🎓 Civil Engineering PhDs

Explore how natural dune landscapes can be enhanced to protect coastal cities from climate change impacts. Study dune growth through fieldwork, remote sensing, and simulations, contributing to sustainable coastal defens…

This research is critical for developing sustainable coastal protection strategies that leverage natural processes, reducing reliance on ha…

Explore how natural dune processes can be harnessed to protect urban coasts from sea-level rise. Lead hands-on fieldwork and use advanced modeling to design sustainable coastal defenses that integrate ecological and tec…

This research addresses urgent global challenges by developing innovative, nature-based coastal defenses that reduce vulnerability to clima…

Explore innovative bubble deterrent technologies to manage invasive carp using cutting-edge experiments and CFD modeling. Contribute to both laboratory and field-scale applications to enhance aquatic ecosystem protectio…

This project advances sustainable invasive carp management by developing effective deterrent technologies, thus preserving biodiversity and…

Explore the frontier of AI and robotics applied to civil infrastructure diagnostics and retrofitting using digital twin technology. Develop autonomous systems and simulation analytics to improve infrastructure resilienc…

This research addresses critical infrastructure challenges posed by urbanization and climate change through innovative AI and robotics solu…

Explore AI-driven solutions to improve transport resilience during floods in urban river basins. Develop adaptive plans integrating flood data and local insights to enhance equitable evacuation strategies and reduce dis…

This research tackles real-world mobility challenges caused by flooding, which disrupts access to services and disproportionately affects v…

This PhD develops a digital twin enhanced with interpretable AI to model seabed mobility around offshore wind infrastructure, integrating laboratory experiments, numerical simulations, and environmental data to predict …

This PhD develops advanced numerical models to simulate large deformation behaviour of drag embedment anchors (DEAs) used for floating offshore wind turbines, focusing on installation, post-installation performance, and…

This fully-funded PhD focuses on the long-term durability of fibre-reinforced polymer composites (FRPCs) in offshore wind turbine applications, combining experimental and computational approaches to predict degradation …

This fully-funded PhD focuses on numerical modelling of floating offshore wind moorings, exploring soil-structure interaction in variable seabed conditions. The research uses advanced computational techniques, including…

This PhD develops an AI-driven semantic segmentation framework to identify phase components in UHPC materials, linking microscale imaging with multiscale modeling. The project investigates UHPC performance under normal …

This PhD investigates the heat exhaust from dense urban photovoltaic (PV) clusters and its effects on local microclimate, aiming to develop multi-scale simulations to optimise building cluster morphology for thermal com…

This PhD focuses on engineering additive manufacturing (AM) processes to design and fabricate resilient fusion reactor components, delivering scalable, high-integrity, and reliable systems in collaboration with industri…