EPSRC Doctoral Landscape Award

Professor Fleur Loveridge at the University of Leeds is advertising a fully funded PhD on energy micropiles for sustainable retrofit. The project sits within a larger UKRI-funded research programme and involves collaboration with researchers at the University of Surrey , University of Cambridge , and NTNU in Trondheim . The research topic is flexible and can be shaped around the successful applicant’s interests. Possible directions include thermal analysis of energy micropiles, their geotechnica...

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...

Leeds Sustainability Institute (LSI) at Leeds Beckett University is advertising a fully funded PhD studentship on Advancing Understanding of Performance Evaluation and Innovations for Buildings . The project focuses on building performance evaluation (BPE) , with an emphasis on improving how buildings are understood in practice. Key themes include sustainability , energy efficiency , in-situ testing , building physics , and innovative performance metrics such as the Heat Transfer Coefficient (HT...

PhD Studentship in Chemical Engineering at the University of Nottingham, within the EPSRC and BBSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Negative Emission Technologies for Net Zero (CDT in Net2Zero). The project sits in the areas of chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, materials science, chemistry, environmental science, biomass conversion, biochar, CO2 capture, BECCS, and negative emission technologies. The research aims to develop and demonstrate a laboratory-scale multifunctional reactor ...

PhD Studentship at the University of Warwick in the Centre for Doctoral Training in the Modelling of Heterogeneous Materials (HetSys), School of Engineering. This project is titled “Turning Up the Heat: Modelling and Scale-Up of Thermochemical Energy Storage” and focuses on thermochemical energy storage , modelling , scale-up , physics-based and data-driven methods , and sustainable energy . The research will investigate NaOH-water TCES systems, aiming to develop modelling tools that reduce the ...