PhD position in Modeling and Control of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems from Data ETH Zürich in Switzerland

Technische Universität Ilmenau is advertising a PhD candidate position in simulations of compressible turbulence within the Fluid Mechanics Group in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. The project is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) under Priority Program DFG-SPP 2410 CoScaRa and is carried out jointly with a research group at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig . The research focuses on the dynamics and small-scale statistical properties of comp...

EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne) is advertising a PhD position in Aerodynamic Design of Small-Scale Turbomachinery within the TurboImpact project, funded by Horizon Europe – MSCA Doctoral Network . The position is based at EPFL, Neuchâtel, Switzerland , and focuses on advanced research in turbomachinery aerodynamics , fluid dynamics , computational fluid dynamics (CFD) , finite element analysis (FEA) , and materials/manufacturing-aware design . The doctoral research will investiga...

Associate Professor Tian Chen at Imperial College London is recruiting for PhD students in reprogrammable matter , with positions stated as fully funded and starting in Autumn 2027 . The post also mentions opportunities for externally funded PhD scholarships and postdoc fellowships through several mechanisms listed on the lab’s join-us page. The research theme sits at the intersection of materials science , mechanical engineering , robotics , aerospace engineering , and related physical sciences...

Empa is advertising a fully funded PhD position in nonlinear vibrational metamaterials within the Laboratory for Acoustics/Noise Control . The project sits at the intersection of mechanical engineering , physics , mathematics , nonlinear dynamics , vibroacoustics , and experimental vibration testing . The doctoral project focuses on a new generation of nonlinear resonators whose dynamic behaviour changes with vibration amplitude. The aim is to develop efficient models and design rules for nonlin...

PhD opportunity in Optimal Perturbations in Turbulent Flows at the University of Southampton , Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences. This project sits at the intersection of fluid mechanics , applied mathematics , dynamical systems , chaos theory , and computational physics . The research asks which disturbances produce the largest response in a turbulent flow, and aims to develop mathematical and computational methods to study amplification along evolving turbulent trajectories rather t...