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 Mathematics and Physics

Summary of PhD Program:

This project is concerned with controlled coupling between nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centres in diamond and plasmonic nanostructures with the overall goal being to efficiently couple single NV emitters to plasmonic excitations that can also improve optical spin readout efficiencies in a range of applications for the NV centre. Both fundamental and applied aspects of this research will be assessed from the perspectives of quantum plasmonics [1-4]. The project goals include the implementation of experimental and computational tools for developing new NV-plasmonic configurations to improve spin readout efficiencies in a range of applications for the NV centre including higher precision magnetic nano-sensors, with greater bandwidth.

Application Deadline: 30 September 2023

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2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mathematics and Physics

Summary of PhD Program:

The PhD project is concerned with experimental investigations and theoretical studies of chiral coupling phenomena and cooperative interactions between quantum emitters and confined optical modes supported by various nanophotonic waveguide configurations, with the overall goal being to efficiently couple the spin of the quantum emitter and the helicity of the waveguide mode that can also be coherently coupled with multiple emitters embedded in the waveguide. Both fundamental and applied aspects of this research will be assessed from the perspectives of chiral quantum optics [1-3].

The project goals include the development of experimental and computational tools for chiral and topological nanophotonic waveguides, realization of collective coupling in chiral nanophotonic waveguides, and contribution to further progress in understanding of fundamental physical phenomena involved in light-matter interactions at nanoscale.

Application Deadline: 30 September 2023

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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Natural and Built Environment 

Summary of PhD Program:

The overall aim of the project is to further develop the ISC to facilitate it’s use for connecting various steel elements (e.g. column-column, column-beam) with a particular emphasis on rapid assembly, disassembly, and robotic assembly. Achieving this overall aim requires developments in a number of key areas (1) physical assembly & testing (2) Robotics including computer vision and machine learning.

Application Deadline: 30 September 2023

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4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Natural and Built Environment

Summary of PhD Program:

The aim is to develop a performance designed mortar and robotic placement system using low carbon non-flammable binding materials to work with 3D mortar placing robotic systems. The mortar should have the following performance features, (1) viscosity and flow control for printing, (2) controlled setting time to allow for machine and manual finish, (3) non-combustible ingredients, (4) desired plasticity for handling and in service performance, (5) durability of 50 years in urban and aggressive marine environments, which make the project highly challenging and rewarding.

Application Deadline: 30 September 2023

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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electronics

Summary of PhD Program:

This project aims to secure unified traffic management (UTM) against security risks from known and unknown adversaries that seek to compromise authentication and authorisation across various services, including cloud platforms in UTM. The project will identify vulnerabilities in the existing UTM system and mitigate them by proposing novel methods built into a framework that can reduce the impact of adversaries on the system. The proposed framework will further include features of safety and risk mitigation protocols, which can prolong the security of the UTM systems and make them resilient against cyber threats. The research will advance the state-of-the-art to make original contributions with feasibility studies conducted through a simulated/emulated environment and a UAV testbed.

Application Deadline: 15 September 2023

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6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 

Summary of PhD Program:

In this PhD project, we aim to define the principles of cyber-defensive deception amongst UAVs using logical reasoning and understand the impact of detecting adversaries in autonomous aerial networks. We plan to form defence mechanisms against threats that evolve continuously and understand the evolution of potential hazards in aerial networks and how the defence mechanisms perceive these. We aim to identify the points of threat exploration subject to proactive and reactive defence methods and list the best possible strategy with their impact study and conditions of operations for autonomous aerial networks.

Application Deadline: 15 September 2023

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7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 

Summary of PhD Program:

When a single isolated reconnaissance attempt is observed it would look like a rare but legitimate network activity. If this innocent looking rare activity starts happening in different ports or wider time windows, that could be an indicator of a malicious reconnaissance activity. Considering today’s data centre network traffic exceeds 100Gbit/s, analysing the packages on the fly for malicious rare threats over a long period of time becomes a challenging problem.

Application Deadline: 15 September 2023

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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 

Summary of PhD Program:

Cyber attack attribution involves minimising uncertainty on three levels: the tactical/technical level – understanding the incident primarily in its technical aspects; the operational level – understanding the attack’s high-level architecture and the attacker’s profile; the strategic level – understanding the motives and goals of the threat actor, sponsors and associates[1]. Determining the intrusion mechanism can be done on a technical level by investigating forensic artefacts. However, the question of motive requires strategic analysis (non-technical by definition) from the operational layer in a geopolitical context[1].

Application Deadline: 15 September 2023

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9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 

Summary of PhD Program:

Current approaches to malware detection using machine learning are based on supervised learning approaches i.e., a machine learning system is trained using a large dataset with examples of malware and clean programs. However, collecting a large, labelled malware dataset is an expensive and time-consuming process. Furthermore, as new malware is constantly discovered online, malware detectors trained in the traditional way quickly become obsolete. The process by which the distribution of malware changes over time is known as concept drift [3].

Application Deadline: 15 September 2023

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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 

Summary of PhD Program:

This project is funded through the CSIT Doctoral Training Programme. The scholarships are fully funded, with an additional stipend for 42 months and an industrial top-up worth £30k per student. You will also benefit from the opportunity to be considered for a 1-to-3 months placement in industry with one of our partners, as well as enhanced training in leadership, professional skills and much more.

Application Deadline: 15 September 2023

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11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 

Summary of PhD Program:

The broadcast nature of the wireless medium makes it hard to eliminate unauthorised access to wireless networks. A typical secrecy problem in a wireless communication system involves three nodes: the transmitter, the receiver- er, and the eavesdropper. The transmitter wants to communicate with the intended receiver but does not want to let the eavesdropper learn its secret message. The eavesdropper is assumed to be passive; hence, its location is unknown to the transmitter and receiver. Perfect secrecy is achieved when the transmitter delivers a positive information rate to the legitimate receiver and ensures that the eavesdropper cannot obtain any information.

Application Deadline: 15 September 2023

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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 

Summary of PhD Program:

In the asymmetric PAKE or aPAKE in short, the user saves the password, say pw, and no more information and server saves H(pw) and no more information on password. This approach is vulnerable to precomputation attack. Considering a hardware-secure-module (HSM) in the serverside may improve the situation where the server saves the H(pw) in HSM and all computations involving H(pw) are performed inside HSM. Though this makes the protocol free from precomputation attack, however this is not commercially viable owing to huge number of clients aiming to server for authentication at the same time and in turn trying to use the same HSM.

Application Deadline: 15 September 2023

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13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 

Summary of PhD Program:

Record linkage is the technique which aims to link the records from two or more distinct sources. This has been commonly adopted in biomedical informatics to link electronic health records (EHRs) of the same patient in different medical institutions, e.g., for building the longitudinal health profile of the patient or for de-duplicating individual records in multiple databases, etc. Due to the concerns of patients’ confidentiality and/or the institutional data sharing policy, the patient records, in particular the identity keys (e.g, the patients’ name, SSN, address, etc), cannot be directly shared with the other party.

Application Deadline: 15 September 2023

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14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 

Summary of PhD Program:

Data-driven approaches such as Machine Learning (ML), and especially deep neural networks are computationally intensive systems, and suffer from privacy leakage threats such as vulnerability to Membership Inference attacks and Property Inference Attacks. On the other hand, new brain-inspired neuromorphic architectures such as Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have shown state-of-the-art performance in a wide range of applications with promising characteristics. SNNs emerged as an attractive alternative to classical ML systems, due to their biological plausibility and similarity to the human brain’s functionality.

Application Deadline: 15 September 2023

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15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 

Summary of PhD Program:

Intelligent spacecrafts that use Machine Learning to ensure autonomous exploration would be very useful for exploring new parts of the Solar System and reducing mission costs. The explicit need for adaptability, reasoning, and generalization from past experience provides a prime opportunity for the field of ML to be deployed in such systems. However, Space missions operate in an extremely challenging and aggressive environment. In fact, soft errors such as Single Event Upset (SEU) and Single Event Transient (SET) which are typically caused by high energy cosmic particles striking electronic devices are significantly present in the space environment.

Application Deadline: 15 September 2023

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16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 

Summary of PhD Program:

In this PhD project, we will focus on designing novel and low-cost signal processing schemes and resource allocation algorithms to improve the security, while maintaining the quality of service for the IoT wireless systems. IoT is expected to be one of the key elements of next generation (beyond 5G and towards 6G) wireless systems. Thus, the research outputs of this project will be of high impact to both academia and industry. The students working on this project will have chances to collaborate with big research groups who are developing new technology for beyond 5G wireless systems.

Application Deadline: 15 September 2023

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17. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 

Summary of PhD Program:

In this PhD project, we will focus on the design of cell-free massive MIMO including the machine learning techniques together with signal processing algorithms to ensure reliable and secure communications. Cell-free massive MIMO is expected to be one of the key technologies for next generation (beyond 5G and towards 6G) wireless systems. Thus, the research outputs of this project will be of high impact to both academia and industry. The students working on this project will have chances to collaborate with big research groups who are developing new technology for beyond 5G wireless systems.

Application Deadline: 15 September 2023

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18. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 

Summary of PhD Program:

Identity-based encryption is a type of encryption that uses some form of the identity of the user to simplify the key management process and procure a public key. This aids key distribution and is useful in public key infrastructures. Identity-based cryptography is currently used in UK emergency services communications (MIKEY-SAKKE, IETF RFC 6509) and may be suitable for lightweight applications, offloading computations to a central key management system. Recently, there is a transition in public key cryptography to post-quantum cryptography, that is alternative families of cryptography that provide security against known attacks by possible future quantum computers.

Application Deadline: 15 September 2023

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19. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 

Summary of PhD Program:

Homomorphic Encryption (HE) is an exciting, advanced type of encryption, which allows computations on encrypted data, without use of a decryption key. Introduced in 2009, such a powerful encryption tool enables privacy-preserving data analysis, however HE suffers in terms of performance due to high computational complexity and particularly memory management demands. Hardware acceleration and optimisation of homomorphic encryption has demonstrated successful speed up factors of over 100x for homomorphic encryption.

Application Deadline: 15 September 2023

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20. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 

Summary of PhD Program:

In the last decade, various advanced computing system, including supercomputers, ubiquitous computing centers, and servers, have been developed and widely deployed. Unfortunately, Moore’s law is approaching its limitation, and conventional computing techniques are not effective in providing further performance enhancement under physical restrictions. One of the most promising directions to explore is to focus on a suitable reduction of the computational accuracy without sacrificing functionality and ‘’perception’’. This approach is known as approximate computing. Inspired by the fault-tolerance capability of the human brain, approximate computing can accept errors in the calculation without affecting the results of certain human perception and recognition-related computation, such as artificial intelligence (AI), (deep-) machine learning (ML), and signal processing, in which noisy data, redundant information, and inaccurate results are tolerable for the computation.

Application Deadline: 15 September 2023

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21. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 

Summary of PhD Program:

There are many challenges in implementing security in the hardware domain. Hardware designs are complex making it easy to conceal malicious elements within them. The myriad of complex attacks against hardware are difficult to investigate, requiring high expertise and specialised equipment. When issues are found they can be difficult and expensive to resolve. Due to this, the hardware supply chain is extremely vulnerable to various security attacks, e.g., overproduction, counterfeiting, reverse engineering, hardware trojans, etc. In 2019, the UK government reported that the annual loss to the economy through counterfeiting and piracy is £9bn.

Application Deadline: 15 September 2023

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22. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 

Summary of PhD Program:

Physical Unclonable Function (PUF) relies on its unclonable variation in manufacturing process to generate a unique unclonable digital fingerprint and is used to identify the connected devices. Even though it’s work relies on unpredictable variations and working environment, some research shown that its operations are model-able. This project aims to apply machine learning based side-channel analysis (SCA) to build a model for strong PUF, and so achieves high accuracy for challenge-response pair prediction for strong PUF in the context of working environment.

Application Deadline: 15 September 2023

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23. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 

Summary of PhD Program:

In this project, the student will develop novel computer architecture required to support the security protocols proposed and/or standardized by CCSDS and will also propose new protocols. The student will also work on Software defined Satellite networking to enable programmability and reconfigurability of the system. The work will involve design of novel computer architecture and/or novel operating system and/or novel multiparty security protocol.

Application Deadline: 15 September 2023

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24. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 

Summary of PhD Program:

Industrial control systems (ICS) operate critical infrastructures, such as railway networks, gas and electricity grids. Although these systems perform critical functions, many still use legacy embedded systems to perform their tasks. An ICS operator can connect commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) devices to the ICS network directly through USB or serial connection or remotely through a virtual private network. For example, an electricity utility company may depend on its staff to use their hand-held devices to install or maintain (e.g. troubleshooting) smart meters. COTS devices are usually internet connected devices and hence, can be compromised by an attacker. Such compromised COTS device can be used to launch attacks on legacy embedded systems and its ecosystem.

Application Deadline: 15 September 2023

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25. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 

Summary of PhD Program:

The number of space-based entities and missions is showing exceptional increase. The range of use-cases include users to connect businesses and communities around the world, to provide communications, surveillance, weather, and navigation in mission-critical situations. The longevity of satellites and their associated infrastructure along with the difficulty of changing anything after the launch requires long-term public key cryptography security solutions. Since the foreseeable breakthrough of quantum computers represents a risk for the traditional secure communication paradigm used today, novel Quantum-resistant cryptographic schemes need the immediate attention of the cryptographic community, especially of long-term use cases like satellite communications.

Application Deadline: 15 September 2023

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26. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 

Summary of PhD Program:

The security infrastructure we rely on today is considered broken when a scalable quantum computer is successfully realized. Consequently, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in USA initiated a call develop and standardize of new post-quantum cryptography (or PQC also called quantum-resistant cryptography) schemes replacing established public-key mechanisms (NIST PQC). After 3 competitive rounds, the initial 69 submissions have been reduced to 4 winner candidates in 2022 and 4 moved forward to round 4. As PQC is supposed to replace modern public-key schemes in the near future, it will only be considered as a feasible alternative if its constructions can be similarly efficiently implemented on many of the embedded processors existing in today’s digital and pervasive environment.

Application Deadline: 15 September 2023

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27. Fully Funded PhD Position in Natural and Built Environment 

Summary of PhD Program:

This project aims to develop a high Technology Readiness Level (TRL) solution using digital twins and AI technologies to enhance the performance of existing buildings, with the ultimate goal of reducing operational carbon emissions. Throughout the course of the PhD journey, you will conduct an investigation into existing solutions that utilize digital twins for existing buildings and cities, while also identifying the challenges that arise during implementation.

Application Deadline: 15 September 2023

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28. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 

Summary of PhD Program:

This project aims to secure unified traffic management (UTM) against security risks from known and unknown adversaries that seek to compromise authentication and authorisation across various services, including cloud platforms in UTM. The project will identify vulnerabilities in the existing UTM system and mitigate them by proposing novel methods built into a framework that can reduce the impact of adversaries on the system. The proposed framework will further include features of safety and risk mitigation protocols, which can prolong the security of the UTM systems and make them resilient against cyber threats. The research will advance the state-of-the-art to make original contributions with feasibility studies conducted through a simulated/emulated environment and a UAV testbed.

Application Deadline: 15 September 2023

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29. Fully Funded PhD Position in Business School 

Summary of PhD Program:

This project takes place within Queen’s Management School located at Riddel Hall in Belfast, offering world-class research facilities. As a member of the prestigious Russell Group of research-intensive universities, Queen’s University Belfast has an outstanding reputation and tradition for research excellence. QMS is one of UK’s leading Management Schools. The School has an excellent track record in research. QMS has a vibrant PhD student community and a broad international network of academic support. The successful candidate will be supervised by Professor Niall Cullinane and Dr Ruth Reaney. Apply online and enter the text “QMS2023MGT/SCM” into the funding field. Informal enquiries may be directed to: Professor Niall Cullinane The University is committed to an Equal Opportunities Policy.

Application Deadline: 31 August 2023

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30. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Summary of PhD Program:

This exciting PhD opportunity is a collaborative studentship between Queen’s University Belfast and the Office for National Statistics. You will be supervised by Dr Gemma Catney (QUB) and Sarah Wood (Ethnicity, National Identity, Language and Religion Topic Lead, Office for National Statistics). The publication of 2021/22 Census data represents a unique and important opportunity for research that seeks to understand societal change at the local level. This project aims to provide timely and impactful evidence on the ways in which ethnic and religious diversity has grown and been shaped, and the nature of the differing – and persistently unequal – neighbourhood experiences of people from different ethnic and religious backgrounds, responding to pressing policy, political and public concerns, and scholarly questions in need of urgent attention.

Application Deadline: 31 August 2023

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31. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Summary of PhD Program:

The aim of this project is to develop new polymer materials and manufacturing processes to produce future recyclable, thermoplastic Type IV hydrogen storage vessels. This will be achieved by systematically developing demonstrator prototypes from a range of tailored thermoplastic polymer liners and thermoplastic polymer fibres to showcase the potential to establish this cutting-edge hydrogen gas storage technology. This has the potential to fundamentally change, significantly improve and ultimately revolutionise rotomoulding and the manufacturing practices for Type IV hydrogen tanks. However, they need to be proven as technically and commercially viable.

Application Deadline: 31 August 2023

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32. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Summary of PhD Program:

This PhD project aims to investigate and improve the electrode/electrolyte interface. The application of post-treatments of the carbon felts, using oxidative activation combined with surface-decoration with nano-electrocatalysts, is expected to yield significant improvements in the electrochemical reversibility and to lower activation overpotential, resulting in higher battery efficiency. The project aims to focus particularly on iron and vanadium-based electrolytes consisting of metal complexes with ligand systems that have so far not been investigated in terms of their electrode / electrolyte interactions. These chemically activated electrodes will be investigated using various in-situ, ex-situ and operando spectroscopic techniques (Raman, FTIR, XPS, EPR) to provide insight into the underlying activation mechanisms.

Application Deadline: 31 August 2023

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33. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Summary of PhD Program:

Today, there is a reliance on computer-based models to support critical design and operational decisions across multiple sectors, and such simulation models are commonly used for a range of purposes within bus vehicle design including prediction of onboard energy consumption and design energy management strategies through to understanding structural and thermal responses. However, the emergence of digital twins has the potential to offer much more insight into the real time behaviours – these models go beyond the standard numerical model and introduce proxy version of the physical system built from a fusion of data with models of differing fidelity, using novel techniques in uncertainty analysis, model reduction, and experimental validation.

Application Deadline: 31 August 2023

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34. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Summary of PhD Program:

The move to electrified vehicle powertrains in the bus sector has seen increasingly complex supply chains emerging with more uncertainty around the sources of risk than ever before. This PhD will investigate the impact of external factors on the UK bus sector supply chain, develop new methods for quantifying global supply chain risks and create a decision making framework for agile and robust supply chain management. With increasing global uncertainty and rising material costs, the project will deliver new understanding of the sensitivities of the bus sector to external market variations, identify new business approaches to increase resilience of the UK supply chains and enable better informed decisions relative to supply chain management and the development of strategic partnerships across supply tiers.

Application Deadline: 31 August 2023

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35. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Summary of PhD Program:

Groups of COTS tools exist to interact with and manage individual aspects of the manufacturing enterprise. However, holistic applications (Engineering Resource Planning – ERP, manufacturing Resource Planning – MRP) can often be limited by a need for customisation to suit the specific needs of individual organisations at a shop floor level where proven in-house processes have been developed over a number of years. At best, poor management of the interfaces between legacy approaches and new COTS, Industry 4.0 compliant systems, results in process delays and in-accuracies. This applies to tracking progress across contracts and between locations, understanding / predicting accurate time and cost parameters across product ranges, improving communications and organisational learning across the enterprise.

Application Deadline: 31 August 2023

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36. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Summary of PhD Program:

To meet emerging sustainability and product performance goals, engineers need revolutionary design tools. The “Re-imagining Engineering Design” (RIED) Programme sets out to explore a radical new engineering design system using bio-inspired methodologies. A crucial aspect of this new design system is the ability to generate concepts rapidly and simulate their performance in parallel as the design evolves. This requires revolutionary simulation capabilities, with are highly automated, adaptive and efficient. This PhD project will look to investigate these new approaches, integrate them into emerging design tools and demonstrate them on a range of products. The PhD candidate will work in a large project team which consists of three universities and 20+ researchers.

Application Deadline: 31 August 2023

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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 Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Summary of PhD Program:

This PhD project is a part of SeAFEED, a €1.2M partnership between QUB, the University of Limerick and ATU Sligo, funded by the RoI Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM), and the Northern Ireland Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA). Assisted by industrial partners, we will explore and improve the use of seaweed as a source of ingredients for animal feed. SeAFEED will investigate multiple aspects of the supply chain and the underlying science and engineering, from seaweed cultivation and harvesting, through to extraction of compounds from the seaweed, production and formulation of feed pellets, and use of these pellets as feed in pig farming.

Application Deadline: 30 August 2023

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2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Management

Summary of PhD Program:

This project takes place within Queen’s Management School located at Riddel Hall in Belfast, offering world-class research facilities. As a member of the prestigious Russell Group of research-intensive universities, Queen’s University Belfast has an outstanding reputation and tradition for research excellence. QMS is one of UK’s leading Management Schools. The School has an excellent track record in research. QMS has a vibrant PhD student community and a broad international network of academic support. The successful candidate will be supervised by Professor Niall Cullinane and Dr Ruth Reaney. Apply online and enter the text “QMS2023MGT/SCM” into the funding field. Informal enquiries may be directed to: Professor Niall Cullinane The University is committed to an Equal Opportunities Policy.

Application Deadline: 31 August 2023

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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Summary of PhD Program:

The aim of this project is to develop new polymer materials and manufacturing processes to produce future recyclable, thermoplastic Type IV hydrogen storage vessels. This will be achieved by systematically developing demonstrator prototypes from a range of tailored thermoplastic polymer liners and thermoplastic polymer fibres to showcase the potential to establish this cutting-edge hydrogen gas storage technology. This has the potential to fundamentally change, significantly improve and ultimately revolutionise rotomoulding and the manufacturing practices for Type IV hydrogen tanks. However, they need to be proven as technically and commercially viable.

Application Deadline: 31 August 2023

Apply now

4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Summary of PhD Program:

This PhD project aims to investigate and improve the electrode/electrolyte interface. The application of post-treatments of the carbon felts, using oxidative activation combined with surface-decoration with nano-electrocatalysts, is expected to yield significant improvements in the electrochemical reversibility and to lower activation overpotential, resulting in higher battery efficiency. The project aims to focus particularly on iron and vanadium-based electrolytes consisting of metal complexes with ligand systems that have so far not been investigated in terms of their electrode / electrolyte interactions. These chemically activated electrodes will be investigated using various in-situ, ex-situ and operando spectroscopic techniques (Raman, FTIR, XPS, EPR) to provide insight into the underlying activation mechanisms.

Application Deadline: 31 August 2023

Apply now

5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Summary of PhD Program:

Today, there is a reliance on computer-based models to support critical design and operational decisions across multiple sectors, and such simulation models are commonly used for a range of purposes within bus vehicle design including prediction of onboard energy consumption and design energy management strategies through to understanding structural and thermal responses. However, the emergence of digital twins has the potential to offer much more insight into the real time behaviours – these models go beyond the standard numerical model and introduce proxy version of the physical system built from a fusion of data with models of differing fidelity, using novel techniques in uncertainty analysis, model reduction, and experimental validation.

Application Deadline: 31 August 2023

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6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 

Summary of PhD Program:

The move to electrified vehicle powertrains in the bus sector has seen increasingly complex supply chains emerging with more uncertainty around the sources of risk than ever before. This PhD will investigate the impact of external factors on the UK bus sector supply chain, develop new methods for quantifying global supply chain risks and create a decision making framework for agile and robust supply chain management. With increasing global uncertainty and rising material costs, the project will deliver new understanding of the sensitivities of the bus sector to external market variations, identify new business approaches to increase resilience of the UK supply chains and enable better informed decisions relative to supply chain management and the development of strategic partnerships across supply tiers.

Application Deadline: 31 August 2023

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7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 

Summary of PhD Program:

Standard solutions exist for Industry 4.0 compliant systems in production planning however, their introduction and efficient application require significant customisation to align with systems and practices that represent years of development within companies which are core to their operations. This project seeks to fill a gap in digital technologies and applications for the understanding and management of production systems in the manufacturing sector. The aim is to develop a digital operations strategy for the manufacture of materials handling equipment spanning commercial off the shelf COTS solutions and current best practice in the sector.

Application Deadline: 31 August 2023

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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 

Summary of PhD Program:

In RIED it is envisaged that just as organisms develop by adapting to the natural world around them, improved products can be developed through creation of virtual seeds, environments and stimuli. By subjecting the virtual product to real world conditions during the growth process, informed development decisions can be made throughout. Simulation will therefore play a crucial role in the success of the endeavour.

Application Deadline: 31 August 2023

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9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 

Summary of PhD Program:

The introduction of electrified powertrains in the bus sector has raised new challenges in achieving step changes in vehicle lightweighting. Vehicle weight has a significant impact on the energy efficiency and passenger carrying capacity of the bus vehicle, and therefore ensuring the structural weight is minimised without compromising safety is a key objective. This PhD will explore new FE based optimisation workflows that can enable the rapid design of large-scale lightweight vehicle structures. Such workflows are required to enable structural design to meet a diverse range of constraints, including strength, stiffness, durability, mass, passenger / systems packaging, manufacturability and commonality constraints.

Application Deadline: 31 August 2023

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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 

Summary of PhD Program:

The aim of this project is to develop new polymer materials and manufacturing processes to produce future recyclable, thermoplastic Type IV hydrogen storage vessels. This will be achieved by systematically developing demonstrator prototypes from a range of tailored thermoplastic polymer liners and thermoplastic polymer fibres to showcase the potential to establish this cutting-edge hydrogen gas storage technology. This has the potential to fundamentally change, significantly improve and ultimately revolutionise rotomoulding and the manufacturing practices for Type IV hydrogen tanks. However, they need to be proven as technically and commercially viable.

Application Deadline: 31 August 2023

Apply now

11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 

Summary of PhD Program:

This PhD project aims to investigate and improve the electrode/electrolyte interface. The application of post-treatments of the carbon felts, using oxidative activation combined with surface-decoration with nano-electrocatalysts, is expected to yield significant improvements in the electrochemical reversibility and to lower activation overpotential, resulting in higher battery efficiency. The project aims to focus particularly on iron and vanadium-based electrolytes consisting of metal complexes with ligand systems that have so far not been investigated in terms of their electrode / electrolyte interactions. These chemically activated electrodes will be investigated using various in-situ, ex-situ and operando spectroscopic techniques (Raman, FTIR, XPS, EPR) to provide insight into the underlying activation mechanisms.

Application Deadline: 31 August 2023

Apply now

12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 

Summary of PhD Program:

Today, there is a reliance on computer-based models to support critical design and operational decisions across multiple sectors, and such simulation models are commonly used for a range of purposes within bus vehicle design including prediction of onboard energy consumption and design energy management strategies through to understanding structural and thermal responses. However, the emergence of digital twins has the potential to offer much more insight into the real time behaviours – these models go beyond the standard numerical model and introduce proxy version of the physical system built from a fusion of data with models of differing fidelity, using novel techniques in uncertainty analysis, model reduction, and experimental validation.

Application Deadline: 31 August 2023

Apply now

13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 

Summary of PhD Program:

The move to electrified vehicle powertrains in the bus sector has seen increasingly complex supply chains emerging with more uncertainty around the sources of risk than ever before. This PhD will investigate the impact of external factors on the UK bus sector supply chain, develop new methods for quantifying global supply chain risks and create a decision making framework for agile and robust supply chain management. With increasing global uncertainty and rising material costs, the project will deliver new understanding of the sensitivities of the bus sector to external market variations, identify new business approaches to increase resilience of the UK supply chains and enable better informed decisions relative to supply chain management and the development of strategic partnerships across supply tiers.

Application Deadline: 31 August 2023

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14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 

Summary of PhD Program:

Standard solutions exist for Industry 4.0 compliant systems in production planning however, their introduction and efficient application require significant customisation to align with systems and practices that represent years of development within companies which are core to their operations. This project seeks to fill a gap in digital technologies and applications for the understanding and management of production systems in the manufacturing sector. The aim is to develop a digital operations strategy for the manufacture of materials handling equipment spanning commercial off the shelf COTS solutions and current best practice in the sector.

Application Deadline: 31 August 2023

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15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 

Summary of PhD Program:

To meet emerging sustainability and product performance goals, engineers need revolutionary design tools. The “Re-imagining Engineering Design” (RIED) Programme sets out to explore a radical new engineering design system using bio-inspired methodologies. A crucial aspect of this new design system is the ability to generate concepts rapidly and simulate their performance in parallel as the design evolves. This requires revolutionary simulation capabilities, with are highly automated, adaptive and efficient. This PhD project will look to investigate these new approaches, integrate them into emerging design tools and demonstrate them on a range of products. 

Application Deadline: 31 August 2023

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16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 

Summary of PhD Program:

The introduction of electrified powertrains in the bus sector has raised new challenges in achieving step changes in vehicle lightweighting. Vehicle weight has a significant impact on the energy efficiency and passenger carrying capacity of the bus vehicle, and therefore ensuring the structural weight is minimised without compromising safety is a key objective. This PhD will explore new FE based optimisation workflows that can enable the rapid design of large-scale lightweight vehicle structures. Such workflows are required to enable structural design to meet a diverse range of constraints, including strength, stiffness, durability, mass, passenger / systems packaging, manufacturability and commonality constraints.

Application Deadline: 31 August 2023

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17. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 

Summary of PhD Program:

This project aims at developing novel interactive and intelligence machine learning/ data mining algorithms to cope with all above mentioned problems. We also aim at using these algorithms to solve real-world problems, e.g., identifying severity levels of patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea, exploring the roles of global climate change on various tropical diseases, or developing AI technologies to deal with global climate change for vulnerable communities.

Application Deadline: 24 July 2023

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18. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Summary of PhD Program:

Many companies, across all industry sectors, are increasingly becoming data companies as they collect, curate, and analyse massive amounts of data to increase productivity and cost-effectiveness, or to develop new data-driven products and services. Similarly, governments and administrations world-wide are increasingly reliant upon data science, for instance, in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Within each application domain, the volume and rate of producing data increases over time, which has a knock-on impact on the power consumed by the data centres, devices and communication networks that drive data analytics. Consequently, the efficiency of data analytics is increasingly important: to scale analytics to increasingly larger and more complex data sets while maintaining low response times, but also to manage the computational requirements of analytics.

Application Deadline: 24 July 2023

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19. Fully Funded PhD Position in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Summary of PhD Program:

This project will bring together a well-known academic team working in vibrational spectroscopy with a commercial partner who have a strong track record in producing water sensors for industrial applications. The aim is to make a step change in the capabilities of water quality sensors and develop the next generation of instruments will allow detection and identification of microparticulates in the field with accuracy and sensitivity that is well beyond what is currently possible. The aim will be to develop fieldable remote sensors for continuous monitoring that can be deployed and operated in harsh conditions.

Application Deadline: 28 July 2023

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20. Fully Funded PhD Position in Natural and Built Environment

Summary of PhD Program:

The aim is to develop a performance designed mortar and robotic placement system using low carbon non-flammable binding materials to work with 3D mortar placing robotic systems. The mortar should have the following performance features, (1) viscosity and flow control for printing, (2) controlled setting time to allow for machine and manual finish, (3) non-combustible ingredients, (4) desired plasticity for handling and in service performance, (5) durability of 50 years in urban and aggressive marine environments, which make the project highly challenging and rewarding.

Application Deadline: 31 July 2023

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21. Fully Funded PhD Position in Natural and Built Environment 

Summary of PhD Program:

The overall aim of the project is to further develop the ISC to facilitate it’s use for connecting various steel elements (e.g. column-column, column-beam) with a particular emphasis on rapid assembly, disassembly, and robotic assembly. Achieving this overall aim requires developments in a number of key areas (1) physical assembly & testing (2) Robotics including computer vision and machine learning.

Application Deadline: 31 July 2023

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22. Fully Funded PhD Position in Biological Sciences 

Summary of PhD Program:

The vast majority of studies in the agricultural sustainability literature treat food commodities as homogenous goods, whereas in reality their impacts on the environment are location- and farming system-specific. Furthermore, as a farmer’s skillset and alternative land use options available to them are both diverse, the prospective economic impacts of land use transformation — and hence the likelihood of technology uptakes — also differ between individual farms. Not accounting for these heterogeneities is likely to result in unhelpful farm management recommendations and, ultimately, suboptimal interventions by the industry and policymakers alike.

Application Deadline: 31 July 2023

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23. Fully Funded PhD Position in Biological Sciences 

Summary of PhD Program:

The project will utilise a combination of data-based modelling and field trial-based investigations. Historical AFBI grass testing and breeding data resources and past GrassCheck results will be used as training data for a machine learning approach to developing a dynamic model. Field studies on grass and clover monocultures, mixtures and multi-species swards will be used to ground-truth the key parameters and interaction dynamics in the model. Differing growing conditions, including drought and waterlogging, will be imposed to validate whether model outputs are accurate under stress conditions.

Application Deadline: 31 July 2023

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24. Fully Funded PhD Position in Natural and Built Environment 

Summary of PhD Program:

Most academics agree that the YD was caused by a large-scale meltwater event: over millennia, gradual climate warming caused melting of North American ice sheets and build-up of a large glacial lake. When this lake was breached, large amounts of meltwater were released suddenly into the North Atlantic Ocean, causing a collapse of the ocean circulation with subsequent climate events felt across large parts of the Earth. However, a group of researchers has proposed that the trigger of the YD was a comet impact (YDIH), which would have caused the collapse of the North American ice sheets, global-scale fires, the extinction of megafauna, and archaeological changes (Firestone et al. 2007, but see Blaauw et al. 2012).

Application Deadline: 31 July 2023

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25. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mathematics and Physics

Summary of PhD Program:

This project therefore addresses real world needs by developing novel statistical models to facilitate the utilisation of single molecule imaging in basic research and in the real-world clinical setting through the improved exploitation of data. As many poorly understood and disease-relevant biological processes occur at these spatial scales, the proposed project seeks to enhance our mechanistic understanding of the biological underpinning of processes of immediate human health concern.

Application Deadline: 31 July 2023

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26. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mathematics and Physics

Summary of PhD Program:

Dr Lisa McFetridge & Dr Karen Cairns The project in a nutshell: The decision-making process that people undergo is naturally complex, involving a wide variety of factors, many of which are interacting, and each of which affect a person’s final decision. This project will advance current statistical and machine learning techniques to capture the common scenario that peoples’ opinions develop and change as time progresses, a situation predominately unexplored by current methods. The proposed project has been designed in close consultation with an industrial partner, providing the successful candidate the unique opportunity to engage in live client projects relevant to their research in which they may test and enhance the statistical models they develop.

Application Deadline: 31 July 2023

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27. Fully Funded PhD Position in History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics

Summary of PhD Program:

Based at Queen’s University Belfast in the Centre for Public History, and working closely in partnership with PRONI and with several community-based organisations around Belfast’s Falls and Shankill Roads, the research will engage local communities in collecting and sharing their social histories with public audiences. It will involve the co-creation of an oral history archive, to be deposited in and made accessible by PRONI, along with a participatory ‘memory map’ as a means of exploring, documenting and sharing local histories. The emphasis is on developing methods and approaches that straddle public history and community heritage, and so draw out ‘participatory place-making’ practices for wider use.

Application Deadline: 31 July 2023

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28. Fully Funded PhD Position in History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics 

Summary of PhD Program:

Recent research across a number of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences has witnessed a renewed focus on affect/emotion and embodiment, falling broadly under the “affective turn” and “new materialist” paradigms, while drawing on long-standing critical work on emotions and the body. As part of this, there has been a particular emphasis on affect/emotion and the body as they relate to gender and/or sexuality. Potential candidates are now invited to submit research proposals of approximately 1,000 words on the topic of “gender and the politics of emotion” AND/OR “gender and the politics of embodiment.”

Application Deadline: 31 July 2023

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29. Fully Funded PhD Position in History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics

Summary of PhD Program:

Potential candidates for the studentship are invited to submit research proposals of approximately 1,000 words on topics in modern history. One fully funded PhD studentship is available for a successful candidate. This includes payment of UK-level doctoral fees and a maintenance stipend. Applicants must meet the funding criteria set out by the Northern Ireland Department for Economy, including a three-year residency in the UK prior to starting the PhD programme. See below for the full eligibility criteria.

Application Deadline: 31 July 2023

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30. Fully Funded PhD Position in History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics

Summary of PhD Program:

This project aims to envision a new mission and organisational purposes for the university in the 21st century. Part of the project will involve mapping, working with, and critically analysing current efforts, networks and initiatives aimed at transforming the university to be better able to respond to the climate and ecological crisis – ranging from Faculty for a Future, Scientist Rebellion, and History Rebellion to EUAC and exemplar /pioneering individual universities. The project will also identify and interrogate ideas and practices oriented towards decommodifying and democratising universities – such as proposals from trades unions and student bodies, and existing novel university collaborations such has Community Wealth Building and place based climate action.

Application Deadline: 31 July 2023

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31. Fully Funded PhD Position in Natural and Built Environment

Summary of PhD Program:

This exciting PhD opportunity is a collaborative studentship between Queen’s University Belfast and the Office for National Statistics. You will be supervised by Dr Gemma Catney (QUB) and Sarah Wood (Ethnicity, National Identity, Language and Religion Topic Lead, Office for National Statistics). The publication of 2021/22 Census data represents a unique and important opportunity for research that seeks to understand societal change at the local level. This project aims to provide timely and impactful evidence on the ways in which ethnic and religious diversity has grown and been shaped, and the nature of the differing – and persistently unequal – neighbourhood experiences of people from different ethnic and religious backgrounds, responding to pressing policy, political and public concerns, and scholarly questions in need of urgent attention.

Application Deadline: 30 August 2023

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32. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Summary of PhD Program:

This PhD project is a part of SeAFEED, a €1.2M partnership between QUB, the University of Limerick and ATU Sligo, funded by the RoI Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM), and the Northern Ireland Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA). Assisted by industrial partners, we will explore and improve the use of seaweed as a source of ingredients for animal feed. SeAFEED will investigate multiple aspects of the supply chain and the underlying science and engineering, from seaweed cultivation and harvesting, through to extraction of compounds from the seaweed, production and formulation of feed pellets, and use of these pellets as feed in pig farming.

Application Deadline: 30 August 2023

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33. Fully Funded PhD Position in Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences

Summary of PhD Program:

The pituitary is a small gland (about the size of a pea) below the brain inside the cranium. Pituitary tumours are the second most common type of intracranial tumour and are called pituitary neuroendocrine tumours (PitNETs). Many PitNETs secrete hormones (called functioning tumours) that cascade through the body to regulate processes like growth, fertility and metabolism. These can be treated with medication to control hormone levels. Other PitNETs do not secrete hormones (called non-functioning). These non-functioning PitNETs are typically managed with surgery; however, some may also require radiotherapy to prevent tumour growth.

Application Deadline: 2 July 2023

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34. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 

Summary of PhD Program:

The PhD student working on this project will be mainly responsible for microfabrication of frequency-based mass tracking sensor and development of control electronics for this device. Therefore, the student should be well-versed in using micro-controllers and associated electronics. Fabrication of mass tracking sensor will be carried out at the Queen’s Advanced Micro Engineering Centre (QAMEC) and the student will be provided the required training.

Application Deadline: 20 July 2023

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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 Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Summary of PhD Program:

In this project, multi-dimensional modelling of the flames and combustion for ammonia will be performed using Ansys Chemkin-Pro and Ansys Fluent to characterise ammonia and its effects on the combustion and emissions formation in different combustion systems. Zero-dimensional modelling under shock tube and jet-stirred reactor conditions will be conducted using Ansys Chemkin-Pro to understand the ignition and species formation behaviours for ammonia and its blends with hydrocarbon fuels. Then, further simulations (one-dimensional and two-dimensional) will be conducted using Ansys Chemkin-Pro and Ansys Fluent to assess the flame and emissions structures (carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxides and soot) for ammonia and its blends with hydrocarbon fuels under laminar premixed and co-flow conditions, at different operating conditions.

Application Deadline: 31 August 2023

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2. Fully Funded PhD Position in polymer materials

Summary of PhD Program:

The aim of this project is to develop new polymer materials and manufacturing processes to produce future recyclable, thermoplastic Type IV hydrogen storage vessels. This will be achieved by systematically developing demonstrator prototypes from a range of tailored thermoplastic polymer liners and thermoplastic polymer fibres to showcase the potential to establish this cutting-edge hydrogen gas storage technology. This has the potential to fundamentally change, significantly improve and ultimately revolutionise rotomoulding and the manufacturing practices for Type IV hydrogen tanks. However, they need to be proven as technically and commercially viable.

Application Deadline: 31 August 2023

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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Redox flow batteries

Summary of PhD Program:

This PhD project aims to investigate and improve the electrode/electrolyte interface. The application of post-treatments of the carbon felts, using oxidative activation combined with surface-decoration with nano-electrocatalysts, is expected to yield significant improvements in the electrochemical reversibility and to lower activation overpotential, resulting in higher battery efficiency. The project aims to focus particularly on iron and vanadium-based electrolytes consisting of metal complexes with ligand systems that have so far not been investigated in terms of their electrode / electrolyte interactions. These chemically activated electrodes will be investigated using various in-situ, ex-situ and operando spectroscopic techniques (Raman, FTIR, XPS, EPR) to provide insight into the underlying activation mechanisms.

Application Deadline: 31 August 2023

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4. Fully Funded PhD Position in zero-emission technologies

Summary of PhD Program:

The rapid transition to zero-emission technologies in the public transport sector, combined with rising energy/material costs and global supply chain disruption, is bringing unprecedented challenges for the UK, and global, bus manufacturing sector. As governments and local transport authorities continue to commit to fleet decarbonization, the demand for innovative zero-emission solutions is higher than ever before. This is rapid adoption of new technologies is driving a growing interest in how advanced computational methods can help support design and delivery of next generation vehicle concepts. This project will explore the role of digital twins in the development of new vehicle powertrain models, and how advances in artificial intelligence, edge computing and vehicle powertrain technologies can be brought together to address the challenges in achieving net zero.

Application Deadline: 31 August 2023

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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in electrified vehicle 

Summary of PhD Program:

The move to electrified vehicle powertrains in the bus sector has seen increasingly complex supply chains emerging with more uncertainty around the sources of risk than ever before. This PhD will investigate the impact of external factors on the UK bus sector supply chain, develop new methods for quantifying global supply chain risks and create a decision making framework for agile and robust supply chain management. With increasing global uncertainty and rising material costs, the project will deliver new understanding of the sensitivities of the bus sector to external market variations, identify new business approaches to increase resilience of the UK supply chains and enable better informed decisions relative to supply chain management and the development of strategic partnerships across supply tiers.

Application Deadline: 31 August 2023

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6. Fully Funded PhD Position in production planning

Summary of PhD Program:

Standard solutions exist for Industry 4.0 compliant systems in production planning however, their introduction and efficient application require significant customisation to align with systems and practices that represent years of development within companies which are core to their operations. This project seeks to fill a gap in digital technologies and applications for the understanding and management of production systems in the manufacturing sector. The aim is to develop a digital operations strategy for the manufacture of materials handling equipment spanning commercial off the shelf COTS solutions and current best practice in the sector.

Application Deadline: 31 August 2023

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7. Fully Funded PhD Position in low emissions aircraft

Summary of PhD Program:

Do you want to play a part in designing future low emissions aircraft? In collaboration with Rolls-Royce Plc, this project will investigate novel approaches for investigating wheels up landing. Wheels-up landing is considered an extreme event that an aircraft may experience, where the undercarriage fails to deploy successfully and the aircraft lands without its full complement of wheels. This often results in the powerplant (engine and nacelle) impacting the ground when the aircraft lands, with potentially catastrophic consequences for the powerplant itself, or indeed the entire aircraft. For future aircraft concepts employing novel engine integration configurations, or low-emissions propulsion systems such as hydrogen, ensuring safe operation of the aircraft under such events is a particular design challenge.

Application Deadline: 31 August 2023

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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in engineers need revolutionary design tools

Summary of PhD Program:

To meet emerging sustainability and product performance goals, engineers need revolutionary design tools. The “Re-imagining Engineering Design” (RIED) Programme sets out to explore a radical new engineering design system using bio-inspired methodologies. A crucial aspect of this new design system is the ability to generate concepts rapidly and simulate their performance in parallel as the design evolves. This requires revolutionary simulation capabilities, with are highly automated, adaptive and efficient. This PhD project will look to investigate these new approaches, integrate them into emerging design tools and demonstrate them on a range of products. The PhD candidate will work in a large project team which consists of three universities and 20+ researchers. Apart from the supervision from the supervisory team, support will also be available from post-doctoral researchers and peer PhD researchers in the team.

Application Deadline: 31 August 2023

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9. Fully Funded PhD Position in electrified powertrains in the bus

Summary of PhD Program:

The introduction of electrified powertrains in the bus sector has raised new challenges in achieving step changes in vehicle lightweighting. Vehicle weight has a significant impact on the energy efficiency and passenger carrying capacity of the bus vehicle, and therefore ensuring the structural weight is minimised without compromising safety is a key objective. This PhD will explore new FE based optimisation workflows that can enable the rapid design of large-scale lightweight vehicle structures. Such workflows are required to enable structural design to meet a diverse range of constraints, including strength, stiffness, durability, mass, passenger / systems packaging, manufacturability and commonality constraints.

Application Deadline: 31 August 2023

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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in effects of ammonia on the formation of soot and greenhouse gasses 

Summary of PhD Program:

This project aims to elucidate the effects of ammonia on the formation of soot and greenhouse gasses such as carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxides in different combustion systems fuelled with hydrocarbon fuels using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). In this project, multi-dimensional modelling of the flames and combustion for ammonia will be performed using Ansys Chemkin-Pro and Ansys Fluent to characterise ammonia and its effects on the combustion and emissions formation in different combustion systems. Zero-dimensional modelling under shock tube and jet-stirred reactor conditions will be conducted using Ansys Chemkin-Pro to understand the ignition and species formation behaviours for ammonia and its blends with hydrocarbon fuels.

Application Deadline: 31 August 2023

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11. Fully Funded PhD Position in polymer materials and manufacturing processes

Summary of PhD Program:

The aim of this project is to develop new polymer materials and manufacturing processes to produce future recyclable, thermoplastic Type IV hydrogen storage vessels. This will be achieved by systematically developing demonstrator prototypes from a range of tailored thermoplastic polymer liners and thermoplastic polymer fibres to showcase the potential to establish this cutting-edge hydrogen gas storage technology. This has the potential to fundamentally change, significantly improve and ultimately revolutionise rotomoulding and the manufacturing practices for Type IV hydrogen tanks. However, they need to be proven as technically and commercially viable.

Application Deadline: 31 August 2023

Apply now

12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Redox flow batteries 

Summary of PhD Program:

This PhD project aims to investigate and improve the electrode/electrolyte interface. The application of post-treatments of the carbon felts, using oxidative activation combined with surface-decoration with nano-electrocatalysts, is expected to yield significant improvements in the electrochemical reversibility and to lower activation overpotential, resulting in higher battery efficiency. The project aims to focus particularly on iron and vanadium-based electrolytes consisting of metal complexes with ligand systems that have so far not been investigated in terms of their electrode / electrolyte interactions. These chemically activated electrodes will be investigated using various in-situ, ex-situ and operando spectroscopic techniques (Raman, FTIR, XPS, EPR) to provide insight into the underlying activation mechanisms.

Application Deadline: 31 August 2023

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13. Fully Funded PhD Position in zero-emission technologies 

Summary of PhD Program:

Today, there is a reliance on computer-based models to support critical design and operational decisions across multiple sectors, and such simulation models are commonly used for a range of purposes within bus vehicle design including prediction of onboard energy consumption and design energy management strategies through to understanding structural and thermal responses. However, the emergence of digital twins has the potential to offer much more insight into the real time behaviours – these models go beyond the standard numerical model and introduce proxy version of the physical system built from a fusion of data with models of differing fidelity, using novel techniques in uncertainty analysis, model reduction, and experimental validation.

Application Deadline: 31 August 2023

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14. Fully Funded PhD Position in electrified vehicle

Summary of PhD Program:

Successful candidates will be working closely with an existing team of Postgraduate Students and Postdoctoral Research Fellows housed in the Wright Technology and Research Centre at Queen’s University Belfast, with the opportunity to become closely involved with vehicle testing and development with our industrial partner. Alongside academic supervisors, each of our PhD students will have dedicated industrial supervision to ensure that our researchers get full exposure to real industrial challenges and understanding of how to translate fundamental research into real industrial impact.

Application Deadline: 31 August 2023

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15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Engineering Resource Planning

Summary of PhD Program:

Groups of COTS tools exist to interact with and manage individual aspects of the manufacturing enterprise. However, holistic applications (Engineering Resource Planning – ERP, manufacturing Resource Planning – MRP) can often be limited by a need for customisation to suit the specific needs of individual organisations at a shop floor level where proven in-house processes have been developed over a number of years. At best, poor management of the interfaces between legacy approaches and new COTS, Industry 4.0 compliant systems, results in process delays and in-accuracies.

Application Deadline: 31 August 2023

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16. Fully Funded PhD Position in low emissions aircraft

Summary of PhD Program:

This will be a computational PhD investigating new approaches for simulating the whole powerplant system under a wheels-up landing event. This will require investigating how best to model the engine, pylon and nacelle components in such a way that enables understanding of how the components interact with each other during a dynamic impact event such as wheels-up landing, and enable prediction of how the impact loads are transferred and dissipated throughout the powerplant structure. Key to addressing this challenge is identifying the appropriate level of detail to include in the model – managing the trade-off between rapid simulation that is necessary for exploring numerous novel aircraft concepts, and accuracy of the simulation output.

Application Deadline: 31 August 2023

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17. Fully Funded PhD Position in Re-imagining Engineering Design

Summary of PhD Program:

In RIED it is envisaged that just as organisms develop by adapting to the natural world around them, improved products can be developed through creation of virtual seeds, environments and stimuli. By subjecting the virtual product to real world conditions during the growth process, informed development decisions can be made throughout. Simulation will therefore play a crucial role in the success of the endeavour.

Application Deadline: 31 August 2023

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18. Fully Funded PhD Position in electrified powertrains

Summary of PhD Program:

The main objectives of the project can be summarised as follows:
• Select a hierarchy of structural components and assemblies for use through-out the project to develop understanding and methods.
• Formulate, develop and test a range of optimisation approaches, on components and assemblies of varying complexity, to understand how different optimisation methods (e.g. sizing, shape, and topology) and constraints are defined and best distributed in a multistage / multiscale design process;
• Down select the most promising approaches, conceive and implement workflows for a number of products, demonstrate and assess solutions from the workflows against legacy data;
• Contribute to technical reporting and dissemination of scientific outcomes through publications and participation in technical conferences.

Application Deadline: 31 August 2023

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19. Fully Funded PhD Position in neurodegeneration and cognitive resilience

Summary of PhD Program:

This project will investigate the incidence and predictors of neurodegenerative and cognitive resistance and resilience in large, long-term, cohort studies. Understanding the epidemiology and pathophysiological mechanisms of resistance to neurodegeneration and cognitive resilience in the face of dementia-causing disease will both improve understanding of the dementia-causing diseases and equip people and healthcare professionals to live and support healthier ageing.

Application Deadline: 28 May 2023

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20. Fully Funded PhD Position in civil engineers

Summary of PhD Program:

The overall aim of the project is to further develop the ISC to facilitate it’s use for connecting various steel elements (e.g. column-column, column-beam) with a particular emphasis on rapid assembly, disassembly, and robotic assembly. Achieving this overall aim requires developments in a number of key areas (1) physical assembly & testing (2) Robotics including computer vision and machine learning.

Application Deadline: 31 May 2023

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21. Fully Funded PhD Position in Nursing and Midwifery 

Summary of PhD Program:

This project aims to conduct a mixed-methods study on living with pancreatic cancer in Northern Ireland. It involves scoping review, semi-structured interviews with patients and family members, focus group interviews with healthcare professionals, and secondary data analysis of a recent pancreatic cancer audit. The study aims to identify potential inequalities in treatment and inform future research and policy. The research will have global relevance due to the lack of empirical research on this topic.

Application Deadline: 31 May 2023

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22. Fully Funded PhD Position in Biological Sciences

Summary of PhD Program:

In dairy cattle, the transition period is critical for health, fertility, and productivity of dairy cows. This period is characterised by drastic metabolic, immune and endocrine changes, rendering cows extremely susceptible to diseases with subsequent high incidences of infectious diseases such as mastitis, which lead to increased production costs (>£100 million/year in UK) due to treatment and post-infection reductions in milk yield due to udder damage. To maximise profitability from milk production, the dairy industry is increasingly focused on improving the efficiency of feed and animal production through the use of alternate, natural, non-antibiotic plant-based feed additives and their extracts commonly known as phytogenics or botanicals.

Application Deadline: 2 June 2023

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23. Fully Funded PhD Position in Healthcare Operations Management and Healthcare Analytics

Summary of PhD Program:

Queen’s Management School (QMS) invites applications for a PhD studentship in Healthcare Operations Management and Healthcare Analytics focused on the Molecular Radiotherapy of Prostate Cancer. The three-year studentship is fully-funded, covering the tuition fees and living expenses. This stipend will support work towards a PhD awarded on the basis of original research presented in a major written thesis. The studentship is intended to support research into the operations management of molecular radiotherapy under the supervision of Dr. Faersheed Hesaraki (QMS, ITAO) and Professor Joe O’Sullivan (SMDBS, PGJCCR).

Application Deadline: 4 June 2023

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24. Fully Funded PhD Position in environmental change

Summary of PhD Program:

In our changing world, there’s a pressing need to embrace ‘smart’ technologies and approaches to predict how infrastructure will perform under environmental change. Transport infrastructure in circumpolar regions is particularly at risk from climate change; here ongoing changes in ground ice extent and associated hydrological fluctuations are directly impacting highways and other structures (e.g. via subsidence, cracking). Although of relatively simple design, remote northern highways are often of high socio-economic importance, forming the backbone of regional supply systems and vital transportation corridors for isolated indigenous communities.

Application Deadline: 7 June 2023

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25. Fully Funded PhD Position in parasitic infections

Summary of PhD Program:

This project will explore the consequences of biotic interactions for the expression and effects of antiparasitic molecules by plants and fungi. It brings cutting-edge chemistry into the study of natural ecological interactions with a view to enhancing the utility of nature-based solutions for animal health. Chemical profiles of plant extracts will be compared when grown under protection from herbivores/pests versus exposed to varying degrees of natural challenge. Tree, shrub and legume/forb species that are palatable to ruminants and with evidence of antiparasitic bioactivity will be chosen, e.g. willow, hazel, chicory.

Application Deadline: 7 June 2023

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26. Fully Funded PhD Position in signal and communication

Summary of PhD Program:

Dr Muhammad Ali Babar Abbasi (m.abbasi@qub.ac.uk) and Dr Okan Yurduseven (o.yurduseven@qub.ac.uk). We are offering a PhD opportunity to study the RF and microwave devices intricacies of signal and communication cable interactions. The successful candidate will work on developing innovative solutions to complex problems in a dynamic research environment as part of the £7m DTSL-funded Electromagnetic Environment (EME) Hub. The research will explore the use of radio frequency equipment for detecting, intercepting and manipulating signals in communication cables. The candidate will investigate the sensitivity of signal detection probes, the amplifier’s dynamic range requirements for signal disruption, and other related factors to fully understand the scope and physical limitations of signal interception and manipulation in a wide operating bandwidth.

Application Deadline: 16 June 2023

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27. Fully Funded PhD Position in microwave devices

Summary of PhD Program:

We are offering a PhD opportunity to study the RF and microwave devices intricacies of signal and communication cable interactions. The successful candidate will work on developing innovative solutions to complex problems in a dynamic research environment as part of the £7m DTSL-funded Electromagnetic Environment (EME) Hub. The research will explore the use of radio frequency equipment for detecting, intercepting and manipulating signals in communication cables. The candidate will investigate the sensitivity of signal detection probes, the amplifier’s dynamic range requirements for signal disruption, and other related factors to fully understand the scope and physical limitations of signal interception and manipulation in a wide operating bandwidth.

Application Deadline: 16 June 2023

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28. Fully Funded PhD Position in Demography 

Summary of PhD Program:

This exciting PhD opportunity is a collaborative studentship between Queen’s University Belfast and the Office for National Statistics. You will be supervised by Dr Gemma Catney (QUB) and Sarah Wood (Ethnicity, National Identity, Language and Religion Topic Lead, Office for National Statistics). The publication of 2021/22 Census data represents a unique and important opportunity for research that seeks to understand societal change at the local level. This project aims to provide timely and impactful evidence on the ways in which ethnic and religious diversity has grown and been shaped, and the nature of the differing – and persistently unequal – neighbourhood experiences of people from different ethnic and religious backgrounds, responding to pressing policy, political and public concerns, and scholarly questions in need of urgent attention.

Application Deadline: 30 June 2023

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29. Fully Funded PhD Position in chiral coupling phenomena

Summary of PhD Program:

The PhD project is concerned with experimental investigations and theoretical studies of chiral coupling phenomena and cooperative interactions between quantum emitters and confined optical modes supported by various nanophotonic waveguide configurations, with the overall goal being to efficiently couple the spin of the quantum emitter and the helicity of the waveguide mode that can also be coherently coupled with multiple emitters embedded in the waveguide. Both fundamental and applied aspects of this research will be assessed from the perspectives of chiral quantum optics1-3.

Application Deadline: 30 June 2023

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30. Fully Funded PhD Position in diamond and plasmonic nanostructures

Summary of PhD Program:

This project is concerned with controlled coupling between nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centres in diamond and plasmonic nanostructures with the overall goal being to efficiently couple single NV emitters to plasmonic excitations that can also improve optical spin readout efficiencies in a range of applications for the NV centre. Both fundamental and applied aspects of this research will be assessed from the perspectives of quantum plasmonics1-4. The project goals include the implementation of experimental and computational tools for developing new NV-plasmonic configurations to improve spin readout efficiencies in a range of applications for the NV centre including higher precision magnetic nano-sensors, with greater bandwidth.

Application Deadline: 30 June 2023

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31. Fully Funded PhD Position in Modern Methods of Construction

Summary of PhD Program:

The aim is to develop a performance designed mortar and robotic placement system using low carbon non-flammable binding materials to work with 3D mortar placing robotic systems. The mortar should have the following performance features, (1) viscosity and flow control for printing, (2) controlled setting time to allow for machine and manual finish, (3) non-combustible ingredients, (4) desired plasticity for handling and in service performance, (5) durability of 50 years in urban and aggressive marine environments, which make the project highly challenging and rewarding. The robotics will require (1) the design of a robotic mechanical system that can place mortar into the gaps between brick slips precisely, (2) optimal path planning algorithms for the robot, (3) development of advanced controllers based on model predictive control and sliding mode control technique.

Application Deadline: 31 July 2023

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32. Fully Funded PhD Position in climate-based simulation model 

Summary of PhD Program:

The project will utilise a combination of data-based modelling and field trial-based investigations. Historical AFBI grass testing and breeding data resources and past GrassCheck results will be used as training data for a machine learning approach to developing a dynamic model. Field studies on grass and clover monocultures, mixtures and multi-species swards will be used to ground-truth the key parameters and interaction dynamics in the model. Differing growing conditions, including drought and waterlogging, will be imposed to validate whether model outputs are accurate under stress conditions.

Application Deadline: 31 July 2023

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33. Fully Funded PhD Position in single molecule imaging techniques

Summary of PhD Program:

This project therefore addresses real world needs by developing novel statistical models to facilitate the utilisation of single molecule imaging in basic research and in the real-world clinical setting through the improved exploitation of data. As many poorly understood and disease-relevant biological processes occur at these spatial scales, the proposed project seeks to enhance our mechanistic understanding of the biological underpinning of processes of immediate human health concern.

Application Deadline: 31 July 2023

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1. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Summary of PhD Program:

This project aims to elucidate the effects of ammonia on the formation of soot and greenhouse gasses such as carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxides in different combustion systems fuelled with hydrocarbon fuels using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). In this project, multi-dimensional modelling of the flames and combustion for ammonia will be performed using Ansys Chemkin-Pro and Ansys Fluent to characterise ammonia and its effects on the combustion and emissions formation in different combustion systems. Zero-dimensional modelling under shock tube and jet-stirred reactor conditions will be conducted using Ansys Chemkin-Pro to understand the ignition and species formation behaviours for ammonia and its blends with hydrocarbon fuels.

Application Deadline: 31 August 2023

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2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Summary of PhD Program:

The aim of this project is to develop new polymer materials and manufacturing processes to produce future recyclable, thermoplastic Type IV hydrogen storage vessels. This will be achieved by systematically developing demonstrator prototypes from a range of tailored thermoplastic polymer liners and thermoplastic polymer fibres to showcase the potential to establish this cutting-edge hydrogen gas storage technology. This has the potential to fundamentally change, significantly improve and ultimately revolutionise rotomoulding and the manufacturing practices for Type IV hydrogen tanks. However, they need to be proven as technically and commercially viable.

Application Deadline: 31 August 2023

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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Summary of PhD Program:

This PhD project aims to investigate and improve the electrode/electrolyte interface. The application of post-treatments of the carbon felts, using oxidative activation combined with surface-decoration with nano-electrocatalysts, is expected to yield significant improvements in the electrochemical reversibility and to lower activation overpotential, resulting in higher battery efficiency. The project aims to focus particularly on iron and vanadium-based electrolytes consisting of metal complexes with ligand systems that have so far not been investigated in terms of their electrode / electrolyte interactions. These chemically activated electrodes will be investigated using various in-situ, ex-situ and operando spectroscopic techniques (Raman, FTIR, XPS, EPR) to provide insight into the underlying activation mechanisms.

Application Deadline: 31 August 2023

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4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Summary of PhD Program:

In this project, the PhD will focus on exploring the potential role of the digital twin within the bus sector, with a number of key objectives: 1. To understand the capability, scope and limits of digital twin technology as applied to electric and fuel cell city bus configurations; 2. To develop and validate a prototype digital ‘shadow’ (unidirectional data flow) which can leverage the real-time data feeds from onboard vehicle sensor network; 3. To explore the extension of the digital shadow into a full digital twin, and the limits on this extension within the public transport realm;

Application Deadline: 31 August 2023

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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Summary of PhD Program:

Successful candidates will be working closely with an existing team of Postgraduate Students and Postdoctoral Research Fellows housed in the Wright Technology and Research Centre at Queen’s University Belfast, with the opportunity to become closely involved with vehicle testing and development with our industrial partner. Alongside academic supervisors, each of our PhD students will have dedicated industrial supervision to ensure that our researchers get full exposure to real industrial challenges and understanding of how to translate fundamental research into real industrial impact.

Application Deadline: 31 August 2023

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6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Summary of PhD Program:

The core objectives of the project can thus be summarised as: Objective 1: Use value chain mapping to establish processes and practices to establish a baseline for a current state in production planning and execution. Establish system modelling fidelity, scenarios and production representation including key metrics and means by which they can be quantified and included in simulation based tools. Objective 2: Develop / identify methods and tools for generating and managing system design and performance data. The key question here is: Can the process of digitalisation be standardised or automated to overcome current knowledge gaps / challenges and issues related to data exchange at key interfaces between systems and disciplines? Objective 3: Provide means by which outputs from complex production planning models can be interrogated, interpreted and optimised from an organisational perspective with embedded benefits across disciplines beyond the term of the PhD.

Application Deadline: 31 August 2023

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7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Summary of PhD Program:

This will be a computational PhD investigating new approaches for simulating the whole powerplant system under a wheels-up landing event. This will require investigating how best to model the engine, pylon and nacelle components in such a way that enables understanding of how the components interact with each other during a dynamic impact event such as wheels-up landing, and enable prediction of how the impact loads are transferred and dissipated throughout the powerplant structure. Key to addressing this challenge is identifying the appropriate level of detail to include in the model – managing the trade-off between rapid simulation that is necessary for exploring numerous novel aircraft concepts, and accuracy of the simulation output.

Application Deadline: 31 August 2023

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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Summary of PhD Program:

To meet emerging sustainability and product performance goals, engineers need revolutionary design tools. The “Re-imagining Engineering Design” (RIED) Programme sets out to explore a radical new engineering design system using bio-inspired methodologies. A crucial aspect of this new design system is the ability to generate concepts rapidly and simulate their performance in parallel as the design evolves. This requires revolutionary simulation capabilities, with are highly automated, adaptive and efficient. This PhD project will look to investigate these new approaches, integrate them into emerging design tools and demonstrate them on a range of products.

Application Deadline: 31 August 2023

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9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Summary of PhD Program:

The introduction of electrified powertrains in the bus sector has raised new challenges in achieving step changes in vehicle lightweighting. Vehicle weight has a significant impact on the energy efficiency and passenger carrying capacity of the bus vehicle, and therefore ensuring the structural weight is minimised without compromising safety is a key objective. This PhD will explore new FE based optimisation workflows that can enable the rapid design of large-scale lightweight vehicle structures. Such workflows are required to enable structural design to meet a diverse range of constraints, including strength, stiffness, durability, mass, passenger / systems packaging, manufacturability and commonality constraints.

Application Deadline: 31 August 2023

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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Summary of PhD Program:

This project aims to elucidate the effects of ammonia on the formation of soot and greenhouse gasses such as carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxides in different combustion systems fuelled with hydrocarbon fuels using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). In this project, multi-dimensional modelling of the flames and combustion for ammonia will be performed using Ansys Chemkin-Pro and Ansys Fluent to characterise ammonia and its effects on the combustion and emissions formation in different combustion systems. Zero-dimensional modelling under shock tube and jet-stirred reactor conditions will be conducted using Ansys Chemkin-Pro to understand the ignition and species formation behaviours for ammonia and its blends with hydrocarbon fuels.

Application Deadline: 31 August 2023

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11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Summary of PhD Program:

The aim of this project is to develop new polymer materials and manufacturing processes to produce future recyclable, thermoplastic Type IV hydrogen storage vessels. This will be achieved by systematically developing demonstrator prototypes from a range of tailored thermoplastic polymer liners and thermoplastic polymer fibres to showcase the potential to establish this cutting-edge hydrogen gas storage technology. This has the potential to fundamentally change, significantly improve and ultimately revolutionise rotomoulding and the manufacturing practices for Type IV hydrogen tanks. However, they need to be proven as technically and commercially viable.

Application Deadline: 31 August 2023

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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Summary of PhD Program:

This PhD project aims to investigate and improve the electrode/electrolyte interface. The application of post-treatments of the carbon felts, using oxidative activation combined with surface-decoration with nano-electrocatalysts, is expected to yield significant improvements in the electrochemical reversibility and to lower activation overpotential, resulting in higher battery efficiency. The project aims to focus particularly on iron and vanadium-based electrolytes consisting of metal complexes with ligand systems that have so far not been investigated in terms of their electrode / electrolyte interactions. These chemically activated electrodes will be investigated using various in-situ, ex-situ and operando spectroscopic techniques (Raman, FTIR, XPS, EPR) to provide insight into the underlying activation mechanisms.

Application Deadline: 31 August 2023

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13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Summary of PhD Program:

The rapid transition to zero-emission technologies in the public transport sector, combined with rising energy/material costs and global supply chain disruption, is bringing unprecedented challenges for the UK, and global, bus manufacturing sector. As governments and local transport authorities continue to commit to fleet decarbonization, the demand for innovative zero-emission solutions is higher than ever before. This is rapid adoption of new technologies is driving a growing interest in how advanced computational methods can help support design and delivery of next generation vehicle concepts. This project will explore the role of digital twins in the development of new vehicle powertrain models, and how advances in artificial intelligence, edge computing and vehicle powertrain technologies can be brought together to address the challenges in achieving net zero.

Application Deadline: 31 August 2023

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14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Summary of PhD Program:

The move to electrified vehicle powertrains in the bus sector has seen increasingly complex supply chains emerging with more uncertainty around the sources of risk than ever before. This PhD will investigate the impact of external factors on the UK bus sector supply chain, develop new methods for quantifying global supply chain risks and create a decision making framework for agile and robust supply chain management. With increasing global uncertainty and rising material costs, the project will deliver new understanding of the sensitivities of the bus sector to external market variations, identify new business approaches to increase resilience of the UK supply chains and enable better informed decisions relative to supply chain management and the development of strategic partnerships across supply tiers.

Application Deadline: 31 August 2023

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15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Summary of PhD Program:

Standard solutions exist for Industry 4.0 compliant systems in production planning however, their introduction and efficient application require significant customisation to align with systems and practices that represent years of development within companies which are core to their operations. This project seeks to fill a gap in digital technologies and applications for the understanding and management of production systems in the manufacturing sector. The aim is to develop a digital operations strategy for the manufacture of materials handling equipment spanning commercial off the shelf COTS solutions and current best practice in the sector.

Application Deadline: 31 August 2023

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16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Summary of PhD Program:

Do you want to play a part in designing future low emissions aircraft? In collaboration with Rolls-Royce Plc, this project will investigate novel approaches for investigating wheels up landing. Wheels-up landing is considered an extreme event that an aircraft may experience, where the undercarriage fails to deploy successfully and the aircraft lands without its full complement of wheels. This often results in the powerplant (engine and nacelle) impacting the ground when the aircraft lands, with potentially catastrophic consequences for the powerplant itself, or indeed the entire aircraft. For future aircraft concepts employing novel engine integration configurations, or low-emissions propulsion systems such as hydrogen, ensuring safe operation of the aircraft under such events is a particular design challenge.

Application Deadline: 31 August 2023

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17. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Summary of PhD Program:

To meet emerging sustainability and product performance goals, engineers need revolutionary design tools. The “Re-imagining Engineering Design” (RIED) Programme sets out to explore a radical new engineering design system using bio-inspired methodologies. A crucial aspect of this new design system is the ability to generate concepts rapidly and simulate their performance in parallel as the design evolves. This requires revolutionary simulation capabilities, with are highly automated, adaptive and efficient. This PhD project will look to investigate these new approaches, integrate them into emerging design tools and demonstrate them on a range of products.

Application Deadline: 31 August 2023

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18. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Summary of PhD Program:

The introduction of electrified powertrains in the bus sector has raised new challenges in achieving step changes in vehicle lightweighting. Vehicle weight has a significant impact on the energy efficiency and passenger carrying capacity of the bus vehicle, and therefore ensuring the structural weight is minimised without compromising safety is a key objective. This PhD will explore new FE based optimisation workflows that can enable the rapid design of large-scale lightweight vehicle structures. Such workflows are required to enable structural design to meet a diverse range of constraints, including strength, stiffness, durability, mass, passenger / systems packaging, manufacturability and commonality constraints.

Application Deadline: 31 August 2023

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19. Fully Funded PhD Position in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Summary of PhD Program:

This PhD project aims to investigate redox electrolyte flow in bespoke miniaturised operando flow cells as a function of internal manifold, compression, flow rate and current density. Customised, high-fidelity 3D-printed cells have been shown to provide excellent leak tightness and chemical compatibility, and their polymeric structure and versatile design make them amenable to high throughput X-ray computed tomography experiments, as well as complementary operando spectroscopic techniques such as XPS, UV/Vis and Raman microscopy.

Application Deadline: 21 April 2023

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20. Fully Funded PhD Position in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering 

Summary of PhD Program:

This project has two main objectives: 1) to develop novel high-throughput assays for flippases that allow mechanistic studies and inhibitor screens to be performed; and 2) to develop substrate mimics that can be co-crystallized with flippases. This is a highly interdisciplinary project. Natural product isolation, the chemical synthesis of glycolipid probes and enzymatic assays will be performed in the Cochrane Lab. Protein expression and the growth of protein crystals and protein/glycolipid co-crystals will be performed along with collaborators in the Caffrey Lab at Trinity College Dublin. The student will also complete a 3 month internship at the Swiss Lightsource in the Paul Scherrer Institut (Switzerland) macromolecular X-ray crystallography.

Application Deadline: 21 April 2023

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21. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mathematics and Physics

Summary of PhD Program:

Prof Adele Marshall and Prof Judy Bradley Details of the project Opportunities to test and bring new drugs and technologies to clinical care are delayed by our current clinical research ecosystem that is often extraordinarily complex and expensive. It is now recognised that existing datasets can be used to help redesign clinical trials, by building statistical models as a proof of concept. Realistically, AI, machine learning, and deep learning tools and techniques will be able to analyse existing dataset at a much quicker pace to improve clinical trials ultimately designed. Exploristics flagship simulation platform KerusCloud aids the design and analysis of clinical trials and has enabled customers to achieve real world success by transforming their clinical development plans.

Application Deadline: 30 April 2023

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22. Fully Funded PhD Position in Computer Science

Summary of PhD Program:

This project will study the practicability of a Hybrid QKD-PQC quantum resistant cryptographic solutions. Pursuing integration between these technologies and its integration with conventional communications infrastructure brings about a range of vulnerabilities and tackling them will generate strong academic impact across the research community that contribute to these technologies.

Application Deadline: 30 April 2023

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23. Fully Funded PhD Position in 

Summary of PhD Program:

This project will take a multi-disciplinary approach (involving ecology, molecular bioscience, diagnostic development and industrial drug discovery) to addressing the risk of HW in the UK, using (i) ecological approaches to understand the current status of, and ecological drivers behind, HW risk in the UK; and (ii) molecular methods to develop enhanced diagnostic approaches, contributing to our preparedness to detect and treat HW infections.

Application Deadline: 1 May 2023

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24. Fully Funded PhD Position in Biological Sciences

Summary of PhD Program:

The project is founded on recent discoveries and state-of-the-art tool developments, including: (A) Tools–in vitro culture, functional genomics, phenotype screening and proteomics platforms for liver fluke; (B) Discoveries–identification of growth/development pathways that are common to both cancer and liver fluke stem cells and which govern pathogen growth rate/survival. We propose to use these new tools and resources for liver fluke to: probe the impacts of altered growth rate on pathogen biology and drug susceptibility; to use proteomic analyses of juvenile fluke displaying enhanced growth to identify protein biomarkers for enhanced growth/virulence; and, use these new biomarkers to inform regional differences in disease risk.

Application Deadline: 1 May 2023

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25. Fully Funded PhD Position in Biological Sciences 

Summary of PhD Program:

The successful student will join the QUB labs of Dr Connor Bamford and the wastewater surveillance team led by Prof. John McGrath. The aim of this project is to further develop a WBE environmental surveillance platform for IAVs to track, understand, and assess their zoonotic risk working with partners in London and Cardiff. The expected outcome will help local stakeholder (AFBI) and be applied globally as this is a global problem.

Application Deadline: 1 May 2023

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26. Fully Funded PhD Position in Biological Sciences 

Summary of PhD Program:

The current project provides an interdisciplinary team with expertise in epidemiology, veterinary science, ecology, parasitology and social science, and partners with links to conservation policy and practice, delivering excellent broad training and experience. The project will combine the disciples of movement ecology, wildlife tracking, habitat use, geo-spatial analysis and animal behaviour with parasitology, bacteriology, and disease modelling.

Application Deadline: 1 May 2023

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27. Fully Funded PhD Position in Biological Sciences

Summary of PhD Program:

The project connects the fields of parasitology, ecology and disease modelling in an unusual way, since invasion biology is rarely applied to diseases (Cable et al. 2017), and will benefit from supervisory expertise in these fields and social science, providing for broad training and experience. The student will develop skills in invasion biology, diagnostic parasitology and modelling disease risk under climate change. An important element will consider how patterns of pet movement are changing and the reasons behind this. The successful applicant will work with policy makers and other stakeholders, including CASE partners ESCCAP UK & Ireland, to apply cutting-edge science to pressing societal problems and improve human health and animal health and welfare.

Application Deadline: 1 May 2023

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28. Fully Funded PhD Position in Management

Summary of PhD Program:

Queen’s Management School at Queen’s University Belfast is making an open call for full-time 4-year PhD scholarship applications commencing October 2023. We invite interested parties to submit applications in any of the following departmental areas: Accounting • Accounting change • Budgeting • Governance • Performance management and reporting in not-for-profit and public sector organisations Economics • Development and population economics • Economic and business history • Game theory • Labour economics • Networks and mechanism design • Regional economics • Social policy Finance • Artificial intelligence and finance • Asset pricing • Banking • Corporate finance • Derivatives • Financial technology • Financial history • Household finance

Application Deadline: 2 May 2023

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29. Fully Funded PhD Position in Computer Science

Summary of PhD Program:

This project aims at developing novel interactive and intelligence machine learning/ data mining algorithms to cope with all above mentioned problems. We also aim at using these algorithms to solve real-world problems, e.g., identifying severity levels of patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea, exploring the roles of global climate change on various tropical diseases, or developing AI technologies to deal with global climate change for vulnerable communities.

Application Deadline: 7 May 2023

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30. Fully Funded PhD Position in Computer Science

Summary of PhD Program:

Many disciplines rely heavily on the efficient analysis of graph-structured data, e.g., bio-informatics and computational genomics, cybersecurity, epidemiology, biology, and social sciences. Graphs can become very large, prompting the use of clusters of computers to achieve fast turn-around times. However, such systems pose multiple challenges to efficient computation, in particular for graph analytics. Very often, graphs have skewed degree distributions, making it hard to partition them properly across the nodes of the cluster. Poor partitioning inflates network communication volume, increases workload imbalance and potentially results in redundant work. Graph analytics are very often communication-bound and spend significant time waiting on network communication to complete.

Application Deadline: 7 May 2023

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31. Fully Funded PhD Position in Computer Science

Summary of PhD Program:

Today’s cities and dense urban areas generate massive amounts of data that are often put to use within machine learning pipelines to enable and augment smart city applications. The variety of data types across these streaming data sources brings in manifold technical challenges towards ensuring that such smart applications are able to function effectively, efficiently, and responsibly. This project will focus on some specific technical challenges in urban mobility and allied applications and consider developing bespoke analytics technologies that are able to identify meaningful trade-offs across the three considerations, while also being practically sensible within the context of those applications.

Application Deadline: 7 May 2023

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32. Fully Funded PhD Position in Natural and Built Environment

Summary of PhD Program:

The overall aim of the project is to further develop the ISC to facilitate it’s use for connecting various steel elements (e.g. column-column, column-beam) with a particular emphasis on rapid assembly, disassembly, and robotic assembly. Achieving this overall aim requires developments in a number of key areas (1) physical assembly & testing (2) Robotics including computer vision and machine learning. The School of Natural and Built Environment (NBE) in collaboration with the School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EEECS) at Queen’s University Belfast, is currently seeking to appoint an exceptional candidate to the position of PhD researcher.

Application Deadline: 31 May 2023

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33. Fully Funded PhD Position in Computer Science

Summary of PhD Program:

This research holds an immediate and far-reaching impact. It can potentially benefit the industry relying heavily on communication cables for information transmission. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to advance knowledge and understanding in this important field of RF and microwave. They will have access to state-of-the-art equipment and expertise, as well as the opportunity to publish their findings in peer-reviewed journals and present their research at international conferences. The candidate will also have the chance to work with leading researchers and industry experts in the field, as well as collaborate with other researchers within EME Hub and across the UK.

Application Deadline: 31 May 2023

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34. Fully Funded PhD Position in Management

Summary of PhD Program:

Queen’s Management School (QMS) invites applications for a PhD studentship in Healthcare Operations Management and Healthcare Analytics focused on the Molecular Radiotherapy of Prostate Cancer. The three-year studentship is fully-funded, covering the tuition fees and living expenses. This stipend will support work towards a PhD awarded on the basis of original research presented in a major written thesis. The studentship is intended to support research into the operations management of molecular radiotherapy under the supervision of Dr. Faersheed Hesaraki (QMS, ITAO) and Professor Joe O’Sullivan (SMDBS, PGJCCR).

Application Deadline: 4 June 2023

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