PhD Studentship: Fatigue in titanium alloys – establishing the mechanisms of crack initiation and propagation striation formation

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: Prof Mark Young (FEPS), Dr Chiara Dall'Ora (FELS)Project descriptionDo you have expertise and enthusiasm for human factors in healthcare? Do you want to carry out research that could have real benefits for staff and patient safety?If the answer is 'yes', then you should apply for this funded PhD project to address fatigue risk management in...

Supervisory Team: Prof Mark Young (FEPS), Dr Chiara Dall'Ora (FELS)Project descriptionDo you have expertise and enthusiasm for human factors in healthcare? Do you want to carry out research that could have real benefits for staff and patient safety?If the answer is 'yes', then you should apply for this funded PhD project to address fatigue risk management in...

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 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: 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...

Supervisors: Professor Sean Lim and Dr. Eugen Stulz (co-lead)Duration of the award: Four years Project description: The Schools of Medicine and Chemistry are offering a fully funded four-year PhD studentship in interdisciplinary cancer research, starting in October 2024. The highly motivated student will receive high-level interdisciplinary training in DNA...

Supervisory 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 atoms. Recent developments have led to "linear-scaling" reformulations of DFT which allow calculations with thousands of...

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: Dr Erisa Karafili, Dr Basel HalakPhD Supervisor: Erisa KarafiliProject description:Cyber-attacks in multi-domain environments present a critical challenge due to the interconnected nature of modern systems, spanning across the human, cyber and digital aspects. These attacks exploit vulnerabilities across domains, posing significant risks to...

Supervisory Team: Robert Wood, Georges Limbert and Dave Stewart (RRSL)Project description:Hard facing alloys, such as those used in nuclear power plant, are composite materials comprising carbides (and other hard phases), in galling resistant metallic matrices. Examples include the cobalt-based alloys, however due to cobalt activation by a neutron flux,...

PhD Supervisor: Dr Jack DennySupervisory Team: Dr Jack Denny; Prof Steeve Chung Kim Yuen (University of Cape Town)Project description:This PhD offers you the opportunity to tackle the real-world challenge of developing strategies to protect buildings and their occupants from explosions. You will also have the opportunity to work as part of a...

Supervisory Team: V. Sassone and B. HalakPhD Supervisor: Vlad SassoneProject description:We are looking for a high quality student with knowledge, expertise and interest in cyber security, game design and education for a multi-disciplinary PhD aimed at creating innovative resources for cyber security education using serious games. A specific but not...

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...

Supervisory Team: Claire Clarkin, Franklin Nobrega, Bram Sengers, Jemma Kerns (University of Lancaster)PhD Supervisor: Claire ClarkinProject 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...

Supervisory Team: Joerg FliegePhD Supervisor: Joerg FliegeProject description:This project will consider the development of mathematical models for electronic warfare, specifically electronic attack and electronic surveillance in the radio frequency region of the electromagnetic spectrum, with the scope of interest covering communications, active sensing...

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...

PhD Supervisor: Prof Andy ClarksonSupervisory Team: Prof Andy Clarkson and Prof Johan NilssonProject description:The project is to contribute to a major Ministry of Defence (MoD) research programme intended to develop generation after next technologies for applications in defence and security.The project will have two main themes. The first explores coherent...

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...

Full TimeClosing Date: 26th July 2024Bursary: The studentship includes a stipend, tuition fees and remuneration for teaching in accordance with the demonstrator rate of the University:Year: Annual Stipend: £19, 237Fees: Demonstrator rate: £15.76 per hoursTeaching 60 hours per annum: £1,418.40Applications are invited from highly motivated graduates...