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China Scholarship Council Scholarships

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. 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 Mathematical Sciences is pleased to offer up to 30 PhD projects under this scheme to start in September 2025. Please see below for the available projects.

 

CeCANT Cell complexes and resolutions from tropical cycles Alex Fink 
CeCANT Chern classes of tropical manifolds Felipe Rincón
CeCANT Number Theory, automorphic forms and representations, L-functions   Abhishek Saha
CS Generative AI modelling with jump-diffusions Adrian Baule
CS Stochastic modelling of frequency fluctuations in power grids of the future Christian Beck
CS The dynamics of higher-order networks Ginestra Bianconi
CS The Typically Periodic Optimization Conjecture in Dynamical Systems Oliver Jenkinson
CS Modelling stochastic processes in cancer evolution and healthy tissue with driver mutations Weini Huang
CS Understanding creativity and success in modern innovation ecosystems Vito Latora
CS Local and global geometry of graphs and applications Anna Maltsev
CS Random matrix approaches to quantum graphs Anna Maltsev
CS Including socioeconomic indicators into mathematical epidemic models Nicola Perra
CS Topological invariants for symbolic dynamical systems with sparse irregularities Reem Yassawi
GAnG TBC Michalis Agathos
GAnG Numerical relativity for fundamental physics Katy Clough
GAnG Gravitational waves in higher derivative theories of gravity Pau Figueras
GAnG p-evolution equations with low-regular coefficients Claudia Garetto
GAnG Quantum Riemannian geometry to mathematical physics and quantum gravity  Shahn Majid
GAnG Geometric Flows

Huy Nguyen/

Shengwen Wang
GAnG Control and Asymptotics of Critically Singular Partial Differential Equations Arick Shao
PSD Combinatorics of Probability Natasha Blitvic
PSD Applications of Universality in Topological Data Analysis Omer Bobrowski
PSD

Advanced Inference methods for High-Dimensional and Functional Data

 Nicolás Hernández
PSD

Adaptive Inference and Segmentation for Functional Time Series

 Nicolás Hernández
PSD Statistical modeling of high-dimensional financial time series Alexander Shestopaloff
PSD Learning graphical models for heterogeneous functional data with applications in neuroscience - see email  Eftychia Solea

 

How to Apply

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Applicants are asked to follow our usual online application process and identify themselves as CSC scholars in the funding section of their application. 

The application form for each subject can be found by selecting your subject area from the drop-down menu. Please make sure to choose "Semester 1" and "Full-Time". https://www.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate/research/applying-for-a-phd/ 

For visiting/associate students, who are coming to Queen Mary for a short amount of time, as part of your current PhD, please apply via this page https://www.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate/associate/ 

For applicants for Economics and Finance, you will first be admitted onto the MRes programme for two years. Then, subject to good progress, you will be transferred onto the PhD programme for the third, fourth and fifth years. 

You must meet the IELTS requirements for your course and send the evidence to Admissions within plenty of time of  CSC's application deadline. You are therefore strongly advised to sit an approved English Language test as soon as possible. Your IELTS test must still be valid when you enrol for the programme. They are valid for 2 years. 

The deadline for applications to Queen Mary is 29 January 2025.

Once applicants have obtained their offer letter from Queen Mary they should then apply to CSC for the scholarship by the advertised deadline. For September 2025 entry, applicants must complete the CSC application on the CSC website.

Please note that CSC application rules differ slightly for domestic applicants (students applying from China) and overseas applicants (students applying from overseas) –please see the CSC website for further guidance. 

If successful in your application you must start your programme in the 2025/26 academic year. Scholarships cannot be deferred to the following academic year.

For any questions about the Queen Mary/CSC partnership please contact international-partnerships@qmul.ac.uk For more detailed questions about your PhD proposal and the application process please contact your school on the contact details listed above. 

 

 

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