Teaching programmes

Discover how the TFMRC aims to train the next generation of engineers and scientists.

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PhD programmes

We welcome enquiries from prospective PhD students interested in conducting world-lead research at the TFMRC. You can view details of our current research areas on our research hub.

Current opportunities are listed below. Alongside this, we are open to informal enquiries about possible PhD projects. General areas for Doctoral research include:

  • Experimental work in gas turbine internal air systems, computational modelling of heat and fluid flow in gas turbines, aeroacoustic phenomena and combustion
  • Thermal system management across a wide range of topics from power cycles (ORC) to heat pumps, from automotive through to domestic and industrial applications

Informal enquiries can be directed towards specific academic staff members of the TFMRC.

View more details on the Engineering PhD progamme at Sussex.

Current opportunities (Autumn 2024)

The Search for New Energy Vectors - Application of FPGAs to Computational Chemistry

We have an exciting new PhD opportunity combining engineering, mathematics, computer science, parallel computing and chemistry to search for new energy vectors. An energy vector in this case being a chemical species that can be used to store energy and then release when needed. For more details please click here or get in touch with Prof Peter Fussey.

PhD Scholarship in Steam Sensor Technology

An exicting opportunity to work in close collaboration with Spirax-Sarco Engineering, the world’s largest maker of steam control equipment, to install a new and unique high-pressure steam testing facility in our research laboratories at the University of Sussex. For more details please click here or get in touch with Prof Cyril Crua.

Taught courses

Members of the TFMRC regularly contribute to a number of modules within taught engineering courses at Sussex. These range from first-year undergraduate to Master's level and cover a number of topics related to design, modelling and analysis of thermo-fluid sytems.

More details on taught engineering courses at Sussex can be found on the University of Sussex engineering page.