PhD opportunities

PhD research project opportunities at the School of Engineering.

PhD opportunities

PhD Title Research Institutes Principal Supervisor
Digital tool for Data Centre Cooling Materials and Processes Dr Giulio Santori
Biomimetic membranes for applications in electrosynbionics and biosensing Bioengineering Dr Katherine Dunn
Direct Air Capture (CO2 capture from the atmosphere) and Utilization Materials and Processes Dr Giulio Santori
Optimising datacentre integration in energy systems and the built environment Infrastructure and Environment Dr Daniel Fosas de Pando
Thermodynamics of Phase Equilibria: Open Digital Tools for Data and Models Materials and Processes Dr Giulio Santori
Progressive building energy models for facility management Infrastructure and Environment Dr Daniel Fosas de Pando
Energy Efficient Processing of Thermoplastic Composites Materials and Processes Professor Dipa Roy
Explainable Speech Deepfake Detection Prof Simon King
Tackling Membrane BioFouling Infrastructure and Environment Dr Andrea Semiao
Adaptable AI in the Wild for Defence and Security Dr Elliot Crowley
Adaptive structures for operational variability and damage management Infrastructure and Environment Dr David Garcia Cava
Textile-integrated electrochemical wearables with edge AI for on-body heat-strain monitoring Dr Peisan (Sharel) E
Vibration data and underlying physics for adaptive structural health monitoring Infrastructure and Environment Dr David Garcia Cava
Magnetic reservoir based energy-efficient computing Dr Elton Santos
Water treatment with membranes in Scotland: how to improve their lifespan? Infrastructure and Environment Dr Andrea Joana Correia Semiao
Learning Multimodal Virtual Sensors for Adaptive Robotic Manipulation Prof Michael Mistry
Bottom-up assembly of multi-compartment synthetic cells Bioengineering Dr Tom Robinson
Biodegradable gas sensors Dr Julianna Panidi
Orbital Space Situation Awareness using Neuromorphic Systems Dr Mehrdad Yaghoobi
Secure and spoofing/jamming resilient PNT receivers Prof. George Goussetis
Predictive Motion Control and Testing Framework for Mobile Satellite Terminals Using IMU-Based Trajectory Intelligence Dr Spyridon Daskalakis
Robust algorithms for image compression and decompression and their trade-offs Dr Joao Mota
Adaptive Low-Dimensional Monte Carlo Methods for High-Dimensional Multi-Target Tracking Prof Victor Elvira Arregui
Adaptive Multiagent Decision Making in Multi-Sensor Platforms (Thales) Prof Mohan Sridharan
Fast intelligent control with application to quantum sensing Prof Cristian Bonato
Bayesian transfer learning for underwater signals Dr Torben Sell
Uncertainty-Aware Agentic AI Prof Timothy Hospedales
Bayesian Machine Learning on Strategically Manipulated Data Dr Henry Gouk
Robust Few-Shot Learning for Underwater Acoustic Signal Classification (QinetiQ) Dr Henry Gouk
Fast multi-dimensional array processing (Thales) Prof Mike Davies