Funded Studentship 2025-26 - Designing Chocolate Products with Enhanced Health, Wellbeing and Technical Performance using Artificial Intelligence

Funding

One full scholarship is available in the School of Food Science and Nutrition in 2026. This scholarship is open to Home fee rated candidates only and covers UK tuition fees, plus a maintenance grant at the UKRI level (£20,780 in 2025/26) for four years, plus £1,800 top-up per year, subject to satisfactory progress.

Lead Supervisor’s full name & email address

Prof Nik Watson, N.J.Watson@leeds.ac.uk

Co-supervisor name(s) & email address(s) (optional)

Dr Christine Bosch, C.Bosch@leeds.ac.uk

Project summary

This fully funded PhD place provides an exciting opportunity to pursue postgraduate research in a range of fields relating to Food Science, Nutrition and Data Analytics with the industry partner Mondelez International. For full details, please see the project page on the University of Leeds website.

References (Optional)

Please state your entry requirements plus any necessary or desired background

Applicants to research degree programmes should normally have at least a first class or an upper second class British Bachelors Honours degree (or equivalent) in an appropriate discipline.