PhD Opportunities in Robotics

Qinmin Zheng’s research group at Beihang University is inviting outstanding international applicants for fully funded master’s and PhD opportunities supported by the 2027 Chinese Government Scholarship High-level Postgraduate Program. The group investigates computational fluid dynamics and turbulence, with particular emphasis on high-speed compressible flows. Students may also work on scientific machine learning for fluids, data assimilation, and flow reconstruction, combining numerical fluid me...

The Department of Management and Engineering (DTG) at the University of Padova is offering two fully funded PhD positions as MSCA Doctoral Candidates within the Horizon Europe TURBO-IMPACT Doctoral Network. The positions are hosted by the Manufacturing Technologies & Metrology research group and address measurement and manufacturing challenges for next-generation turbomachinery. The DC13 project, Advancing X-ray Computed Tomography Metrology for Next-Generation Turbomachinery , focuses on the de...

Leiden University is offering a four-year PhD project in complex networks at the intersection of mathematics and computer science. The research will investigate how mathematically tractable models can help explain important structural features of complex networks, including clustering, community structure, and degree heterogeneity. The project combines theoretical modelling with computational and data-driven investigations of real-world networks. The PhD candidate will work across Leiden’s Mathe...

North Carolina State University is offering a fully funded PhD opportunity in advanced materials and manufacturing for harsh environment applications . The thesis will investigate materials and processing technologies designed for demanding operating conditions. The research spans high-temperature ceramics , metal additive manufacturing , and AI-enabled processing . The project combines materials science and manufacturing engineering with computationally assisted process development, offering an...

La Salle - Universitat Ramon Llull in Barcelona is offering a PhD opportunity in acoustics within the newly funded CharPAL project. The research focuses on the experimental characterization and theoretical modelling of parametric acoustic loudspeakers (PAL). The project combines advanced acoustic measurements, robotic scanning and sound-field reconstruction using Near-Field Acoustic Holography. The doctoral researcher will also develop equivalent-source representations, inverse methods and effic...

University of Southampton PhD project: Development of a high-power nuclear electric propulsion system for rapid space transportation. This doctoral project will investigate an electrodeless, dual-stage thruster operating at power levels above 1 MW for high-power Nuclear Electric Propulsion (NEP). The research addresses the need for faster and more sustainable crewed missions to Mars and beyond by developing propulsion technology that can deliver high specific impulse, thrust density and sustaine...

This PhD project investigates whether artificial intelligence can understand, rather than simply predict, complex engineering dynamical systems. The research will combine deep learning with the mathematics of nonlinear dynamics to uncover hidden low-dimensional structures underlying vibrations, flutter, instabilities, multiple stable states, internal resonances and sudden bifurcations in aerospace systems. Working within the University of Southampton’s Computational Engineering and Design group,...

Niloufar Alipour Talemi is recruiting a fully funded PhD student to join the AIM Lab in the School of Computing at Utah State University , a Carnegie-designated R1 university in the United States. The opening is designed for a highly motivated researcher with a strong background in Computer Vision and Multimodal Foundation Models . The student will join a research environment focused on multimodal artificial intelligence and the development or application of foundation-model approaches that comb...

The University of Bristol is inviting applications for PhD scholarship projects at the intersection of smart textiles, soft robotics and assistive technology . The research will explore how advanced fibres, yarns, textile structures and robotic actuation can enable wearable assistive technologies and next-generation robotic clothing. The available research directions include novel functional fibres and yarns for actuating and sensing textiles; soft robotic actuators for multifunctional robotic t...