Research Studentship

Instituto de Engenharia Mecânica (IDMEC) / Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, is opening one Research Studentship for a PhD student in Mechanical Engineering within the project Carbon-FreePorts (Operação n.º 15775 - LISBOA2030-FEDER-00688200). The position is based in Lisbon, Portugal, and is focused on advanced wave energy conversion technologies for Oscillating Water Column (OWC) systems. The research will combine numerical modelling , Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) , and ...

FEUP (Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto) is offering 1 Research Grant within the project i-DINSystem – Intelligent and Dynamic thermal INsulation System for adaptive modular façades . The work is based in Civil Engineering and focuses on building performance, thermal insulation systems, modular façades, hygrothermal simulation, CFD-based optimization, and AI-assisted predictive modelling. The research plan includes: development of a numerical model to assess the impact of a dynamic the...

Applications are open for one Research Studentship at Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento (IST-ID) , Portugal, within the Horizon Europe project SPECTRUM (Grant nº 101172891). The workplan focuses on thermal and optical design of a high-temperature hybrid solar collector and the integration of a photoreactor model for wastewater treatment into an existing optical-thermal simulation tool. The project combines physics , ray tracing , heat transfer , renew...

EPSRC Doctoral Landscape Award 2026/27: Civil Engineering at the University of Leeds offers 2 PhD studentships in a strong research environment within the School of Civil Engineering and the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences. The linked research themes include climate-resilient biogas upgrade approaches for biohydrogen and biomethane recovery from organic wastes , data-driven environmental assessment of next-generation concrete , energy micropiles for sustainable retrofit , and UK bri...

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...