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PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy
Main Site
Full Time
Oct 2026
3 Year
PhD students in the Department of Earth Science and Engineering at Imperial College London take on a wide variety of interesting, exciting and impactful work. Projects span topics as diverse as planetary science, environmental science, solid earth science, climate science, petroleum engineering, alternative energy systems, mineral extraction and computational science and engineering.Some projects are funded through research grants held by faculty members, and these will be advertised on the departmental website as and when they become available. PhD positions funded through research grants may be available to overseas students in exceptional cases.A full-time PhD at Imperial will normally take 3-4 years.
