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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Research Fellow
Department of Immunology and Immunotherapy
Yang is interested in supervising doctoral research students in the following areas:
- B cell immunity in tumours
- Regulate the response of anergic B cells in tumours
- Cancer vaccine, inducing antibody response to autoantigens in tumours
Associate Professor
School of Mathematics
Yi Zhang is very happy to discuss PhD project supervision with potential candidates; please email him if you are interested
Chair in Operations Management
Head of the Department of Management
Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA), Turing Fellow
Department of Management
Yufeng has supervised over 20 PhD students.
His current work focuses on sustainability, digitalisation, engineering innovation and global network operations. He welcomes PhD applications in the broad areas of Operations and Supply Chain Management. Doctoral scholarships are available.
Professor of Chemical Engineering
Co-Director of the China Institute, University 麻豆精选
School of Chemical Engineering
Principal supervisor of:
- Seng Liu
- Cong Sui
- Javier Marqués de Marino
- Bingyu Zhuo
- Andrew Gray (EngD)
- Xiaotong Zhang
- Juliette Delarue
- Erick Leon Henneberg (EngD)
- Daniele Baiocco
- Alex Brown
- Qun Huang
Co-supervisor of :
- Toni-Bianca Di Paolo (EngD)
- Mariana Cardoso
- Yu Lu
- Gilmore Wellio
Supervisor of research associates/fellows:
- Dr Parvez Iqbal
- Dr Yan Zhang
- Mr Huafeng Li (Honorary)
- Dr Iryna Mikheenko (part-time)
Assistant Professor in Railway Systems Engineering
Department of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering
As an academic member, Ning supervises PhD, MSc, Meng, and BEng projects that fall within his research area and expertise.
Please contact me if you would be interested in studying for a PhD in the areas of railway system engineering, especially in autonomous train systems, traction systems, hydrogen systems, and railway control and signalling systems.
Assistant Professor in Environmental Bioinformatics
Centre for Environmental Research and Justice (CERJ)
School of Biosciences
Dr Zhou is supervising and co-supervising PhD students in the research areas of data science, machine learning, and biodiversity. He welcomes PhD applications in the following fields:
- Graph machine learning and graph neural networks
- Application of AI/ML in (eco)toxicology, with a focus on multi-omics integrative modelling
- Application of AI/ML in biodiversity modelling and forecasting
Associate Professor
Department of Management
Wubiao Zhou has supervised a number of doctoral and research master's (MPhil) students. Potential doctoral students with research interests in either entrepreneurship or SME development or business strategies are welcome to apply. Those with good training in quantitative methods are particularly welcome. He can be reached at w.zhou.1@bham.ac.uk
Honorary Assistant Professor in Automotive Engineering
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Full-time PhD applicants and visiting scholars/students are welcome in the following areas:
1) Evolutionary multi-objective optimisation for online/offline optimisation of vehicle systems;
2) Reinforcement Learning for real-time advanced decision making in the vehicle systems;
3) Model-based predictive control for energy management in hybrid/electric vehicles;
4) Human factors for driving safety and economy;
5) Information fusion and global energy efficiency optimisation of connected autonomous vehicles.
Associate Professor
Birmingham Law School
Dr Zhu considers postgraduate research proposals falling into the following areas:
- Historical and Theoretical Aspects of Copyright Law
- Legal Construction of Authorship
- Music Copyright Law
- Software Related Intellectual Property Issues
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
School of Chemical Engineering
Currently co-supervising two post-graduate students in the Chemical Engineering Department.
Associate Professor in Immunology
Department of Immunology and Immunotherapy
Viral Immunology
Cancer Immunology