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AFESP is advertising PhD opportunities to develop skills in new research across the physical, mathematical and computational sciences.

AFESP aims to support up to five fellows in the period 2025-2030. With an expected duration of 3–5 years, these fellowships aim to empower ambitious researchers to establish their independence…Read More >

We now wish to encourage PhD project ideas from interested supervisors & co-supervisors (N.B. The lead supervisor must be from the University of Reading) and invite brief project Expressions of Interest (EoIs), which can be submitted by completing the EoI form by Thursday 28th November 2024.

These initial research projects will deliver research priorities aligned to the strategic science plan for Advancing the Frontiers of Earth System Prediction (AFESP) which has been jointly agreed by the programme partners – the University of Reading, the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, the UK Met Office, and the National Centre for Atmospheric Science.  

This opportunity closed on 26 July 2023. Applicants will be notified of funding decisions in October 2023 and awards publicised by late 2023.   We currently have vacancies for six…Read More >

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A new £30 million partnership with is set to improve weather predictions through a research programme at the University of Reading.

We have announced the opportunity to submit ideas for the second ECMWF PhD in the series, for a start in the 2022-2023 academic year.

A topic for the first PhD of the ECMWF collaboration series has been selected.