Faculty of Science funded studentship

Exciting opportunity for a fully funded PhD studentship in Applied AI for Railways at the University of Huddersfield , within the Huddersfield Institute of Railway Research (IRR) , in collaboration with Network Rail . This opportunity is centered on research at the intersection of Computer Science , Artificial Intelligence , and railway/transport engineering. The topic suggests work on applied machine learning, intelligent systems, and data-driven methods for railway operations, infrastructure, ...

MPhil/PhD studentship at the University of Derby in the College of Science and Engineering, focused on physics-informed vibration-based structural health monitoring of wheel-rail contact defects . This project sits at the intersection of mechanical engineering , railway engineering , dynamics , vibration analysis , signal processing , numerical modelling , and machine learning . The research will investigate how vibration measurements and physics-informed machine learning (PIML) can detect and a...

PhD Opportunity in AI and Machine Learning for Intelligent Engineering Systems at the University of Bath . This opening is in the Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering and is focused on developing AI methods for intelligent engineering systems that can learn from evolving data and remain reliable under changing operating conditions. Research themes include: online and continual learning, time-series modelling, functional data analysis, federated and distributed learning, and AI appli...

[£21,805; funding information indicates DigitalMetals CDT support.] PhD studentship at the University of Warwick within WMG’s Advanced Steel Research Centre , working with the Digital Twins team on a project titled Development of a Digital Twin for Smart Sustainable Steel Section Production . This project sits at the intersection of steel manufacturing , digital twins , finite element analysis , and machine learning . The research aims to build a through-process framework that can predict micros...

Imperial College London’s Department of Materials is advertising fully funded PhD projects for the 2026–27 intake through its Departmental Scholarship scheme. The projects span a wide range of materials science topics, including alloy design for additive manufacturing , metallurgy , molecular crystals , machine learning potentials for electrochemical applications , ceramic composites for fusion energy , phonon theory in disordered materials , generative artificial intelligence for materials desi...