Posted by Ted Feldpausch
29 November 2023The University of Exeter is offering up to 15 fully funded doctoral studentships for September 2024 entry as part of our Doctoral Training Partnership with the EPSRC (Engineering, Physical Sciences Research Council).
The PhD projects focus on a range of themes related to fire, land-use change, lightning and tree mortality, carbon cycling, and forest degradation and forest restoration. The research is part of large-scale NERC-funded projects. There are opportunities to develop and deploy sensors to study climatic and human impacts on tropical forests. Two potential projects are listed below.
Project Title: Wildfire in tropical forests: microclimate, carbon, and estimating risk of fire
Lead Supervisor: Prof Ted Feldpausch
Contact Email: t.r.feldpausch@exeter.ac.uk
Department: Geography
Project Title: Lightning, tree mortality, and the carbon cycle of tropical forests
Lead Supervisor: Prof Ted Feldpausch
Contact Email: t.r.feldpausch@exeter.ac.uk
Department: Geography
Contact Prof Feldpausch to discuss potential applications. For more information and to apply, see this web page:
The University of Exeter offers a world-class education and research in one of the most beautiful locations in the UK. As a Russell Group University our research makes a difference across the world and we’re committed to working with our PhD researchers to make the world greener, healthier, and fairer. Our Doctoral College stimulates, supports and sustains a vibrant research and intellectual environment across and between disciplines for postgraduate and early career researchers. Focusing on investment and development in training, resources and facilities, we provide an outstanding quality experience for those in the early stages of their research careers.
The EPSRC is the main funding body for engineering and physical sciences research in the UK. The EPSRC’s portfolio ranges from digital technologies to clean energy, manufacturing to mathematics, advanced materials to chemistry.
This application process for this scheme is student-centred, where you are asked to contact a member of academic staff with relevant expertise and appropriate track record of EPSRC-facing research. The deadline for us to receive your application is 19th February 2024 however you will need to contact your potential supervisor and together write a short proposal – you are strongly advised to allow sufficient time to do this. Our research priorities for these studentships are based around those identified by the funder (EPSRC), however we particularly encourage applications for mulltidiciplinary projects, and those that have the potential to align with industry or other external organisations.
More info and to apply: https://www.exeter.ac.uk/study/pg-research/funding/phdfunding/epsrc-dtp-studentships/
Header image credit: Ted R. Feldpausch