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energy engineering PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 818 energy engineering PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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Intelligent and reconfigurable metasurfaces for next-generation optical computing

Supervisor. Professor Jize Yan. Can light perform artificial intelligence computations faster and more efficiently than conventional electronics? This project will develop intelligent, reconfigurable metasurfaces that manipulate light to perform computation directly. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof J Yan
 30 April 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Spatiotemporal Control of Ultrafast Multimode Fibre Amplifiers

Supervisors. Dr Lin Xu, Dr Duanyang Xu. This project will develop innovative multimode fibre amplifiers with spatiotemporal control of ultrafast laser pulses. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr L Xu
 30 September 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Advancing predictive models for battery interfaces through quantum and AI-driven atomistic simulations

Supervisory team. Professor Chris Skylaris. Help shape the future of energy storage by developing predictive models of battery interfaces. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof C K Skylaris
 31 March 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Next-Generation Metal Additive Manufacturing: Enhancing Component Performance through Tailored Microstructures in Laser Powder Bed Fusion

Background. Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) is an advanced metal additive manufacturing technology increasingly used to produce high-value components for aerospace, automotive, energy and biomedical applications. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr K Mumtaz, Dr K Groom
 30 April 2027  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Evaluating defect detectability for iteratively reconstructed industrial X-ray computed tomography data

Supervisory team. Professor Thomas Blumensath, Dr Richard Boardman and Dr Joseph Lifton. About the project. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr T Blumensath
 29 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Causal Machine Learning for Fleet-based Structural Health Monitoring (S3.5-MAC-Hughes)

A fully funded PhD opportunity to participate in the world-leading research undertaken by the EPSRC Doctoral Landscape Award at the University of Sheffield. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Hughes, Prof K Worden
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Optimising double-skin facades for health, fire safety, and net-zero (in collaboration with Foster + Partners) (C3.5-MAC-Vouriot)

A fully funded PhD opportunity to participate in the world-leading research undertaken by the EPSRC Doctoral Landscape Award at the University of Sheffield. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr C V Vouriot, Dr M S McLaggan
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Exploring Low-Iridium-Loading Ink Formulations for PEM Water Electrolyser Manufacturing (S3.5-CMB-Johnstone-Hack)

A fully funded PhD opportunity to participate in the world-leading research undertaken by the EPSRC Doctoral Landscape Award at the University of Sheffield. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr J Hack, Prof R Smith
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Generative User Interfaces that Adapt to the Contextual Needs of Physical Activity Tracking Users

This PhD investigates how user interfaces for physical activity (PA) tracking can be generated automatically from a user's context, rather than designed once and applied to everyone. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Vigo, Dr S Harper
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Minimalist Autonomy: Safe and Sustainable Neurosymbolic Systems

Autonomous systems need to make decisions in complex, uncertain, and changing environments. Machine learning, generative AI, and foundation models offer strong capabilities but can be expensive, unpredictable, unsustainable, and unsuitable for decisions that require strong guarantees. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Hosseini, Prof M Fisher
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Enhancing Emergency Response with Indoor Tracking and Localisation

Applications are invited for a self-funded, 3 year full-time or 6 year part-time PhD project. The PhD will be based in the School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering and will be supervised by Dr Salem Aljareh. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S Aljareh
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Making nanoscale materials: precision fabrication of high-performance functional structures

Supervisory Team. Dr Daniel Zabek. This project focuses on exploring high-precision lithographic fabrication techniques for the development of multifunctional material structures at the nanoscale, with applications in wireless energy and information transfer, and in biomedicine. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr D Zabek
 31 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Electrified catalytic processes for green fuels production via co2 hydrogenation

The transition to a low-carbon energy system requires sustainable methods for converting carbon dioxide (CO2) into useful fuels and chemicals. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr X Fan
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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A chemical engine to produce mechanical force: towards a physio-chemical model of heart cells

Living systems are complex, and are based on the basic building blocks of genes, proteins, chemical reactions, and physical forces. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr Y Hayashi, Dr Z Wang, Dr N Vasudevan
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Fate, transport, and impact of microplastics in the environment

These projects are open to students worldwide, but have no funding attached. Therefore, the successful applicant will be expected to fund tuition fees at the relevant level (home or international) and any applicable additional research costs. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr Y Tanino, Dr A Syed
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only