Tag: Doctoral Students

Climate Fresk (22 July 2025)

🌍   Participate in a Climate Fresk  🌍 

Take part in this global innovative workshop where you’ll learn the fundamentals of climate change through an engaging card game. Collaborate with fellow participants to understand the causes and consequences of climate change while building a visual representation of global systems.

  • Tuesday 22 July | 10 – 1 | Grantham Boardroom

Sign up – Open to all Imperial students and staff

Skills gained

⚙️ Systems thinking & critical analysis: gain insight into complex, interconnected global issues.

💬 Climate & science communication: understand the foundations of climate science and develop the language to communicate key facts confidently

🧠 Reflective thinking: engage in structured reflection on your role in systems change

🤝 Collaboration & peer learning: work in diverse groups to solve problems, co-create meaning and negotiate shared understandings

🗣 Confidence in dialogue: develop your ability to speak about challenging topics with nuance and respect, listen actively, and contribute constructively in group discussions

📊 Evidence-based reasoning: strengthen your ability to interpret complex data and draw insights that inform decisions

Summer Conversation Café (July & August 2025)

Summer conversation café!​ 🌍🍰☕
12:00-13:00 ​ | Wednesdays (every 2 weeks)

Open to all members of the Imperial community​

  • Meet new people​
  • Learn about other cultures and share about your own​
  • Exchange views on interesting topics​
  • Support fellow students to practice English ​
  • Practice English in a relaxed environment ​
  • Develop communication and listening skills​
  • Enjoy free snacks and drinks!

Dates for summer 2025:

  • Weds 9th July
  • Weds 23rd July
  • Weds 6th August
  • Weds 20th August

​Sign up​ to receive​ more details

NVIDIA’s Deep Learning Institute (DLI) Free Courses

We have just released a new series of (Free to Academia) training courses. Can you please share these as much as you can within Imperial! They have been popular before:

I invite you to join NVIDIA’s Deep Learning Institute (DLI) for a free, virtual instructor-led workshop providing hands-on experience with GPU-accelerated servers in the cloud to complete end-to-end projects in deep learning, accelerated computing, generative AI and accelerated data science. These workshops are led by a DLI Certified Instructor and offer an opportunity to earn an industry-recognized certificate of competency based on assessments to support your career growth.

Workshops:

Fundamentals of Deep Learning

16 July 2025 from 9:00am – 5:00pm, CEST UTC+2

Building Conversational AI Applications

17 July 2025 from 9:00am – 5:00pm, CEST UTC+2

Building LLM Applications With Prompt Engineering

23 July 2025 from 9:00am – 5:00pm, CEST UTC+2

Fundamentals of Accelerated Data Science

20 August 2025 from 9:00am – 5:00pm, CEST UTC+2

Fundamentals of Accelerated Computing with CUDA C/C++

3 September 2025 from 9:00am – 5:00pm, CEST UTC+2

Only current students, researchers and faculty with a valid email address from a college or university in Europe, Israel, Middle East or Africa are eligible to attend.

The number of seats is limited. Please register here to secure your spot.

Please note these are external courses and no credits will be provided.

World of Food workshops (July & August 2025)

We’re excited to invite you to a series of hands-on World of Food cooking workshops, where colleagues (staff and students) will share personal stories about the food and culture that matter most to them.

Each workshop will include collaborative cooking, storytelling from our colleagues, and of course, enjoying the meal we’ve prepared together.

These workshops are a celebration of our rich cultural diversity, the values we share, and the joy of coming together. Food has a remarkable ability to connect us on a fundamental level, and exploring what it means to each of us is a powerful way to build mutual appreciation and understanding.

You can sign up using the link below to participate in this year’s sessions. To ensure a fair process, each workshop has a registration deadline. After the deadline, participants will be selected through a lottery. Selected individuals will have 48 hours to confirm their spot. Any unconfirmed spots will be offered to those on the randomized waiting list.

All workshops will take place on Wednesdays in the Chemical Kitchen (Room 763, Chemistry Building, South Kensington):

  • Wednesday, 16.07 | 15:00–18:00 – Registration deadline: Wednesday, 09.07 at 12:00 (noon)
  • Wednesday, 30.07 | 15:00–18:00 – Registration deadline: Wednesday, 23.07 at 12:00 (noon)
  • Wednesday, 06.08 | 15:00–18:00 – Registration deadline: Wednesday, 30.07 at 12:00 (noon)
  • Wednesday, 13.08 | 16:00–19:00 – Registration deadline: Wednesday, 06.08 at 12:00 (noon)

REGISTER

Feel free to join individually or as a group – no cooking experience is needed, and everyone is welcome!

Spaces are limited, so be sure to register before the deadlines.

EarthScale: A new national programme to scale climate tech (deadline: 07 Sept 2025)

EarthScale: A new national programme to scale climate tech

We’re proud to be one of six partner universities delivering EarthScale, a bold new UK-wide programme supporting IP-rich climate tech startups and spinouts to scale to commercialisation.

Across the UK, high-potential climate innovations are emerging but too often, ventures stall between prototype and commercial success. EarthScale bridges that gap.

Backed by a powerhouse network of regional university hubs – Imperial College London, Cranfield University, the University of Derby, the University of Exeter, the University of Leeds and the University of Nottingham – the programme delivers:

  • Access to world-class technical & manufacturing facilities
  • Expert enterprise development and investor connections
  • Talent and peer engagement
  • Navigation of policy and regulation

If you’re developing a solution for net zero or climate resilience at TRL 5 – 6 and have raised seed investment, this is your opportunity to scale.

Applications open now until 7 September. Learn more and apply at www.earthscale.co.uk

Call out: Students from underrepresented backgrounds – Do you feel like you belong here?

Hi all,

My name is Mohamed, and I’m a Master’s student here at Imperial. I’m currently researching how those of us from underrepresented backgrounds (ethnic minorities and working-class individuals) navigate the world of academia, and how much we feel we belong to the institutions we inhabit.

I am interested in exploring the experiences of ‘home’ PhD students at Imperial.

If you feel like you would be interested in participating in this research and sharing your experiences, please fill out the MS form below so we can arrange an chat:

https://forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=B3WJK4zudUWDC0-CZ8PTBzausvIQsJtHjbVzOyj00WtURTlPRzE2MVEzVUdYTFIzMFZYTko4S1RWNi4u

I would greatly appreciate your contributions.

Kind regards,

Mohamed Shadid (MSc Science Communication)

GTA Opportunity – Paid LaTeX development opportunity

The Research Computing and Data Science team are in the process of commissioning and collating a series of exemplar programming projects known as ReCoDE. These projects are designed to demonstrate good programming practice in research to help other students learn by example and include extensive annotation to explain their function and the design choices made.

We generally welcome any submission, but we are looking to commission a particular submission in the form of a LaTeX template for an Imperial doctoral thesis. This template should match all of Imperial’s thesis requirements and should not be overly complicated, such that a relatively inexperienced LaTeX user would have the background to understand it. The basic skeleton of the thesis and the formatting required to meet Imperial’s requirements should be the focus, but other useful pieces of LaTeX may also be demonstrated.  This template does not need extensive research content, but could include some if it helps to demonstrate the formatting tools used.

If you are interested in working on this exemplar, more information on contributing can be found here. Click on the “Pitch an exemplar here” button at the bottom of that page to submit a proposal. The next round of exemplars will be selected in the autumn, and we will review all proposals before reaching out to selected applicants to complete the exemplar over three months in the autumn term.

Authors of exemplar are paid as GTAs (or Casual Workers) for 45 hours of work at a rate of £35.78/hour, including holiday pay.

UKRI Policy Internships scheme – call for applicants (deadline: 08 Sept 2025)

As part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)’s postgraduate training portfolio, the UKRI Policy Internships scheme provides an opportunity for UKRI-funded doctoral students to undertake a three-month placement at one of a selected group of influential policy organisations.

Funding opportunity closing date: 08 September 2025

Find out more & apply

Opportunities for PhDs/Postdocs (Quant research roles)

Options Group is hiring in for an important hedge fund client who manage >$10bn in aum.  The client is looking to speak with entry level PhDs or Postdocs focusing on Machine Learning/AI, Math, Stats, Physics, Computer Science for various quant research roles based in London.  Additionally, about the client’s search:

They are looking for exceptional generalists—either applied researchers or theorists with some coding experience. Historically, statisticians have been the most common hires, but last year they hired more pure math candidates than any other background. They’ve also brought on people with publications in machine learning journals and active GitHub profiles. Their hires include computer scientists, including those focused on theoretical CS. One of their Partners in London, for example, comes from a theoretical physics background..

Interested parties can contact Keith Macksoud (Options Group, Executive Director) immediately with a CV.