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
- Physically Interpretable Machine Learning (PIML) for digital analysis and design of complex dynamic systems
Supervisors: Yunpeng ZHU and Han ZHANG
Apply by: 31 January 2024 - Computational Additive Manufacturing-enabled Materials Discovery
Supervisors: Chinnapat PANWISAWAS and Harry BHADESHIA
Apply by: 31 January 2024 - Additively manufactured nanocomposite microstructures towards macroscale superlubricity and hydrophobicity
Supervisors: Dimitrios PAPAGEORGIOU, Colin CRICK and Han ZHANG
Apply by: 31 January 2024 - Sustainable and smart polymer composites with integrated sensing, repairing and recyclability
Supervisors: Han ZHANG, James BUSFIELD and Dimitrios PAPAGEORGIOU
Apply by: 31 January 2024 - Reliable accelerated aging test methods (AAT) for composite materials for subsea application
Supervisors: Himadri GUPTA and Haibao LIU
Apply by: 31 January 2024 - Development of wide bandgap perovskite solar cells for indoor and tandem applications
Supervisor: Joe BRISCOE
Apply by: 31 January 2024 - Advanced manufacturing of nanostructured battery electrodes using 3D printing.
Supervisors: Ana JORGE SOBRIDO and Maria CRESPO-RIBADENEYRA
Apply by: 31 January 2024 - Understanding the effect on electric field induced via microwave-synthesised electrocatalysts for energy conversion and storage.
Supervisor: Ana JORGE SOBRIDO
Apply by: 31 January 2024 - Development of advanced cooling devices based on solid-state refrigeration
Supervisors: Haixue YAN and Huasheng WANG
Apply by: 31 January 2024 - Reactions and phase transitions at interfaces for bottom-up synthesis
Supervisors: Stoyan SMOUKOV and Radomir SLAVCHOV
Apply by: 31 January 2024 - Bottom-up synthetic biology and artificial cells and scaffolds
Supervisors: Stoyan SMOUKOV and Julien GAUTROT
Apply by: 31 January 2024 - Development of sustainable lead-free ferroelectric ceramics for solid-state refrigeration
Supervisors: Haixue YAN and Huasheng WANG
Apply by: 31 January 2024 - Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from green hydrogen and ammonia supply chains
Supervisors: Paul BALCOMBE and Maria CRESPO-RIBADENEYRA
Apply by: 31 January 2024 - Methane emissions from China: measuring, modelling and mitigating
Supervisors: Paul BALCOMBE and Xi JIANG
Apply by: 31 January 2024 - Green and Energy Autonomous IoT devices enabled by compostable Organic Photovoltaics
Supervisor: Zhe LI
Apply by: 31 January 2024 - Advanced manufacturing, imaging and modelling of novel-structured high-energy density lithium-ion battery electrodes
Supervisor: Xuekun LU
Apply by: 31 January 2024 - Optimisation of visible light absorbing ferroelectrics for photoelectrochemical water splitting and CO2 reduction for solar fuels
Supervisor: Joe BRISCOE
Apply by: 28 March 2024 - Enhancing remediation of PFAS-contaminated soils using smart materials and novel separation processes
Supervisors: Edo BOEK and Ian COLLINS
Apply by: 28 March 2024 - Transforming Redox Flow Battery Performance By Smart Design Of Novel Porous Electrode Materials
Supervisors: Edo BOEK and Ana JORGE SOBRIDO
Apply by: 28 March 2024 - Developing a machine learning framework for rapid optimisation of hairpin windings of traction motors
Supervisor: Amin PAYKANI
Apply by: 28 March 2024 - Machine learning for modelling low-temperature reactive plasmas
Supervisors: Amin PAYKANI and Xi JIANG
Apply by: 28 March 2024 - Physics-informed data-driven modelling for predicting the seawater aging effects on composite materials
Supervisors: Haibao LIU and Wei TAN
Apply by: 28 March 2024 - Edible and transient electronics originating from green composites
Supervisors: Dimitrios PAPAGEORGIOU, Colin CRICK and Han ZHANG
Apply by: 28 March 2024 - Bottom-up synthetic biology and artificial cells and scaffolds (Conacyt)
Supervisors: Stoyan SMOUKOV and Julien GAUTROT
Apply by: 28 March 2024 - Multiscale modelling of lithium-ion batteries towards advanced material design and manufacturing
Supervisor: Xuekun LU
Apply by: 22 April 2024