Prospective Postdocs

• Newton International Fellowships
• Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships
• EPSRC Fellowships
• Royal Academy of Engineering Fellowships
• STFC Fellowships
• Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Fellowships
• Scottish Enterprise/Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) Enterprise Fellowships
• Royal Society University Research Fellowships
• Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowships
• Ernst Rutherford Fellowships
• The Leverhume Trust Fellowships
• University of Glasgow Fellowship Schemes
  

If you are interested in applying for any of these Research Fellowships and developing a research proposal, please contact me well before the deadline.

Prospective Research Students

• must be very highly motivated
• should have a strong background in mathematics and computer programming
• should have excellent academic record (2.1 and above)

You can also apply on-line from this web page:

• The University: https://www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate/howtoapplyforaresearchdegree.
• College of science & engineering page: https://www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/scienceengineering/graduateschool/postgraduateresearchstudy/howtoapply/.

Below are some links for potential scholarships you may find useful:

• PHD opportunities in the Infrastructure & Environmet Division
• University of Glasgow Scholarships
• Chevening Scholarships
• Commonwealth Scholarships
• Scotland's Saltire Scholarships
• GREAT Scholarships
• British Council scholarships for women in STEM
• Marshall Scholarships (applicants from the USA only)
• UK government's postgraduate scholarship page
• British Council's scholarship page

Post Doctoral Research Fellows and Academic Visitors

Post Doctoral Research Fellows

Current research fellows

• Dr. Sudip Chowdhury, Dynamics of meta-structures, 02/2024-
• Dr. Atin Roy, Data-driven uncertainty quantification, 03/2023-

Past research fellows

• Dr. Milan Cajic, Nonlinear digital metamaterials, 09/2020-10/2022
• Dr. Shuvajit Mukherjee, Probabilistic optimal design of aerospace structures, 08/2020-06/2022
• Dr. Tanmoy Chatterjee, Digital twin of complex dynamic systems, 12/2018-09/2021
(jointly supervised with Prof M. I. Friswell)
• Dr. Danilo Karlicic, Mechanical metamaterials, 01/2019-12/2020
• Dr. Carl Scarth, Multiscale stochastic dynamics, 01/2016-01/2018
• Moved to: Research Associate, University of Bath, UK
• >Dr. Sudip Dey, Dynamics of composite satrucrtes with uncertainties, 01/2014-06/2015
• Moved to: Assistant Professor, NIT Silchar, Assam, India
• Dr. Tony Murmu, Scale dependent theory for nano-mechanical systems, 01/2010-12/2010
• Moved to: Lecturer, University of the West of Scotland (UWS), Glasgow, UK
• Dr. Sk. Faruque Ali, Stochastic control of smart systems, 01/2010-12/2011
• Moved to: Assistant Professor, IIT Madras, Chennai, India
• Dr Ruggero Gabbrielli, Computational geometry for nanoscale modeling, 04/2009-11/2009
• Moved to: Marie Curie Fellow, Department of Physics, University of Trento, Italy
• Dr. Rajib Chowdhury, Uncertainty quantification and nanomechanics, 11/2008-07/2011
• Moved to: Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Roorkee, India

Academic Visitors

• Dr Arnab Banerjee, 07/2023-08/2023, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi: Dynamics of mechanical metamaterials.
• Dr Sahil Kalra, 06/2023-08/2023, Indian Institute of Technology Jammu: Mechanics of highly flexible structures.
• Dr Thiago De Paula Sales, 10/2019-11/2019, The Technological Institute of Aeronautics (ITA), Brazil (on Royal Society Grant): Uncertainty analysis in mechanical metamaterials.
• Prof. Bishakh Bhattacharya, 04/2019-05/2019, Indian Institue of Technology, Kanpur (on GCRF funding): Energy harvesting from fluid flow.
• Prof. Ranjan Ganguli, 01/2019-02/2019, Indian Institue of Science, Bangalore (on RAEnG Distinguished Fellowship): Digital twin of dynamic systems.
• Prof. Domingos Alves Rade, 09/2018-10/2018, The Technological Institute of Aeronautics (ITA), Brazil (on Royal Society Grant): Uncertainty analysis in mechanical metamaterials.
• Dr Anas Batou, 01/2015-02/2015, Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée: Viscoelastic cellular materials.
• Dr Vikas Arora, 07/2014-08/2014, University of Southern Denmark: Updating of structural dynamic models.
• Prof. Leonid Pastur, 09/2012, B. I. Verkin Institute for Low-Temperature Physics & Engineering, Kharkov, Ukraine: Random Matrix Theory.
• Prof. S Narayanan, 06/2011-07/2011, IIT Madras (on Royal Society Grant): Energy Harvesting under uncertainty.
• Prof. Eric Jacquelin, 01/2011-07/2011, UCBL/University of Lyon 1 (on Sabbatical Leave): Stochastic problems in dynamics.
• Prof. Grzegorz Litak, 03/2010-, Lublin University of Technology, Poland (co-hosted with Prof M I Friswell with Royal Society funding): Dynamics of nonlinear systems.
• Dr J. K. Dutt, 06/2009-08/2009, Mechanical Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India (co-hosted with Prof M I Friswell with Royal Society funding): Dynamics of viscoelastically damped rotors.
• Dr. Y. Lei, 2005-06 and 2012, College of Aerospace and Material Engineering, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, Hunan, China (jointly hosted with Prof M I Friswell, Bristol): Dynamics of nonlocal systems.

Current and Past Students

PhD students

Current students

• Alan Das Mannooseril, 2023- Uncertainty quantification in complex systems
• Aneesh Bhattacharyya, 2023- Nonlinear dynamics of mechanical metamaterials
• Andrew Jacques, 2022- Dynamic analysis of intertially amplified systems

Past students

• Ibrahim Patrik, 2016-2020, Wave propagation in piezoelectric metamaterials
• Moved to: Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
• Yatish Chandra, 2018-2022, Hybrid molecular dynamics and finite element method
• Thanos Grigoriou, 2018-2020, Stochastic multiscale methods for failure quantification in advanced composite structures
• Sion Eilir Pryse, 2015-2019, Reduced order modelling and error estimates for time-varying stochastic systems
• German Martinez Ayuso, 2015-2019, Ambient piezoelectric vibration energy harvesting exploiting impact nonlinearity, Jointly supervised with Professor MI Friswell
• Moved to: Ansys Inc, UK.
• Hadi Madinei, 2014-208, Robust design of vibration-based energy harvesting systems, Jointly supervised with Dr H Haddad Khodaparast
• Moved to: School of Engineering, Swansea University, Swansea, UK.
• Tanmoy Mukhopadhyay, 2014-2017, Stochastic multiscale dynamic systems
• Moved to: Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.
• Marcela Machado, 2013-2016, Damage identification in stochastic dynamic systems (Co-supervisor)
• Moved to: Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Brasilia, Brazil.
• Jin Zhang, 2012-2014, Mechanics of metallic nanotubes and nanosheets, Jointly supervised with Dr C Wang
• Moved to: Assistant Professor, Harbin Institue of Technology, Shenzhen, China
• Abhishek Kundu, 2011-2015, Computational methods for time-dependent stochastic finite element problems
• Moved to: Lecturer, School of Engineering, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
• Blanca Oliver Pascual, 2009-2012, Dynamic response of stochastic oscillatory systems
• Moved to: Scientist, Rutherford Appleton laboratory, Oxford, UK
• F. Alejandro Diaz De la O, 2007-2010, Gaussian process emulators for structural dynamic analysis
• Moved to: Associate Professor, University College London, London, UK
• Jonathan du Bois, 2005-2009 (Bristol, UK), Active fuselage response suppression, Jointly supervised with Prof N Lieven
• Moved to: Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bath, Bath, UK
• Mohammad Khalil, 2004-2009 (Ottawa, Canada), Identification on nonlinear dynamical systems, Jointly supervised with Prof A Sarkar
• Moved to: Scientist, Sandia National Lab, California, USA