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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...

PhD scholarship opportunities are open at the University of Warwick for the next round of the Warwick Faculty Chancellor's Scholarships and China Scholarship Council (CSC) Scholarships . The call is relevant to research in sustainable steel manufacturing , artificial intelligence applications in steel manufacturing , extractive metallurgy , and metals circularity . These topics sit at the intersection of materials science , chemical engineering , mechanical engineering , computer science , and i...

Fully funded PhD opportunity at Ulster University in Northern Ireland, UK, focused on the computational design of compact thermal batteries with advanced thermally conductive materials . The project sits in the School of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment and involves work with Dr. Babak Kamkari and Dr. Edward Archer , in collaboration with industry partner Senergy Innovations Ltd . Research themes include CFD , numerical modelling , material characterisation , and small-scale expe...

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...

[£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...