Tag: Doctoral Students

Proctor and Gamble Fluidics Hackathon 2025 (apply by 10 Oct)

Could you help reinvent the way we clean for a more sustainable future?

Hackspace is recruiting students and staff to take part in a 5-week sustainability Hackathon, in partnership with Procter & Gamble and the Department of Chemistry.

Teams will design prototypes that tackle some of our biggest sustainability challenges in household cleaning:
💧 Reducing water use
⚡ Cutting energy consumption
🧪 Minimising use of chemicals

Open to all departments | 🏆 Prize-pool of £1,250 | 🌍 Make a real-world impact | Gain industry exposure

🔗 Apply online by 9am, Fri 10 October

Royal Society – Career Development Fellowship (Deadline 19 November 2025)

The Career Development Fellowship provides the most talented early career scientists from underrepresented groups in STEM with research funding and high-quality training opportunities to build a strong base for a successful research career.

The deadline for applying is 19 November 2025.

Virtual ‘Introductory Medical Statistics’ course (13 and 14 November 2025)

This course, held and recorded on Microsoft Teams, is an introduction to basic statistical concepts, and is run by statisticians and epidemiologists based at the National Heart and Lung Institute (NHLI), part of Imperial.

It is suitable for doctors (including trainee grades, nurses, allied health professionals, clinical research fellows and postgraduate students.

Registration fees are as follows (VAT doesn’t apply):

  • MSc/PhD Students: £120
  • Academic/NHS/Charities: £190
  • Corporate/Other: £240

Imperial College staff and students can pay via internal journal/transfer, using an Imperial finance code.  Please contact Magda Wheatley on wheatley@imperial.ac.uk for further details.

Places are offered on a ‘first-come, first-served’ basis.  Please note that we can accommodate 45 delegates only, and that the course tends to fill up quickly.  Registration will close when the course is full.

Further details can be seen on our website: https://www.medstatscourse.co.uk/

Book onto the course here.

Azrieli International Fellowships (Deadlines 27 Oct and 19 November 2025)

Applications are now open for the Azrieli International Postdoctoral Fellowship and the Azrieli International Visiting PhD Fellowship, both for exceptional international researchers. Please note that candidates for each fellowship must secure an academic sponsor in Israel before applying.

Azrieli International Postdoctoral Fellowship (2026–27)

The online application is now open, and closes on 19 November 2025. This fellowship supports postdoctoral researchers from all disciplines to advance their work at Israeli academic institutions. Fellows receive a 14,000 ILS monthly stipend for a period of up to three years.

Azrieli International Visiting PhD Fellowship (Spring 2026)

The online application is now open for the Spring 2026 cohort, with a deadline of 27 October 2025. This fellowship enables PhD candidates to undertake short-term research at leading academic institutions in Israel. Fellows receive 12,000 ILS per month for up to four months. Please note: Applications for the Fall 2026 semester will open in March 2026.

For more than 35 years, the Azrieli Foundation has been dedicated to strengthening communities and improving people’s lives through strategic and impactful giving, supporting initiatives in education, science & healthcare, research and the arts, across communities in Canada and Israel. For more information: https://azrielifoundation.org/.

Black @ Imperial

Are you a Black heritage student at Imperial? Black @ Imperial is a programme designed to support you through a variety of free events on campus such as socials with Afro-Caribbean snacks and careers talks with Black professionals. Our first event this year is a Board Games Social in partnership with ICU on Thursday 16 October, 5pm – 7pm.

You can find out more and sign up to our events on the Black @ Imperial webpage.

Imperial Fungal Science Network – Seminar (16 Oct 2025)

The Imperial Fungal Science Network is a hub for the mycology community, providing a leadership, advocacy and communications platform for mycologists and a developmental framework for future leaders in fungal research.

We warmly invite you to attend the Imperial Fungal Science Network – Seminar on

🗓️ Thursday 16th October, 12:00 – 13:00

📍 G47 Flowers Building, South Kensington Campus,
Armstrong Road, London SW7 2AZ

in-person (walk in; refreshments from 11:30am)
or online (via Teams)

no registration required

The seminar explores host-pathogen interactions and we are delighted to welcome our speaker:

Venizelos Papayannopoulos
Principal Group Leader (The Francis Crick Institute)

Mechanisms of NET stability and degradation in infection

Neutrophils are essential immune phagocytes that control a variety of microbial pathogens, but are also implicated in immune pathology and tissue destruction.  Veni is interested in understanding how neutrophil responses are properly regulated to control pathogens while minimizing immune pathology.  He has previously described mechanisms that regulate the release of chromatin structures called neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) in response to fungal pathogens and their role in immune protection and pathology.  During his visit, Veni will discuss unpublished work that explores how NETs are properly stabilized and subsequently degraded to balance inflammatory programmes and minimize microbial dissemination and fungal asthma.

Entrepreneurship Café (20 Oct 2025)

The Enterprise Lab is launching the Entrepreneurship Café – a new networking series to help students, staff, alumni and founders spark collaboration and connect.

📅 Monday 20 October | 🕒 12pm – 2pm | 📍 Enterprise Lab, South Kensington

At the Café you can:

  • Meet potential co-founders or collaborators
  • Share your skills and discover what others can offer
  • Connect through a colour-coded name tag system
  • Enjoy coffee and croissants in a relaxed setting

👉 Sign up by 13 October 2025 | 🔗 https://forms.office.com/e/EvE3RDpbeU

Global Fellows Fund 2025-26 – Applications now open! (deadline: 13 Oct)

Calling all Imperial PhD students! Do you want the opportunity to travel the world and be stretched beyond your comfort zone? Are you excited by the idea of experiencing how leading scientists, engineers, mathematicians and/or clinicians are tackling your area of interest in another country? Do you want to challenge yourself through immersion in a different research setting surrounded by new social, environmental and cultural perspectives?  Do you want to the chance to expand your professional and personal networks and draw on this support for the rest of your career?

Then you should apply for Imperial’s Global Fellows Fund 2025-26 and take up a placement in Africa, Asia, North America or Europe!

The Imperial Global Fellows Fund supports high impact international placements for PhD students in labs at Imperial’s strategic international partners. Students, with support of their PhD supervisor and host supervisor, will have the opportunity to spend between 1 and 3 months at one of the following partners:

  • Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany
  • Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
  • Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, Mumbai, India
  • French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France (NB approval is needed from both the CNRS host supervisor and her/his head of department or institute)
  • African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), Rwanda, South Africa, Senegal, Ghana
  • Cornell University, USA
  • University of Toronto, Canada
  • Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan
  • University of Ghana
  • National University of Singapore

Read more about the experience of nine Imperial students at Cornell University in New York and find some top tips on how to prepare and apply here.

The deadline for applications is Monday 13 October 2025.

Financial support for this scheme is provided in part by the College’s 2025-26 Turing Scheme award.

For the 2025/26 academic year, the International Relations Office will provide top up funding equal to the cost-of-living grant provided by the Turing scheme grant to help cover more of the overall costs. Enhanced funding is also available for those who meet the necessary criteria.

For further details, including full guidance, eligibility criteria, information on the partners and a link to the application form, please visit the webpage.

Queries can be sent to globalseedfunds@imperial.ac.uk

Staff and student volunteers wanted for Artificial intelligence ECG research!

Staff and student volunteers wanted for Artificial intelligence ECG research!

We are looking for volunteers to take part in a study looking at how AI can predict a
person’s BMI, age, and sex using ECG data from consumer wearables like
smartwatches and portable cardiac devices.

Who can take part?

  • Imperial College staff and students, men and women aged 18-80 years

Taking part involves 1 single study visit, lasting approximately 10 minutes:

  • A short health questionnaire
  • Having your height and weight measured
  • Having ECG recordings taken using Apple Watch, KardiaMobile, and Ekodigital stethoscope

For further information regarding our study, please visit:

https://cardiacep.ai/infosheet

If you are interested in taking part, we are currently taking appointments for study visits at the Imperial Centre for Translational and Experimental Medicine (ICTEM) via the following link:

https://cardiacepai.setmore.com/cardiacepai 

Please note, currently appointments are being taken up to 2 weeks in advance to avoid overbooking. New appointment slots will be available every week.

Many thanks for taking the time to read this email!

Dr. Ahmed El-Medany a.el-medany24@imperial.ac.uk

The Cardiac Electrophysiology & AI Research Group

Imperial College London