Job Description
Funder: EPSRC via the Centre for Doctoral Training in Materials 4.0
Duration: 4 years (start October 2024)
Fee status: home rate fees only
Supervisor: Will depend on student project selection
Stipend: £19237 per annum
This studentship is offered under the umbrella of the Materials 4.0 Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) led by the Henry Royce Institute, the UK’s national institute for advanced materials research.
Right now, our society faces huge, urgent challenges. From the imperative to achieve net-zero, to the need to build a resilient, circular economy in an uncertain world, to the drive for increased productivity as our fellow nations embrace the digital revolution.
To tackle these challenges, we need new materials and new materials systems, and we need them fast. But it can take 20 years to develop a new material with current methods. We need to innovate faster, as the pace of global change accelerates.
This is where yo...