Openings

• If you are interested in the our research, please reach out to me before sending an official application through the University of Manchester portal. When you reach out, please send your latest CV, bachelor and master (if available) transcripts, any information that can help us understand/interpret your grades (if you are not from UK, Germany, India, US - which I am more familiar with). We would like to ensure that there is a general fit before asking you to invest more time into the application process.

• Doctoral positions advertised above are funded through research funding, unless they are stated as "competitively funded". Competitively funded openings imply that we will nominate suitable candidates for departmental/school level fellowships. Please see Ph.D. openings below for more information on these.

Like most faculty, I am always looking for postdocs who already have previous experience in the topics that overlap with my research. If you have extensive coding experience, have mechanics and/or machine learning background and are interested in our line of research, I am always looking forward to hearing from such candidates.

If you think you would fit the group, please email me with the subject "Postdoc Inquiry". In your email, please explain to me your prior research experience and how this contributes to the overlapping areas. We do not have internal fellowships at the department to support a long visit. These are mainly restricted to short 3-month visit that aims to write proposals to support longer visits. Thus, if you know of potential fellowships that can support your visit, please feel free to let me know about them in the email. Some available fellowships that I am aware of include (but not limited to)

• Newton International Fellowship [Link] from The Royal Society

• UK IC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Programme [Link] by the Royal Academy of Engineering

• EPSCR Post-doctoral fellowship [Link]

• Cross-Disciplinary Postdoctoral Fellowship [Link] by Human Frontier Research Program (HFSP) 

Like most faculty, I am always looking for Ph.D. students. Send me an email if you are interested in my research and feel you have relevant background. Please email me with the subject "Ph.D. Inquiry". In your email, please explain to me your prior research experience and why you are interested in my work. If I feel there is a good fit, we will have a talk before taking things further. You can also look for all openings at the University of Manchester on our "Find a PhD project" page. For more information about admissions at MACE in the University of Manchester, see admissions at MACE.

Some of the university-level scholarships can be found on the MACE departmental page on "Funding". Regular yearly-calls include Presidential fellowship, Dean's fellowship, Exceptional women in engineering fellowship. These fellowships are extremely competitive. The success of application for these scholarship depends on the pool of applicants each year. Just to provide a general ideal, from past experience, the profiles of selected candidates include those who have:

• Top grades in their class.

• Have demonstrated a potential for high-quality research.

Some scholarships that I am aware of include:

• J N Tata Endowment for Higher Education of Indians [Link]

• Commonwealth Ph.D. scholarship [Link]

I can also recommend you to check the funding finder on the university website to check for potential fellowships available based on your nationality.

• If you are already a student at the University of Manchester, feel free to send me an email. Unfortunately, no funding is available for Masters (MSc and M.Phil) students but I would be happy to discuss potential projects.

• If you are interested in applying to the University of Manchester to pursue Masters in Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering, I can recommend you to see admissions at MACE. MACE offers a course-oriented 12-month M.Sc program and a research-oriented 21-month M.Phil program for international students. I do not make admissions decisions and hence cannot influence this. If you are admitted to the University and would like to work with me, please send me an email to discuss potential projects.

• Some scholarships that I am aware of:

  • British Council Scholarships for Women in STEM [Link]

I generally do not have funding for extended visits for students. If you are a student and at a university outside of Manchester, then please talk to your advisor about this. I would generally consider a visit only if: (a) I already have a existing collaboration with your advisor and (b) You are not self-funding the visit but have funding support, from your advisor, for the visit. 

I am always open for collaborations if there is a mutual topic of interest. Unfortunately, I do not have funding to support visiting faculty. If you are from the EU, India, USA, Brazil, we can explore joint proposals. Some of the potential funding, that I am aware of to support visits include:

• International Exchanges from The Royal Society