Find a PhD supervisor
Once you've identified the subject area you wish to research, you will need to find a supervisor for your project. All Doctoral Researchers are provided with a lead supervisor, who will act as the main source of academic supervisory support and research mentoring during your time as a Doctoral Researcher at the University.
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Teaching Fellow
School of Mathematics
Dr Gaydaenko supervises MSc students in Financial Engineering and Mathematical Finance.
Lecturer in Atmospheric Sciences
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Ruth Geen is interested in understanding fundamental processes governing large-scale atmospheric circulations, their representation in models, and their future changes, making use approaches such as hierarchical modelling. Particular areas of interest are dynamics of monsoon circulations and midlatitude weather.
If you are interested in joining the Meteorology and Climate group here at Birmingham as a graduate student, postdoc or if you looking for somewhere new for a research visit or ...
Professor of Molecular Cardiology
Department of Cardiovascular Sciences
Professor Katja Gehmlich has supervised numerous postgraduate students (2 completed, one active).
She accepts PhD students in her group, e.g. with interest in projects using induced pluripotent stem cell derived cardiomyocytes to understand biomechanical stress signalling in the heart.
Head of Department of Microbes, Infection and Microbiomes
Professor in Microbiology and Infection
Institute of Microbiology and Infection
Molecular aspects of bacterial colonisation and virulence.
Staphylococcus aureus, MRSA, bacterial cell surfaces, skin microbiome, bacterial adhesion, antimicrobial resistance, AMR, vaccines, bacterial pathogenesis, host-pathogen interactions, atopic dermatitis.
Head of Engineering (Dubai)
Associate Professor of Civil Engineering
Dubai Campus
Low-carbon engineering materials; 3D printing of geopolymers and LC3; Valorisation of waste; Construction and demolition waste management; Circular construction
Associate Professor in Regenerative Medicine
1st Year Chair
School of Chemical Engineering
Anita supervises a number of undergraduate, masters and PhD research students within the School of Chemical Engineering.
We are always looking for highly motivated and hardworking people to join our team.
Postdoctoral Researchers
Opportunities that arise will be advertised through the group's @TRAILab Twitter acount and in prominent advertisers such as the jobs.ac.uk website and through the University’s jobs webpage.
PhD and MSc Research Students
Applications are welcomed from ...
Senior Lecturer
Admissions tutor for Postgraduate taught programmes
Department of Civil Engineering
Dr Ghataora has supervised over 25 M.Phil and Ph.D projects, covering topics including stabilisation of desert sands, stabilisation and compaction of soils, railway track subgrade improvement and self compacting trench backfill.
A selection of recent projects includes:
- “The effect of ground improvement techniques on the performance of bearing capacity and settlement control of treated layers and underlying materials” PhD project 2002 - 2007.
- “Breach of earth dams” PhD project 2006 ...
Professor of International Business
The Department of Strategy and International Business
Pervez Ghauri is interested in supervising doctoral research in:
Internationalization process of the firm (e.g., entry strategies)
Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) and emerging markets
the impact of MNEs on local development, poverty reduction and CSR
International business negotiations
Market driving strategies: Beyond market orientation
Professor of Sociology of Education
School of Education
Current students
- Abdulrahman Alghaith
- Ingrid Abrahams
- John Keech
- Gitanjali Patel
- Michelle McLardy
- Megan Whitehouse
Please contact Prof. Gholami directly if you are interested in pursuing doctoral research under his supervision.
Honorary Professor
Department of Immunology and Immunotherapy
Subrata has supervised over 20 PhD students and his laboratory is open. He is currently supervising or co-supervising 4 PhD students.
Professor of Molecular Plant Science
Plant Science and Food Security Theme Lead
Biosciences Deputy Head of Research
School of Biosciences
Daniel has previously supervised PhD projects looking at hypoxic control of chromatin modifying proteins, N-terminal protein acetylation, and co-translational protein quality control. He is interested in supervising PhD projects linked to protein degradation mechanisms and stress tolerance in plants, and advertises topics each year through findaphd.com.
Lecturer
Department of Social Work and Social Care
Matthew is interested in supervising students with interests in:
- Emotions
- Pride and Shame and other Self-Conscious Emotions
- Professional Practice
- Child Protection Work