本期为大家推荐伦敦大学学院、伦敦国王学院2024最新奖学金介绍。
01、伦敦大学学院
Nanoengineering in Pharmaceutical Formulation
University College London|Department of Mechanical Engineering
博导：Dr Vikramjeet Singh
截止日期：全年可申
资助的博士项目（全球学生）
项目描述：
About the Project
Project start date: 01 October 2024
Project duration: 3.5 years
Studentship funding: Home tuition fees (currently £6,035/year) and maintenance stipend (currently £20,622/year)
A 3.5-year PhD Studentship on pharmaceutical formulation, specifically, design and development of cutting-edge new excipient technology is available within the Manufacturing Futures Laboratory, UCL East campus. The studentship will commence on 1st October under the supervision ofDr. Vikramjeet Singh.
This project deals with the design and development of new excipient technology for enhancing solubility and stability of sparingly soluble and unstable active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs). The study will also involve investigation into mechanical properties of the formulated products to correlate with compression forces during formulation processing. Among others, the project will exploit metal-organic frameworks (MOF), a reticular class of materials for their use as excipients. The project also involves elements of machine learning models for screening appropriate excipients from FDA data base.
Person specification
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Applicants should have (or expected to be awarded) a Master's degreein a relevant Engineering subject such as mechanical engineering or biomedical engineering.
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The individual will be expected to respond to tight deadlines. Good analytical and verbal reasoning skills and experience in academic presentation are essential.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
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Study design, data collection and analysis
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Attend UCL courses and training, such as research study design, good clinical practice, medical statistics, time management, and paper writing.
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Literature research
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Manuscript writing for submission to peer-reviewed journals
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Attend weekly research meetings
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Other duties as required by the supervisor for the delivery of the role
Eligibility
Please note that the available funding supportstuition fees at the Home/UK rate (currently £6,035per year). Students who are eligible to pay fees at the UK rate are welcome to apply(e.g. UKstudents or EEA or Swissnationalswho are “settled” or “pre-settled” within the UK in accordance with theEU Settlement Scheme).Please refer to our website for further information aboutHome tuition fee eligibility.
International students who are eligible to pay tuition fees at the Overseas rate (currently £31,100per year) are also welcome to apply, however the tuition fees covered by the studentship will be limited to the Home/UK level. International students will be required to find additional funding for the remaining Overseas tuition fees.
Applicants whose first language is not English are required to meetUCL's English language entry requirements.
Please refer to this webpage for full eligibility criteria:Mechanical Engineering MPhil/PhD
About the Lead Supervisor
DrVikramjeet Singh is Lecturer in Nanoengineering at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University College London. He is a member of the Manufacturing Futures Lab (MFL) at UCL East. He has published around 50 original research articles in reputed international journals including Advanced Materials, Nano Letters, Chemical Communications etc. His research covers a wide range of topics from biosensing to drug-delivery and surface engineering.
How to apply
Eligible applicants should first contact Dr Vikramjeet
Singh(vikramjeet.singh@ucl.ac.uk).Please enclose the following documents:
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A one-page statement outlining your personal experience, academic achievements, and suitability for the project.
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CV (including contact details of two referees).
After discussing the project with Dr Singh,eligible applicants should alsosubmit a formal PhD application via the UCL website.
The supervisory team will arrange interviews for short-listed candidates.
Funding Notes
Project start date: 01 October 2024Project duration: 3.5 yearsStudentship funding: Home tuition fees (currently £6,035/year) and maintenance stipend (currently £20,622/year)
02、伦敦国王学院
Finite Element Modeling of Breeding Blanket Mechanical Performance for Fusion
King’s College London |Department of Engineering
博导：Dr Christos Skamniotis
截止日期：May 31, 2024周五
资助的博士项目（全球学生）
项目描述：
About the Project
Applications are invited for a studentship in the area of Finite Element modelling of Nuclear Materials under Extreme Thermomechanical Loads, leading to the award of a PhD degree, with a desired start in September 2024. Bursary and tuition fees for 3.5 years are covered for UK students by UKAEA and King's College London (international students can apply if the fee difference can be covered).
Nuclear fusion reactors impose one of the harshest environments to engineering materials through a combination of elevated temperatures, electromagnetic loads and neutron flux. Design innovations are needed to ensure safe and sustainable nuclear energy generation to underpin the UK’s decarbonisation mission as well as global initiatives towards Net Zero. New reactor blanket systems, such as Helium Cooled Pebble Beds (HCPB), will play pivotal role in increasing fusion efficiency by allowing operation at higher neutron and heat flux than current levels. However, the complex geometric assembly of HCPBs (plasma facing plates attached on neutron multiplier blocks and pressure/cooling channels) induces technological challenges and mechanical failure concerns, which present major obstacles to advancing fusion technology.
Blanket design and failure assessment encompass some of the most significant scientific and engineering challenges to tackle. It requires accurate computational modelling of the time varying stress-deformation in remarkably complex geometries under combined cyclic thermomechanical-electromagnetic-irradiation-swelling loads. In partnership with the UKAEA, this project will aim to address each of these challenges by developing novel Finite Element models of complex HCPB assemblies under in-service reactor transient loading conditions in order to develop new guidelines for fusion design and material selection. The overarching aim is to understand failure mechanisms (low cycle fatigue-creep, plastic collapse, embrittlement) by adopting clever hybrid computational approaches where simplified analytical solutions for idealised geometric-load conditions are firstly developed in order to guide the development of high order numerical models capturing the full geometric-material-load complexity.
The project is designed to make a significant advancement in Blanket design by adopting a design-by-integrity analysis approach and aligns seamlessly with UKAEA's mission to lead the delivery of sustainable fusion energy and maximise the scientific and economic benefit. As a world leading institution in scientific computing, we also seek to advance the current computational modelling techniques and computer design of fusion systems suffering aggressive cyclic thermomechanical-electromagnetic loads and neutron flux, to make wider impact on the advanced solid mechanics community.
Applicants are required to hold/or expect to obtain at least a UK Bachelor Degree 2:1 in mechanics of materials, materials science, mechanical engineering or relevant subject area.Prior to the development of novel CAD/FE models and constitutive material models, the successful candidate is expected to engage in studying fundamental heat transfer theory, extended elasticity and plate theory, as well as creep-plastic shakedown theory, under the supervision of Dr Christos Skamniotis.
Interested applicants are encouraged to contact Dr Christos Skamniotischristos.skamniotis@kcl.ac.ukwith their CV.
Suitable candidates will be required to apply via King’s Apply online system:
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/engineering/postgraduate/research-degrees
The selection process will involve a pre-selection on documents, if selected this will be followed by an invitation to an interview. If successful at the interview, an offer will be provided in due time.
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/postgraduate-research/how-to-apply
Funding Notes
Funding is available for 3.5 years and covers tuition fees for UK students (£7,050 per year) and a tax-free stipend of approximately £21,943 p.a. with possible inflationary increases after the first year. Overseas students are welcome to apply if they can cover the tuiton fee difference between UK-international students.
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