University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England invites online Application for number of Fully Funded PhD Degree at various Departments. We are providing a list of Fully Funded PhD Programs available at -University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England.
Eligible candidate may Apply as soon as possible.
(01) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Studentship: AI design of ultrathin lenses for compact imaging devices
The Faculty of Engineering at the University of Nottingham is seeking an enthusiastic, self-motivated student who enjoys working as part of a team to undertake a PhD in the Optics and Photonics Research Group (OPG), supervised by Dr. Mitchell Kenney alongside collaborators within OPG and Life sciences.
The advent of the smart-phone has undoubtedly revolutionised portable imaging systems, but the need for smarter imaging capability grows with increased healthcare end-user and accessibility demands. Imaging is a crucially important aspect in many scientific fields, with it being of particular importance in life-sciences and biomedical imaging. Novel techniques, such as microscopy, fluorescence microscopy, and light-field imaging allow users to gather more useful information with higher levels of details than ever imagined. However, lots of these advanced systems still rely on old technologies based on standard glass lenses and components which are bulky and have limited capabilities.
Metamaterials are artificial materials that use digitally-arranged nanometre-sized optical structures for intelligent manipulation of light. They require only simplistic (microelectronics-compatible) fabrication processes, and have the potential to replace previous optical components, with enhanced functionalities capable of gathering extra optical information.
Deadline : 17 November 2025
(02) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Funded Studentship: Sustainable Aviation – Designing fuels for the future
Applications are invited to undertake a PhD programme, in partnership with Airbus, to address key challenges in ensuring adoption of sustainable approaches to fuel additives for aviation use. The successful candidate will be based in the Mechanical and Aerospace Systems research group (previously known as G2TRC) within the faculty of Engineering and will be part of a supportive team of 50 researchers, technicians, support staff and academics. The successful candidate will be working across Mechanical, Aerospace & Chemical Engineering and Chemistry. The faculties of Science and Engineering have a well-developed research support base including NET2Zero CDT, and EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Resilient Chemistry: Feedstock to Function.
Deadline : 31 October 2025
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(03) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Studentship: Rolls Royce sponsored PhD scholarship – Micromechanics and in-depth materials analysis of advanced aerospace materials upon the manufacturing process
Applications are invited to undertake a three-year PhD programme in partnership with industry to address key challenges in on-platform manufacturing engineering. The successful candidate will be based at the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre (UTC) in Manufacturing Technology and On-Wing Technology (https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/utc/index.aspx ) at the University of Nottingham. Having state-of-the-art purpose-built facilities, the UTC offers a world-class environment for the realisation of high-impact research projects.
The Rolls-Royce funded Studentship is the result of the expanding manufacturing activities sponsored at the Rolls-Royce UTC dealing with in-depth investigations of the response of advanced aerospace materials to various manufacturing operations in the scope of robust manufacture of safety-critical aero-engine components.
The project will deal with the micromechanics and in-depth materials analysis of advanced aerospace materials upon manufacturing operations to understand the materials’ response to the manufacturing process to efficiently support the manufacture of aerospace components. This will involve using a wide range of sophisticated testing and analysis techniques including not only the study of the conventional manufacturing process of advanced aerospace materials but also the state-of-the-art materials investigation such as scanning electron microscope (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD), transmission electron microscope (TEM) and in-situ micromechanics.
Deadline : 31 October 2025
(04) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Studentship: Rolls-Royce sponsored PhD scholarship – Design and simulation of stiffness-adjustable robotic systems for performing on-wing repair of aero-engines
Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre (UTC) in Manufacturing and On-Wing Technology
Applicants are invited to undertake a fully funded three-year PhD programme in partnership with industry to address key challenges in on-platform manufacturing engineering. The successful candidate will be based at the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre (UTC) in Manufacturing and On-Wing Technology at the University of Nottingham.
This project aligns with Rolls-Royce’s technical needs to develop automated and hybrid tooling solutions for in-situ/on-wing repair and maintenance of gas turbine engines.
At the Rolls-Royce UTC, we have developed advanced robotic systems capable of navigating cramped and hazardous environments, performing inspection tasks, and carrying out active operations such as machining. These innovations are driven by the need to complete complex repairs without disassembling industrial installations.
By integrating these technologies, we aim to develop hybrid robotic systems that combine locomotion and manipulation capabilities. These systems will feature both hexapod and continuum arm sub-systems, allowing them to navigate confined spaces and perform precision tasks using specialized end effectors (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_CTqVFJ7Jc).
Deadline : 31 October 2025
(05) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Studentship: Rolls-Royce Sponsored PhD Scholarship – Intelligent Sensing and Robot Control for Performing On-Wing Inspection and Repair of Aero-Engines
Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre (UTC) in manufacturing and On-Wing Technology, The University of Nottingham.
Applicants are invited to undertake a three-year PhD programme in partnership with industry to address key challenges in on-platform manufacturing engineering. The successful candidate will be based at The Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre (UTC) in Manufacturing and On-Wing Technology at the University of Nottingham.
This project is in relation to the technical needs of Rolls-Royce to develop smart and robotic solutions to enable in-situ/on-wing repair and maintenance of gas turbine engines.
At the Rolls-Royce UTC at the University of Nottingham, we have developed robotic systems capable of navigating into crammed/hazardous environments and perform inspection and active operations such as machining. This is driven by the need to complete repair tasks without disassembly of industrial installations. We developed a series of continuum robots in both short and long versions.
Deadline :31 October 2025
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(06) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Studentship: Rolls-Royce sponsored PhD scholarship – Laser Beam Processing of Aerospace Materials
Applications are invited to undertake a three-year PhD programme in partnership with industry to address key challenges in manufacturing engineering. The successful candidate will be based at the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre (UTC) in Manufacturing and On-Wing Technology at the University of Nottingham.
We are seeking applicants for an anticipated October 2025 start, or earlier (depending on the candidate availability), on a project with Rolls-Royce plc. The Rolls-Royce funded studentship is the result of expanding its on-platform repair activities sponsored at the Rolls-Royce UTC dealing with investigations on the development of bespoke high-tech laser beam processing methods for surface treatment and repair of aero-engine components.
The project will deal with the study of a new laser processing method to enable in-situ surface treatment and repair of safety-critical rotating parts and further understand the correlation between surface quality, metallurgical characteristics and functional performance of the components and the key process parameters. The project will deal with the design of special process setups, testing its working principles and performances followed by an assessment of the part quality; this will involve the development of laser beam processing on specific aerospace materials, and a model to understand the fundamental mechanisms of the process to identify optimal operating conditions and followed by surface analysis techniques (e.g. Scanning electron microscope, X-ray diffraction for residual stress measurements, Electron Back-Scattered Diffraction and Transmission Electron Microscopy).
Deadline : 31 October 2025
(07) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Studentship: Rolls-Royce sponsored PhD scholarship – Mechatronics system for hybrid manufacturing processing
Applicants are invited to undertake a three-year PhD programme in partnership with industry to address key challenges in on-platform manufacturing engineering. The successful candidate will be based at the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre (UTC) in Manufacturing and On-Wing Technology at the University of Nottingham.
At the Rolls-Royce UTC, we are developing the next generation of robots and its sensing solutions to perform tasks in challenging working environments.
This project is related to the development of smart mechanisms and sensing to support the aforementioned tasks with the following actions:
- Develop the principles and theories for governing the scalability principles for building innovative robotics end-effectors that can access geometrically complex workspaces under positional restrictions.
- Develop smart control algorithms that will allow the robotics end-effectors to communicate with the central control system and coordinate tasks with other end-effectors and the host robot.
- Smart sensing systems to support automated manufacturing and maintenance, repair & overhaul. We refer here not only to conventional sensing, e.g. vision, orientation, that are commonly integrated into the end-effectors, but on advanced (e.g. tactile, sound-based, shape) solutions that enhance the perception of the end-effectors so that versatile tasks can be performed.
Deadline : 31 October 2025
(08) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Studentship: Rolls-Royce Sponsored PhD Scholarship – Design and Manufacturing of Soft Robots for Performing On-Wing Inspection of Aero-Engines
The growing field of soft robotics has unlocked new possibilities for robotic systems to navigate uncertain and dynamic environments, including narrow spaces and interactions with unfamiliar objects.
This project aligns with Rolls-Royce’s technical needs for developing soft robotic solutions to enable in-situ/on-wing repair and maintenance of gas turbine engines. Applicants are invited to undertake a fully funded three-year PhD programme in partnership with Rolls-Royce to address key challenges in soft robotics for locomotion and manipulation in confined spaces. The successful candidate will be based at the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre (UTC) in Manufacturing and On-Wing Technology at the University of Nottingham.
Deadline : 31 October 2025
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(09) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: 3-year PhD studentship: Scaling-Up Functional 3D Printing of Devices and Structures
Inkjet printing allows multiple materials to be 3D-printed simultaneously, useful for printing functional devices. Discovering the interactions of these materials and how to leverage this advanced manufacturing process will open new opportunities: devices with variable mechanical and chemical properties; fully 3D-printed electronics; and devices with mechanical or electrical responses encoded into their structure. However, we don’t yet know how to design these complex printed parts and we are still developing new leading-edge materials to grant them new capabilities.
Deadline : 13 October 2025
(10) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) PhD in Digital Metal with Rolls-Royce (Enhanced Stipend) Development of Advanced Barrier Coatings for extreme environments
Advanced TBCs are used in critical aeroengine components (e.g., Ni superalloy turbine blades) to ensure a reliable and highly efficient operation. TBCs are crucial to ensure the safe and high-performance operation of such critical parts under extreme temperatures and pressures; however, external contaminants (e.g. Calcium Magnesium Alumina and Silicates -CMAS-) can infiltrate these coatings and accelerate their degradation.
Leveraging a fundamental understanding of material science, coatings technologies and advanced thermal spray deposition systems, this research explores the development of novel protective chemistries that can be deposited in situ to protect TBC systems. By combining advanced digital technologies to evaluate the degradation of the TBC and the nature of the environmental contaminants, the project will develop advanced protective coatings to mitigate damage to these TBCs. Moreover, this project will leverage advanced bespoke continuum robotic systems to demonstrate the feasibility of applying the proposed coatings can be deployed in-situ.
Ultimately, this work bridges the gap between the theory of advanced material science and the challenges of implementation in an industrial environment. This research contributes to advance the fundamental understanding of novel protective coating systems, laying the groundwork for advanced unique intelligent coatings systems able to be customised based on the external contaminants, thus helping ensure the sustainability of the aerospace industry. The coatings will be manufactured using plasma spray and mini-combustion flame spray and examined in SEM/EBSD and tested in a burner rig and furnace thermal cycling.
Deadline : 13 October 2025
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(11) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Project: 3D-Printed Drug Delivery “Microbots” for Personalised Healthcare
Applications are invited for a PhD project within the Faculty of Engineering, in the Centre for Additive Manufacturing research group (CfAM) at the University of Nottingham. The student will work in world-class laboratory facilities in the CfAM engaging with interdisciplinary team with expertise in 3D printing, bio-printing for medical applications, micro-robotics, and materials science.
The field of medical therapeutics has valuable applications for mobile devices for efficient drug delivery, called micro-robots. Recently, 3D printing has been used to manufacture such devices with functional features that enabled them to respond to environmental cues, including temperature, pH, light, magnetic fields, and ultrasound. This project will develop the materials, methods, and designs necessary to 3D-print the next generation of medical micro-robots targeting drug delivery, exploiting combinations of functions to achieve complex and customisable micro-robots to provide personalised healthcare solutions.
Deadline :13 October 2025
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(12) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD project: 3D-Printing Devices with Responsive Structural Colour
Applications are invited for a PhD project within the University of Nottingham’s Faculty of Engineering, in the Centre for Additive Manufacturing research group (CfAM). The student will work in world-class laboratory facilities in the CfAM engaging with interdisciplinary team with expertise in 3D printing, biotechnology, physics, and materials science.
Small and repetitive structures with spacings on the nanometre scale can refract and reflect light to create vibrant “structural” colours, which are being explored to produce anti-counterfeit markings, dye-free colour images, humidity and chemical sensors, anti-glare coatings and optical filters. This project will develop additive manufacturing of devices with actively-controlled structural colours that respond to stimuli. You will develop the materials, methods, and designs necessary to 3D-print the next generation of structural colour devices, integrating optically- and electronically-active materials, including 0D and 2D nanomaterials.
Deadline : 13 October 2025
(13) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Project: 3D-printing next-generation electro-actuators for soft robots and devices
Applications are invited for a PhD project within the Faculty of Engineering, in the Centre for Additive Manufacturing research group (CfAM) at the University of Nottingham. The student will work in world-class laboratory facilities in the CfAM engaging with interdisciplinary team with expertise in 3D printing, soft robotics, and materials science.
3D-printing of soft robotics is a growing field, with many applications in biomedical devices, electronics, and autonomous machines. Actuators to drive these robots utilise electronic, chemical, pressure, magnetic, or thermal mechanisms, with the current generation having significant drawbacks, including low energy efficiency, high operating voltage or temperature. This project will develop the materials, methods, and designs necessary to 3D-print the next generation of electro-responsive soft-actuators. The overall aim is to develop and exploit new designs or new materials to attain large, fast, high-efficiency actuation responses comparable to living muscles.
Deadline : 31 October 2025
(14) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Project: Advanced 3D/4D-Printing of Responsive Biomaterial Devices
Applications are invited for a PhD project within the University of Nottingham’s Faculty of Engineering, in the Centre for Additive Manufacturing research group (CfAM). The student will work in world-class laboratory facilities in the CfAM engaging with interdisciplinary team with expertise in 3D printing, biotechnology, physics, and materials science.
Responsive 3D-printed functional devices interact with their environment, responding to stimuli (temperature, light, etc.), and “4D-printed” devices respond over time (e.g. changing shape), controlled by the arrangement of differential materials within them. The goal of this project will be to develop responsive 4D-printed biomaterial devices for drug delivery or regenerative medicine. The student will formulate new 3D-printable materials and develop new design methods, for functional 4D-printed devices with either fast self-resetting responses or complex multi-scale shape changes, applicable to biomedical, micromechanical, or optoelectronic applications.
Deadline :13 October 2025
(15) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: ITP Aero Funded PhD – Characterisation of thin sheet and foil material behaviour for aerospace forming applications
Applications are invited for a PhD position at the University of Nottingham addressing the behaviour of thin foil materials for aerospace forming applications. The successful candidate will have a first-class or upper second-class honours degree in mechanical engineering or a related subject.
This studentship will attract a stipend of £20,480 for four years. The position arises from an engineering research relationship developing between the University of Nottingham and ITP Aero UK. The studentship will be hosted at the Institute for Aerospace Technology at the University of Nottingham and the candidate will sit within a community of PhD students at various stages of their study. The project will involve significant interaction with ITP Aero UK and will involve co-supervision with an industrial supervisor and it is also expected that the student will spend some time at the ITP Aero Hucknall site throughout the PhD.
Titanium and Nickel alloys are strategically important in aerospace due to their high strength-to-weight ratio, corrosion resistance, and high-temperature strength sustainability. Lightweight aerostructures with high shear strength, vibration damping, and acoustic attenuation are crucial for meeting strength and noise certification requirements in the aerospace industry. Certain thin wall elements of aerostructures are essentially made from high-strength foils in Titanium or Nickel alloys for reducing weight and improving engine fuel consumption.
Deadline : 31 August 2025
(16) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Studentship: Artificial Intelligence for Building Performance – Optimising Low-Pressure Airtightness Testing
This exciting, fully-funded PhD opportunity invites applications from candidates with a robust foundation in data science, modelling, and/or engineering, and a keen interest in deploying data analysis and artificial intelligence (AI) to solve real-world problems in the built environment. The project will advance the capabilities of Pulse, an innovative low-pressure airtightness testing technology co-developed by the University of Nottingham and Build Test Solutions Ltd (BTS). This is a fantastic opportunity to work towards a PhD whilst working with both academia and industry. We are looking for a self-motivated student, with an inquiring mind who would revel in pushing the boundaries of technology.
Deadline :31 August 2025
(17) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Studetnship: Failure Analysis of Composite Sleeves for Surface Permanent Magnet Electrical Machines
This exciting opportunity is based within the Power Electronics, Machines and Control (PEMC) and Composites Research Groups at the Faculty of Engineering, which conduct cutting-edge research into electric propulsion systems, composite materials, and advanced simulation technologies.
We are seeking a highly motivated PhD student to join our interdisciplinary team to help address critical challenges in high-speed electrical machine design for electrified transportation and power generation. Together, we will make technological advances that support the global transition toward net-zero emissions and sustainable aerospace engineering.
Deadline : 31 August 2025
(18) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: 4 year PhD Studentship: Deciphering how domain organisation regulates heparan sulphate function
Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) are linear sugars that are displayed on all cells throughout the body as well as in the matrix. Like other glycans, they are not built against a defined template, and yet their structure is non-random, with specific motifs within the glycan chains defining binding sites for critical signalling and structural molecules. Unravelling the ways in which these motifs are encoded into GAGs by their biosynthetic machinery is the fundamental challenge behind the BBSRC-funded GlycoWeb project. This 4-year PhD forms part of GlycoWeb’s broader mission.
The PhD project will focus on the organisation of highly sulphated domains within the heparan sulphate (HS) GAG family. These sulphated domains typically bind to protein ligands via sulphated residues that interact with positively charged regions within the protein ligand(s). The 3D organisation of these domains is therefore critical for their function. The object of our studies is to gain a fundamental understanding of this incredible family of glycans, opening the potential to use that knowledge to design new drugs, new biomaterials or to identify new therapeutic opportunities.
Deadline : 28 August 2025
(19) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD studentship: Improving reliability of medical processes using system modelling and Artificial Intelligence techniques
This project would investigate commonly observed deviations in healthcare service and opportunities for identification of such deviations using computer vision approaches. It will demonstrate how deviation data can be used in computer-based simulation models, which are used to evaluate effects of deviations and to support decisions. It will focus on investigating how deviation data can be used in real time decision-making process, how accepting patients and staff are for such technologies and what integral role they should play in evaluating and ensuring an uptake of such technologies. The proposed method will be potentially applied to processes carried out in an operating theatre.
Deadline : Open until filled
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(20) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Studentship: Machine Learning for Probabilistic Modelling of Non-equilibrium Time Series Beyond the Markovian Paradigm
The overarching aim of this project is to find synergies between methods and ideas of modern machine learning and of statistical mechanics for the study of stochastic dynamics with application to the analysis of time series. In particular, the project will examine and develop methods that go beyond the Markovian paradigm. It will consider a range of time series data, focusing on those that show challenging properties of uncertainty, irregularity and mixed-modality. It will examine a range of models and techniques that go beyond Markovian approaches, including state-space models, tensor networks, and machine learning frameworks such as recurrent neural networks and transformers. Models and datasets will be studied and benchmarked in key tasks relating to both prediction/forecasting and anomaly detection. Comparison with known analytic methods and established Markov models will be made wherever possible. Expected outcomes include a unified non-Markovian framework for time series analysis, a suite of relevant datasets, and large-scale statistical studies comparing different methods.
Deadline : Open until filled
About The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England –Official Website
The University of Nottingham is a public research university in Nottingham, England. It was founded as University College Nottingham in 1881, and was granted a royal charter in 1948. The University of Nottingham belongs to the research intensive Russell Group association.
Nottingham’s main campus (University Park) with Jubilee Campus and teaching hospital (Queen’s Medical Centre) are located within the City of Nottingham, with a number of smaller campuses and sites elsewhere in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. Outside the UK, the university has campuses in Semenyih, Malaysia, and Ningbo, China. Nottingham is organised into five constituent faculties, within which there are more than 50 schools, departments, institutes and research centres. Nottingham has more than 46,000 students and 7,000 staff across the UK, China and Malaysia and had an income of £792.2 million in 2021–22, of which £131.4 million was from research grants and contracts. The institution’s alumni have been awarded one Nobel Prize, a Fields Medal, and a Gabor Medal and Prize. The university is a member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities, the European University Association, the Russell Group, Universitas 21, Universities UK, the Virgo Consortium, and participates in the Sutton Trust Summer School programme as a member of the Sutton 30
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