Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? Loughborough 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 Unconventional microwave generator
Summary of PhD Program:
The investigation is into the physics and technologies of an unconventional microwave source. Specific technology domains include electric pulsed power, high fidelity explosive drive, hydrodynamic modelling, material properties, high power electromagnetics and ultra-fast switching. The main area for research is considered to be the investigation of the mechanisms through which electromagnetic emission is achieved, which will include but not be limited to intrinsic electric breakdown of dielectric materials, antenna operation at ultrahigh frequencies as well as the specific diagnostic methods to be implemented.
Application Deadline: 5 December 2024
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Transporting hydrogen at scale in a cost effective, efficient and safe way
Summary of PhD Program:
This project will focus on enhancement of existing and adoption of new materials and processes to suit the needs of a hydrogen pipeline network. This involves a number of areas including understanding the needs and demands of a pipeline network and how it operates in order to balance supply and demand, the limitations of existing materials and processes for pipelines and how they are impacted by hydrogen, the possibilities of new materials and processes to improve existing practices, the technical readiness of new materials and processes, the qualification process and advancement of new applications, demonstration of value increases for safety, sustainability, reliability, availability and cost.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in System issues with designing a large hydrogen passenger vehicle
Summary of PhD Program:
The goal of this project is to explore how to size, design and operate a pure-electric hydrogen fuel cell propulsion system for large off-road capable passenger vehicles. This includes the fuel cell system, hydrogen storage system, thermal management system, hybrid battery and power electronics, and their optimisation for performance, efficiency, environmental range, robustness and mass. One of the challenges is the thermal management of the fuel cell, which generates low grade heat compared to an internal combustion engine, putting additional load on the cooling system, especially when used in hot climate, off road, uphill, or for towing purposes.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in River beds from surface flow to better model flooding
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project is ambitious and exploratory, yet based on a simple breakthrough idea: Water surface motion visibly reflects the key factors shaping flow in a river, almost by definition, so information for enhanced flood prediction should be observable from short videos of rivers (e.g. on a mobile phone). Its vision is to create a handheld, easily and widely deployable ‘tool’ for improving real-time flood risk assessment. It will have one critical conceptual advantage over other approaches (e.g. green lidar, structure from motion); it does not require light or sophisticated, expensive, equipment to penetrate to the river’s bed.
Application Deadline: 8th January 2025
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Resilient dunes: determining the impacts of winter flooding variability on coastal dune wetland plant communities using remote sensing
Summary of PhD Program:
This project will tie new satellite-based methods with long-term historical data to i) create and test models of the extent and duration of dune slack flooding at Ainsdale and Newborough, using existing data, ii) map metrics of plant community composition across the two sites, and iii) investigate the resilience of plant communities to historic meteorological variation. The project will use historic plant community surveys, and water table depth monitoring to model dune slack hydrological status and plant community metrics (e.g. alpha and beta diversity) from remote sensing data such as that from Sentinel-1 (radar back-scatter, Asmuß et al. 2019) and Sentinel-2 earth observation satellites.
Application Deadline: 8th January 2025
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Optically-Reconfigurable Nanomagnetic Devices for Data Processing
Summary of PhD Program:
Information technologies are ubiquitous, allowing us to solve more and more complex computational problems than ever. However, the increase in computational power and data density comes at high costs with respect to energy consumption, and a sizeable fraction of electricity used to drive modern chips gets dissipated as heat. However, potentially useful phenomena arise in situations where the temperature distribution is not uniform, e.g., if one side of a device is hot while its opposite side is cold. Potential applications for such non-equilibrium thermal effects are moving magnetic data bits and unconventional computing approaches using stochastic processes.
Application Deadline: 16 December 2024
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Oceanic island insights into river-driven volcano landscape evolution
Summary of PhD Program:
Volcanic islands are exciting real-world climate and landscape laboratories. When geologically young (<10Ma) they provide a simplified and spatially limited setting for testing landscape evolution theories and models. This project aims to develop new insights into how bedrock incision processes interact with geological and climatic factors (i.e. spatially variable uplift, shield building, mega-landslides, orographic rainfall effects and extremes), using the volcanic island of Tenerife as a case study.
Application Deadline: 8th January 2025
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Novel multi-objective optimisation strategies for enhanced efficiencies and agility in hydrogen gas supply
Summary of PhD Program:
This CDT studentship will focus on researching new optimisation strategies to meet supply and demand, improving efficiencies in transportation, reducing costs and CO2 emissions. The operational constraints, including production and supply of hydrogen gas from multiple sites, alongside various production rates and efficiency levels need to be considered. Supply is affected by several factors, including but not limited to, volumes available, plant production rate, trailer demand, maintenance schedules, driver availability, customer location and customer specifications/requirements. Delivery schedules are dynamic and must be continually updated to account for variations, yielding a complex optimisation / scheduling problem requiring solution.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Low-cost high-performance catalysts for green hydrogen production from wastewater
Summary of PhD Program:
This project will explore the feasibility of catalytically cracking and pyrolyzing compounds in these waste streams to produce hydrogen effectively and efficiently and with minimal impurities that could limit its application in downstream processes. The project will involve designing and testing thermal catalytic processes and assessing product distributions to understand their feasibility in an industrial setting. You will gain experience in process chemistry and chemical engineering, material synthesis, and catalytic science. You will also interact and work with a range of industrial partners within the CDT to build experience in addressing real-world challenges and solutions in sustainable hydrogen production.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Low-cost high-performance catalysts for green hydrogen production from water and seawater electrolysis
Summary of PhD Program:
The goal of this project is to develop a range of low-cost high-performance catalysts and electrodes for large scale green hydrogen production from water and seawater electrolysis, powered by renewable energy. Particularly we will develop alternative transitional metal-based catalysts for water splitting that includes both hydrogen evolution reaction and oxygen evolution reaction, with high activity and long stability under practical operation conditions.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Internet of Things (IoT) for microclimate monitoring within forests
Summary of PhD Program:
Sustainable Development Goal (SDGs) 15 of the United Nations seek to conserve life on land “to protect and restore terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and stop biodiversity loss’’. To achieve this, better understanding of the impacts of environmental change on biodiversity is needed. Reliable estimation of microclimatic conditions is key to understanding how ecosystems function and is increasingly recognised as essential for predicting ecological consequences of climate change and pest invasions.
Application Deadline: 8 January 2025
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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Innovative geomorphic approaches to support better management of flood risk and ecosystem health
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD will aim to improve our understanding of how flood risk changes due to zones of increased channel adjustment, by building on existing datasets and projects (e.g. Environment Agency’s Channel Sensitivity Project, 2021, Grieg et al., 2006; SEPA, 2021). The work will assess existing river characteristics, behaviour and physical modifications, using these to map geomorphically-controlled flood risk from ‘hot spots’ to ‘cool spots’ across the fluvial network, and develop knowledge and tools to understand the risk better.
Application Deadline: 8th January 2025
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Improvements in purity analysis and the production of suitable reference materials for renewable applications
Summary of PhD Program:
With the transition to alternative fuels, there is an increase in demand for new sources. Considering hydrogen, current production and supply strategies need to adjust to continue to service the needs of its expanding customer base. This PhD will be conducted in collaboration with BOC, working closely with the Remote Operating Centre who operate and optimise all their H2 plants, bulk distribution and the supply chain.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Impact of circular economy measures on the transition to net zero in the construction industry
Summary of PhD Program:
The UK’s built environment is responsible for around 60% waste generation and 25% greenhouse emissions. The UK’s Climate Change Act laid the groundwork for the UK’s net zero vision and targets. To date, efforts to tackle the climate crisis have focused on the transition to energy efficiency. However, the Climate Change Committee acknowledged that energy efficiency measures will not be enough to meet net zero targets.
Application Deadline: 17 November 2024
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15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Hidden aquatic biodiversity of natural flood management techniques
Summary of PhD Program:
There is increasing interest internationally in the application of ‘soft engineering’ techniques that work with the natural environment and slow / temporarily store water that would otherwise impact towns and cities as flood peaks (NFM report, 2024), known as Natural Flood Management (NFM). To date most research focused on NFM has centered on hydrological modelling and its effectiveness in reducing flood peaks at varying spatial scales. However, despite their wide application and increasing importance under sustainable environmental schemes, such as Environmental Land Management (ELMs), little is known about the contribution of NFM methods to landscape biodiversity or the different motivations for farmers to implement NFM techniques.
Application Deadline: 8th January 2025
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Geomorphic mitigation of contaminated mining sediment mobilization during floods
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD will take a nested scale approach, involving high resolution analysis of selected key field locations, followed by upscaling of the results to consider the implications for the whole of Northern England. Key abandoned mines and downstream floodplain source locations will be selected in collaboration with the Tyne Rivers Trust to ensure the PhD findings can be directly used to inform key management strategies and real-world adaptive responses. Following site selection, the PhD will combine novel targeted geomorphic monitoring (e.g., repeat topographic surveys using terrestrial laser scanning and drones) of selected abandoned mines and downstream floodplain source locations to produce a quantitative, sediment budget-based model of contaminated sediment flux during individual flood events. Contaminated sediments in the field will be identified and measured using in-situ pXRF surveys.
Application Deadline: 8th January 2025
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in From Pixels to Phenotypes: Using AI and Large Language Models for Precision Plant Specimen Image Analysis
Summary of PhD Program:
There are hundreds of millions of specimens housed in libraries (herbaria) worldwide. Many are digitized and is easily accessible online, but the information contained within these images remains less accessible, as the analysis of specimens typically requires physical measurements, interpretation of in-hand or digitized specimens, or invasive methods.
Application Deadline: 8 January 2025
18. Fully Funded PhD Position in Exploring effective strategies of communicating flood forecasting using a CHANS modelling framework
Summary of PhD Program:
The aim is to apply a newly developed Coupled Human And Natural Systems (CHANS) model [3] to simulate and understand the interactive human behaviours and social dynamics before and during a surface water flood event induced by intense rainfall. This will be related to different scenarios of flood forecasting and warning provision. Subsequently, we will design and carry out systematic numerical experiments to explore effective strategies of communicating flood forecasting and warning.
Application Deadline: 8 January 2025
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19. Fully Funded PhD Position in Deep learning for surface water flood risk mapping and forecasting
Summary of PhD Program:
The aim of this exciting PhD project is to harness the latest developments in high-performance computing and deep learning (DL) technologies to address some of the key technical challenges, and finally demonstrate a DL-enabled system for mapping, risk assessment and real-time forecasting of surface water flooding from intense rainfall.
Application Deadline: 8 January 2025
20. Fully Funded PhD Position in Above-below ground interactions for nature recovery in coastal sand dune wetlands
Summary of PhD Program:
Coastal dune wetlands (slacks) are biodiversity hotspots, but they are under threat: habitat loss and deterioration of ecological condition have reduced the quantity and quality of dune slack habitat. Active management facilitates recovery and increases resilience of plant communities to environmental change. In this project you will develop new understanding of how habitat restoration influences aboveground-belowground interactions in dune slack habitats. The impacts of sand dune processes and management on belowground processes are not well known, despite this being key to ecosystem function and resilience.
Application Deadline: 8th January 2025
21. Fully Funded PhD Position in A web-based platform for large-scale rapid flood risk assessment
Summary of PhD Program:
Flooding stands as the most prevalent natural hazard. However, whilst substantial research effort has been reported in the last decade to develop high-performance physics-based models for more accurate prediction of different types of flooding processes, these latest flood modelling technologies have not yet been fully leveraged to support practical flood risk management. This shortfall is attributed to the demanding computational requirements and the need for high-level expertise in specialized knowledge and programming skills. Simultaneously, effective flood risk management demands a spatially explicit assessment to pinpoint flooding exposure and risk at an object-based scale.
