Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? Brunel University London, England invites online application for multiple funded PhD Programs / fully funded PhD positions in various research areas.
Candidates interested in fully funded PhD positions can check the details and may apply as soon as possible. Interested and eligible applicants may submit their online application for PhD programs via the University’s Online Application Portal.
1. Fully Funded PhD Position in Casting manufacturing for the engines designed for zero-carbon emission using green fuels
Summary of PhD Program:
The manufacturing of castings are key controlling factors for the engine manufacturing and application. With the growing need for performance improvement of lightweight structures, improving strength and ductility of light alloys such as aluminium (Al) alloys has become of paramount importance in industries. Generated during manufacturing processes, casting defects are the key factors affecting detrimentally the mechanical performance of components such as strength and ductility and the life of engines designed for zero-carbon emission using green fuels. To manufacture sound castings, several factors need to be optimised, these are (1) appropriate design of the gating system of the casting mould to satisfy the solidification requirements, (2) correctly chosen cores and mould materials to offer the required cooling rates, and (3) appropriate microstructural stabilization via recrystallization and inhibition of subsequent grain growth.
Application Deadline: 10 July 2024
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Simulation and experimental research of two different bending processes
Summary of PhD Program:
Typically, steel has often been used as the primary material in structural automotive components. However, there is a need to reduce vehicle emissions which demands car manufacturers to focus on next-generation electric vehicle (EV) production. This can be achieved by designing and manufacturing lightweight vehicles by replacing steel components with extruded aluminum alloys due to their high mechanical properties and low density. Constellium UK, and its extrusion development of high-strength and high-crash alloys, play an important role in enclosure structure designs for EVs.
There are applications where the bending of extrusions is a necessary cold forming step included in the process route to produce automotive components such as enclosure structures. The free-form bending technology, often known as 3D bending is a novel bending process that opens new and unique opportunities concerning the complexity of geometrical shapes (extrusions) and innovative designs, reducing production process times, assembly efforts and consequently costs. This is a process that opens new and unique scenarios concerning the complexity of geometrical shapes (extrusions) and innovative designs, reducing production process times, assembly efforts and consequently costs.
Application Deadline: 28 June 2024
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Developing a comprehensive management approach to PFAS
Summary of PhD Program:
The widespread use and prolonged environmental persistence of the per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have led to their ubiquitous detection in waterbodies worldwide. These “forever chemicals” are found in everyday consumer goods (from textiles and cleaning products to cookware) and therefore, wastewater serves as a major pathway through which PFAS enter aquatic environments. Conventional wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) have low removal efficiencies for PFAS, while in many cases, higher PFAS concentrations are reported in the effluents than in the influents.
Advanced treatment processes are more effective at removing PFAS compared to conventional methods; however, they come at much higher costs, increased operational carbon emissions, and varying effectiveness in removing PFAS precursor compounds. At the same time, residential drinking water is a primary source of human exposure to PFAS as drinking water treatment technologies or water blending techniques do not eliminate these chemicals.
Application Deadline: 17 June 2024
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Abnormal Combustion of Hydrogen in Prosperous Net-Zero Engine
Summary of PhD Program:
New energy technologies are vital in decarbonising heavy goods vehicles. Hydrogen is a carbon free fuel that helps with net-zero transition but hydrogen faces several challenges in the field of combustion due to its auto-ignition characteristics. This project aims at developing mechanisms to understand hydrogen combustion that will account explicitly for the chemical and residual gas effects under a wide range of pressures and temperatures. Software such as CHEMKIN, CONVERGE, FOAM and in-house developed MATLAB codes will be used in this research to understand Hydrogen combustion in Heavy Duty Engines.
Application Deadline: 12 June 2024
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in A Comprehensive Characterisation of Mentally-Disordered Offenders and Prediction of Treatment Outcomes
Summary of PhD Program:
The team of Prof Veena Kumari, Dr Ignazio Puzzo and Dr Rachel Bennetts at Brunel University London is offering a fully funded PhD studentship to comprehensively characterise clinical, cognitive and emotion processing profiles of mentally-disordered men and women with challenging behaviour residing in secure mental health facilities, and examine how these characteristics predict therapeutic engagement and clinical outcomes. This PhD project will help to identify therapy targets for certain patient groups who do not show good clinical outcomes with current treatment and management strategies.
Application Deadline: 10 June 2024
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Experience-based codesign for effective physical activity interventions with working age adults living with multiple long-term conditions
Summary of PhD Program:
MLTC is the co-existence of two or more chronic conditions. In the UK, the majority of people living with MLTC are less than 65 years old, with 2.5 million people out of paid work due to MLTC. Physical activity is an effective intervention for managing MLTC, but there is limited research in working-age populations. Increased physical activity levels in working-age people with MLTCs may be related to remaining in and/or returning to paid work.
This studentship will explore and understand the experiences of physical activity in diverse working-age adults living with MLTCs, and use experience-based co-design to develop an inclusive physical activity intervention to support this group to live well. The studentship will address this using rigorous qualitative methodologies, including creative co-production methods.
Application Deadline: 10 June 2024
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Lineage tracing of blood stem cell development in embryo-like gastruloids
Summary of PhD Program:
The overarching aim of this project is the optimisation of culture conditions for the scalable generation of haematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) in vitro from pluripotent sources. This paves the path for on-demand laboratory production of HSC and blood cells, overcoming the limitations of voluntary blood donations and tissue compatibility, and addressing an unmet clinical need.
The project brings together established PIs’ expertise in regulation of haematopoiesis and HSCs and in biophotonics and live imaging solutions. It is truly interdisciplinary and will provide the successful candidate with solid exposure to molecular biology, stem cell biology, organoid bioengineering, and advanced live microscopy, expanding their future employability and career choice.
Application Deadline: 10 June 2024
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Plastivore Plasticity
Summary of PhD Program:
This project will offer a challenging, collaborative and transdisciplinary opportunity for an excellent PhD candidate to work at the forefront of this exciting area with leading academic teams at Brunel University London. All team members have extensive track records in this area and will provide complementary and collaborative training in analysis using liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry and advanced chemometrics.
Based primarily within the Environmental Science Division at Brunel University London, the successful candidate will have access to newly opened £2 million research labs hosting multiple analytical platforms including LC-MS, GC-MS and 2D LC systems. The student will benefit from training and development in the use of data analytics and visualisation to enable understanding of disruption to biochemical pathways and mechanisms of toxicity.
