Humboldt Research Fellowship

PhD studentship at the University of Cambridge in the Department of Engineering on experimental investigation of phase change mechanisms in aircraft contrail formation . This fully funded project is part of the Leverhulme Trust research programme Bridging the scale gap: From non-equilibrium thermodynamics to contrails . The research combines laboratory experiments with high-fidelity numerical modelling to study vapour-liquid-solid phase transitions in aircraft exhaust plumes, with relevance to s...

Fully funded PhD scholarship opportunities are available at University College London (UCL) for 2027 entry in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering (CEGE). The post is shared by Mingzhong Zhang , Associate Professor in Civil Engineering Materials at UCL, who is seeking outstanding prospective PhD candidates to join his research group. Research interests include sustainable construction materials , mechanical metamaterials , carbon utilisation and sequestration , and mul...

[Fully funded PhD; annual tax-free part-time stipend of £13,200.80 for 2026/27 plus a salary bringing annual income to a minimum of £28,405.40 per annum; tuition fees covered by the School of Engineering; enhanced combined teaching salary and stipend of £28,832 per annum is stated.] The University of Manchester is offering a fully funded Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering PGRTAs: Enhanced PhD Studentship in the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering. This opportunity combines researc...

[Four-year studentship covering full fees and maintenance for eligible home students and a limited number of international students; funded by Rolls-Royce and EPSRC.] Applications are invited for a fully funded 4-year PhD studentship at the University of Cambridge to research low-order modelling of rotating detonation engines (RDEs) in collaboration with Rolls-Royce under the EPSRC Industrial Doctoral Landscape Award (IDLA) scheme. This project sits within an advanced propulsion initiative and f...

PhD opportunity at The University of Manchester in Computational Mechanics and Data-Driven Modelling of Composite Materials . This 3.5-year project is centered on the mechanics of composite materials, defect-informed damage modelling, interpretable physics-informed machine learning, and multiscale modelling. The research will build on in-house computational frameworks using X-ray computed tomography data and mechanistic finite element models to study how manufacturing defects affect the performa...