Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? University of Strathclyde, 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 Spiking Neural Network Processing for Infra-red Event Driven Cameras
Summary of PhD Program:
The aim of this PhD studentship is to research the combination of an infrared event-driven camera (EDC) with data processing algorithms based on neuromorphic (NM) processing and Spiking Neural Networks (SNN), addressing EPSRC’s mission inspired challenges for AI, Digitisation & Data. Event-driven detection and NM processing are finding applications in several engineering problems concerned with the detection of movement, alignment, tracking and autonomous navigation. Although EDC are now commercially available, they are limited to the visible and near-infrared detection band.
Application Deadline: 4 August 2023
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in characterization of Bentonite
Summary of PhD Program:
This 4-year PhD project is funded by UK Research Waste Management Research Support Office (RWM RSO) and aims to provide an experimental characterization on the hydromechanical behaviour of compacted bentonite when wetted with high salinity water. The PhD candidate will explore, at the micro and meso scales, the impact of salinity on key physical properties of bentonite (e.g. swelling pressure and hydraulic conductivity) and the fundamental mechanisms underlying these processes.
Application Deadline: 2 October 2023
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Acoustofluidic devices for modular and reconfigurable blood-brain-barrier models
Summary of PhD Program:
A fully-funded 3.5 year PhD studentship to develop an modular acoustofluidic system that mimics the blood-brain barrier (BBB) for safe and efficient drug delivery to the central nervous system. This opportunity, part of a cohort of a multidisciplinary Centre for Doctoral Training in neurological sciences, involves designing and modelling a versatile platform for evaluating the impact of acoustic wave mediated flow on the blood-brain barrier.
Application Deadline: 21 July 2023
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in AI-based multi-sensor data fusion for autonomous and robust proximity navigation
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD research aims to fuse data from multiple onboard sensors to compensate for each sensor’s limitations and potential data failure, to generate highly robust and autonomous navigation solutions for different range scenarios. Specifically, we will focus on pose estimation including both position and attitude. Multispectral imaging cameras such as Visible, Near and Thermal Infrared ones, and LiDAR will be the mainly considered sensors for the fusion technique.
Application Deadline: 1 July 2023
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Advancing Multi-Agent Approaches to Intelligent Smart Grid Control
Summary of PhD Program:
The ultimate objective of the PhD is to demonstrate new distributed intelligence architectures that allow autonomous and self-organising control that delivers the flexible energy grids required for renewable generation, electrification of transport and heat, and integrated energy systems. The research will focus on the creation of advances in analytical techniques and automation with due consideration of their industrial application.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Lasers for quantum-enabled position, navigation, and timing technologies
Summary of PhD Program:
In this PhD project we will design, develop, and apply novel hybrid laser systems with ultra-low phase and frequency noise, as required for cold-atom-based inertial sensing. This will include, but is not limited to, optical system design; laser cavity engineering, including electronic control; characterisation of laser dynamics including intensity, frequency, and phase noise; development of novel active and passive stabilisation techniques; laser spectroscopy; and cold atom experiment design.
Application Deadline: 31 July 2023
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Digital technologies for Resilient & Sustainable Infrastructures
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD student will work closely with our industrial partners to develop innovative digital tools and methodologies for improving the resilience and sustainability of critical infrastructure. These will include but not limited to the development of: mathematical models to address the performance of critical functions and critical hazards; new uncertainty methods with quantifiable confidence; fast simulation tools based on machine learning and engineering-physics based automatic learning.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Data-driven decision-support methods to balance electricity systems
Summary of PhD Program:
The proposed research in this PhD project builds on an existing collaboration with the National Grid ESO’s Electricity National Control Centre (ENCC) where a decision-support tool is collaboratively developed to enable ENCC to use a very large number of units to balance electricity demand and generation in real-time operation of the system. The decision-support tool is based on a mathematical programming model where various constraints of dispatch electricity generators to meet demand are expressed mathematically. While the tool provides theoretical guarantees of converging to an optimal solution, the computational times to reach a solution may be very large.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Ultra-intense laser-plasma interactions
Summary of PhD Program:
Rapid developments in high power laser technology have enabled new regimes in laser intensity to be reached, which has opened up new frontiers in science via the production of extreme pressures, temperatures and intense electric and magnetic fields. With the advent of multi-petawatt-class lasers on the horizon, e.g. via the European extreme light infrastructure (ELI) project, unprecedented intensities will soon be achievable, giving rise to a new high-field physics phenomena in which large fractions of the laser energy is absorbed into gamma-rays and subsequently electron-positron pair creation.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Robotic Automated Inspection
Summary of PhD Program:
The broad aim of the research project is to determine an appropriate AI technology to allow a mobile robotic system to move based on vision and other sensory inputs and support the acquisition of Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) data (typically ultrasonic). This would include methods for autonomous movement with obstacle avoidance and path planning for NDT complex structures.
Application Deadline: 1 November 2023
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Quantum devices based on silicon carbide transistors
Summary of PhD Program:
This project will investigate quantum effects in silicon carbide (SiC), a wide-bandgap compound semiconductor made of silicon and carbon. The aim of the studentship will be the development of device and testing technologies to electrically probe quantum defects in the semiconductor crystal [4-5]. A central aspect will be the prototyping of novel single-charge and single-spin electronics useful for quantum computing and quantum sensing. This project also aims at enabling large integration and scalability of SiC quantum devices, unlocking their commercial viability.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Public Health Data Analysis
Summary of PhD Program:
We are offering a 3-year PhD scholarship focused on the analysis and interpretation of qualitative and quantitative data generated by a longitudinal research study on health and well-being of adolescents in Malawi. The longitudinal study is set within the Global Health Research Group on Adolescent Health and Well-being, and thus the student will join a large research group working to improve the lives of young people in Malawi.
Application Deadline: 1 August 2023
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Investigation of Suction Caisson Behaviour under Pressure Cycling
Summary of PhD Program:
Suction caissons are a type of foundation commonly used to support offshore wind turbines in deep waters. They are installed by pumping water out of the caisson to create a ‘suction pressure’ (i.e. negative pressure relative to the ambient pressure) inside. Pressure cycling, which involves the cycling of the suction pressure, is often used to continue caisson penetration into the seabed when constant suction pressure is not effective. However, there is currently no method for predicting caisson penetration under pressure cycling, which can lead to significant uncertainty. There is also a critical lack of understanding of the potential effects of pressure cycling on the subsequent in-service performance of the caisson.
Application Deadline: 7 July 2023
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Cognitive Jamming Waveform Optimisation with Application of AI
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD project aims to investigate adaptive jamming waveform designs optimised to mitigate the sensing capabilities of radar systems. Novel algorithms and signal processing schemes will be developed to offer jamming solutions in different channel and target scenarios including systems utilising counter-counter measure techniques. Artificial Intelligence (AI) architectures will be of main focus to enable high adaptability.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
15. Fully Funded PhD Position in In-Process Inspection of Nuclear Components
Summary of PhD Program:
Traditionally, welding and inspection of high-integrity joints are separate, sequential, often manual processes in manufacturing and repair. Ultimately, these limitations reduce productivity, throughput, schedule certainty and increase rework if defects are detected at weld completion. As welding is a dynamic volumetric process, fusing joints of depth and width, this project seeks to exploit the volumetric imaging capability of ultrasonics, and introduce this inspection modality directly into the welding process control loop. By investigating robotic in-process ultrasonic inspection and control, this project aims to deliver high-integrity welds right, first time, every time and overcome current technical and process limitations.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in 3D Printing
Summary of PhD Program:
This project seeks to exploit the volumetric imaging capability of ultrasonics, and introduce this inspection modality directly into the AM process control loop. By investigating robotic in-process ultrasonic inspection and control, this project aims to deliver high-integrity components right, first time, every time and overcome current technical and process limitations.
Application Deadline: 30 September 2023
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in Dry Carbon Fibre
Summary of PhD Program:
Currently, dry fiber inspection research/technology using EC is very limited and seldom commercialized in the industry as the potential has not been extensively explored. However, the non-contact nature, sensitivity to electrically conductive fibre sheets, and the rich and broad range of information acquired by the Eddy currents’ wide frequency spectrum could unlock unique characterization capabilities that can underpin the inspection before RTM process and the newly recycled/reprocessed fibres for their thickness, density, and quality consistency. EC reading, mostly influenced by fiber conductivity, can provide valuable information on fiber characteristics such as gaps, undulations, wrinkles, orientations, and rapture.
Application Deadline: 30 November 2023
18. Fully Funded PhD Position in Advanced Robotics for Future Reconfigurable Manufacturing
Summary of PhD Program:
The University of Strathclyde, in conjunction with Spirit AeroSystems, the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS), is offering a fully-funded EPSRC DTP PhD studentship in the field of Advanced Mobile Robotic Manipulators for manufacturing to a suitably qualified student with a background in engineering/ physics/ computer science and programming. You will have access to state-of-the-art robotics hardware, including the latest collaborative robotic systems and mobile robot platforms widely deployed in the industry.
Application Deadline: 30 September 2023
19. Fully Funded PhD Position in Highly sensitive biosensors for biomarker detection
Summary of PhD Program:
The objective for this PhD project is to develop a novel biosensor for highly sensitive and selective detection of biomarkers, with the potential application in clinical settings. The student will develop chem-bio interface for electrochemical biosensor development, and also explore new amplification strategy for improve the biomarker detection performance.
Application Deadline: 1 December 2023
20. Fully Funded PhD Position in Artificial Chemical Intelligence for Pharmaceutical Discovery and Development
Summary of PhD Program:
We are recruiting for a three-year PhD project on “Artificial Chemical Intelligence for Pharmaceutical Discovery and Development”. The position is funded by the University of Strathclyde but is closely aligned to the EPSRC Prosperity Partnership “Accelerated Discovery and Development of New Medicines” between GSK and the Universities of Strathclyde and Nottingham. Working with experimental and computational data from both pharmaceutical companies and academic collaborators, you will develop new workflows to accelerate the discovery and development of pharmaceuticals. The PhD will provide training in artificial intelligence, computational chemistry, and biomolecular simulation.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
21. Fully Funded PhD Position in Artificial Intelligence algorithms to predict aggregation and gel phenomena in peptide synthesis and isolation
Summary of PhD Program:
We are recruiting for a four-year PhD project on “Artificial Intelligence algorithms to predict aggregation and gel phenomena in peptide synthesis and isolation”. The position is funded by the UKRI iCASE scheme and a major international pharmaceutical company. You will benefit from the excellent training and research opportunities at the University of Strathclyde, while having the chance to network and learn about pharmaceutical development by working in close collaboration with the industrial partner. This will include visiting the collaborators laboratories in the USA for short periods.
