China Scholarship Council

Queen Mary University of London has partnered with the China Scholarship Council (CSC) to offer a joint scholarship programme to enable Chinese students to study for a PhD programme at Queen Mary. and awards 60 joint QMUL-CSC PhD scholarships each year.

Under the scheme, Queen Mary will provide scholarships to cover all tuition fees, whilst the CSC will provide living expenses for 4 years and one return flight ticket to successful applicants.

The School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences is pleased to offer projects under this scheme to start in September 2024. Please see below for the available projects.

Eligibility and applying

Applicants must be:

Chinese students with a strong academic background.
Students holding a PR Chinese passport.
Either a resident in China at the time of application or studying overseas.
Students with prior experience of studying overseas (including in the UK) are eligible to apply. Chinese QMUL graduates/Masters’ students are therefore eligible for the scheme.

Please refer to the CSC website for full details on eligibility and conditions on the scholarship.

The deadline for applications to Queen Mary is 31st January 2024. Applicants will need to complete an online application form by this date to be considered. Shortlisted applicants will be invited for a formal interview by the supervisor.

Shortlisted applicants will be invited for a formal interview by the project supervisor. Those who are successful in their application to our PhD programmes will be issued with an offer letter which is conditional on securing a CSC scholarship (as well as any academic conditions still required to meet our entry requirements).

Once applicants have obtained their QMUL Offer Letter, they should then apply to CSC for the scholarship by the advertised deadline with the support of the project supervisor.

Project title	Primary supervisor
Exploring a new regulatory pathway in the Photosystem II supercopmplex	Prof Alexander Ruban
Investigating the contribution of endogenous viruses to the virulence of parasitic eukaryotes	Dr Alexandre de Mendoza
Characterization of the evolution of DNA methylation readers across eukaryotes	Dr Alexandre de Mendoza
Mathematical and computational modelling of biodiversity on large spatial scales	Dr Axel Rossberg
With biodiversity credit markets towards ecological civilization?	Dr Axel Rossberg
Understanding the mechanism of ubiquitin ligases in host-pathogen interactions	Dr Ben Stieglitz
Exploring the the ubiquitin system in innate immunity	Dr Ben Stieglitz
An innovative machine learning pipeline for accelerating the translation of medicinal hemp	Prof Caroline Brennan
Neuronal control of food intake and stress response on neurodegeneration (ND) using zebrafish as a model	Prof Caroline Brennan
Digital Chloroplast: Computational models of the organization, phase behaviour and function of the photosynthetic membrane	Dr Christopher Duffy
Dissecting the molecular alarm clock of bacteria	Dr Christoph Engl
Epigenetics of adaptation in sea turtles	Prof Christophe Eizaguirre
Applying Machine Learning to analyse phenotypic noise within bacterial populations	Prof Conrad Bessant
RNA zip-codes in cyanobacteria	Prof Conrad Mullineaux
Experience-dependent consolidation of spatial coding	Dr Guifen Chen
Role of Adult-born Oligodendrocytes in Spatial Coding	Dr Guifen Chen
Please contact the supervisor for project details.	Dr Guy Hanke
Investigation of novel molecular mechanisms for regulation of neuronal Calcium channels	Dr Ivan Kadurin
Factors affecting the migratory behaviour of a partially anadromous fish.	Prof John Iwan Jones
Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and cognitive functioning in older age	Dr Jessica Agnew-Blais
Genetic and epigenetic underpinnings of adult ADHD	Dr Jessica Agnew-Blais
Protein Misfolding and Assembly of Amyloid-beta and lipid membrane interactions in Alzheimer’s Disease	Dr John Viles
Cognition in insects	Prof Lars Chittka
Consciousness and Sentience of Insects	Prof Lars Chittka
Harnessing symbionts for control of vector borne diseases	Dr Lee Henry
Linking microbiomes to the evolution of ant-plant mutualisms	Dr Lee Henry
Characterizing how Misinformation Influences Decision-making: choice heuristics and neural correlates	Dr Lucie Charles
Detaching from unwanted influence: neural processes and alterations in mental illness	Dr Lucie Charles
Understanding the Impact of Artificial Social Agents on Human Behavior and Society	Dr Maria Bada
New sinks for potent climate gas nitrous oxide	Prof Mark Trimmer
New shortcuts through the nitrogen cycle	Prof Mark Trimmer
Membrane remodelling and Cilia: A Structural Approach	Dr Mark van Breugel
Forming first impressions from voices	Dr Nadine Lavan
Microbial cycling of organosulfur compounds in peatlands	Dr Ozge Eyice
Microbial mechanisms and control of nitrous oxide production in wastewater treatment reactors	Dr Ozge Eyice
Bridging the gap: Dissecting the role of PWWP domains in determining DNA methylation patterns during honey bee development	Dr Paul Hurd
Probiotics for honey bee development	Dr Paul Hurd
Efficient sampling of evolutionary trees with thousands of species: from viral phylogenies to the tree of life	Prof Richard Nichols
Please contact the supervisor for project details.	Prof Richard Pickersgill
Resolving the role of seasonally fluctuating balancing selection in maintaining adaptive genetic diversity in wild butterfly populations	Dr Vicencio Oostra
Understanding Chromosomal Instability in Cancers: study of phospho-changes at the outer-kinetochore using Astrin and Ndc80 complexes	Prof Viji Draviam
Single-molecule dissection of force-transmitting kinetochore-microtubule interface	Dr Vladimir Volkov
Genomic innovations in the evolution of superorganisms	Prof Yannick Wurm

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Eligibility and applying

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