Current research degree projects
Explore our current postgraduate research degree and PhD opportunities.
Explore our current postgraduate research degree and PhD opportunities.
If you are a student of aerodynamics, chances are that you have drawn a conventional airfoil with nice, laminar incoming flow at some point. Enough of those steady, uniform streamlines! We welcome you to join us in disturbing the incoming flow and unravel in its unsteadiness using some of the best experimental facilities in the UK. If you are excited by the idea of subjecting bio-inspired wings to different types of canonical disturbances, measuring their aerodynamic responses, and taming their behaviour, then the vibrant and world-renowned Experimental Fluids Group at the University of Southampton is the place for you!
The Department Aeronautics and Astronautics of the University of Southampton is welcoming applications for PhD scholarships in the field of composite materials and structures.
The University of Southampton, in collaboration with Network Rail, is offering an exciting opportunity to inform future railway signalling strategy through a programme of PhD research.The PhD focuses on future control, command and signalling strategy (F-CCS) that sets out a heavily automated future for the railway. But with little previous research on how such advanced signalling control might impact performance in the wider sociotechnical system, this programme seeks to understand the benefits of automation and how human performance fits in with that at all stages of the lifecycle.
This project will develop and test microfluidic systems that can be deployed aboard small robot submarines (micro-AUVs) to sample and analyse aquatic chemistry.
Applications are invited for a fully-funded PhD studentship to investigate power electronic converters integrating energy storage and renewable generation into EV charging stations. The PhD will also investigate techniques for implementing online electrochemical impedance spectroscope (EIS), battery diagnostics and protection, and energy management within the control system of the converter. This PhD will support a wider research team working on a new EPSRC funded Programme Grant entitled ‘Future Electric Vehicle Energy networks supporting Renewables (FEVER)’, grant ref: EP/W005883/1.