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energy engineering PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 818 energy engineering PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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4-Year Fully Funded Studentship - Harvesting Energy from the Cold Universe. The missing piece in the renewables puzzle.

Applications are invited for a funded PhD studentship in radiative cooling for solar-energy infrastructure at University College London, through the UCL EPSRC Doctoral Landscape Award (UELA) programme. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof I Papakonstantinou
 8 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhD Studentship in Advanced Nonlinear Vibration Control for Turbomachinery Blades

Applications are invited for an exciting PhD studentship in Nonlinear Vibration and Control, leading to the award of a PhD degree from Imperial. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr L Renson
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Predictive Energy Management of Battery Packs

Supervisory team. Professor Richard Wills and Professor Iris Nandhakumar. This project develops a predictive battery thermal management system for lithium-ion batteries, combining solid-state Peltier elements with a hybrid AI controller. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr R Wills
 30 April 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Intelligent Coordination Framework for Residential Energy Assets in Net-Zero Homes

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 Shanker Prabhu, Dr Hongjie Ma and Dr Shamsul Masum. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr S Prabhu, Dr H Ma, Dr S Masum
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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AI-Enhanced Robotic Unfolding for Sustainable Textile Recycling – with a Focus on Energy Minimisation

The textile industry is a significant contributor to global environmental waste, with millions of tons of discarded fabrics being sent to landfills annually [1]. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr O Duran
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Failure mechanisms of High Temperature Rare Earth Barium-Copper Oxides within Fusion Environments

*11.11.26 - this project is under offer to a candidate*. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof A B Bhattacharya, Prof P Norman
 31 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Rational design of heterogeneous catalysts for sustainable applications

Supervisors. Dr Sergio Vernuccio, Professor Chris Skylaris. This project aims to rationally design efficient heterogeneous catalysts for sustainable application, including photocatalytic transformation for hydrogen production from water splitting and photoreforming. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr SV Vernuccio
 30 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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PhD Scholarship Project: Porous materials for sustainability-related applications

The mission of the Petit Group is to work at the forefront of materials research, discovering, understanding, developing and implementing functional materials, particularly but not solely, porous materials. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr C Petit
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhD Scholarship Project: Photocatalytic routes for sustainable chemical transformations

Photocatalysis offers a powerful route to use light energy to drive chemical transformations under mild conditions, potentially replacing energy-intensive thermal processes and enabling more sustainable pathways to fuels and value-added chemicals. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S Eslava
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Dynamical Systems Modelling of Turbulent Flows for Advanced Geothermal Energy Systems (in Collaboration with Schlumberger Cambridge Research) (C3.5-MPS-Willis)

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 P Willis, Prof S He
 13 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhD Scholarship Project: Membrane reactors

Catalysis is central to modern chemical manufacturing, yet many industrial processes remain energy-intensive, wasteful, and carbon-intensive. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof K Li
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhD Scholarship project: Chemical recycling and upcycling of PET

This PhD project will tackle the chemical recycling and upcycling of poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET), one of the most pressing challenges in the circular economy. Read more
 Supervisor: Assoc Prof RR Rinaldi
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Research on high specific energy solid state lithium battery technology

To cultivate research talents with global leadership, interdisciplinary innovation capabilities, and international research collaboration capabilities… Read more
 Supervisor: Dr C Liu
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Rational design of heterogeneous catalysts for sustainable applications

Supervisory Team. Dr Sergio Vernuccio and Prof Chris Skylaris. This project aims to rationally design efficient heterogeneous catalysts for sustainable application, including photocatalytic transformation for hydrogen production and CO₂ reduction. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr SV Vernuccio
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Underground Hydrogen Storage (UHS) integration with CCUS and NET ZERO Innovation applications for depleted hydrocarbon reservoirs and aquifers

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 P Jadhawar, Dr J Gomes
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only