PhD study
EPCC offers a unique setting for in-depth research and excellent connections into industry to provide further opportunities for our students and graduates. As one of Europe's leading supercomputing centres, we host a wide, varied, and interesting hardware ecosystem.
PhD opportunities
EPCC offers the opportunity to study for a PhD in areas related to High Performance Computing (HPC), Computational Science, Data Engineering, Data Science, and Software Sustainability.
Meet our PhD students
PhD stories
Updates related to PhD candidates and research at EPCC.
EPCC PhD research: Compiling HPC codes for novel hardware architectures
Jake Davies is investigating whether existing programming models can run on custom hardware architectures performantly, attaining high performance and code portability across accelerators.
Duolingo dissertation grant supports research into AI-generated mathematical stories
A Duolingo dissertation grant has been awarded to a team at the University of Edinburgh to support research into AI-generated mathematical storytelling.
What's it like to study for a PhD at EPCC?
Jake Davies' research is focused on compiling high-performance codes for RISC-V-based novel architectures. Here he writes about his experience as a PhD student at EPCC.
From PhD candidate to EPCC team member
Shrey Bhardwaj became an applications developer at EPCC last month, after having first joined us as a PhD student.
Improving data flows for weather forecasting
EPCC PhD student Nicolau Manubens, in collaboration with supervisor Adrian Jackson and the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), presented work on utilising object storag
PhD research: enhancing Sparse Linear Algebra with AI and HPC
In the rapidly evolving landscape of high-performance computing, the challenge of efficiently processing large and sparse datasets is a critical hurdle across various scientific and engineering dom
