PhD Opportunities in Material Characterization in Austria

Electronics Integration and Reliability (EILB) at Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering is seeking a doctoral researcher to work on the next generation of high-density power electronics. The group develops innovative materials, device design, and bonding technologies for wide-bandgap and ultra-wide-bandgap semiconductor systems, with applications extending to RF devices and smart sensors. The project centers on miniaturised heterogeneous integration for power electronics, using novel...

This PhD project at Utrecht University investigates how bio-based and biodegradable plastics break down and what that means for human health and safer materials design. The research links analytical chemistry with toxicology to follow plastics through degradation, identify the resulting micro- and nanoplastics and leachates, and study their biological effects. You will work on the full chain from polymer degradation to hazard assessment. The project includes exposing pristine polymers and plasti...

This PhD scholarship is hosted by the Institute of Physics at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin under the supervision of Prof. dr. hab. Ryszard Zdyb . The project, titled “Hematene: a unique tool for understanding of magnetism in non van-der-Waals two-dimensional systems” , explores magnetic phenomena in non-van-der-Waals 2D systems using hematene as the model material. The successful candidate will join a research project centered on the modification of iron-based materials, especiall...

This PhD project is part of BRIGHT’s mission-oriented programme on novel biomanufacturing-enabled materials. The work aims to create a general platform for designing protein- and peptide-based biomaterials, using solid-state battery components as the first testbed and focusing on alternatives to fluorinated PFAS polymers. The successful candidate will help move de novo molecular designs from the computer into the laboratory. The project centres on producing canonical and non-canonical proteins a...

[4-year PhD studentship with an annual stipend at the UKRI minimum rate of £21,805 per year plus £1,000 per year enhancement, and a research training support grant of up to £20,000 for the full programme.] This 4-year PhD studentship at The University of Manchester focuses on how low-carbon construction materials can support circular cities through better evidence on performance, sensing, and deployment. The project develops a multiscale “material-to-map” framework that links laboratory characte...

[Annual stipend at the UKRI minimum rate currently £21,805 per year plus £1,000 per annum enhancement, and a research training support grant of up to £20,000 for the full 4-year programme.] This PhD studentship at The University of Manchester develops a new class of additively manufactured metallic acoustic metamaterials for shaping and amplifying sounds that matter for human communication. The project is designed around a human-informed inverse-design framework , where information about ear-can...

This PhD project at the Technical University of Denmark focuses on the processing and modification of renewable polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) materials through reactive extrusion. The student will work on developing next-generation PHA compounds by combining advanced polymer processing, formulation design, and reactive processing routes. The project is centered on understanding and improving how PHA formulations behave during extrusion-based processing, with an emphasis on the links between formula...

This URA-Sandia Graduate Student Summer Fellowship offers a 12-week summer research experience at Sandia National Laboratories, with the project primarily centered on Materials Science . Fellows will work within Sandia’s Research Foundations and may be placed in research areas that align with the laboratory’s broader STEM portfolio, including bioscience, computing and information science, engineering science, earth science, nanodevices and microsystems, and radiation/electrical/high energy densi...

This PhD project at DTU Energy , Technical University of Denmark, focuses on one of the central durability challenges in green hydrogen production: understanding how solid oxide electrolysis cells (SOECs) degrade and how some of that degradation can be reversed during reversible operation. The student will use operando transmission electron microscopy to observe a miniaturised SOEC while it operates under gas atmospheres and temperatures up to 900 °C. The goal is to watch nanoscale changes as el...