PhD Research Projects PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships in Coventry

PhD in Advanced Characterisation of Large Format Lithium-Ion Battery Failures

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

WMG and Jaguar Land Rover have been researching battery safety for over 10 years. Read more

Supervisor: Dr J Marco

PhD in Advanced Battery Design for Future Electric Vehicles

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

Significant advances have been made understanding the performance of lithium-ion batteries. Read more

Supervisor: Dr J Marco

PhD in Manufacturing Routes for Highly Controlled Structured Metamaterial Nanoparticles

Supervisors: Dr DP Proprentner, Dr C Dancer

This is a challenging and unique PhD opportunity for a student with a good materials, physics and/or engineering background, interested in applying their knowledge to the rapidly growing and multidisciplinary field of metamaterials. Read more

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

Mono-Material Barrier Films for Sustainable and Circular Plastic Packaging Applications (MonoFilm)

Supervisors: Prof T Peijs, Dr T Schiller

Plastic packaging materials play a crucial role in today's society, offering advantages such as versatility, hygiene, safety, lightweight properties, and, notably, a low carbon footprint when compared to alternative materials. Read more

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

University of Warwick Department of Physics

Modelling charged-particle transport and heating in fusion plasmas

The project will investigate a very important aspect of inertial confinement fusion. the internal heating by fusion products. Recently, inertial confinement fusion has made considerable progress reaching the stage of substantial internal heating and later positive energy outcome (ignition) in several experiments. Read more

Supervisor: Dr D Gericke

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

University of Warwick Department of Chemistry

Ultrafast Quantum Dynamics in Next-generation Energy Materials

Start date. October 2024 (some flexibility). Duration. 3.5 years. Deadline. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis until the post is filled. Read more

Supervisor: Dr R Pandya

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

University of Warwick Department of Physics

Imaging atomic-level electrochemistry in real-time using 2D material devices

Imaging atomic-level electrochemistry in real-time using 2D material devices. Funded project. You will construct and use a new 2D material heterostructure device to allow the atomic to nanoscale imaging of electrochemical reactions inside a transmission electron microscope (TEM). Read more

Supervisor: Dr AR Robertson

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

University of Warwick Department of Physics

Levitating microdiamonds towards a test of the quantum nature of gravity

Background. Single nitrogen-vacancy (NV- ) centres in diamond have isolated electronic and nuclear spins which can store quantum information at room temperature for over one second. Read more

Supervisor: Dr G Morley

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

PhD in Behaviours of Nitrogen in the Future Green Steelmaking Routes

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

An enthusiastic individual is being invited to join a team of researchers to work on the Warwick Industrial Fellowship funded project sponsored by Tata Steel in the Netherlands. Read more

Supervisor: Dr Z Li

PhD in Development of Sustainable and Smart Battery Cells

Supervisors: Assoc Prof TV Vincent, Dr J Marco

Project Overview. Electrifying the transportation sector is imperative to achieving net zero targets. Developing next-generation batteries will underpin this transition, particularly for heavier duty transportation, such as larger industrial vehicles, and the marine and aerospace sectors. Read more

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

Sustainable Heating and Cooling Technologies

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

The project. The Sustainable Thermal Energy Technologies (STET) research group in the School of Engineering has a PhD scholarship opportunity in the area of thermal energy. Read more

Supervisor: Dr S Metcalf

Developing next generation wet processing for Silicon Carbide power electronic devices

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Funding available for PhD studentship for Jan 2024 Start. Supervisor: Dr Vishal Shah Industrial Sponsor: RENA Technologies. Read more

Supervisor: Dr V Shah

Computational Mechanics

Supervisor: Dr E Kakouris

Warwick Monash Alliance. Supervisors: Dr Emmanouil Kakouris (School of Engineering, University of Warwick, United Kingdom). and Dr Vinh Phu Nguyen (Department of Civil Engineering, Monash University, Australia). Read more

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Photoelectrochemical Generation of Green Hydrogen using Silicon Carbide

Supervisors: Dr V Shah, Dr K Brinkert

Students must have a minimum Bachelors degree of 2.1 (UK) or international equivalent qualifications and a degree in experimental engineering/chemistry/physics. Read more

Year round applications PhD Research Project Awaiting Funding Decision/Possible External Funding