PhD Position in Wear Resistance of Additive Manufacturing Materials Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra in Slovakia

2-year postdoctoral position at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain. The project focuses on optimization of metal additive manufacturing for the circular use of high-value industrial products . The research is strongly oriented toward materials science and mechanical engineering , with work involving micro-analytical testing , mechanical testing , and advanced characterization in both laboratory and synchrotron facilities. This is a research contract rather than a scholarshi...

PhD opportunity in additive manufacturing and materials science focused on Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM) and high-performance alloy development. The project is hosted at Curtin University in Perth, Australia, and is linked to the Photon Forge Additive Manufacturing Facility . The research will investigate alloy selection and optimisation for WAAM, with attention to the relationships between processing parameters, microstructure, and mechanical performance. Students will work on advanced...

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-...

The University of Toledo is offering a fully funded PhD position in the field of additive manufacturing and fatigue, supervised by Associate Professor Meysam Haghshenas. This opportunity is ideal for motivated students interested in advanced manufacturing processes, materials science, and mechanical engineering. The research will focus on the study of fatigue behavior in additively manufactured materials, a cutting-edge area with significant industrial and academic relevance. The position is ava...

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...