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Supervisor
Funding
Many Paths to Sustainability: Understanding the Diversity of Sustainability Management Practices
Firms often face similar sustainability pressures, yet they adopt very different combinations of practices. Some focus on emissions, others on suppliers, employee wellbeing, reporting, compliance or ...
Ramin Behbehani
Self-Funded
Managing with Contradictions: Paradoxes in Sustainable Operations and Supply Chain Management
Organisations aiming to improve sustainability in their operations and supply chains often face tensions that can’t be neatly resolved. They may want to reduce environmental impact while keeping costs...
Ramin Behbehani
Self-Funded
Human Judgment in the Age of AI: Trust, Control and Decision-Making in Supply Chains
AI and analytics are becoming increasingly influential in forecasting, procurement, inventory management, logistics and risk monitoring. But supply chain decisions are rarely made by algorithms alone...
Ramin Behbehani
Self-Funded
Beyond Compliance: Managerial Cognition and the Strategic Framing of Sustainability in Operations and Supply Chain Management
As sustainability becomes a more pressing concern for organisations, firms are under growing pressure to respond to environmental and social challenges in clear and visible ways. But their responses v...
Ramin Behbehani
Self-Funded
Bacterial Outer Membrane Vesicles as Modulators of Host Immune Crosstalk in Colorectal Cancer Organoid Models
This project explores how outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) from gut microbiota and pathogenic bacteria shape immune responses in colorectal cancer. You’ll use advanced in vitro platforms — including or...
Ayca Sayi Yazgan
Self-Funded
Immunometabolic Regulation of B Cells in Gastric Cancer and Infection-Associated Immunity
This project aims to dissect the immunometabolic programming of B cell subsets in gastric cancer and their response to microbial stimuli such as Helicobacter infection. You'll examine how metabolic r...
Ayca Sayi Yazgan
Self-Funded
Consumer Reactions to Using Generative AI in Advertising and Marketing Communications
This PhD project explores how consumers respond to the use of generative AI in advertising and marketing communications. As brands increasingly use AI to create copy, visuals, videos, personalised me...
Ezgi Merdin Uygur
Self-Funded
Ultrawideband Antenna designs with stable radiation patterns
Ultrawideband (UWB) antennas are used across a wide range of advanced engineering applications, from high‑resolution radar systems to secure communication links and short‑range sensing technologies. A...
Nila Nilavalan
Self-Funded
Managerial Cognition and Open Innovation in SMEs
Are you interested in how small and medium‑sized enterprises (SMEs) adopt and manage open innovation? We’re looking for motivated PhD candidates to explore how managerial cognition and organisational...
Ashkan Pak Seresht
Self-Funded
Healthcare Professional and wellbeing
Health systems around the world are under growing pressure. Populations are ageing, chronic diseases are rising, technology is changing fast, and demand for care keeps increasing. At the same time, h...
Catia Nicodemo
Self-Funded