PhD scholarship

KU Leuven’s Department of Civil Engineering is advertising a PhD scholarship within the RUN2GETHER project. The research sits at the intersection of civil engineering , biomechanics , smart infrastructure , and structural engineering , focusing on how collective running behaviour affects bridges, running tracks, and other infrastructure. The project invites a motivated researcher to study runner–infrastructure interaction using sensors , experimental data , and signal analysis . The work is desc...

Rocio Lilen Segura, Assistant Professor at Polytechnique Montréal, is inviting prospective master’s, PhD, and postdoctoral researchers to explore scholarship opportunities for the 2027–2028 academic year . The research themes center on civil/structural engineering and include performance-based assessment of structures and infrastructure, cold regions infrastructure, seismic safety and vulnerability of critical infrastructure, structural reliability, risk and resilience, multi-hazard and compound...

Queen's University Belfast is advertising a fully funded PhD opportunity in the School of Natural and Built Environment. Project title: Machine Learning & Monitoring for Fatigue Life Estimation of Floating Solar Farms . The project is part of the European Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network DIAMOND and focuses on machine learning , structural health monitoring , fatigue life estimation , floating solar farms , and renewable energy . The research uses measured acceleration, wave and wind data...

University of Trento is advertising a PhD scholarship in the 42nd cycle of the Doctoral Program in Civil, Environmental, and Mechanical Engineering . The position is a reserved-topic doctoral scholarship focused on innovative self-centering multi-stable dampers with high-performance properties and bi-stable metapanels with auxetic lattices for performance-based steel design in seismic engineering . This opportunity is especially relevant for candidates interested in civil engineering , mechanica...

Call for selection for 119 PhD positions for cycle XLII, Academic Year 2026/2027 at the University of Palermo in Italy . The call is open across all research fields , so applicants from many disciplines may be eligible depending on the specific doctoral track. The announcement states that 80 positions are funded by the Sicilian Region . Funding: PhD scholarship for 36 months , with a stated gross amount of €16,240/month , plus a 50% scholarship increment for research periods spent outside Italy....