Current research degree projects
Explore our current postgraduate research degree and PhD opportunities.
Explore our current postgraduate research degree and PhD opportunities.
Work on this project will help you develop reliable, predictive models to guide the design of future thermochemical energy conversion processes for hydrogen-based and sustainable fuels (carbon-neutral fuels). Such models will be able to overcome the limitation of current turbulence-combustion models in predicting multi-regime combustion and multi-scale phenomena (e.g. intrinsic instabilities, backscattering).
In collaboration with NKT Photonics, there is now an opening for a PhD student to research advanced fibre amplifiers and beam combination concepts within this ground-breaking programme. Research topics include low-noise fibre amplifiers and phase control, fibre nonlinearities and their mitigation, and polarisation management in challenging fibre systems.
This PhD studentship aims at developing memristor artificial synapses for neuromorphic chips and building simulation modelling of their synaptic plasticity. Electronic devices, such as computers, mobile phones and data centres, account for a significant amount of the world's energy consumption; we need to invent novel technologies to deliver high-speed, low-power and efficient computing and communication.
Join our Aerodynamics and flight mechanics research group and guide your career through a diverse set of novel, open-ended problems with multidisciplinary teams.
Applications are invited for a fully funded PhD position on machine learning (ML) applied to problems in hydraulics and fluid mechanics. The successful applicant will join a world-leading research team and environment at the University of Southampton, a Russell Group member ranked as one of the world’s top 100 universities. Of particular importance for this project is the access to Iridis 5, the University of Southampton’s recently upgraded supercomputer, considered one of the most powerful in the UK.
This PhD studentship will involve a combination of computational and experimental work, providing the students with complete and holistic training and a diverse research experience.
This PhD project has the potential of significantly improving the fatigue design and maintenance of an aircraft. It is funded by Airbus Operations Ltd through an EPSRC Industrial CASE Award. Fatigue design and fatigue damage estimates are based on many factors such as design and performance assumptions, manufacturing, component material, stress cycle calculations and service conditions.
A fully funded industrial studentship is available for research in the area of decentralised and distributed active noise and vibration control. Although active noise and vibration control is now a relatively mature technology, with commercial systems in headphones, cars and aircrafts, it is not straightforward to apply to large-scale applications with widely distributed control sources and error sensors.
Fibre lasers have seen a rapid development in output power and performance over the past three decades and have revolutionised the application space for photonics. Some applications specifically require high power to perform the intended tasks whilst others require low noise and narrow linewidth. Increasing the output power from fibre lasers has been the focus of intense research for decades for applications in scientific research, industrial processing and manufacturing, and defence and security, and has helped to develop a plethora of new fibre types and pump sources.
We are looking for a PhD student to work on the design and numerical simulation of the next generation of high-power fibre lasers. The project is part of a major new initiative funded by the UK Research Council at the Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, that will combine new fibre technology with state-of-the-art control mechanisms, including machine learning, to reach unprecedented laser powers with full control over the beam shape.