King’s College London Engineering PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for Self-funded Students

We have 18 King’s College London Engineering PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for Self-funded Students

Vapour Deposited Perovskites for High Performance Multi-Junction Photovoltaic Devices

King’s College London Department of Physics

Metal-halide perovskite based solar cells have now achieved a light to electricity conversion efficiency of 26.1%, making them the leading emerging thin-film solar cell material. Read more

Supervisor: Dr J Patel

1 June 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

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Bottom-Up Construction of a Synthetic Gap Junction

King’s College London School of Natural & Mathematical Sciences

Gap junctions play a crucial role in cellular communication, facilitating direct intercellular exchange of ions and small molecules. Read more

Supervisors: Prof M Wallace, Prof C Lorenz, Dr J Burrone

10 May 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Ignition and fire spread processes in the Wildland Urban Interface

King’s College London Department of Engineering

This PhD project in fire science interlinks prevention and protection from wildfire risk, by focusing on providing a clearer understanding of uncontrolled fires and the conditions that cause them to arise in the wildland urban interface. Read more

Supervisor: Dr FR Restuccia

1 July 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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Full scholarship at EPSRC CDT in Advanced Engineering for Personalised Surgery & Intervention

King’s College London Department of Surgical & Interventional Engineering

Surgery is recognised as an “indivisible, indispensable part of health care” but the NHS struggles to meet its rising demand. Read more

Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide) EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training

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EPSRC Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) scholarship - Can MIND networks derived from brain MRI shed fresh light on perinatal development?

King’s College London Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine

Brain connectivity is central to neurodevelopment and later cognition and mental health (Morgan et al., BP:CNNI 2018). We recently proposed a new method to construct structural brain networks from MRI data, called Morphometric Inverse Divergence (MIND). Read more

Supervisor: Dr S Morgan

1 May 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Machine learning the dynamics of force-sensing proteins

King’s College London School of Natural & Mathematical Sciences

Mechanosensing proteins detect mechanical forces within cells and convert them into biochemical signals. Understanding the dynamic behaviour of these proteins under force is key for advancing our understanding of this process called mechanotransduction. Read more

Supervisors: Dr SB Bo, Dr RTR Tapia-Rojo, Prof C Lorenz

10 May 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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EPSRC CDT Advanced Engineering in Personalised Surgery & Intervention

King’s College London Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine

We are now accepting applications for 1st October 2024 entry from home and overseas students that wish to carry out PhD research training at King’s College London. Read more

Supervisor: Dr N/A sie-phd@kcl.ac.uk

3 May 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Coupled heat transfer – stress – hydrogen diffusion modelling in cryogenic combustion systems for zero emission jet engines

King’s College London School of Natural & Mathematical Sciences

Transport, the UK’s biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions, presents a major obstacle to UK’s decarbonisation plans. To overcome it, we must develop new sustainable fuel technologies. Read more

Supervisors: Dr CS Skamniotis, Dr DM Moxey, Dr C Gattinoni

1 May 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Waste-to-protein recovery through protein separation and purification

King’s College London School of Natural & Mathematical Sciences

The plant-sourced and animal-sourced proteins are resource-demand and carbon-intensive. This combined with increasing protein demands highlight the complex challenge on providing protein security. Read more

Supervisors: Dr M Guo, Prof C Lorenz

1 May 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Developing alternative proteins for healthier, more sustainable food products

King’s College London School of Natural & Mathematical Sciences

A 2022 landmark United Nations report, published in collaboration with hundreds of the world's leading climate scientists, warned that time is running out for humanity to limit global warming to +1.5°C, a temperature increase beyond which the world can become inhabitable. Read more

Supervisors: Dr SCV Vladescu, Prof G Carpenter

1 May 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Heterogeneously Integrated Smart Tag for Autonomous Nanomaterial Sensing and Drug Delivery Monitoring (HIS-SAND)

King’s College London School of Natural & Mathematical Sciences

The NHS's ambitious goal to reach net zero by 2040, with an 80% reduction target by 2028-2032, underscores the challenge of mitigating the carbon footprint in areas like patient monitoring and drug delivery. Read more

Supervisors: Dr CS Song, Prof M Thanou, Dr KX Xu

1 May 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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PhD studentships in Engineering

King’s College London

We offer PhDs in Engineering (MPhil/PhD) across seven research themes. Communication & Information Engineering; Computational Engineering; Data-Centric Engineering; Design & Mechatronics; Energy & Power Systems; Manufacturing, Materials & Systems; and Signals & Control. Read more

Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide) PhD Research Programme

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PhD in Reconfigurable Mechanical Metamaterials for Wearable Robotics @RADlab

King’s College London Department of Engineering

The RADlab at King’s College London is seeking to recruit a PhD student for the Neural-driven, active, and reconfigurable mechanical metamaterials (NARMM) project. Read more

Supervisor: Dr AF Forte

1 July 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Advancing Integrated Engineering Design of Breeding Blankets to Mitigate Failure

King’s College London Department of Engineering

Applications are invited for a studentship in the area of Finite Element modelling of Nuclear Materials under Extreme Thermomechanical Loads, leading to the award of a PhD degree, with a desired start in September 2024. Read more

Supervisor: Dr CS Skamniotis

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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Designing compliant mechanisms for precision movement and tracking

King’s College London Department of Engineering

The Centre for Robotics Research (CORE) has an exciting PhD opportunity to join its multidisciplinary team. Fast, repeatable and precisely controlled motion is need for many automated industrial processes. Read more

Supervisor: Dr NB Bailey

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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We have 18 King’s College London Engineering PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for Self-funded Students

King’s College London Engineering PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for Self-funded Students

We have 18 King’s College London Engineering PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for Self-funded Students

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