PhD Positions in Material Characterization in China

[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...

This PhD project at the Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Denmark (DTU) explores how batteries work and fail at the molecular level, with the goal of informing better materials for safer, longer-lasting, higher-performing energy storage. The research combines magnetic resonance and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) with electrochemical methods to investigate battery materials and components in a non-destructive, chemically specific way. You will help develop and apply a suite of NM...

PhD opportunity at the Department of Structural Engineering, NTNU in Trondheim, focused on AI-driven smart material characterisation and modelling for future offshore structures. The project is part of AIMOS (Artificial Intelligence for Multiscale Offshore Structures) , an initiative developing integrated AI methods for the analysis, design, monitoring, and control of floating offshore systems. The PhD researcher will study smart materials that could be used in adaptive offshore structures, with...

This four-year PhD will develop sustainable biochar-based porous carbon electrodes for low-carbon sodium-ion batteries, addressing the need for scalable energy-storage technologies that reduce dependence on critical raw materials. The researcher will produce biochar from selected biomass residues using controlled pyrolysis, then tailor its pore structure and surface chemistry for sodium-ion storage. The project will examine how biomass type, pyrolysis conditions and post-treatment affect electro...

Philipps-Universität Marburg is offering doctoral research positions in the Department of Physics and the Marburg Center for Quantum Materials and Sustainable Technologies (mar.quest), within the Functional Materials research group led by Prof. Dr. Kerstin Volz. The research is part of the DFG-funded SynDiPET project, “Synergistic Design of Proton-Conducting Ceramics for Energy Technology.” The project investigates the targeted synthesis and properties of fuel cell materials that can support the...

NOVA.id.FCT is recruiting a PhD Researcher for the EU-funded LEAF project, “SeLf-powered self-rEshaping Autarkic skin For wireless motes.” The research will be conducted at the CENIMAT|i3N laboratories at the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of NOVA University Lisbon on the Caparica campus in Portugal. The project focuses on sustainable printed electronics and self-powered wireless mote technologies. The researcher will develop sustainable inks based on metal oxide nanostructures and optimize ...