21/09/2026
An exciting new PhD opportunity in the School of Biological and Marine Sciences at the University of Plymouth – led by Dr Benjamin Ciotti, and working with Oliver Tills, Ziad Ibbini and colleagues from the EmbryoPhenomics team.
Supported by the University of Plymouth and Natural England, this project will develop and apply camera-based approaches to understand how juvenile fish use different inshore habitats.
We are looking for candidates with an appetite for using novel approaches to fisheries and conservation ecology – combining widespread underwater camera deployments with AI-based video processing to tackle important ecological questions and advance how we monitor coastal fish populations.
This is a great opportunity for someone interested in working at the intersection of marine ecology, imaging technology and computer vision, while addressing questions with direct relevance to conservation and fisheries management.
Applications close 29 October 2026.
Read more about the project and how to apply:
University of Plymouth PhD studentship: Developing and applying camera monitoring tools for inshore fish assemblages.
