subject-specific modelling to determine spinal biomechanics in vivo
Lead Supervisor:  Professor Judith Meakin
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  J.R.Meakin@exeter.ac.uk              
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Project Title: Chiral quantum emitters in van der Waals heterostructures
Lead Supervisor:  Dr Maciej Dabrowski
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  M.K.Dabrowski@exeter.ac.uk     
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Project Title: Directional Quantum Technologies (theory)
Lead Supervisor:  Dr. Charles Downing
Second Supervisor:   Prof. Misha Portnoi

Informal enquiries contact email:
  C.A.Downing@exeter.ac.uk         
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Project Title: Using machine learning to develop a diagnostic tool for microglia states
Lead Supervisor:  Dr David Richards
Second Supervisor:   Dr Tom Piers

Informal enquiries contact email:
  David.Richards@exeter.ac.uk    
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Project Title: Mathematical modelling of early embryogenesis
Lead Supervisor:  Dr David Richards
Second Supervisor:   Prof Krasi Tsaneva-Atanasova

Informal enquiries contact email:
  David.Richards@exeter.ac.uk    
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Project Title: Using phonons to assist spin-orbit torque switching
Lead Supervisor:  Professor R J Hicken
Second Supervisor:   Paul Keatley

Informal enquiries contact email:
  R.J.Hicken@exeter.ac.uk
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Project Title: Spin current propagation through antiferromagnetic thin film metamaterials
Lead Supervisor:  Professor R J Hicken
Second Supervisor:   Dr M Dabrowski

Informal enquiries contact email:
  R.J.Hicken@exeter.ac.uk
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Project Title: Novel approaches for Raman spectroscopic biofluid analysis and diagnostics
Lead Supervisor:  Prof Nick Stone
Second Supervisor:   Dr Ben Gardner

Informal enquiries contact email:
  N.Stone@exeter.ac.uk    
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Project Title: BIOLUMENS: Fabrication and Biological Integration of Optical MicroLasers for Ultra-Multiplexed Encoding of Single-Cell Sensing
Lead Supervisor:  Frank Vollmer (myself)
Second Supervisor:   Prof Steffen Scholpp

Informal enquiries contact email:
  F.Vollmer@exeter.ac.uk 
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Project Title: Investigating the structure of exoKuiper belts using ALMA observations and numerical simulations
Lead Supervisor:  Dr Sebastian Marino Estay
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  S.Marino-Estay@exeter.ac.uk    
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Project Title: Ultrafast thermo-optical control of spins in a 2D van der Waals semiconductor
Lead Supervisor:  Dr Maciej Dabrowski
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  M.K.Dabrowski@exeter.ac.uk     
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Project Title: Automated tracking of cell populations in microfluidic droplets using deep learning object detection for study of antimicrobial resistance
Lead Supervisor:  Fabrice Gielen
Second Supervisor:   Remy Chait

Informal enquiries contact email:
  F.Gielen@exeter.ac.uk   

Department:  Management (UEBS)

Project Title: An AI-driven approach for evaluating design creativity
Lead Supervisor:  Dr Ji Han
Second Supervisor:   Dr Pingfei Jiang

Informal enquiries contact email:
  J.Han2@exeter.ac.uk      
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Project Title: Data-Driven Design Strategies for Sustainable Re-use and Re-manufacturing
Lead Supervisor:  Dr Pingfei Jiang
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  P.Jiang@exeter.ac.uk

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Project Title: Expanding the business case for solid-state hydrogen storage: a market driven viability analysis.
Lead Supervisor:  Professor Konstantinos Chalvatzis
Second Supervisor:   Dr Mi Tian

Informal enquiries contact email:
  K.Chalvatzis@exeter.ac.uk          
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Project Title: Enhancing Sustainable Product Design for Efficient Disassembly and Recycling
Lead Supervisor:  Dr Pingfei Jiang
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  P.Jiang@exeter.ac.uk       
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Project Title: Geopolitical risk and foreign direct investment: a global perspective
Lead Supervisor:  Associate Professor Jing-Lin Duanmu
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  J.Duanmu@exeter.ac.uk
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Project Title: Data-driven bilevel optimization and hierarchical decision making
Lead Supervisor:  Dr Fanlin Meng
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  F.Meng2@exeter.ac.uk   
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Project Title: A Human-AI Collaboration System for Design Engineering
Lead Supervisor:  Dr Ji Han
Second Supervisor:   Dr Pingfei Jiang

Informal enquiries contact email:
  J.Han2@exeter.ac.uk      
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Project Title: Bridging the Knowledge Transfer Gap in Design
Lead Supervisor:  Dr Pingfei Jiang
Second Supervisor:   Dr Ji Han

Informal enquiries contact email:
  P.Jiang@exeter.ac.uk
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Project Title: Unlearning and Team Ambidexterity: How and When it Might Happen?
Lead Supervisor:  Amir Mehralian
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  G.Mehralian@exeter.ac.uk           
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Project Title: Learning game-theoretic behaviours from data
Lead Supervisor:  Dr Fanlin Meng
Second Supervisor:   TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:
  F.Meng2@exeter.ac.uk   

Department:  Innovation, Technology, Entrepreneurship (UEBS)

Project Title:  AI and big data: The human-in-the-loop for product service development

Lead Supervisor:  Prof. Saeema Ahmed-Kristensen
Second Supervisor:  
TBC

Informal enquiries contact email:  
S.Ahmed-Kristensen@exeter.ac.uk

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