Electronic Engineering
University of Southampton
About the Project Supervisory Team: Professor David Thomson and Dr Bharat Pant This project will focus on research into the next generation of optical data communication technology enabling key applications such as high-performance computing and artificial intelligence to thrive. Many aspects of modern life have become reliant on high bandwidth data communication, pushing the associated technology to its performance limits and contributing significantly to global energy use.
- Location
- Southampton, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 30 September 2026
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Electronic Engineering
University of Southampton
About the Project Supervisory Team: Dr Yoshishige Tsuchiya, Dr Bruce Ou and Prof Jize Yan Physical reservoir computing is attracting much attention as a simple and energy-efficient option of neuromorphic computing and our focus is to use Micro or Nano-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS/NEMS) technologies to meet the system requirements of low-power consumption, high device density for high speed processing, and suitable nonlinearity and memory capacity at the same time.
- Location
- Southampton, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 30 September 2026
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
Electronic Engineering
University of Southampton
About the Project Supervisory Team: Prof David Thomson, Prof Professor Goran Mashanovich & Dr Bharat Pant Closing Date: 30 September 2026 This project will focus on the development of reliable and efficient programmable photonic integrated circuits (PICs) on a silicon photonics platform.
- Location
- Southampton, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 30 September 2026
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Electronic Engineering
University of York
About the Project Nearly all programmable computing systems are based by design on exact logic, under the assumption of a "perfect" mathematical world. By extension, logic used in robotics and other autonomous systems is also exact. However, all cyber-physical systems must interact with a world using sensors and actuators that by the very nature of this interaction, are not fundamentally exact or deterministic.
- Location
- York, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Electronic Engineering
Kingston University
About the Project The health and structural integrity of cement pavements are critical to ensuring road safety, longevity, and cost-effective maintenance. Traditionally, the inspection of a pavement’s condition relies on labor-intensive manual methods, which can be time-consuming, costly, and prone to human error.
- Location
- London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Electronic Engineering
University of York
About the Project With the commissioning of a new solar power farm for research at York's institute for Safe Autonomy, we are looking for enthusiastic students with an interest in creating robots that can move between solar panel arrays to autonomously perform cleaning, inspection, mapping, and site maintenance tasks.
- Location
- York, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Electronic Engineering
University of York
About the Project Applicants are invited in one, or a combination of, the following areas: Bio-inspired Systems Wonders in Nature, including our own brains, have fascinated scientists and en- gineers for decades if not centuries. There has been huge international research interest in studying all kinds of nature-inspired computation and its applications, including evolutionary computation, neural computation, and swarm intelligence.
- Location
- York, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Electronic Engineering
Imperial College London
About the Project “Small Features; Big Impact - Characterising the porous microstructure of battery electrodes.” How can we rigorously quantify and reduce uncertainty in microstructure-derived parameters used in electrode-scale battery models by linking state-of-the-art FIB-SEM characterisation and AI-driven image analysis to performance simulations?
- Location
- London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
Electronic Engineering
Australian National University
About the Project Overview An open position exists for a fully funded PhD scholarship in the development of next-generation, silicon-based tandem solar cell technologies. This project will focus on both theoretical and experimental science: applicants will be developing and characterising top cell materials to pair with high efficiency crystalline silicon, using state-of-the-art modelling and experimental infrastructure.
- Location
- Canberra, Australia, Australia
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
Electronic Engineering
University of Portsmouth
About the Project Applications are invited for a self-funded, 3 year full-time or 6 year part-time PhD project. This project investigates intelligent robotic manipulation for deformable or soft objects by integrating visual and tactile sensing. Unlike rigid objects, deformable items (e.g., soft tissues, food products, or packaging materials) present significant challenges for robotic manipulation due to their unpredictable shapes and compliant properties.
- Location
- Portsmouth, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Electronic Engineering
Lancaster University
About the Project Huge resources, both nationally and internationally, are being deployed for the development of quantum computing. While there are several different quantum computing platforms, one of the leading ones is based on superconducting qubits, because solid state solutions are more scalable. However, superconducting qubits require an awkward combination of mK temperatures and several RF signals per qubit to operate them.
- Location
- Lancaster, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
Electronic Engineering
University of York
About the Project Robots are becoming increasingly essential in the practice of precision agriculture due to labor shortages, higher productivity needs, and the demand for sustainable farming practices.
- Location
- York, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Electronic Engineering
Kingston University
About the Project Challenge: In the UK we each create a huge amount of electronic waste—the second highest in the world. A large and critical component of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) comprises of printed circuit boards (PCBs).
- Location
- London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Electronic Engineering
University of Southampton
About the Project Supervisory Team: Professor Austin Taranta, Professor Natallie Wheeler and Dr. Hesameddin Mohammadi Hollow core fibres are transforming applications in communications, sensing, and high-power laser delivery. The aim of this project is to study the fundamental reactions that control the stability and lifetime of these novel fibres which guide light through a gas-filled core instead of solid glass.
- Location
- Southampton, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)