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PhD Opportunities in Civil and Environmental Engineering

PhD Research Project opportunities in Civil and Environmental Engineering

PhD Title	Research Institute	Research Themes	Principal Investigator
Adaptive and smart materials for operational variability and life extension [SMART MATTER]	Infrastructure and Environment	Institute for Infrastructure and Environment Themes	Dr David Garcia Cava
Advanced Marine Renewable Energy Harvesting via Added-mass-variation Control	Energy Systems Integrated Micro and Nano Systems	Electrical Power Conversion, Offshore Renewable Energy, Environmental Engineering	Dr Francesco Giorgio-Serchi
Decarbonising concrete construction through innovations in waste material recycling and CO2 sequestration	Infrastructure and Environment	Institute for Infrastructure and Environment Themes	Dr Hwa Kian Chai
Determining the water retention behaviour of unsaturated hydrophobic granular soils	Infrastructure and Environment	Institute for Infrastructure and Environment Themes	Dr Christopher Beckett
Exploring how hydrophobic soil layers govern debris flow formation after wildfires	Infrastructure and Environment	Institute for Infrastructure and Environment Themes	Dr Chris Beckett
Microplastics in wastewater treatment systems	Infrastructure and Environment	Institute for Infrastructure and Environment Themes	Dr Efthalia Chatzisymeon
Quantifying the influence of vegetation structure on wildfire behaviour in changing environments.	Infrastructure and Environment	Institute for Infrastructure and Environment Themes	Dr Zakary Campbell-Lochrie
Resource-efficient technologies to remove emerging contaminants from water and wastewater	Infrastructure and Environment	Institute for Infrastructure and Environment Themes	Dr Efthalia Chatzisymeon
Structural Health Monitoring and Predictive Maintenance for Ensuring Long-Term Structural Health	Infrastructure and Environment	Institute for Infrastructure and Environment Themes	Dr Yavuz Yardim
Towards a world atlas of weather events to stress-test buildings	Infrastructure and Environment	Institute for Infrastructure and Environment Themes	Dr Daniel Fosas de Pando

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