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
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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
Doctoral meetings are celebrated on a yearly basis and are one of the most important activities of the doctoral program in Aerospace Engineering at UC3M.It consists of short presentations and poster sessions from all the PhD students enrolled in the program, followed by a short discussion.The doctoral meetings are an opportunity for our students to … Continue reading Doctoral Meetings 2026
We continue our seminars serie, on Friday, May 29th, 12:00 H. On site: Sala de video 3.S1.08 For this event in the Aerospace PhD Seminar Series, we had the pleasure of hosting Dr. Pablo Machuca, Assistant Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at San Diego State University, California, United States of America. The event took place … Continue reading PhD Seminar Series: “Lost in Space: How to Navigate around the Moon and Beyond?”
We continue our seminars serie, on Tuesday, May 26th, 13:00 H. On site: Salón de Grados For this event in the Aerospace PhD Seminar Series, we had the pleasure of hosting Dr. Ryudo Tsukizaki, Associate Professor at Japan’s Space Agency "JAXA", Japan The event took place in the Salón de Grados del Auditorio on Tuesday, May 26th, … Continue reading PhD Seminar Series: “Research and Development of Electric Propulsion at Institute of Space and Astronautical Science of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (ISAS/JAXA)”
We continue our seminars serie, on Tuesday, May 12th, 13:00 H. On site: Salón de Grados For this event in the Aerospace PhD Seminar Series, we had the pleasure of hosting Dr. Marco Civera, Tenure-Track Assistant Professor (RTD-B) at the Department of Structural, Building, and Geotechnical Engineering (DISEG) of Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy. The event took … Continue reading PhD Seminar Series: “Recent Advances in Vibration-based Identification and Structural Health Monitoring”
Europe is set to celebrate its first European Doctoral Day on May 13, 2026. Launched this year as an annual event, the day aims at highlighting the pivotal role of PhD holders and doctoral education in driving scientific excellence, innovation, and societal progress, both within and beyond the academic sphere. This initiative bolsters Europe’s appeal … Continue reading European Doctoral Day 2026
The Department of Aerospace Engineering at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) is seeking two outstanding and highly motivated candidates to pursue their PhDs within the framework of the ROCINANTE project. ROCINANTE is an ambitious 5-year ERC-Consolidator Grant hosted by the Plasmas and Space Propulsion Team. The project is dedicated to unraveling and taming the non-linearly oscillating … Continue reading 2 PhD Openings at ERC-Funded ROCINANTE Project
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