Automated Vehicles and Human Factors University of Leeds in United Kingdom

A fully funded PhD position is open in the group of Oksana Trushkevych at the University of Warwick . The post is aimed at UK home students and is suitable for applicants who do not already hold a PhD . The opportunity is in an engineering research environment at Warwick, with the supervisor describing the university as friendly, supportive, and exciting to work in. While the exact project topic is not specified in the post, the opening is clearly a PhD-level research position in an engineering-...

PhD studentship at the University of East Anglia, School of Engineering, Mathematics and Physics, on developing a finite element based model for pellet relocation in nuclear reactor fuel. The project focuses on pellet-clad interaction (PCI) in nuclear fuel performance, with emphasis on modelling fuel pellet fragments, inertial behaviour, chemical species migration, and loss-of-coolant accident scenarios. The work compares and benchmarks modelling approaches in Abaqus and COMSOL, including the mo...

Fully funded PhD studentship at the University of Birmingham in Offshore Wind Structures , focused on lifecycle damage analysis of offshore wind turbine welded structures. The project sits in the Department of Civil Engineering , School of Engineering, and will use advanced experimental and numerical techniques to study damage mechanisms in ageing offshore wind assets and improve long-term structural integrity. This opportunity is led by Ali Mehmanparast , 125th Anniversary Chair and Professor o...

Fully funded M.S. opportunity in Transportation Engineering at Michigan State University , USA, under Dr. Alyssa Ryan and the Ryan Research Group . This opening is for a Master’s (M.S.) student starting in January 2027 . The research focus includes crash data analysis , transportation safety , transportation tools and infrastructure evaluation , and driving/bicycle simulators with human factors research . Funding includes a full tuition waiver , research assistantship (RA) stipend , graduate ass...

Postdoctoral Research Associate opportunity at the University of Oxford , UK, in the group of Prof. Emilio Martinez-Pañeda . The project is ResistHfracture , supported by an ERC Starting Grant under the UK Horizon Europe Guarantee , and it focuses on developing the first generation of hydrogen-resistant alloys . This opening is especially relevant for candidates with training in Materials Science , Physics , Chemistry , or a closely related engineering discipline. The research themes include mec...