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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麻豆精选 for supervisors below to see who you think may be a great fit for your research area. Once you have identified they are able to offer appropriate supervisory support, you can start to reach out to staff using the contact details provided on their profile. 

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Dr Zhongbei Tian

Dr Zhongbei Tian

Associate Professor in Transport Energy Systems

Department of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering

Dr Zhongbei Tian is accepting PhD students and visiting scholars who are interested in transport and energy systems.

Please contact with Dr Zhongbei Tian directly to discuss the research topics and PhD scholarship.

Dr Grace Tidmarsh

Dr Grace Tidmarsh

Postdoctoral Research and Teaching Fellow

School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences

  • Kirsty Brown MSc by Research
  • Nadia Samsudin, PhD 

Professor Graham Timmins

Professor Graham Timmins

Professor of International Politics

Department of Political Science and International Studies

Professor Timmins is available to supervise in areas related to the external relations and foreign policy role of the European Union with specific reference to EU-Russia and German-Russian relations.

Professor Colin Timms

Emeritus Professor of Music

Department of Music

Successful Ph.D. dissertations on Thomas Morley as a Music Publisher, Schuetz’s Passion settings, the cantata spirituale e morale, Handel’s opera Poro, Domenico Dragonetti, Tchaikovsky’s songs and Rimsky-Korsakov’s operas.


Find out more - our Music postgraduate study  page has information about doctoral research at the University 麻豆精选.

Dr Darren Shu Jeng Ting

Dr Darren Shu Jeng Ting

Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and MRC Clinician Scientist Fellow
Consultant Ophthalmologist in Cornea, Ocular Surface, Cataract and Refractive Surgery
Chair, Royal College of Ophthalmologists (RCOphth) Scientific and Research Committee

Department of Inflammation and Ageing

Dr Ting is looking to supervise doctoral students in the following subject areas:

  • Artificial intelligence in eye diseases (especially corneal and ocular surface diseases)
  • Antimicrobial therapy
  • Antimicrobial resistance
  • Big data research
  • Corneal and ocular surface diseases (particularly corneal infection)
  • Drug discovery and development
  • Systematic reviews and meta-analysis

John Tingle

John Tingle

Associate Professor

Birmingham Law School

National and Global Patient Safety
Clinical Negligence Litigation


Professor Peter Tino

Professor Peter Tino

Professor of Complex and Adaptive Systems

School of Computer Science

Peter has supervised and co-supervised 16 PhD students to successful completion of their studies. He currently supervises and co-supervises 13 research students.

Professor Peter Tino

Professor Peter Tino

Professor of Complex and Adaptive Systems

School of Computer Science

Peter has supervised and co-supervised 16 PhD students to successful completion of their studies. He currently supervises and co-supervises 13 research students.

Dr Richard Todd

Dr Richard Todd

Lecturer in Islamic Studies

Department of Theology and Religion

鈥 Haya Alqasem, 鈥淩ereading the Qur鈥檃n: the reformist hermeneutics of Muhammad Shahrur and 鈥楢dnan al-Rifa鈥檌鈥 鈥 Muhammad Yasir Al-Hanafi, "Imam al-Sanusi on the Ash'ari doctrine of God's transcendence" 鈥 Al Muatasim Al Maawali, "A juristic and codicological study of the narration of la qirad illa bi-'ayn" 鈥 Doaa Baumi, 鈥淢uslim perceptions of biblical lore narratives (7th-14th centuries)鈥 鈥 Rawdah Gawaher, "From duality of revelation to 'by scripture alone': navigating the ...

Dr Olamide Todowede

Research Fellow

Health Services Management Centre

Olamide is interested in supervising doctoral research on topics involving health inequalities, multimorbidity outcomes research, Population health, Evidence synthesis

Professor Kai-Michael Toellner

Professor Kai-Michael Toellner

Honorary Professor of Adaptive Immunology

Department of Immunology and Immunotherapy

Kai is interested in supervising doctoral research students in the following areas:

  • Signals regulating selection of B cells in germinal centres
  • Diurnal effects on antibody affinity maturation
  • Signals leading to differentiation of plasma cells 
  • Regulation of B cell migration by chemokines

If you are interesting in studying any of these subject areas please contact Professor Kai-Michael Toellner directly, or for any general doctoral research enquiries, please email mds-gradschool@contacts.bham.ac.uk.

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Dr Michael Tomlinson

Dr Michael Tomlinson

Associate Professor in Membrane Protein Biology

School of Biosciences

Mike has supervised eight PhD students to completion and has three current PhD students in his group.