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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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Professor of Autoimmune Liver Diseases and Translational Hepatology
Consultant Hepatologist
EDI Lead for the School of Infection, Inflammation and Immunology
Department of Immunology and Immunotherapy
Ye supervises doctoral research students in the following areas:
- Hepatic immune tolerance
- Dissecting pathogenesis and exploring causative factors of autoimmune liver diseases
If you are interesting in studying any of these subject areas please contact Professor Ye Oo directly, or for any general doctoral research enquiries, please email mds-gradschool@contacts.bham.ac.uk.
For a full list of available Doctoral Research opportunities, please visit our Doctoral Research programme listings.

Professor of International Law
Birmingham Law School
Professor Orakhelashvili has supervised or is currently supervising doctoral students undertaking research in the following areas:
• Aut dedere aut judicare as a customary rule
• The UN member states and individuals sharing international responsibility for the serious violation of international law committed during peace support operations
• Iran and Nuclear non-proliferation
• John Austin’s theory of law
• Implications of New Technology for Targeting under International Humanitarian Law

Honorary Senior Lecturer
Department of Metabolism and Systems Science
Joint PhD supervisor, Dr. Punith Kempegowda
Membership candidate tutorials MRCP(UK)

Associate Professor in Computer Science
School of Computer Science
fNIRS neuroimaging analysis and interpretation.

Assistant Professor
School of Psychology
Giulia is keen to hear from motivated prospective PhD students and early career researchers. Feel free to email if you wish to discuss projects and potential funding opportunities. Please include your CV and an overview of your research interests in your email.

Professor of Evolutionary Systems Biology and Environmental Omics
Alan Turing Fellow, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Co-founder and CEO of Daphne Water Solutions, Deputy Director of the Centre for Environmental Research and Justice (CERJ)
School of Biosciences
Postdocs
- 2021-2023: Dr Anurag Anurag Chaturvedi: Bioinformatics working on evolutionary genomics. Independent Marie Curie Fellow
- 2021-2022: Dr Narges Habibi: Computational Biology working on Environment and Human Health: Monitoring and Prevention Using AI
- 2020-2021: Dr Iestyn Staed: Engineer working on RAEng/Innovate UK project to commercialize Daphne Water Solutions
- 2019-2020: Dr Rafael Orozco, Chemical Engineer working on a BBSRC funded grant to assess the market value of upconverted biowaste generated via the ...

Associate Professor
Department of Linguistics and Communication
I am always interested in discussing the possibility of supervising PhD students to pursue research on the acquisition of sign languages as a second or first language, sign language processing, the interface between gesture and sign.

Clinical Professor of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology
Consultant in Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology
Surgeon Commander, Royal Navy
Department of Immunology and Immunotherapy
Professor O’Shea supervises Master's and Doctoral students in clinically-relevant, infection-related research, primarily focussed on the human host immune response to mycobacteria (M.tuberculosis), vaccine development and novel TB diagnostics and therapeutic approaches.
If you are interested in studying any of these subject areas please contact Professor Matt O'Shea directly by e-mail, or for any general doctoral research enquiries, please email mds-gradschool@contacts.bham.ac.uk
For a full list of available Doctoral Research opportunities, ...

Assistant Professor in Clinical Pharmacy
School of Pharmacy
Supervision available in:
- Self-care education and health literacy
- Pharmacy practice and prescribing
- Digital health interventions in education and pharmacy
Current supervision includes systematic reviews and qualitative projects on pharmacists’ roles in health literacy.
Emeritus Professor in Graph Theory
School of Mathematics
Deryk Osthus is happy to supervise PhD students in Combinatorics. If you are interested, please email him.

Professor in Computer Security
Head of Research of Computer Science
School of Computer Science
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Murdock, main supervisor, since 2018: FaultFinder: From Faulty Output to Fault Model --- An Automated Approach
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Pemberton, main supervisor, since 2018: BioLeak: Side-Channel Analysis of Fingerprint Matching Algorithms
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Aldoseri, main supervisor since 2018: Security of TEEs
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Zhang, main supervisor since 2019: Next-generation security protocols for medical devices
- Spielman, main supervisor since 2021: SCAvenger - Attacking Machine Learning with Side Channel Attacks
- Jacqueline, main supervisor since 2021: Capability architectures: attacks and defenses

Associate Professor in Peace and Conflict Studies
International Development Department
Martin welcomes new PhD applications exploring the characteristics of civil wars, peace processes and post-conflict development, including especially those interested in advanced statistical research methods.
Martin is currently working with the following PhD candidates:
• Owen Frazer
• Hermawan