PhD scholarship in Edinburgh

Multiscale modelling of shale gas flows

The University of Edinburgh is seeking an excellent student to award a prestigious PhD scholarship to investigate the behaviour of methane gas inside porous rock media. The student will be using molecular dynamics simulations and develop new multiscale models to predict unconventional gas flows in underground reservoirs. This is part of a $2.8M joint research project between Edinburgh University, Strathclyde University, and King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM).

This scholarship is to work with Dr Matthew Borg and Dr Livio Gibelli in their research team in the School of Engineering, which in REF2014 came first in the UK for “research power”, with 94% of our research rated as ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’. The University of Edinburgh is one of the world’s top 25 universities.

The start date is October 2019 (or another date, by arrangement), and is for 3½ years. As this is a joint project with KFUPM, there will be some visits to Saudi Arabia for knowledge exchange and research interactions, with research staff and engineers from industry.

More details can be found in the official announcement.

Applications can be done here.