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PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy
University of York - Heslington Campus
Full Time
Sep 2026
3 Year
Our research encompasses a wide range of topics, all with the goal of improving the way we diagnose, treat, and research diseases.Technology is inextricably linked with the current state of the healthcare industry and its future. Engineering for health is a multi-disciplinary field that unites the life sciences, medicine, engineering, and computer science to bring innovations to the medical field.For example, we design medical devices, create robotics to assist with surgery, develop new ways to model biological processes, create sensors to detect biomarkers for disease, and write algorithms to assist with diagnosis.Our world-class research labs include:Bio-Inspired TechnologiesMedical RoboticsEvolutionary AlgorithmsComputer-Assisted Clinical DiagnosisComputational Neuroscience and Neural ComputingPhysical Layer ResearchInvestigative Virtual EnvironmentsBiomedical Sensors
