Fully Funded PhD in Attitude and Orbit Control of Large Space Structures Cranfield University in United Kingdom

The Aerospace Engineering PhD Programme at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid is collecting expressions of interest for two doctoral research topics in its Aerospace Engineering Department, a designated “María de Maeztu” Unit of Excellence for 2026–2031. PhD 1: Flying Anemometers—From Drone Dynamics to Urban Wind Forecasts. This project investigates cooperative drone swarms used as mobile wind sensors. Local wind conditions will be estimated from the drones’ own flight dynamics and used to train a...

PhD project at the University of Southampton on risk-aware decision-making under uncertainty for autonomous navigation . The project focuses on autonomous ships , maritime traffic , collision avoidance , and decision-making under changing uncertainty. Research topics include predicted traffic situations, navigational risk, COLREGs compliance, operational constraints, probabilistic decision-making, multi-objective optimisation, risk-constrained planning, model predictive methods, and machine lear...

PhD opportunity at the University of Southampton in Intelligent Maritime Situational Awareness and Risk Assessment for Autonomous Shipping . This postgraduate research project focuses on autonomous shipping, maritime situational awareness, AIS trajectories, video analysis, vessel behaviour modelling, trajectory prediction, and uncertainty-aware risk assessment. The research aims to help autonomous ships understand complex maritime traffic, identify hazardous encounters, and support safer navigat...

PhD project at the University of Southampton on dynamic risk intelligence for safe autonomous shipping . The research focuses on how maritime autonomous surface ships can recognise when changing traffic, weather, visibility, communication, sensor performance, or system capability make continued autonomous operation unsafe. The project will investigate operational envelopes (OEs) and operational design domains (ODDs) as capability boundaries for autonomous ships and their functions. It will devel...

PhD opportunity at the University of Southampton in Digital Twins for Augmented Vibration Testing and Qualification of Defence Systems . This project focuses on mechanical engineering and aerospace/defence systems , with strong links to structural dynamics , vibration testing , finite element modelling , reduced-order modelling , state estimation , and uncertainty quantification . The aim is to develop physics-informed digital twins that can work alongside vibration and shock qualification tests...