Opportunities

I am always looking for excellent and highly-motivated PhD students, postdoctoral researchers and visiting researchers.

PhD Openings

We are accepting PhD applications all year round.

• English Language Requirement English language test certificate (minimum IELTS 6.5 overall with a minimum of 6.0 in each skill or other equivalent English qualifications), check out more here.

  Funded PhD project in Robotics, Deadline: 31 August, 2022

  This is a fully-funded, 3.5-year PhD studentship. The scholarship will provide funds to cover home tuition fees and living costs in line with UK Research Council funding levels. Check out more in this link

  King’s-China Scholarship Council PhD Scholarship programme (K-CSC) for Chinese PhD applicants

  King’s will waive the international tuition fees and the CSC will provide the living allowance. K-CSC applications for the 2022-2023 entry are currently closed. Check out more here for future K-CSC opportunities. The application will open every year around October. Please note this is a two-step application.

• Step 1: You should submit a full application (in English) to King’s first. You have to get a unconditional offer before you place a CSC application to King’s. The deadline for this step is usually in the early or middle of January.
• Step 2: If you are successful at step 1, you will then submit another full application (in Chinese) to the CSC in China. The deadline is usually in the middle of March. The result is usually announced in May. If you are successful in both steps, you will be awarded the full scholarship from King’s and CSC.

  Other student funding at King’s

  You can check out other student funding at King’s here

Postdoctoral research positions

PDRA position in Robotics, Deadline: 11 September, 2022

The position is funded by our EPSRC ViTac project “ViTac: Visual-Tactile Synergy for Handling Flexible Materials”, check out more details in this link.

Fellowships for postdoctoral researchers

If you want to propose a collaboration based on an externally-funded post-doctoral scholarship, please get in touch with me. Here are some potential funding opportunities:

• King’s College London – K. C. Wong Postdoctoral Fellowships
• Dorothy Hodkin Fellowship
• Marie-Curie Fellowship
• EPSRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship
• Royal Society Fellowships for researchers from North America and Asia
• Royal Society University Research Fellowship
• Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 Research Fellowship
• Royal Academy of Engineering Fellowship
• Newton International Fellowships