Centre for Sustainable Engineering
PhD Studentships
We are all interested in PhD supervision and you are encouraged to look at individual academics' profiles to get ideas of their interests. You may apply for a self-funded (including via a national scholarship scheme or similar) at any time. Please contact the academic who you are interested in being supervised by to enquire further.
In addition, we currently have a range of funded PhD positions available:
Funded Studentships
- Mitigation of radical chain reactions in dense-phase CO2 streams by neutralizing NO2 via methanol and ammonia
Supervisor: Radomir SLAVCHOV
Apply by: 19 January 2026 - NET-zero: Natural resource, Energy, and Time efficient manufacturing
Supervisor: Salvatore GRASSO
Apply by: 28 January 2026 - Machine learning model development for oil cooling optimisation for traction motors
Supervisor: Amin PAYKANI
Apply by: 28 January 2026 - Adsorption of ions on hydrophobic surfaces
Supervisor: Radomir SLAVCHOV
Apply by: 28 January 2026 - Designing Solid Boosters for Enhanced Performance of Redox Targeting Flow Batteries
Supervisor: Ana JORGE SOBRIDO
Apply by: 28 January 2026 - Nanostructured Semiconductor Interfaces for the Next-Generation of Sustainable Photon Conversion Technologies
Supervisor: Flurin EISNER
Apply by: 28 January 2026 - Multifunctional Polymer Nanocomposites Harnessing Compositional Complexity for Enhanced Performance
Supervisors: Dimitrios PAPAGEORGIOU, Michael REECE and Haixue YAN
Apply by: 28 January 2026 - Development of sensor materials for 3D flow shear sensing to investigate patterns of cell colonisation within complex porous matrices
Supervisors: Steffi KRAUSE, Karin HING, Joe BRISCOE and Stefaan VERBRUGGEN
Apply by: 28 January 2026 - Understanding light-induced switching of ferroelectrics towards optically controlled neuromorphic computing
Supervisor: Joe BRISCOE
Apply by: 28 January 2026 - High Entropy Polymers for Renewable Energy Applications
Supervisor: Michael REECE
Apply by: 28 January 2026 - Soft touch electroactive elastomeric sensors and actuator devices.
Supervisor: James BUSFIELD
Apply by: 28 January 2026 - Membranes for Sustainable Molecular Separations
Supervisor: Andrew LIVINGSTON
Apply by: 28 January 2026 - Reducing methane emissions by improving measurements, modelling and mitigation technologies
Supervisors: Paul BALCOMBE and Neil CAGNEY
Apply by: 28 January 2026 - Machine-Learning Models for NMR Spectroscopy of Disordered Solids
Supervisor: Ricardo GRAU-CRESPO
Apply by: 28 January 2026 - Printed thermoelectric devices
Supervisor: Oliver FENWICK
Apply by: 28 January 2026 - Advanced Cathode and Anode Materials for Next‑Generation Sodium‑Ion Batteries
Supervisor: Maria CRESPO-RIBADENEYRA
Apply by: 28 January 2026