About the project
This PhD opportunity focuses on the development of Smart Acoustic Control Technologies, which bring together acoustic and structural design with advanced sensing, actuation, control, and signal processing technologies including machine learning. The developed smart systems offer significant potential to push the boundaries of noise and vibration control design and performance.
Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to work at the forefront of engineering research with a focus on sound and vibration? Would you like to develop your skills as a researcher and kick-start a career in engineering innovation? We are offering a fully funded PhD, with enhanced financial support from a large industrial partner, to pursue doctoral research in Smart Acoustic Control Technologies as part of a large project jointly funded by the Royal Academy of Engineering.
Smart Acoustic Control Technologies offer significant potential in a range of high-performance technological applications. They address complex challenges across a diversity of scenarios, from the control of noise and vibration in aerospace, automotive and maritime sectors, to the control of noise transmission between dwellings.
This opportunity can offer you:
- an enhanced tax-free stipend of the standard UKRI PhD studentship rate + an additional £5,000 per year
- a significant funding package to support presentation of your work at major international conferences
- the opportunity to conduct groundbreaking research in collaboration with a major UK industrial partner, offering significant potential for future career development both within industry and academia
- the opportunity to join an open and collaborative team of researchers working across various aspects of Smart Acoustic Control Technologies
- the opportunity to fine tune the focus of the PhD to your interests within the realm of Smart Acoustic Control Technologies, which includes acoustics, vibration, signal processing (including Machine Learning), sensing, actuation, numerical modelling, design optimisation and multiphysics problems.
Training specific to the PhD project will be offered, with the opportunity to pursue technical modules offered by the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research, along with a range of transferable skills development offered by the University of Southampton Doctoral College.
