PhD in Climate Resilience of Infrastructure to Heat University of Leeds in United Kingdom

[Full award: fees plus stipend. Course fees are covered at the level set for home or overseas students, as applicable. Stipend is approximately £21,805 per year for the first year and at least this amount for a further two and a half years.] PhD/D.Phil. studentship in Geotechnical Engineering at the University of Oxford This 3.5-year D.Phil. studentship is based in the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford and focuses on nature-based and biomimetic foundation systems . Th...

PhD opportunity at the University of Leeds in Climate Resilience of Infrastructure to Rainfall (PGR-P-1395), supervised by Professor David Connolly in the School of Civil Engineering . This project focuses on how climate change-driven rainfall affects transport, geotechnical, and structural infrastructure. Research themes include rainfall-induced slope collapse, geotechnical instability, soil shrink-swell cycles, water ponding on roofs and bridge decks, structural overloading, drainage, and adap...

Empa in Switzerland is advertising a fully funded PhD position in multi-scale modelling and experimental assessment of volumetrically prestressed concrete . The project is part of the EU Horizon research and innovation initiative SURPASS (Smart and Sustainable Resilient Performance-based Cementitious Composites for Adaptive Strengthening and Repair System), which focuses on adaptive strengthening and repair strategies for ageing infrastructure in aggressive environments. The PhD will work on str...

PhD in Railway Circular Economy at the University of Leeds (School of Civil Engineering). This PhD project explores sustainable solutions for railway track infrastructure through the principles of a circular economy. The research focuses on the scalable reprocessing of ballast, sleepers, rails, and other track components to convert network waste into high-quality secondary commercial materials. Possible research directions include: scalable reprocessing for spent railway ballast; structural perf...

PhD opportunity at the University of Leeds in AI for Structural Engineering , supervised by Professor David Connolly in the School of Civil Engineering . This project sits at the intersection of civil engineering , computer science , machine learning , computer vision , digital twins , physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) , and materials science . Research themes include generative design, structural optimization, predictive health monitoring, automated defect detection, real-time sensor int...