Graduate Studentships
The following is a list of funded doctoral studentships in the Department of Engineering Science. For information on other funding opportunities available at Oxford, see the University's Graduate Admissions 'Fees and funding' webpage.
DPhil Studentships (starting in October 2018)
Application deadline 12 noon UK time (midday) on Monday 15 January 2018
Application deadline 12 noon UK time (midday) on Friday 19 January 2018
- Coherent X-ray Imaging of Crystal Defects (Prof F Hofmann, Mechanical and Materials)
- Dislocation Dynamics Modelling of Cracks (Dr A Cicirello and Prof D Hills, Mechanical and Materials)
- Droplets and Liquid Jets (Prof A Castrejon-Pita, Thermo-Fluids)
- Electric Vehicle Charging Control Games (Prof K Margellos, Control)
- Fretting Fatigue and Contacts in Partial Slip (Prof D Hills, Mechanical and Materials)
- Hydrogen Embrittlement of Austenitic Stainless Steels (Prof A Cocks, Mechanical and Materials)
- Synthesizing 3D Metamaterials (Profs C Stevens and E Shamonina, Electrical and Electronic)
- Thermal Modelling and Characterization of Lithium/Sulfur Batteries (Prof C Monroe, EPSRC Industrial CASE Studentship with Siemens)
- Ultrasound Neuroimage Analysis (Dr A Namburete, Biomedical)
- Oxford-Ashton Graduate Scholarship (with University College, Oxford; all Engineering areas)
- The Effect of Coolant Gas and Chemistry properties on Transpiration Cooling for Hypersonic Vehicles (Prof Matthew McGilvray)
- Transpiration Cooled Systems for Hypersonic Vehicles (Prof Matthew McGilvray)
- Studentships in Machine Learning applied to Finance (Prof Steve Roberts)
- Research Studentship in Fast Finite Element Analysis for the Design of Offshore Foundations (Prof Harvey Burd)
- Research Studentship in Damage Assessment of Masonry Structures (Dr Sinan Acikgoz)
- Research Studentship in Multi-Scale Modelling of Hybrid Systems Subjected to Impact Loading (Prof Nik Petrinic)
- Research Studentship in Improved Modelling of the Constitutive Response of Materials to Rapidly Applied Loads (Dr Antonio Pellegrino)
EPSRC Centres for Doctoral Training
For application deadlines, see the websites for the relevant Centres.
- Autonomous Intelligent Machines & Systems (AIMS)
- Biomedical Imaging (ONBI) (with the University of Nottingham)
- Gas Turbine Aerodynamics (GTA) (with the Universities of Cambridge and Loughborough)
- Renewable Energy Marine Structures (REMS) (with Cranfield University)
- Synthetic Biology (SynBio)
