
Open Positions
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Positions

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PhD Position SHM of Smart FRP Aircraft at TU Delft, Netherlands
Join the TU Delft team developing fibre optic sensor technology for structural health monitoring of aerospace structures.
RESEARCH FIELDS:
Structural Health Monitoring (SHM), Fibre Optic Sensors, Composites, Aerospace Engineering
SECONDMENTS:
ESA ESTEC
Air Force Research Institute (AFIT), Poland

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PhD Position Multi-Physics Modelling at TU Delft, Netherlands
Join the TU Delft team developing optical fibre sensing technology for smart FRP composites for wind energy.
RESEARCH FIELDS:
Structural Health Monitoring (SHM), Fibre Optic Sensors, Modelling, Composites, Aerospace Engineering
SECONDMENTS:
Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Bladeworks, Italy

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PhD Position SHM of Aged FRP at Politecnico di Bari, Italy
PhD Vacancy for a Doctoral Candidate (DC3) in SHM of aged FRP wind turbine blades for damage assessment and lifetime prediction.
RESEARCH FIELDS:
Ultrasonic guided-wave propagation, composite materials, non-destructive testing
SECONDMENTS:
University of Patras (Patras, Greece)
Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy and Energy System Technology (Bremerhaven, Germany)

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PhD Position AI/ML at Politecnico di Bari, Italy
PhD Vacancy for a Doctoral Candidate (DC4) in AI/ML data driven GW tomography for in-service SHM of aerospace smart FRP composites.
RESEARCH FIELDS:
Ultrasonic guided-wave propagation, composite materials, non-destructive testing
SECONDMENTS:
Novotech SRL (Avetrana, Italy)
TU Delft (Delft, The Netherlands)
Air Force Institute of Technology (Warsaw, Poland)

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PhD Position in ML at University of Patras, Greece
PhD Vacancy for a Doctoral Candidate (DC5) in ML vibration-based algorithms for damage diagnosis of smart FRP structures.
RESEARCH FIELDS:
The research fields for this position span multiple disciplines with the primary focus to be on data-driven vibration-based Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) of composite structures based on machine learning and stochastic approaches for signals and systems analysis and innovative solutions for robust damage diagnosis under uncertainty.
SECONDMENTS:
Polytechnic University of Bari in Italy, TUD Dresden University of Technology in Germany, Delft University of Technology in Netherlands

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PhD Position SHM at Politecnico di Torino, Italy
PhD Vacancy for a Doctoral Candidate (DC6) in Advanced numerical simulations for SHM of smart FRP composites.
RESEARCH FIELDS:
Composites mechanics; numerical modelling; vibrations, failure mechanics; multi-scale analysis; multi-physics
SECONDMENTS:
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Siemens Industry Software NV, Leuven, Belgium
Ramboll Deutschland Gmbh, Hamburg, Germany

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PhD Position FRP at Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
PhD Vacancy for a Doctoral Candidate (DC7) in Self-sensing smart FRP composites using CNT-doped thermoplastic materials.
RESEARCH FIELDS:
Composite materials, structural health monitoring, polymer processing
SECONDMENTS:
TMBK (Warsaw, Poland)
Politecnico di Bari (Italy)

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PhD Position Integrated CNT at CUS, Austria
PhD Vacancy for a Doctoral Candidate (DC8) in Integrated CNT-reinforced filler and SAW Transponder, for Wind Turbine Blade Health Monitoring.
RESEARCH FIELDS:
Sensors, materials
SECONDMENTS:
Université de Technologie de Compiègne (France)
Politechnika Warszawska (Poland)

09
PhD Position at DII-UNINA/Novotech, Italy
PhD Vacancy for a Doctoral Candidate (DC9) in Automated online monitoring of manufaturing defects on smart CFRP.
RESEARCH FIELDS:
Smart composites that are manufactured with advanced automatic processes (AFP-Automatic Fiber Placement and cutting-edge sensing technologies, using both piezo patches and fiber optics.
Use of digital twins and Industry 4.0 innovations that are supported by the previous and current application on some of R&D projects running at Novotech and DII-UNINA.
SECONDMENTS:
Politecnico di Torino –Torino (Italy)
PANEPISTIMIO PATRON – Patras – (Greece)

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PhD Position Structural Health at KU Leuven, Belgium
PhD Vacancy for a Doctoral Candidate (DC10) in digital-twins for Structural Health Monitoring of Composite Structures.
RESEARCH FIELDS:
Ultrasound and Vibration, Structural Dynamics, Composite Structures, 3D Printed Structures, Damage, Assessment, Structural Health Monitoring, Structural Health Prognosis, Bayesian Statistics, Machine Learning.
SECONDMENTS:
EPFL (Switzerland)
Politecnico di Torino (Italy)

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PhD Position at TUD Dresden University of Technology, Germany
PhD Vacancy for a Doctoral Candidate (DC11) in Smart FRP spacecraft structures under cryogenic conditions.
RESEARCH FIELDS:
Sensor integration, manufacturing of fibre reinforced composites, Numerical modelling and calculation, Materials Characterisation
SECONDMENTS:
Delft University of Technology (Netherlands)
Polytechnic University of Bari (Italy)

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PhD Position at EPFL, Switzerland
PhD Vacancy for a Doctoral Candidate (DC12) in Hybrid digital-twins based on physics-informed graph neural networks for composite space structures.
RESEARCH FIELDS:
Sensors, materials, AI
SECONDMENTS:
RUAG Schweiz AG (Switzerland)
Polytechnic University of Turin (Italy)
University of Patras (Greece)