PhD Studentship: Understanding Loss Mechanisms in Rotating Detonation Rocket Engines

Supervisory Team: David AnglandProject description:A PhD studentship is now available in the area of aircraft aerodynamics and aeroacoustics (aerodynamically generated noise). The studentship provides a unique opportunity to work on a relevant engineering problem at the Airbus Noise Technology Centre (ANTC), part of the Faculty of Engineering and Physical...

Supervisory Team: Nicholas Evans, Jeremy Webb, Janos Kanczler, Eleanor Stride, Dario Carugo (University of Oxford)PhD Supervisor: Nicholas EvansProject description:Bone disease has a cost to the UK economy of £5 billion/year. Surgeons attempt to repair bones and joints by conducting invasive surgery, including for example the implantation of prosthetics....

Project title: Challenging Deepfake Voices Supervisory Team: Dr. Jennifer Williams (primary), Prof Richard Guest (secondary)Project description:Fake and synthetic media are becoming a well-known issue in society, from AI regulation and AI safety to protecting democracy from election interference. This exciting PhD project investigates two technical aspects...

Project title: Application of Linear-Scaling Quantum Mechanics Methods to Hydrogen Transport Through Complex MaterialsSupervisory Team: Chris-Kriton Skylaris (80%) Jeremy Frey (20%)Project description:Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations are typically limited to tens of atoms due to the steep increase of the computational effort with the number of...

Supervisory Team: Dr. Charlie Ryan, Dr. Ralf DeiterdingPhD Supervisor: Charlie RyanProject description:For the past 50 years the dominant rockets used in space have been hydrazine based chemical thrusters. They are robust and offer good performance. However their performance comes with a large disadvantage as hydrazine is extremely toxic and carcinogenic,...

Supervisory Team: Benjamin CameronProject descriptionThis PhD is focussed on a new theoretical/computational method to measure material properties in places where they are really difficult to measure: e.g. in a shock wave, in a shear band, or at a crack tip. These are all of critical importance in many engineering problems such as car crashes, manufacturing...

Supervisory Team: Philippa ReedPhD Supervisor: Philippa ReedProject description:Cold spray is a repair process that can be considered an additive repair process, whereby metal powder particles are impacted at high speed in a carrier gas, at relatively low temperatures, so the repaired surface layer is formed by extreme deformation rather than melting and...

Supervisory Team: Dr Gustavo de Almeida; Dr Sergio MaldonadoProject description:Applications are invited for a fully funded PhD position on the investigation of novel design methods to improve the resilience of submerged infrastructure (i.e. bridge piers, wind turbines) subject to hydrodynamic action (e.g. currents and waves).Many critical submerged...

Supervisory Team: Chris-Kriton Skylaris (80%) Jeremy Frey (20%) Project Description: The computational simulation of chemical reactions in materials requires an accurate, explicit description of their electrons. This can be achieved by quantum mechanical calculations from first principles, in particular with Density Functional Theory (DFT) which achieves a...

Supervisory Team: Philippa ReedPhD Supervisor: Philippa ReedProject description:Ti fan blades contain complex two phase microstructures that exhibit quite strong textures (where grains show significant alignment). This can affect the process of initiation (via slip band formation) and how these slip bands interact to produce crack propagation. Different Ti...

Supervisory Team: Claire Clarkin, Nicholas Fuggle, Jemma Kerns (University of Lancaster),Project description:Funding for this project is offered by the Centre for Doctoral Training in Complex Integrated Systems for Defence & Security (CISDnS), which will recruit motivated and inquisitive candidates across the themes of Digital, Physical and Biological...

Supervisory Team: Dr Seung Lee (School of Chemistry), Prof. Jeremy Webb (School of Biological Sciences and National Biofilms Innovation Centre), Prof. Paul Stoodley (University of Southampton), Dr Rob Howlin (Haleon, industry), Dr David Bradshaw and Dr Ricarda Hawkins (Haleon, industry) Project Description:A fully-funded 4 year National Biofilms Innovation...

PhD Supervisor: Antonia MarcuSupervisory Team: Antonia Marcu, Jonathon HareProject description:Deep Learning (DL) is a widely successful tool. However, there are many fundamental challenges left to solve in DL. One such challenge is "simplicity bias'', which is a model's bias towards learning simplistic rules even at the cost of performance. As a result,...

Supervisory Team: Dr James Gates, Dr Rex BannermanProject description:The University of Southampton is expanding its PhD research in the area of Quantum Technology Engineering. In addition to the research project outlined below you will receive substantial training in scientific, technical, and commercial skills.Using Southampton's state-of-the-art...

PhD Supervisor: Dr Seung Lee Supervisory Team: Dr Seung Lee (School of Chemistry), Prof. Jeremy Webb (School of Biological Sciences and national Biofilms Innovation Centre), Prof. Paul Stoodley (University of Southampton and Ohio State University)Project description:A fully-funded 4 year PhD studentship (Institute for Life Sciences studentship) for research...

Supervisory Team: Yasmeen Hamza and David SimpsonPhD Supervisor: Yasmeen HamzaProject description:Dementia impairs cognitive ability and currently affects 55 million people worldwide. Hearing loss is the number one modifiable risk factor for dementia. The underlying mechanisms of the well-established association between hearing loss and cognitive decline...

Supervisory Team: Dr N.C. Townsend, Prof D.A. Hudson and Dr J.A. Bowker (industrial)Project descriptionShip model testing is expensive and time consuming. Can we derive hydrodynamic seakeeping and manoeuvring characteristics with focused datasets, eliminating time consuming single variable investigations?In this PhD program you will develop and test novel...

Supervisory Team: Dr. Andrea Da Ronch Project descriptionApplications are invited for a Ph.D. studentship on Aircraft State Modelling & Separation for Fatigue Design. The scholarship is funded by Airbus Operations Ltd through an EPSRC Industrial CASE Award. The project has the potential of significantly improving the fatigue design and maintenance of an...

Supervisory team: Ben LinetonProject descriptionThe mechanical response of the cochlea to sound exhibits an intriguing array of different non-linear phenomena, involving interactions across time and frequency. These remain poorly understood but can be assessed using otoacoustic emissions (OAEs): low-level sounds detectable in the ear canal.OAEs are measured...

Supervisory Team: Dr N.C. Townsend, Prof D.A. Hudson and Dr J.A. Bowker (industrial)Project descriptionWave energy can be used to improve the performance of ships and boats. By exploiting hydrodynamically the available wave energy, the motions, emissions, and powering requirements of ships operating in adverse weather conditions can be significantly...