Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? University of Nottingham, Nottingham, 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 Improving reliability of medical processes using system modelling and Artificial Intelligence techniques
Summary of PhD Program:
This project would investigate commonly observed deviations in healthcare service and opportunities for identification of such deviations using computer vision approaches. It will demonstrate how deviation data can be used in computer-based simulation models, which are used to evaluate effects of deviations and to support decisions. It will focus on investigating how deviation data can be used in real time decision-making process, how accepting patients and staff are for such technologies and what integral role they should play in evaluating and ensuring an uptake of such technologies.
Application Deadline: 28 March 2025
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in From waste to resource: optimising enzymatic conversion of invasive plant waste for biofuel in South Africa
Summary of PhD Program:
Building upon previous studies, the successful candidate will conduct laboratory-based experiments to assess the feedstock composition, design and perform enzymatic degradation assays (including various pre-treatment methods, enzymatic cocktails, and reaction conditions) and optimise the yield of useful chemicals, including glucose (a precursor for commercial biofuel). Based in the School of Chemistry at the University of Nottingham, this project will provide extensive training in enzymatic polysaccharide degradation and a variety of analytical techniques (e.g. MS, chromatography).
Application Deadline: 28 March 2025
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Enhancing Maintenance Strategies Through Reliability-Centred Condition Monitoring
Summary of PhD Program:
This research, inspired by the philosophy of Reliability-Centred Maintenance (RCM), aims to design innovative frameworks for condition monitoring that optimise data sampling and facilitate the digitalisation of current and future systems. Rooted in the principles of reliability and efficiency, the project will prioritise the criticality of components and their probability of failure to establish appropriate condition monitoring strategies and adaptive sampling techniques that achieve a harmonious balance between efficiency and reliability.
Application Deadline: 28 March 2025
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Digital-Twinning of Electric Propulsion Systems
Summary of PhD Program:
Applications are invited for the above multiple research studentships to join the Power Electronics, Machines and Drives Research Group at the University of Nottingham. The PEMC group has undergone a significant period of growth and now has over 150 members, with 18 academics (including 7 full professors) and approximately 120 PhD students and post-doctoral research fellows. The group has excellent facilities for experimental work including approximately 2500m2 of research space and a construction and testing capability up to 5MW.
Application Deadline: 28 March 2025
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Carbon Nanotube (CNT) Winding Development for Electric Motors Enabling Net Zero
Summary of PhD Program:
We are seeking for a highly motivated PhD student to conduct cutting edge research with support from state-of-the-art electric motor manufacturing platforms both at the MTC and at PEMC Institute, University of Nottingham. Based on rapidly advancing Carbon Nanotube (CNT) material technology, the PhD project will be focused on development of next generation electric motors with CNT windings for electric vehicle traction and aerospace propulsion, featuring opportunity for significant improvements on performance, sustainability, and cost-effectiveness.
Application Deadline: 28 March 2025
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Advanced Litz Wire Modelling and Manufacturing for Ultra-High Speed Propulsion Motors
Summary of PhD Program:
We are seeking a highly motivated PhD student to conduct cutting-edge research with support from state-of-the-art electric motor manufacturing platforms both at the MTC and at the PEMC Institute, University of Nottingham. Based on the emerging Litz wire winding technology, this PhD project will focus on multi-physics modelling and characterisation of “programmable” Litz wires. By leveraging the MTC’s exclusive high-spec braiding machine, this research has the vision of significantly enhancing the design and manufacturing process of Litz wire winding for next-generation high-spec electric propulsion systems.
Application Deadline: 28 March 2025
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Advanced 3D/4D-Printing of Responsive Biomaterial Devices
Summary of PhD Program:
Responsive 3D-printed functional devices interact with their environment, responding to stimuli (temperature, light, etc.), and “4D-printed” devices respond over time (e.g. changing shape), controlled by the arrangement of differential materials within them. The goal of this project will be to develop responsive 4D-printed biomaterial devices for drug delivery or regenerative medicine. The student will formulate new 3D-printable materials and develop new design methods, for functional 4D-printed devices with either fast self-resetting responses or complex multi-scale shape changes, applicable to biomedical, micromechanical, or optoelectronic applications.
Application Deadline: 28 March 2025
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in 3D-printing next-generation electro-actuators for soft robots and devices
Summary of PhD Program:
3D-printing of soft robotics is a growing field, with many applications in biomedical devices, electronics, and autonomous machines. Actuators to drive these robots utilise electronic, chemical, pressure, magnetic, or thermal mechanisms, with the current generation having significant drawbacks, including low energy efficiency, high operating voltage or temperature. This project will develop the materials, methods, and designs necessary to 3D-print the next generation of electro-responsive soft-actuators. The overall aim is to develop and exploit new designs or new materials to attain large, fast, high-efficiency actuation responses comparable to living muscles.
Application Deadline: 28 March 2025
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Adaptive Mesh Refinement for More Efficient Predictions of Wall Boiling Bubble Dynamics
Summary of PhD Program:
The aim of this PhD is to robustly validate and demonstrate the utility of an adaptive mesh refinement approach in interface resolving Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations of flow boiling at conditions relevant to nuclear thermal hydraulics. Boiling is a technology central to both fusion and fission nuclear reactors, also including thermal management of several reactor components. The aim of these simulations is to generate data that can be leveraged to account for the detailed characteristics of a heat transfer surface on bubble dynamics during flow boiling, to provide an approach for generating more representative inputs for the wall boiling models used in component scale CFD assessments.
Application Deadline: 28 March 2025
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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in New approaches for studying the structure of high-temperature molten materials
Summary of PhD Program:
Understanding the structure and properties of high-temperature molten materials is of key importance in a diverse range of applications including optical glass manufacture, nuclear waste storage, green platforms for growth of functional materials, fuel cell hermetic seals, electrolytes, carbon capture solvents and thermal energy storage media. It is also vital for understanding natural magmatic processes on earth & other planetary bodies.
Application Deadline: 28 March 2025
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in 3D-Printing Devices with Responsive Structural Colour
Summary of PhD Program:
Small and repetitive structures with spacings on the nanometre scale can refract and reflect light to create vibrant “structural” colours, which are being explored to produce anti-counterfeit markings, dye-free colour images, humidity and chemical sensors, anti-glare coatings and optical filters. This project will develop additive manufacturing of devices with actively-controlled structural colours that respond to stimuli. You will develop the materials, methods, and designs necessary to 3D-print the next generation of structural colour devices, integrating optically- and electronically-active materials, including 0D and 2D nanomaterials.
Application Deadline: 28 March 2025
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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in 3D-Printed Drug Delivery “Microbots” for Personalised Healthcare
Summary of PhD Program:
The field of medical therapeutics has valuable applications for mobile devices for efficient drug delivery, called micro-robots. Recently, 3D printing has been used to manufacture such devices with functional features that enabled them to respond to environmental cues, including temperature, pH, light, magnetic fields, and ultrasound. This project will develop the materials, methods, and designs necessary to 3D-print the next generation of medical micro-robots targeting drug delivery, exploiting combinations of functions to achieve complex and customisable micro-robots to provide personalised healthcare solutions.
Application Deadline: 28 March 2025
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Scaling-Up Functional 3D Printing of Devices and Structures
Summary of PhD Program:
In this PhD studentship, you will develop the materials, methods, and designs necessary to 3D-print never-before created devices. You will develop new functional materials, and new engineering solutions only possible through multi-material additive manufacturing. This studentship will take place in world-leading research laboratories for additive manufacturing (CfAM) and advanced bio-printing (Additive BioFabrication Laboratory) and will provide experience with new and advanced 3D-printing equipment not available elsewhere.
Application Deadline: 28 March 2025
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in History of Architectural Representations
Summary of PhD Program:
This call is for a PhD student that is interested in exploring the history of architectural representations. Topics of any time period and any subject will be considered. Those that engage with the historical, social, and intellectual circumstances that gave rise to different forms of knowledge in and about architecture will be given precedence. We also encourage applications from those interested in working on non-Western topics.
Application Deadline: 01 April 2025
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15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechatronics system for hybrid manufacturing processing
Summary of PhD Program:
Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre (UTC) in Manufacturing and On-Wing Technology, The University of Nottingham. Applicants are invited to undertake a 3 year PhD program in partnership with industry to address key challenges in on-platform manufacturing engineering. The successful candidate will be based at The Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre (UTC) in Manufacturing and On-Wing Technology at University of Nottingham.
Application Deadline: 22 April 2025
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Laser Beam Processing of Aerospace Materials
Summary of PhD Program:
The project will deal with study of a new laser processing method to enable in-situ surface treatment and repair of safety critical rotating parts and further understand the correlation between surface quality, metallurgical characteristics and functional performance of the components and the key process parameters. The project will deal with design of special process setups, testing its working principles and performances followed by assessment of the part quality; this will involve development of laser beam processing on specific aerospace materials, and model to understand the fundamental mechanisms of the process to identify optimal operating conditions and followed by surface analysis techniques (e.g. Scanning electron microscope, X-ray diffraction for residual stress measurements, Electron Back-Scattered Diffraction and Transmission Electron Microscopy).
Application Deadline: 22 April 2025
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in Design and simulation of stiffness-adjustable robotic systems for performing on-wing repair of aero-engines
Summary of PhD Program:
This project is in relation to the technical needs of Rolls-Royce to develop automatic and hybrid tooling solutions to enable in-situ/on-wing repair and maintenance of gas turbine engines. At the Rolls-Royce UTC at University of Nottingham we have developed robotic systems capable to navigate into crammed/hazardous environments, and perform inspection and active operations such as machining. This is driven by the need to complete repair tasks without disassembly of industrial installations.
Application Deadline: 22 April 2025
18. Fully Funded PhD Position in Computer vision and robot control for performing on-wing repair of aero-engines
Summary of PhD Program:
At the Rolls-Royce UTC at University of Nottingham we have developed robotic systems capable to navigate into crammed/hazardous environments and perform inspection and active operations such as machining. This is driven by the need to complete repair tasks without disassembly of industrial installations. We developed a series of continuum robots in both short and long versions.
Application Deadline: 22 April 2025
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19. Fully Funded PhD Position in Micromechanics and in-depth materials analysis of advanced aerospace materials upon the manufacturing process
Summary of PhD Program:
The project will deal with the micromechanics and in-depth materials analysis of advanced aerospace materials upon manufacturing operations to understand the materials response to manufacturing process to efficiently support the manufacture of aerospace components. This will involve using a wide range of sophisticated testing and analysis techniques including not only the study of conventional manufacturing process of advanced aerospace materials but also the state-of-the-art materials investigation such as Scanning electron microscope (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), Electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD), Transmission electron microscope (TEM) and in-situ micromechanics.
Application Deadline: 22 April 2025
20. Fully Funded PhD Position in Extra-long compliant snake robot capable of self-localization for inspection in fusion power plants
Summary of PhD Program:
This specific project will be part funded by RACE (Remote Applications in Challenging Environments, https://race.ukaea.uk/). RACE was founded in 2014 as part of the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) fusion research and development programme – to create robots for operating in some of the most challenging environments imaginable. The main research focus of this PhD program is the intelligent design and control of an extra-long compliant snake robot capable of self-localization for inspection in fusion power plants. In this role, you will be at the forefront of research that offers robotics and AI technological innovations with an aim to improve the quality of inspection for fusion power plants. As a result, this position offers the opportunity for work with the UKAEA.
Application Deadline: 30 April 2025
21. Fully Funded PhD Position in Metal Additive Manufacturing of Multi-Functional and Multi-Material Structures
Summary of PhD Program:
We seek a student who could lead the maturation of this multi-metal MetalJet technique, which offers substantial prospects in the direct manufacturing of multi-functional metallic structures. The successful candidate will develop a comprehensive understanding of the Drop-on-demand Metal Jetting process and the compatibility of dissimilar materials within the printed structure. There is a particular interest in exploring novel designs and manufacturing techniques for cartridges used in producing molten droplets.
Application Deadline: 30 April 2025
22. Fully Funded PhD Position in Improving reliability of medical processes using system modelling and Artificial Intelligence techniques
Summary of PhD Program:
sssssThis project would investigate commonly observed deviations in healthcare service and opportunities for identification of such deviations using computer vision approaches. It will demonstrate how deviation data can be used in computer-based simulation models, which are used to evaluate effects of deviations and to support decisions. It will focus on investigating how deviation data can be used in real time decision-making process, how accepting patients and staff are for such technologies and what integral role they should play in evaluating and ensuring an uptake of such technologies. The proposed method will be potentially applied to processes carried out in an operating theatre.
Application Deadline: 02 June 2025
23. Fully Funded PhD Position in 4D Printing for Advanced Bioelectronics
Summary of PhD Program:
The rapid growth in renewable energy technologies demands innovative solutions for more efficient energy generation and storage systems. 4D printing, an emerging technology that integrates dynamic “smart” materials into 3D-printed structures, opens new frontiers in both bioelectronics and solar energy harvesting. Our goal is to create adaptive electrode architectures. These advanced electrodes hold significant promise for improving bioelectronic systems, enhancing energy generation and storage, and accelerating the adoption of renewable energy applications.
