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PhD opportunities

We always welcome applications from suitably qualified applicants at any time to any member of academic staff in their respective research fields.

The Director of Research in the Department of Mechanical Engineering is Professor Andrew Amis.

Applicants seeking financial support for their studies might also want to look at our guide to scholarships and funding.

For more information about PhD research, please refer to the online postgraduate prospectus.

**We currently offer PhD studentships in the following areas:**
Project name	Supervisor	Deadline for applying
PhD Studentship in Radiographic Image Processing for Defect Detection‌	Dr Peter Huthwaite p.huthwaite@imperial.ac.uk	6th November 2015
PhD in Modelling and developing high - performance ductile composites	Dr Soraia Pimenta soraia.pimenta@imperial.ac.uk	Until post filled
PhD Studentship in Lubrication/Complex Fluid Structure and Rheology	Dr Janet Wong j.wong@imperial.ac.uk	Until post filled
PhD Studentship in Computational Nonlinear Vibration	Professor Norbert Hoffmann n.hoffmann@imperial.ac.uk	Until post filled
Modelling the formation and propagation of cracks in products undergoing cooling ‌	Dr Catrin Davies c.davies@imperial.ac.uk ‌	Until post filled
PhD Studentship in Computational Heat Transfer and artificial intelligence‌‌	Dr Guillermo Rein g.rein@imperial.ac.uk	Until post filled
PhD in the field of developing and testing novel paints for coil coating‌‌	Dr Ambrose Taylor a.c.taylor@imperial.ac.uk	Until post filled
PhD in Additive Manufacturing – Experimental and Modelling‌	Dr Paul Hooper paul.hooper@imperial.ac.uk	Until post filled
‌‌	UK Research Centre in NDE n.hancock@imperial.ac.uk	Until posts filled

Contact us

For guidance and further information please contact:

Department of Mechanical Engineering
Postgraduate Administrator

Kate Lewis
+44 (0)20 7594 7022