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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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Assistant Professor in Marketing (Dubai)
Dubai Campus
Postgraduate (MSc) research project - Thesis supervisor (15 students– Postgraduate (MSc))

Professor of Biostatistics in Maternal and Perinatal Health
Department of Metabolism and Systems Science
Co-supervised (Completed)
Co-supervision (in
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Associate Professor in Comparative European Politics
Department of Political Science and International Studies
Dr Sotirios Zartaloudis is happy to accept PhD students in the areas of his research interests broadly conceived (see relevant section).
Interested candidates are welcome to contact him with ideas and a draft proposal but any applications are handled centrally by the University 麻豆精选 and POLSIS.

Assistant Professor in Mathematics
Department of Metabolism and Systems Science
- Currently supervising 1 PhD student. Contact me for informal enquiries about PhD supervision
- Regular supervision of MSc projects in Applied Mathematics and Biomedical Sciences (contact me for enquiries).

Assistant Professor in Mathematics
Department of Metabolism and Systems Science
- Currently supervising 1 PhD student. Contact me for informal enquiries about PhD supervision
- Regular supervision of MSc projects in Applied Mathematics and Biomedical Sciences (contact me for enquiries).

Associate Professor in Operations and Supply Chain Management
Department of Management
Yuanzhu welcomes applicants who have an excellent academic background and a strong ambition to work in the academic (in technology-driven innovation, business analytics and sustainable supply chain areas) for his/her future career to apply for PhD under his supervision.

Assistant Professor in Digital Healthcare Engineering
Department of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering
Dr Le Zhang is looking for PhD students and visiting scholars with strong motivation to work on reliable machine learning and medical image analysis, especially PhD students with CSC’s support potentially. Please feel free to email Dr Zhang if you are interested.
- Foundation models for generalizable disease detection from retinal images
- Generative AI for Medical Imaging
- Multimodal learning for population health studies
- Computational imaging methods for population image

Associate Professor
Director of Postgraduate Research
School of Psychology
PhD students: Students interested in working with Dr Zhang should email him to discuss potential funding opportunities. Current funding schemes include MRC-AIM, BBSRC-MIBTP, and CSC.
Postdoc researchers: Excellent and motivated postdoc researchers are welcome to contact Dr Zhang to discuss potential projects and funding opportunities (both national and international).

Research Fellow in Economics
The Department of Economics
Qinqin Xiong (2021- ): UoB full scholarship

Assistant Professor in Experimental Physics
Supervision of PhDs in gravitational-wave instrumental research.

Assistant Professor
School of Chemical Engineering
Dr Tongtong Zhang is interested in supervising doctoral research students in the following areas:
- Thermal energy (heat and cold) storage
- Thermo-mechanical energy storage
- Cryogenic energy storage (liquid air energy storage, liquid hydrogen storage etc.)
- Industrial decarbonisation
- Process and system simulation and optimization
If you are interested in studying any of these subject areas please contact Dr Tongtong Zhang on the contact details above.

Chair in Electrical Power Systems
Director of Smart Grid, Birmingham Energy Institute
Co-Director, Birmingham Energy Storage Centre (sponsored by EPSRC)
Department of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering
Xiao-Ping is interested in supervising doctoral research students in the following areas:
- Electrical Power Systems
- Smart Grids
- Power Electronic Control – FACTS and VSC HVDC
- Renewable Generation Control
- Integration of PHEVs into Power Grids
- Smart Metering, Wide Area Awareness and Self-healing Power Grid
- Energy Markets and Game Theory
If you are interesting in studying any of these subject areas please contact Xiao-Ping on the contact details above, or for any ...