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PhD Opportunities

PhD Research Project opportunities at the Institute for Infrastructure and Environment (IIE)

PhD Title	Research Themes	Principal Investigator
4D printed composite morphing structures	Institute for Infrastructure and Environment Themes	Dr Francisca Martinez-Hergueta
Adaptive and smart materials for operational variability and life extension [SMART MATTER]	Institute for Infrastructure and Environment Themes	Dr David Garcia Cava
Decarbonising concrete construction through innovations in waste material recycling and CO2 sequestration	Institute for Infrastructure and Environment Themes	Dr Hwa Kian Chai
Design of protection systems through the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)	Institute for Infrastructure and Environment Themes	Prof Filipe Teixeira Dias
Determining the water retention behaviour of unsaturated hydrophobic granular soils	Institute for Infrastructure and Environment Themes	Dr Christopher Beckett
Elucidating molecular transport mechanisms through atomistic simulations	Institute for Infrastructure and Environment Themes, Institute for Multiscale Thermofluids Themes	Dr Santiago Romero-Vargas Castrillon
Exploring how hydrophobic soil layers govern debris flow formation after wildfires	Institute for Infrastructure and Environment Themes	Dr Chris Beckett
Microplastics in wastewater treatment systems	Institute for Infrastructure and Environment Themes	Dr Efthalia Chatzisymeon
Novel preforms for Automated Fibre Placement	Institute for Infrastructure and Environment Themes	Dr Francisca Martinez-Hergueta
Quantifying the influence of vegetation structure on wildfire behaviour in changing environments.	Institute for Infrastructure and Environment Themes	Dr Zakary Campbell-Lochrie
Resource-efficient technologies to remove emerging contaminants from water and wastewater	Institute for Infrastructure and Environment Themes	Dr Efthalia Chatzisymeon
Structural Health Monitoring and Predictive Maintenance for Ensuring Long-Term Structural Health	Institute for Infrastructure and Environment Themes	Dr Yavuz Yardim
The physics and engineering of flowing suspensions	Institute for Infrastructure and Environment Themes	Dr Christopher John Ness
Towards a world atlas of weather events to stress-test buildings	Institute for Infrastructure and Environment Themes	Dr Daniel Fosas de Pando

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