Available Positions

1. PhD study openings: 

I am looking for excellent candidates for a fully funded PhD scholarship that provides tuition fee + UKRI stipend rate (currently £23,805/year) at Imperial College London, starting in Oct 2027 in any of the following topics:

- Programmable Metamaterials

- Microstructure Engineering for high strength, damage tolerant alloys

- Additive manufacturing (i.e. 3D printing) of Metallic Alloys with focus on designing printable alloys.

Further details can be found at: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/.../materialsphd/phdprojects/

Exceptionally talented candidates will be nominated for the Imperial President Scholarship that provides a higher stipend https://www.imperial.ac.uk/.../grants.../presidents-phd/

The scholarship is extremely competitive. Please ensure you contact me well before the deadlines for the President Scholarship.

2. Imperial President Scholarship: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/.../grants.../presidents-phd/

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

2 November 2026 for Round 1

11 Jan 2027 for Round 2  and

1st March 2027 for Round 3

3. Postdoc opportunities: Currently no openings

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

• • Imperial Research Fellowship: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/research-office/funder-information/research-fellowships/irf/ . 

  • RAEng Fellowship, EPSRC/Marie-Curie/Newton postdoctoral fellowships, etc.

4. Prospective students for other funding schemes: If you are looking for a potential supervisor at Imperial College to work in metamaterials, additive manufacturing, mechanical performance, microstructural characterisation and constitutive modelling, please feel free to contact me at son.pham@imperial.ac.uk . 

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