Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? Cranfield University, 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 Electrochemical and paper-microfluidics detection for monitoring water disinfection
Summary of PhD Program:
In this project, we aim to develop low-cost, deployable biosensor devices (e.g., paper-microfluidics devices and electrochemical sensors) for rapid monitoring of water quality. We will train one PhD student, working within a highly multidisciplinary team from academic and industrial partners (Cranfield, Zimmer & Peacock Ltd and Kersia Ltd) to develop, and transfer advanced sensor technology for rapid monitoring of water quality to provide new understanding on the dynamics and transportation of contaminants and inform mitigation, to help achieve and maintain sustainable health and well-being.
Application Deadline: 30 Aug 2023
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Digital image
Summary of PhD Program:
In this research, different sets of composites material will be dynamically loaded in a lab setup. High resolution cameras will be installed to capture the elastic and thermal changes in the material during the loads. Distinct experimental scheme will be designed initially to enlist the main elastic and thermal properties. Later, the experiments will be performed and results will be analysed to empirically relate the elastic and thermal behaviour of the selected material.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Ontology
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD study is funded by the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl). The study intends to develop a skill ontology, a knowledge representation method that describes skills in a standardised, semantically structured and machine-readable format. It also seeks to develop a reasoning framework for accurate and contextually informed decision-making, along with an explanation generation method to provide transparency in the decision-making process. The ultimate goal is to develop a proof-of-concept software tool to effectively implement the skill ontology in specific use cases, such as recruitment and training personalisation. This tool aims to improve the effectiveness of personnel management practices by ensuring that individuals possessing the appropriate skills are assigned to the right job positions at the right time.
Application Deadline: 30 Aug 2023
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Advanced Coatings for Improved Environmental Performance
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project involves researching the bridging technologies on behalf of the industrial sponsor Siemens Energy Industrial Turbomachinery Limited, which is a manufacturer of industrial gas turbines (IGT). The successful research into those bridging technologies (which will include modelling and experimental work) will reduce greenhouse emissions by enabling operation of the IGTs at higher metal temperatures and with novel fuels. The proposed research therefore aims to develop coating technologies, which will provide component materials the ability to cope with higher operating temperatures, and may be further beneficial when hydrogen fuel, or other novel green fuels, become standard, as these fuels may induce higher operating temperatures.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Development and Tribological Testing of Omniphobic Surfaces
Summary of PhD Program:
A growing area of importance in surface engineering relates to the development of Omni phobic surfaces that repel a multitude of adhesive substances from the surface including water, dust, grime and grease etc. giving a rise to useful applications in Maintenance of Solar Panels, Decreasing Water Usage in Sanitation, Oxidation Protection, Anti-Icing in High Altitude Aerial Vehicles, High Temperature Applications and many more.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Design of vehicle health management processor
Summary of PhD Program:
The success of IVHM depends on extensive research and engineering directed to redesign and re-architect existing infrastructure used for avionics. The proposed processor would be the core of IVHM system, integrated with each avionic system to perform the necessary local programming and computations. It also provides communication with IVHM processors of other systems in the hierarchy of HDS and multi-agent system. Hence, IVHM processor is a generic system that enhances each avionic application with failure prediction, detection and effective self-healing/repair and self-management capabilities while providing the required interfacings and communications.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in CRISPR/Cas-enabled smart sensors integration
Summary of PhD Program:
The student will be widely engaging with a multidisciplinary team to learn advanced sensor technology and interact with stakeholders (e.g., University of Edinburgh, Zhejiang University and Zhejiang Lab in China) to disseminate the research output. The funding supports travel throughout the project to meet with the collaborators, along with opportunities to attend and present results at international conferences (e.g., Biosensors Congress). Cranfield University are leading a UK water and wastewater network, as well as involved water sensors network, involving academic, industrial and public sector organisations; It is expected that the PhD researcher will become involved in this network, enabling the researcher to develop their profile in the sector and engage with experts in related areas.
Application Deadline: 30 Aug 2023
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Biological coagulant
Summary of PhD Program:
The project aims to understand, improve and accelerate the use of microorganisms for iron-based coagulant recovery. The work will explore the conditions under which specific organisms can naturally cycle iron from waste into a recoverable product for local reuse, and propose ways to optimise this. As such, the ideal candidate will have a strong background in either microbiology or an engineering discipline, and a desire to apply it to drive towards a sustaining circular use of coagulants for improved environmental impacts. The work will be primarily in the laboratory, with frequent contact and opportunities for intellectual discussions with the expert team within Cranfield Water.
Application Deadline: 06 Sep 2023
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Autonomous space systems networking
Summary of PhD Program:
The increased performance and higher cost efficiency in both platforms and launch services enabled the development of constellations of hundreds (even thousands) of small satellites. Constellations have become a predominant phenomenon of the New Space ecosystem. They have fostered the development of new downstream services such as global broadband coverage and low latency data communications in the telecommunication field, or high-resolution global-scale coverage and near real-time measurements in the Earth observation field.
Application Deadline: 23 Aug 2023
10. Fully Funded PhD Position in computational study
Summary of PhD Program:
The destructive effects of current and emerging exploding threats are routinely reported from current conflicts around the world. Protective structures and platforms, commonly consisting of materials such as High Hard Steel (HHS), are used to reduce the catastrophic effect of these threats. Although full scale blast trials are conducted to assess the protection level provided by a range of armour technologies against blast loading, the fundamental cause of brittle failure during overmatch is not well understood.
Application Deadline: 06 Sep 2023
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Advanced Aerodynamic and Thermal Management Concepts
Summary of PhD Program:
A fully funded PhD studentship with GKN and great opportunity to work closely with a leading aerospace organisation at the forefront of Sustainable Aviation to research and develop novel aircraft aerodynamic and thermal management concepts . We are looking for enthusiastic, inquisitive and motivated researchers with a strong interest in aerodynamics to join a diverse and inclusive research group focusing on technologies for the decarbonisation of aviation and the exploration of advanced aerodynamic and energy based analysis methods.
This is an GKN-EPSRC CASE Award that focuses on the development of new aerodynamic analysis and thermal management concepts that will utilise the wasted heat from the aircraft power and propulsion systems to heat up the skin of the aircraft to improve its aerodynamic performance. The successful candidate will join a diverse, world class research group and will work closely with the industrial sponsor and other international researchers. The researcher will also have the opportunity to have an industrial placement.
Application Deadline: 30 Aug 2023
12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Virtual Certification of Hydrogen-Resistant Materials
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD studentship will innovate with a virtual toolbox to rank the resistance of microstructures against fatigue failure under hydrogen environments at multiple temperatures. The work will rely on a novel material-invariant formulation that integrate experimental information and multiscale computational approaches from various metallic materials. The candidate will work closely with modellers and experimentalist to link fundamental research with damage prognosis and deliver work-class research to our industrial sponsor.
Application Deadline: 01 May 2024
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in greenhouse gases emissions
Summary of PhD Program:
This exciting fully funded PhD, with an enhanced stipend of £21,000 per annum, will investigate methane emissions from sewage sludge treatment as a priority for the UK water sector to meet their NetZero targets by 2030. This project focusses on understanding, mitigating and valorising those emissions, so that at the end of the project the PhD candidate would have developed the fundamental science to have a real impact on the water industry. This project works collaboratively with UK water utilities and provides the student regular exposure to senior industry stakeholders, increasing employability on completion.
Application Deadline: 06 Sep 2023
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Optimisation of Landing Gear at Overall Aircraft
Summary of PhD Program:
This 4-year PhD opportunity is sponsored by UKRI/EPSRC, Airbus and Cranfield University. Eligible students could receive a tax-free bursary up to £17,312 per annum. The project aims to investigate future aircraft landing gear designs and operations in the context of a holistic approach. The landing gear has important structural and system interfaces with the rest of the aircraft in providing its functions to enable taxi, take-off and landing.
Application Deadline: 06 Sep 2023
15. Fully Funded PhD Position in sustainable metal additive manufacturing
Summary of PhD Program:
This is a fully-funded PhD by the Sustainable Manufacturing Systems Centre at Cranfield University linked to an EPSRC project in partnership with the University of Manchester, Airbus Operations and WAAM3D with a bursary of up to £18,622 (tax-free) plus tuition fees for three years. The PhD project will focus on the comparative product Life Cycle Analysis of novel additive manufacturing processes to estimate environmental impact measures (e.g. carbon footprint) and combine them with cost, productivity and quality indicators using multi-disciplinary analysis and optimisation tools.
Application Deadline: 06 Sep 2023
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Novel Methods for the Characterisation of Helicopter Aero-acoustics
Summary of PhD Program:
Cranfield University has been at the forefront of rotorcraft research for the last 13 years, having an established track record on rotorcraft modelling, performance, aero-mechanics, and aero-acoustics. This PhD studentship is within the Propulsion Engineering Centre at Cranfield University, in the field of helicopter aerodynamic and aero-acoustic modelling. The work will develop and deliver rapid analysis capability, which can assist with the prediction of noise characteristics throughout the vehicle design and service-life. This will be accomplished through the development of a novel tool for the rapid source noise prediction of integrated helicopter-engine systems.
Application Deadline: 30 Aug 2023
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in Intelligent sorting for urban mining to upcycle post-consumer scrap
Summary of PhD Program:
Constellium is a world leader in the manufacturing of high-quality aluminium products and systems whose history dates from the start of commercial production of aluminium. Constellium produces advanced aluminium alloys using cutting edge process and product technologies and is focused on businesses specializing in rolled products, extrusions and automotive structures utilised across the spectrum of transport, packaging and general engineering applications.
Application Deadline: 06 Dec 2023
18. Fully Funded PhD Position in High Energy Propagation and Energy Transfer in poor weather
Summary of PhD Program:
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, and this project will be co-funded by MBDA. The project will be concerned with studying the effects of high energy propagation in poor weather and investigate methods for increasing energy transfer on an intended object. The project will allow the student to acquire expertise in electro-magnetic propagation and sensing with electro-optical (EO), infrared (IR) and radar systems.
Application Deadline: 30 Aug 2023
19. Fully Funded PhD Position in Extreme learning to handle ‘Big Data’
Summary of PhD Program:
As aerospace platforms go through their service life, gradual performance degradations and unwarranted system failures can occur. There is certain physical information known a priori in such aerospace platform operations. The main research hypothesis to be tested in this research is that it should be possible to significantly improve the performance of extreme learning and assure safe and reliable maintenance operation by integrating this prior knowledge into the learning mechanism.
