PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Structural Engineering in South Korea

Queen Mary University of London is offering a CSC-funded PhD opportunity in composite manufacturing and aerospace materials. The project, “From Pot to Part: Understanding How Manufacturing Conditions Govern the In-Service Performance of Composite Structures,” addresses how manufacturing choices affect the long-term behaviour of composite components. The researcher will investigate whether the in-service performance of a composite structure can be predicted from the conditions used during manufac...

The Micromechanical and Horological Design Laboratory (INSTANT-LAB) at EPFL is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to advance the design of flexure-based mechanisms. These compliant mechanisms rely on elastic deformation rather than conventional joints, enabling precise motion in demanding environments where frictionless operation, repeatability, reduced maintenance, and monolithic construction are especially valuable. The project focuses on developing a new design and modelling framework for f...

This PhD position is hosted at EPFL’s STI IGM LAMD in Neuchatel and is part of the TurboImpact project, a Horizon Europe MSCA Doctoral Network focused on advancing the design, optimization, materials selection, and manufacturing of small-scale turbomachinery. The project addresses a broad set of technical challenges relevant to compact machines used in heat pumps, fuel cells, organic Rankine cycles, and gas turbines. Within this network, the doctoral researcher will contribute to research on mul...

EPFL’s Micromechanical and Horological Design Laboratory (INSTANT-LAB) is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to advance the design and modelling of flexure-based mechanisms. These compliant mechanisms generate motion through the elastic deformation of slender structural elements instead of conventional sliding or rolling joints. The research addresses the performance trade-offs that limit high-performance flexure mechanisms, including motion range, load-carrying capability, stiffness and sensitiv...

This doctoral project is based in the Division for Concrete Structures at KTH Civil and Architectural Engineering and focuses on the structural health monitoring of reinforced concrete dams used in hydropower. The research addresses the ageing of dams in Sweden and elsewhere, where long service lives can lead to cracking, leaching, surface wear, and more difficult-to-detect damage such as reinforcement corrosion. The project aims to improve understanding of how concrete dams respond during norma...

This postdoctoral fellowship is hosted by ISAE-ENSMA within the ENDO team of the Pprime laboratory (UPR CNRS 3346) . It is part of the AnoHona PRC project, a wider collaborative effort involving French laboratories and the University of La Plata in Argentina. The project focuses on advanced nonlinear homogenization for structural analysis and aims to improve the way microstructural variability is represented in structural calculations. The position is centered on an SFRP injected industrial demo...

KTH Royal Institute of Technology is recruiting a doctoral student for research on the structural rehabilitation of concrete hydro dams within the Division for Concrete Structures at the Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering. The project focuses on reinforced concrete structures used in hydropower, especially spillways and related concrete elements that have been exposed to decades of varying water flows and, in some cases, extreme high-flow events. The research aims to improve under...

This postdoc at Aarhus University focuses on multibody dynamics and hybrid testing with application to floating wind turbines . The successful candidate will join the Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering, Structural Engineering, and contribute to ongoing externally funded research projects as well as teaching activities. The research combines computational and experimental work. On the computational side, the postdoc will develop methods for multibody dynamics and support the creati...

Ghent University’s Mechanics of Materials and Structures group is offering a PhD project on the numerical simulation of composite hydrogen tanks. The position sits within a broader research effort on hydrogen storage for the future hydrogen economy and is connected to a large new project with several leading companies in the automotive industry. The doctoral research will focus on finite element modelling and design of pressurized composite tanks under different operational conditions, including...