Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland 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 Innovative environmental conditions classification to unlock standardisation and mass manufacturing of floating offshore wind turbines
Summary of PhD Program:
High cost and slow deployment of floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) are preventing the UK offshore wind sector from reaching its target of FOWT capacity. Standardisation and mass production are urgently needed. Currently, a bespoke floater is designed for each offshore wind farm. What if we can classify offshore sites in ‘classes’, so that a floater design for one class can be utilised for all the offshore wind sites of that class? This PhD work will be focused on answering this question.
Application Deadline: 30 June 2025
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Rapid ship design & assessment
Summary of PhD Program:
A unique 4-year fully funded Industrial PhD opportunity with BAE Systems to construct a flexible and expandable AI-based platform that is able to support the Design Team of a shipbuilding enterprise to safely and quickly evaluate different design options on the basis of various QoI (Quantities of Interest) calculations, the abundance of efficiency and operational data/measurements available nowadays (big data) and alternative user- and customer-friendly visualisation interfaces.
Application Deadline: 31 July 2025
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Exploring dissimilar material solid state joining for aerospace applications
Summary of PhD Program:
This is an exciting opportunity for an aerospace-focused candidate to make an impact as a researcher within a vibrant research group and closely collaborate with external partners. Additional benefits include travel abroad, significant skills-building activities, networking and reporting to a wider group and industrial partners, accessing and working with unique pieces of equipment.
Application Deadline: 1 September 2025
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Exploring degradation mechanisms for materials in extreme environments
Summary of PhD Program:
This is an exciting opportunity to join a vibrant research group and address an engineering challenge by developing excellent research to produce novel solutions and insight, in order to promote sustainable practices and generate impact for the Weir Group, a global leader for products and services in the extraction and processing of natural resources. This will be a detailed, materials-focused investigation, with specific research tasks to be identified in line with the candidate’s skills and interests. The project will study the effect of Weir technology’s operating conditions on material degradation in order to deliver solutions for prevention and promote more sustainable practices.
Application Deadline: 1 November 2025
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Investigation of the flow behaviour, anisotropy and forming limits of 6000 series aluminium extrusions with significant recycled material content
Summary of PhD Program:
Constellium has unique facilities for recycling aluminium alloys via direct extrusion into sheet. This process has cost and sustainability benefits in support of Constellium’s long-term goal of reducing CO2 emissions to 1kg per 1kg of aluminium but it potentially introduces variability into the alloy chemistry and impacts on downstream formability and final properties. Direct extrusion results in differences in microstructure, crystallographic texture, and how they are distributed across and through the sheet compared with traditional rolled material. Forming limit diagrams and mechanical property data is not available for this extruded material which impacts the design and optimisation of subsequent forming processes such as roll bending. This project seeks to, for the first time, develop a forming assessment strategy for extruded recycled 6000 series aluminium with a particular focus on roll bending.
Application Deadline: 30 May 2025
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Merging rod-shaped colloids with colloidal lyotropic liquid crystal hydrogels for multifunctionality in small-scale robotics
Summary of PhD Program:
The overall goal is to develop and investigate a new class of advanced materials with multifunctional properties to be used in microrobotics. The overall goal is to develop and investigate a new class of advanced materials with multifunctional properties to be used in microrobotics. The specific objectives include:
synthesis and characterization of microrods
finding suitable surface properties for incorporation into lyotropic liquid crystal hydrogel formulations
obtain and characterise mechanical, rheological, and optical properties
additionally, investigate phase behavior, microstructure, and anisotropy of the resulting materials
design functional micromaterials and microrobots by including magnetic, electroactive, or temperature-sensitive colloids
test actuation and control
Application Deadline: Open until filled
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Computing with photonic quantum systems
Summary of PhD Program:
Loss is ubiquitous in natural systems, due to interactions with their environment. For information processing, it is a way to lose entropy, which is arguably what you need to do to extract only the salient features from data. Instead of seeing loss as an imperfection to be engineered around, can we harness it? For example, the natural properties of photons include that they aren’t conserved – one photon can be split into two lower energy photons. As part of a funded research project, we are currently developing ways to compute that use photon loss -and gain – as features, not bugs.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Quantum-gas microscopy of many-body quantum states in programmable light potentials
Summary of PhD Program:
Quantum Simulation seeks to unravel the mysteries of complex quantum systems that influence fields like materials science, chemistry, and biology. By modelling these systems through precise, controlled experiments at the quantum-mechanical level, we gain new, profound insights. Within this PhD project, we’ll utilize ultracold atoms in optical lattices in a quantum-gas microscope, capable of single-site-resolved atom detection. Our setup, equipped with spatial light modulators, can project various light patterns onto the atoms with remarkable resolution. For example, in our work, published in Nature Communications we were able to create quantum systems with only five atoms on a specific number of lattice sites.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in ESRC Centre for Lifecourse Health Equity
Summary of PhD Program:
This research project focuses on health inequalities in the UK, embedded in the ESRC Centre for Lifecourse Health Equity (equalise) University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. The precise focus of this research will be shaped by your interests but there should be some consideration of mixed methods. It would also be helpful if the proposal could focus on the intersection of health inequalities with one or more of the Centre’s themes of learning (education), care, work and place.
Application Deadline: 30 May 2025
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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in What makes particle packings stable? Explaining and engineering random loose packing
Summary of PhD Program:
How particles pack together to make stable structures is a puzzle that has been addressed by many illustrious scientists and engineers, including Kepler, Coulomb and James Clerk Maxwell. Recent interest has grown from a need to design porous packings or materials for a range of critical applications, such as absorption and molecular storage for CO2 and H2, effective filtration eg in water treatment, understanding sediment formation and soil instabilities in natural phenomena and for climate resilience, improving particulate processes such as tableting in foods and pharmaceuticals, and designing innovative materials such as structured low-density solids for construction, aerospace, transport and packaging.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Multiscale modelling & optimisation of renewable plastic films
Summary of PhD Program:
The project will build on previous work at the University of Strathclyde to model the development of microstructure in renewable and compostable semi-crystalline plastic films. The plastic’s microstructure, that is how its crystalline domains are spatially arranged to leave amorphous polymer pathways throughout the material, dominates its material properties. These include its strength, flexibility, and optical transparency, as well as the essential gas barrier properties required, for example, in food packaging applications. Understanding how the microstructure evolves in plastics, and how it is influenced by processing conditions and additives such as filler particles, is essential to its control and therefore for the design of manufacturing routes to optimise application-specific properties.
Application Deadline: 31 August 2025
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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Application of laser imaging techniques to thermal synthesis of carbon materials
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project will apply of in situ optical measurements during synthesis of carbon materials, for spatial mapping of, for example, particulate concentration, size and composition, and gas-phase composition. Through this approach the aim is to tune the carbon material properties for bespoke applications by manipulating the carefully-controlled flame conditions. On the one hand, the combustion of precursor powders such as sodium ethoxide to produce nitrogen-doped carbon foams will be investigated systematically through the use of in situ laser imaging. Based on the resulting data, synthesis conditions will be made more stable and reproducible, and the sensitivity of product properties to flame conditions will be investigated.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Cognitive biases in conceptual design: the role of AI and individuals
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project investigates how human decision-making and cognitive biases influence the earliest stages of engineering design— when ideas are first formed, and critical decisions shape the future of innovation. You will explore how professionals interpret user needs and convert them into design requirements, and how cognitive biases can distort this process. The goal is to inform the development of next-generation, AI-powered design tools that are aware of and responsive to human biases—tools that actively support creativity, inclusivity, and environmental sustainability in conceptual design.
Application Deadline: 31 July 2025
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Sustainable design for space systems
Summary of PhD Program:
In early November 2024, LignoSat, credited as the first satellite incorporating wood as a material, was launched to the International Space Stations. As space activities intensify both in the number of launches and spacecraft launched, considering how we can ensure spacecraft are built in a sustainable manner will be critical in complementing ongoing space sustainability efforts, where the focus so far has mostly been in addressing the crowding of orbits. This project investigates how we can ensure spacecraft designs are built in a sustainable-manner from the very beginning. Key to this will be investigating how life-cycle assessment tools can be used in the early conceptual design phase, investigate computational methods to propose sustainable designs and carry out trade-off analysis between spacecraft performance and sustainability.
Application Deadline: 30 June 2025
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15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Dynamic digital scheduling for optimal outfitting of naval ships
Summary of PhD Program:
The aim of the PhD will be to develop a tool and techniques to improve the effective and efficient paralleling of outfitting tasks, overlapping in the physical space, whilst maintaining a safe working environment. The result will be a time and safety-optimised sequence of outfitting tasks that considers the constraints of the compartmentation of the vessel, the availability of skilled resources, the delivery of equipment from the supply chain, and the prioritisation of rework activities. The outcome will be to safely deliver naval ships into service faster than using existing outfitting management techniques.
Application Deadline: 31 August 2025
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Uncertainty quantification in CO2 calculations
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD research will explore the challenges associated with the reliable quantification of CO2 emissions using the latest cutting-edge uncertainty quantification methods combined with modern digital and generative tools. These methods will take explicit and quantitative account of the randomness, vagueness and limited quality of CO2 data. Current methods for CO2 calculations are deterministic and entirely based on coarse grid conversion factors with little–if at all–mention of the uncertainty that such calculations can incur. This research seeks to bridge this gap, providing a more rigorous framework for CO2 emissions assessment.
Application Deadline: 1 August 2025
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in Numerical modelling of pulsed injection protocols for subsurface energy and CO2 Storage
Summary of PhD Program:
Fully funded PhD opportunity to develop cutting-edge computational models that will optimize fluid flow in porous media for CO₂ storage, hydrogen storage, geothermal energy, and other climate solutions. Work with leading researchers, access high-performance computing resources, and collaborate with industry partners in Australia. Gain multidisciplinary expertise, international exposure, and hands-on training with state-of-the-art facilities, preparing you for a career in academia or industry.
Application Deadline: 4 August 2025
18. Cunningham Trust PhD Competition 2025
Summary of PhD Program:
The Cunningham Trust is committed to supporting research of the highest quality, the outcome of which will make a contribution to improving the health of the nation. Its support is not restricted to any one disease or condition or aspect of medical education, so applications for PhD Studentship Awards may be for projects in any of the biomedical, physical, clinical or engineering sciences or in medical education, provided that the research addresses a question of relevance to human health. These awards provide funding for a three-year PhD Studentship including student stipend, contributions to laboratory expenses and fees as detailed in the Application Form and below. The application must be made by a recognised Scottish University/Research Institution (the Administering Institution).
Application Deadline: 28 May 2025
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19. Fully Funded PhD Position in Advancing Indoor Air Quality for Vulnerable Groups: Co-Development of Smart Sensors with Feedback Loops and Tailored Advice
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD studentship is part of the Strathclyde Centre for Doctoral Training (SCDT) in Energy-efficient Indoor Climate Control for Optimised Health (EICCOH). The centre addresses the critical skills gap in designing net-zero buildings that are human-centric and optimise health. This exciting opportunity. Despite advancements in indoor air quality (IAQ) monitoring, existing technologies often lack actionable, personalised insights, limiting their effectiveness in driving meaningful behavioural change. This exciting multidisciplinary PhD programme seeks to bridge this gap by developing smart IAQ platforms with integrated feedback loops and adaptive advice systems, tailored to the specific needs of vulnerable groups.
