Several Oil and Gas PhD position UK

Title	Characterisation of Bimetallic Oxidation Catalysts for control of emissions from diesel engines
Discipline	Chemistry
Supervisors	Professor J. Anderson and Dr R.P.K. Wells.
Funding Notes	Funded by EPSRC (standard rates apply) but with additional payments made by industrial sponsor (Johnson Matthey)

Title	Computational/Theoretical Chemistry: “Isomerising silicon hydrides: potential energy surfaces and vibrationrotation quantum dynamics"
Discipline	Chemistry
Supervisors	Dr. Mark Law (University of Aberdeen) and Dr. Tanja van Mourik (St. Andrews University)
Funding Notes	The funding covers a stipend for 3.5 years (at typically £12940 per year) and all fees at the home rate.

Title	Generation of Training Images for use in Multi-Point Statistics-Based Reservoir Modelling of Fluvial Systems
Discipline	Geology and Petroleum Geology
Supervisors	Professor Adrian Hartley and Professor John Howell (Bergen)
Funding Notes	Sponsored by Total (£75k).

Title	Photo-catalytic production of hydrogen from renewable sources
Discipline	Chemistry
Supervisors	Professor Hicham Idriss and Professor Russell Howe
Funding Notes	3 years funded PhD covering stipends and tuition

Title	SAGES Studentship: Effects of climate change on hydrological functioning of upland catchments
Discipline	Geography and Environment
Supervisors	Dr. Doerthe Tetzlaff Northern Rivers Institute, School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen; d.tetzlaff@abdn.ac.uk http://www.abdn.ac.uk/geography/dtetzlaff.hti Dr. Richard L.H. Essery School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh Richard.Essery@ed.ac.uk http://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/people/person.html?indv=1588 Prof. Chris Soulsby Northern Rivers Institute, School of Geosciences, University Aberdeen; c.soulsby@abdn.ac.uk http://www.abdn.ac.uk/geography/csoulsby.hti
Funding Notes	Facilities at UoA: Hydrochemistry, Isotope and Tracer Laboratory, Hydrological Models; Facilities at UoE: Climate models and high-performance computing resources on the Edinburgh Compute and Data Facility are available for student use through the SAGES Centre for Earth System Dynamics

Title	SAGES Studentship: Modelling landscape sensitivities: Are future human-induced landscape changes quantifiable?
Discipline	Geography and Environment
Supervisors	Dr Paul Adderley, Dr Andrew Tyler and Prof. Ian SimpsonUniversity of Stirling Dr Dimitri Mauquoy, University of Aberdeen Dr Cristina Persano, University of Glasgow Dr Cristina Persano, University of Glasgow
Funding Notes

Title	SAGES Studentship: The effect of climate change and human activity upon the long term evolution of the Scottish landscape: a multi proxy, high resolution approach.
Discipline	Geography and Environment
Supervisors	Dr. Tim Mighall Department of Geography and Environment, University of Aberdeen, Elphinstone Road, Aberdeen, AB24 3UF Email: t.mighall@abdn.ac.uk Tel +44 (0)1224 274352 Dr. Dmitri Mauquoy Department of Geography and Environment, University of Aberdeen, Elphinstone Road, Aberdeen, AB24 3UF Email: d.mauquoy@abdn.ac.uk Tel +44 (0)1224 272364 Prof. John Farmer School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JJ Email: J.G.Farmer@ed.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)131 6504757 Dr. Margaret Graham School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JJ Email: Margaret.Graham@ed.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)131 6504767 Dr. Gordon T. Cook Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre, Rankine Avenue, East Kilbride, G75 0QF Email: G.Cook@suerc.gla.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1355 270 136 Prof. Angus MacKenzie Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre, Rankine Avenue, East Kilbride, G75 0QF Email: A.MacKenzie@suerc.gla.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1355 270 141
Funding Notes

Title	Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA) International Prize Studentships for PhD Research
Discipline	Computing Science
Supervisors	Any academic member of staff in Computing Science
Funding Notes	SICSA prize studentships are worth around £18,000 per year for 3 years. They include support for living expenses of at least £12,940, research expenses and a contribution towards postgraduate fees at the UK standard Home/EU rate (currently £3,315).

Title	Surface Chemistry and Heterogeneous Catalysis
Discipline	Chemistry
Supervisors	Professor J. Anderson and Dr R.P.K. Wells.
Funding Notes	These studentships are fully funded but note that fees can only be paid for EU/Home students. All studentships involve collaboration with UK based industry and involve opportunity for periods of training with the industrial sponsor.