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PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 202 PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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Resilient design of submerged infrastructure under complex hydrodynamic conditions

Supervisory Team. Dr Gustavo de Almeida and Dr Sergio Maldonado. This project investigates hydrodynamic interactions between environmental flows, submerged infrastructure, and sediments to enhance the resilience of critical structures such as bridge piers and offshore energy foundations. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr G A M de Almeida
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Intelligent Nanofabrication for Nanophotonics

Supervisory Team. Prof Kevin MacDonald, Dr Ben Mills and Prof Nikolay Zheludev. Focused ion beam (FIB) milling is a key enabling technology in physical sciences research and industrial micro/nanotech manufacturing. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof K MacDonald
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Integrating advanced source models for improved airport noise assessment

Supervisory Team. Dr Sergi Palleja Cabre, Emeritus Professor Rod Self and Dr Daniel Constantinos Amargianitakis. This PhD project focuses on improving aircraft noise prediction for emerging technologies at early design stages. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S Palleja Cabre
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)
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Detection of ionising radiation using optical hollow-core fibres

Supervisory Team. Dr. Hans Christian Hansen Mulvad, Dr. Ian A. Davidson, Prof. Austin Taranta and Prof. Tony Bird. This project will explore the use of lasers and optical hollow-core fibres to detect ionising radiation, aiming to realise distributed radiation sensing along a single fibre. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr H Mulvad
 31 August 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Photonic time crystals and timetronics

Supervisory Team. Prof Nikolay I. Zheludev, Prof Kevin MacDonald and Dr Eric Plum. Time crystals are an eagerly sought phase of matter in which time-translation symmetry is broken. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof N Zheludev
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Game theory of Agentic AI

Supervisory team. Dr Bahar Rastegari and Dr Panayiotis Danassis. Agentic AI is rapidly affecting diverse aspects of our life, including social, technological and financial interactions. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr BR Rastegari
 30 June 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Spatiotemporal Superconducting Metasurfaces for Next Gen Quantum Technologies

Supervisors. Dr Sajjad Taravati s.taravati@soton.ac.uk. This project, within the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Quantum Technology Engineering at the University of Southampton (https://qte.ac.uk), carries a UKRI TechExpert enhanced annual stipend around £31k for UK students. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr #s Taravati
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Learning based control systems for additive manufacturing

Supervisory Team. Prof Bing Chu & Dr Thomas Andritsch. This project explores learning based control systems for additive layer manufacturing (3D printing) in electrical engineering. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof B Chu
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Data-driven iterative learning control: achieving model-free convergence for real-world systems

Supervisory Team. Prof Bing Chu & Prof Paolo Rapisarda. This PhD project aims to advance iterative learning control (ILC) by eliminating the dependency on analytical models, which are often costly or impractical to obtain. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof B Chu
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Improving acoustic security through the lens of mathematics and physics

Supervisory team. Prof Jeff Yan. Acoustic security is rapidly emerging at the intersection of cybersecurity, privacy, cyber physical systems, and acoustical physics. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof JY Yan
 31 August 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Efficient CFD-CAA coupling for aeroengine noise simulation

Supervisory team. Dr Long Wu and Prof Alec Wilson. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr L Wu
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Unlocking the potential of optimized vertical-axis wind turbine arrays via surrogate-modelling and topology optimization

Supervisory team. Dr. Haris Moazam Sheikh. This project will develop a multi-scale optimization framework using surrogate modelling and topology morphing techniques to overcome the high cost of Vertical-axis wind turbines (VAWTs) design. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr H Sheikh
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Silent piling for offshore wind turbines

Supervisory team. Dr Benjamin Cerfontaine, Dr Jamie Crispin and Prof. Dave White. You will develop a novel predictive model for the 'silent' installation of open-ended piles for offshore wind turbine foundations, through advanced physical and numerical modelling. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr B Cerfontaine
 1 August 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Computational nanorobotics with machine learning

Supervisory Team. Ondrej Hovorka and Ivo Peters. The project develops intelligent nanorobots for autonomous control and adaptive behaviour in liquid nanoscale environments, exploring algorithms for simulation, control, and prediction with applications in drug delivery, diagnostics, and nano-manipulation. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr O Hovorka
 31 August 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Artificial intelligence for environmental fluid dynamics modelling

Supervisory team. Dr Gustavo de Almeida and Dr Sergio Maldonado. This exciting PhD project explores the use of Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) to model complex environmental flows. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr G A M de Almeida
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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