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PhD Opportunities

PhD Research Project opportunities at the Institute for Energy Systems (IES)

PhD Title	Research Themes	Principal Investigator
A simulator of the dynamics of America’s Cup foiling catamarans	Naval Architecture	Dr Ignazio Maria Viola
Advanced Marine Renewable Energy Harvesting via Added-mass-variation Control	Electrical Power Conversion, Offshore Renewable Energy, Environmental Engineering	Dr Francesco Giorgio-Serchi
Aerodynamics of high-performance yacht sails	Naval Architecture	Dr Ignazio Maria Viola
Aerodynamics of the Scottish thistle, the national flower of Scotland	Energy and Climate Change	Dr Ignazio Maria Viola
Aerodynamics of the gliding seeds of the Javan cucumber vine	Energy and Climate Change	Dr Ignazio Maria Viola
Application of Wide-Bang Gap Power Semiconductors in Wind Energy Power Converters	Electrical Power Conversion	Prof Stephen Finney
Autonomous Vehicles Design for Operation in Rough Seas	Naval Architecture, Sensors, Smart MEMS and Microsystems Technology	Dr Aristides Kiprakis
Bio-inspired high-efficient arrays of tidal energy converters	Bioengineering, Offshore Renewable Energy	Dr Ignazio Maria Viola
Bio-inspired micro-decelerators	Energy and Climate Change, Materials and Structures, Sensors	Dr Ignazio Maria Viola
Bio-inspired morphing blades for wind and tidal turbines	Energy and Climate Change, Offshore Renewable Energy	Dr Ignazio Maria Viola
Boundary integral methods for Stokes-flow parachutes	Energy and Climate Change	Dr Ignazio Maria Viola
Investigation of alternative generation technologies for wave energy	Institute for Energy Systems Themes	Henry Jeffrey
Materials, processes and structures to reduce thermal loses and aid energy storage and recovery at Ultra-High Temperature	Energy Storage and Carbon Capture	Dr Adam Robinson
Modular Multilevel Power Converters for Medium Voltage Applications	Institute for Energy Systems Themes	Dr Michaël M.C. Merlin
Transition Engineering Towards Carbon Capture In Natural Gas Combined Cycles With Exhaust Gas Recycling (TECC-GAS)	Carbon Capture and Separation Processes	Dr Mathieu Lucquiaud
Virtual Synchronous Machine functionality in Voltage Source Converter: Control and design requirements	Institute for Energy Systems Themes	Dr Michaël M.C. Merlin

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