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We have 13 Marine Engineering PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for European Students (exc UK) in Southampton

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Marine Engineering PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for European Students (exc UK) in Southampton

We have 13 Marine Engineering PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for European Students (exc UK) in Southampton

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Unsteady hydrodynamics of autonomous ship manoeuvres with Hardware in the Loop (HIL) experiments

Supervisory Team. Dr Nicholas Townsend, Prof Dominic Hudson. The ability to rapidly characterise and evaluate unsteady hydrodynamics of autonomous ship manoeuvres is a key challenge for the maritime sector. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr N Townsend
 31 August 2025  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Self-powered Autonomous Surface and Underwater Vehicles for Persistent Observation

Supervisory Team: Dr N.C. Townsend, Prof A. Murphy. Project description. In this PhD project you will explore novel wave energy harvesting systems for maritime robotic systems, such as Autonomous Surface and Underwater Vehicles (ASVs and AUVs). Read more
 Supervisor: Dr N Townsend
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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AI-Enhanced Fluid-Structure Modelling to Aid Maritime Decarbonization

Supervisory Team: Dr Kang Ren, Professor Stephen Turnock, Professor Dominic Hudson. The marine/maritime sectors urgently require green energy solutions and effective decarbonization strategies. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr K Ren
 31 March 2025  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Modelling Gust-Wing Interactions in Curvilinear Flows

Supervisory Team. Dr. Swathi Krishna and Dr. David Toal. Explore gust-wing interactions in curvilinear flows, focusing on vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs). Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S Krishna
 31 August 2025  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Climate resilient submerged infrastructure

Supervisory Team. Dr Gustavo de Almeida and Dr Sergio Maldonado. Fully funded PhD at the University of Southampton investigating novel design methods to improve submerged infrastructure resilience against currents and waves. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr G A M de Almeida
 30 July 2025  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Automated hydrodynamic characterisation for seakeeping and manoeuvring performance from focused experimental datasets

Supervisory Team. Dr Nick Townsend and Prof D.A Hudson. In this PhD you will have the opportunity to develop and test novel methodologies to extract ship hydrodynamic characteristics from a focused set of tests. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr N Townsend
 31 August 2025  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)
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Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Fluid Dynamics Modelling

Supervisory Team. Gustavo de Almeida and Dr Sergio Maldonado. This PhD project explores the use of Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) to solve environmental flow problems, including the 2D Shallow Water Equations. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr G A M de Almeida
 27 June 2025  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Optimising Surface Topography for Drag Reduction in Turbulent Flows

This PhD project focuses on advancing passive control strategies to reduce drag in turbulent flows by developing optimised surface topographies. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr D Lasagna
 31 August 2025  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Insect-Inspired Fluid-Structure Interactions for Resilient Flight

  Research Group: Aerodynamics and Flight Mechanics
This project investigates bio-inspired fluid-structure interactions to improve wing resilience under unsteady conditions. By studying how insects adapt to dynamic environments, such as turbulence and surface interactions, we aim to develop innovative strategies for enhancing wing performance. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S Krishna
 31 August 2025  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Blockage effects on tidal turbines

Tidal Turbines (underwater wind turbines) are able to operate close together and this can increase power capture. To get it to work well we need to understand many different aspects of device design and operating environment. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr L Myers
 30 June 2025  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Innovations in Waste Energy Minimisation from Maritime Engineering Power and Propulsion Systems

This PhD project, in association with BAE Systems, seeks to reveal and investigate novel solutions to deliver significant improvements in overall energy efficiency in maritime transport. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof A J Murphy
 31 August 2025  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Modelling the Role of Hard Particles in Hard Facing Alloys

Supervisory Team: Robert Wood, Georges Limbert and Dave Stewart (RRSL). Project description. Hard facing alloys, such as those used in nuclear power plant, are composite materials comprising carbides (and other hard phases), in galling resistant metallic matrices. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof R J K Wood
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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RECRUITING NOW: Funded PhD Studentships at the EPSRC and MOD Centre for Doctoral Training in Complex Integrated Systems for Defence and Security (CISDnS) at the University of Southampton.

Looking to purse a PhD either full time or part time in maritime, aeronautical, aerospace, medical and electronic systems following digital, physical, biological themes then we have opportunities for you. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training
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