PhD topics for research students

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Supervisor
Funding
Engineering the Peacekeepers: Novel CAR-Treg and Adoptive Cell Therapies for Pregnancy Complications
Project Overview The Scottà group is seeking a highly motivated PhD candidate to join a pioneering research program at the intersection of adoptive cell therapy and maternal-foetal medicine. This proj...
Cristiano Scotta
Self-Funded
Textual Analysis in Accounting, Governance, ESG and Capital Market Research
I’m looking to supervise a Doctoral Researcher exploring an empirical accounting or finance topic that applies textual analysis techniques. Over the past decade, research in this area has grown rapid...
Sheehan Rahman
Self-Funded
Causal Inference in Panel Data Models with Cross-Sectional Dependence and Heterogeneous Effects
This PhD project focuses on advancing methods for causal inference in panel data settings where standard assumptions - such as independence across units or homogeneous treatment effects - often don’t ...
Yiannis Karavias
Self-Funded
Panel Data Methods for High-Dimensional and Machine Learning–Augmented Econometric Models
This PhD project explores how modern machine learning techniques can be integrated with panel data econometrics to handle high‑dimensional datasets, model selection and nonlinearities, while still all...
Yiannis Karavias
Self-Funded
The relationship between politicians’ funding, characteristics, and behaviour
Money is essential for financing the electoral campaigns of politicians running for public office, so it plays a major role in many democracies. But this role can also shape how democratic institution...
Jan Auerbach
Matteo Pazzona
Self-Funded
From Generation to Detection: LLM-Driven Approaches to Understanding Disinformation Processes
This PhD project explores how Natural Language Processing and large language models (LLMs) can help us understand and tackle disinformation across digital platforms. It looks at how LLMs both fuel and...
Kevin Lu
Self-Funded
3D Genome Organisation Driving Gene Fusions in Leukaemia
Leukaemia is the most common childhood cancer, and growing evidence suggests it often begins before birth. Chromosomal translocations that create gene fusions are a hallmark of many leukaemias. Severa...
Sabrina Tosi
Sibylle Ermler
Joanna Bridger
Self-Funded
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