Available Positions

1. The studentship includes tuition fee and stipend (£17,009 per annum) up to 3.5 years for eligible candidates (home students). Outstanding overseas candiates with other sponsored fund schemes are welcomed to apply.

The topic of the PhD study can be broadly in 3D printing of alloys (ranging from alloy design to mechanical performance such as fatigue and creep of Ti alloys and superalloys), and in programmable metamaterials. Opportunities to collaborate with experts outside of Materials/3D printing: Maths and Computer Science depending the choice of project.

Please visit https://www.imperial.ac.uk/materials/study-/postgraduate/phdlist/ to see one suggested topic for the studentship and further instruction.


2. Imperial President Scholarship 2020: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/study/pg/fees-and-funding/scholarships/presidents-phd-scholarships/

If you wish to have my consideration for a nomination for the scholarship, you need to contact me before:

1st November 2019 for Round 1

23rd Dec 2019 for Round 2 and

1st March 2020 for Round 3


Postdoc opportunitiesYou need to send me your CV and research proposal well before the deadlines if you want to request my sponsorship for your application for:


3. Prospective students: If you are looking for a potential supervisor at Imperial College to work in additive manufacturing, mechanical performance, microstructural characterisation and constitutive modelling of high-performance metals and alloys, please feel free to contact me at son.pham@imperial.ac.uk .

4. Undergraduate students: If you are interested in working with me, you can apply for ICL/UROP opportunities.


Closed positions:

Note: Fund is available only for UK/EU students. EU students need to have resided in the UK for three years prior Oct. 2019 to be eligible as UK home students. Overseas students who are interested in the position need to secure their own financial support. Please do not hesitate to contact me with your cover letter, up-to-update CV including your reference for the above-metioned positions.

Postdoc position: Research associate in meta-materials containing multiscale hierarchical lattice structures (Closed)