Centre of Doctoral Training
Performance of fixed diamonds in complex railway S&C Supervisors – Dr Louis Le Pen, Professor William Powrie Infrastructure Group I recently completed my MEng degree in Civil Engineering from Coventry University. My final year project was “The effects of Mangrove forests on attenuation of
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A Study of the Impact that Induced and Leakage Electrical Current have on Rolling Contact Fatigue of Motor Bearings in Electric Vehicle Supervisors – Dr Ling Wang, Prof Andrew Cruden nCATS Research Group I am a graduate of the University of Sussex,
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Modelling Urban Air Pollution in the Lab Supervisors – Dr Christina Vanderwel, Prof John Shrimpton, Dr Zheng-Tong Xie Aerodynamics and Flight Mechanics I am an aerospace engineering graduate, my bachelors degree is in pure aerospace engineering and my masters degree
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Carbon accounting for bridges Supervisors Dr Sheida Afshan, Infrastructure group Dr Simon Blainey, Transportation Group Professor John Preston, Transportation Group I’ve recently graduated from the University of Aberdeen with a Master of Engineering in Civil Engineering degree. During my undergraduate
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Carbon accounting in geotechnical solutions of capex funded strengthening across the UK mainline railway Supervisors – Dr Simon Blainey, Prof. John Preston, Prof. William Powrie; Research Group: Transportation I completed my BSc (Hons) Fire Safety and Management at Leeds University, and
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Management of rail stress with climate change for modern and legacy track specifications Supervisors: William Powrie, John Harkness, Louis Le Pen Research group: Infrastructure Group I recently acquired my Master of Engineering degree in Civil Engineering from Coventry University. My thesis was
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Advanced tracking methods and machine learning for multi-modal monitoring of fish behaviour Supervisors: Prof Paul White and Prof Paul Kemp Research Group: Signal Processing, Audio and Hearing Group Having graduated as BEng Underwater Acoustics Engineering at Northwestern Polytechnical University, I
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Forward osmosis for resource recovery from wastewater Supervisors: Dr Yongqiang Liu & Prof Sonia Heaven Research Group: Water and Environmental Engineering Group I’m originally from Winchester and studied BEng Civil Engineering at Surrey and then an MSc in Water and
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Urban light pollution: Understanding impacts on aquatic environments. Supervisors: Dr. Andrew Vowles, Prof. Paul Kemp  Research Group: International Centre for Ecohydraulics Research (ICER) I studied BSc (Hons) Marine Biology at the University of Plymouth, followed by MSc Oceanography at the
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Quantification of fish response to multimodal signals Supervisors: Prof Paul Kemp and Prof Paul White Research Group: International Centre for Ecohydraulics Research (ICER) Since my undergraduate studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, I have been interested in understanding how
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Artificial Intelligence for future societies: AI for Sustainable Design Supervisors: Professor Dame Wendy Hall & Professor Pauline Leonard Research Group: (Web Science Institute) I completed my undergraduate degree at the University of Exeter in Mechanical Engineering. I then went on
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Inter-generational influences on households heating controls Supervisors: Dr Stephanie Gauthier & Prof Patrick James Research Group: Energy and Climate Change Our environment is the most important thing there is. And with more people now living in urban than rural areas,
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