On the July 21st, the defense of the doctoral thesis of our student Matteo Guaita, shall take place. Matteo will be presenting his thesis titled "Kinetic modelling of plasma thruster plumes" which was diligently conducted under the guidance of Eduardo Ahedo Galilea (UC3M) and Mario Merino Martínez (UC3M). Below, you will find all the pertinent … Continue reading PhD Thesis Defense – Matteo Guaita
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On the July 14th, the defense of the doctoral thesis of our student Francisco de Borja De Saavedra García del Río, shall take place. Francisco de Borja will be presenting his thesis titled "Mission-Based Sizing and Direct Characterization of Externally Wetted Ionic Liquid Electrospray Thrusters" which was diligently conducted under the guidance of Daniel Pérez … Continue reading PhD Thesis Defense – Francisco de Borja De Saavedra García del Río
Applications are invited for a 4-year PhD position at the Spanish Institute of Aerospace Technology, INTA, within the Aerial Platforms Area, under the supervision of Dr Carlos Sanmiguel Vila and in collaboration with the University of Granada for FPGA and embedded-system implementation. The PhD project lies at the interface between experimental aerodynamics, artificial intelligence, reduced-order … Continue reading 1 PhD Position in Active Flow Control, Artificial Intelligence and Embedded Real-Time Hardware at INTA in collaboration with UGR.
Would you be interested in pursuing a PhD at INTA in the field of GNSS? We are offering a full-time PhD position. The research will focus on GNSS navigation in challenging or degraded environments. The specific direction of the PhD can be tailored to the candidate's interests, including hardware, software, or theoretical/algorithmic aspects. The project … Continue reading 1 PhD Opportunity in GNSS Navigation at INTA & UC3M (Madrid, Spain)
We continue our seminars serie, on Tuesday, June 30th, 12:00 H. On site: Salón de Grados For this event in the Aerospace PhD Seminar Series, we had the pleasure of hosting Dr. Vittorio Memmolo, Assistant Professor at University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy. The event took place in the Salón de Grados on Tuesday, June 30th, … Continue reading PhD Seminar Series: “Structural Health Monitoring of aerospace structures: key challenges for certification in aviation”
We are delighted to share that our PhD student Saumya Ranjan has been awarded one of the UC3M grants for the promotion of gender equality in the predoctoral community. This grant, in the amount of 26.500 euros, per year, is designed to fund female PhD candidates seeking to complete their doctoral theses in accordance with … Continue reading PhD student Saumya Ranjan awarded a UC3M grant for the promotion of gender equality in the predoctoral community
Wednesday 10 June 2026 – 12:00 CESTAula Magna, Building 8, Rectorado, Getafe Campus. Thesis Talk is UC3M’s annual challenge that asks doctoral students to explain their thesis to a non-specialist audience in under four minutes with just one static slide. Admission is free until capacity is reached, and the session will be streamed live on … Continue reading Thesis Talk 2026 · Final Round
We are pleased to introduce you to our newest additions to the Aerospace Engineering PhD Program for the second semester of this academic year. Throughout this publication, information is provided on each of the nine new students in the program, along with details about their research topics and supervisors. Noelia Castrejón Armero Noelia Castrejón Armero … Continue reading Presentation of the new PhD students of the Department of Aerospace Engineering
We are inviting applications to the Fully-funded PhD position Ref. AERO-PhD-26-01-RL_UAVs Deep Reinforcement Learning for Real-Time Trajectory Planning in Multi-Agent Aerospace Systems, with Benchmarks on Commercial Aircraft and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). The duties of the PhD applicant would be: To pursue a PhD under the topic of “Deep Reinforcement Learning for Real-Time Trajectory Planning … Continue reading 1 PhD Open Position for ZENITIA – Zero-Emission Next-Gen Innovation and Technology Integration for Aviation
We are offering a PhD position within the national project ROBIN – aeROdynamic and staBility of micro-air-vehicles Inspired on Nature (PID2024-162079NB-I00), funded by the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovacion y Universidades (MCIU) and the Agencia Estatal de Investigacion (AEI). PhD thesis research details: PhD thesis title: Robust control of Flapping-Wing Micro Air Vehicles. Research topic: The … Continue reading 1 PhD Open Position for ROBIN – aeROdynamic and staBility of micro-air-vehicles Inspired on Nature
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