automation PhD Projects, Programs & Scholarships

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project has funding attached for UK and EU students, though the amount may depend on your nationality. Non-EU students may still be able to apply for the project provided they can find separate funding. You should check the project and department details for more information.

Digital and automation technologies improve the safety, predictability and reliability of operational processes.

Adaptive self-learning vision systems

Loughborough University
Wolfson School of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

Dr P Kinnell, Dr N Lohse, Dr A Soltoggio

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

Many computer vision systems make use of artificial neural networks to undertake complex image analysis tasks, such as locating objects in a clutter scene.

Automation of clothing pattern construction from body scan data

The University of Manchester
Department of Materials

Research Group: Textiles and Apparel

Dr S Gill, Dr A Harwood, Dr S Hayes

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

This project seeks to harness new technologies to create pattern blocks for clothing that better reflect the individual’s size, shape and proportion.

Automation of metallographic microstructural analysis to support deployment of automated image analysis

University of Strathclyde
Department of Design, Manufacture and Engineering Management

Dr D Evans

Application Deadline: 30 December 2019

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project has funding attached for UK and EU students, though the amount may depend on your nationality. Non-EU students may still be able to apply for the project provided they can find separate funding. You should check the project and department details for more information.

Are you looking to gain direct industrial experience whilst developing your specialist research area of interest?. The manufacturing processes alter the microstructure of materials, which determines their mechanical properties.

A New Paradigm in “On Demand” Manufacture: Radiation Chemical Functionalisation During 3D Printing

The University of Manchester
Department of Chemistry

Dr A Baidak, Prof F Currell

Application Deadline: 30 September 2019

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project has funding attached for UK and EU students, though the amount may depend on your nationality. Non-EU students may still be able to apply for the project provided they can find separate funding. You should check the project and department details for more information.

The automation of modern economy has an immense impact on our everyday life; the development and implementation of machine learning and artificial intelligence will bring about further socio-economic changes of great significance and scale.

Decision making through artificial chemical intelligence

University of York
Department of Chemistry

Dr J Slattery, Prof I J S Fairlamb

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

Automation will transform the chemical landscape. Powerful robotic platforms can perform reactions or analyses much more rapidly than traditional approaches.1 Ever faster computers allow huge numbers of molecules to be studied in an automated way using computational chemistry.

Data-driven design of biological systems – Computational synthetic biology

Keele University
Faculty of Natural Sciences

Dr G Misirli

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

Synthetic biology has emerged as an engineering field lately, with the aim of designing novel biological systems. Small biological components can be used together to create devices and systems.

The nexus of manufacturing and employability (Advert Reference: SF18/MCE/SHYHA)

Northumbria University
Faculty of Engineering and Environment

Dr I Shyha

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

The employability plays a crucial role in society’s welfare today. Several factors affect employability rates including the industrial development level of the country, investment security, technology awareness and automation of the manufacturing systems.

Research Position on Frequency Modulation in Dynamic AFM

Vienna University of Technology
Automation and Control Institute

Prof G Schitter

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project has funding attached, subject to eligibility criteria. Applications for the project are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates, but its funding may be restricted to a limited set of nationalities. You should check the project and department details for more information.

The Advanced Mechatronic Systems Group (AMS) at the Automation and Control Institute (ACIN) of Vienna University of Technology has a fully funded research position (full-time, 40 hours/week) at the PhD-student or Post-Doc level, working on a project for nano-metrology and scanning probe microscopy.

Research Position on Sensing Colour and Shape on Freeform Surfaces

Vienna University of Technology
Automation and Control Institute

Prof G Schitter

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project has funding attached for UK and EU students, though the amount may depend on your nationality. Non-EU students may still be able to apply for the project provided they can find separate funding. You should check the project and department details for more information.

The Advanced Mechatronic Systems Group (AMS) at the Automation and Control Institute (ACIN) of Vienna University of Technology has a fully funded research position (full-time, 40 hours/week) at the PhD-student or Post-Doc level, working on a project for robot-based metrology.