PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in mechatronics in New Zealand

PhD opportunity at The University of Auckland in Civil Engineering , with a focus on natural hazards , risk assessment , resilience , geospatial analysis , and vulnerability modelling. The project will develop vulnerability models for primary production land and assets , addressing how natural hazards can damage buildings, infrastructure, and productive land. The post notes that the supervisor’s main interests include water-related hazards such as flooding and tsunamis , while the wider supervis...

Funded PhD opportunity at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand , focused on ultrasonic monitoring of phase-change materials . The project sits in the School of Physical and Chemical Sciences and is supervised by Dr Laura Cobus . It is part of an interdisciplinary effort to improve thermal energy storage and support sustainable energy management. The research aims to develop an ultrasound sensing system that can monitor the solid/liquid content of phase-change materials insid...

Postdoctoral Fellow / Research Associate in Gravitational Microlensing at the University of Canterbury (School of Physical and Chemical Sciences), Christchurch, New Zealand. This fixed-term, full-time position is for 2.25 years and is expected to start in 2027 (nominally March to September 2027, with some flexibility). The project is part of Professor Michael Albrow ’s research team and involves external collaborators working on the analysis of gravitational microlensing data from NASA’s Roman G...

Funded PhD opportunity at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Computational infrastructure for linked data, health and environmental resilience . The project focuses on developing new computational and geospatial approaches for connecting longitudinal health and social data with environmental information across the lifecourse. Research themes include spatial epidemiology , linked data , GIS/geospatial science , public health , environmental health , data science , and p...

🚀 PhD opportunities are available in control, robotics, and learning-based optimisation at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington , New Zealand. The project sits at the intersection of model predictive control (MPC) and reinforcement learning (RL) , with applications to safe, efficient, and adaptive controllers for real engineering systems. Research directions include robotic manipulators and high-precision motion control, quadruped robots and loco-manipulation, and energy systems suc...