We are offering two fully funded PhD studentships (covering tuition fees and a stipend of £14,553 per year) in Data Visualization, at Newcastle University, UK. The studentships are suitable for candidates with a degree in Computer Science or a similar area, with an interest in data/information visualization. *Interactive Visualization of Complex Data* This is an open project focusing on some of the main challenges in data visualization, guided by the interests of the candidate. Further details available at: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate/funding/sources/ukeustudents/cs061.html *Application deadline: **10 July 2017* *Mining the biological data deluge: highly interactive exploration of ‘omics type data through novel visualisation methods* This project is funded by Unilever R&D and BBSRC (as part of the National Productivity Investment Funding), and will through placements provide a unique opportunity to carry out visualization research in collaboration with scientists at one of the world’s largest consumer product companies. The main focus of the project lies on developing visualization for exploration of extremely high-dimensional biological data. Further details available at: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate/funding/sources/ukeustudents/cs060.html *Application deadline: **21 July 2017* The projects will be carried out at the School of Computing Science at Newcastle University (rated no 1 in research impact in the UK in REF 2014) and will be part of the research in the Scalable Computing group, which also hosts the EPSRC Doctoral Training Centre in Cloud Computing for Big Data. For further information about the projects, please contact: sara.fernstad@newcastle.ac.uk *To apply:* follow the guidance in the links above *Sara Johansson Fernstad, PhD* Lecturer in Data Science Digital Institute Newcastle University The Core, Science Central Bath Lane, Newcastle upon Tyne NE4 5TF UK E-mail:sara.fernstad@newcastle.ac.uk URL: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/computing/people/profile/sarafernstad