FEUP Postdoctoral Research Grant in Engineering Physics (ASTRID – Astronomical Structures Vibration Digital Twin) FEUP in Portugal

This post-doctoral research fellowship is part of the TERRAMARE project, an integrated terrestrial and marine decision-support tool for assessing resource use trade-offs in Europe. The work is centred on analysing the energy and material implications of digital technologies, with a specific focus on computing and communications equipment. The successful researcher will develop forward-looking scenarios for electricity consumption linked to computing and communications equipment, and will examine...

PhD opportunity at the University of British Columbia Okanagan in the School of Engineering and CFD Lab with Dr. Joshua Brinkerhoff and Dr. Sunny Li . The project focuses on computational fluid dynamics and OpenFOAM development for transformer thermal loading and overloading management . The research also includes modeling waste heat recovery and active cooling in collaboration with industry partner BC Hydro , plus validation against real utility-scale field data. Applicants with a background in...

Airbus Defence and Space is advertising an open PhD position focused on intelligent process monitoring and digital twinning for additive manufacturing . The project sits at the intersection of Materials Science , Mechanical Engineering , Computer Science , Electrical Engineering , Physics , and Mathematics , with emphasis on Industry 4.0 methods for manufacturing research. Research themes highlighted in the post include in-situ monitoring for real-time quality control, sensor architectures and s...

ETH Zurich’s Advanced Manufacturing Lab (am|z), led by Prof. Markus Bambach, is recruiting a Doctoral Researcher in humanoid robotics , 3D perception , and embodied AI for autonomous manufacturing. The project focuses on enabling humanoid robots to perceive, understand, and interact with complex manufacturing environments using novel RGB-D sensing technologies. Research topics include robot perception , semantic segmentation , 3D scene understanding , simulation-to-real transfer , autonomous man...

PhD opportunity at Loughborough University in Active Noise Control of Automotive Tyres . This project sits in Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering and focuses on reducing external tyre noise using active noise control , acoustics , control systems , and potentially machine learning . The research combines theory and experiment, including 3D sound-field mapping, acoustic camera measurements, directional cancellation signals, real-time Simulink modelling, and testing on tyre rigs and vehicles. ...