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Dr Prakash Kripakaran

PhD/Postdoc positions

I encourage interested PhD applicants and researchers to get in touch with me via email.

CSC-Exeter PhD Scholarships: 

We have a number of PhD scholarships jointly funded by the China Scholarship Council and the University of Exeter. Please visit the following website: https://www.exeter.ac.uk/study/funding/award/?id=4233. I encourage interested applicants to contact me via email (p.kripakaran@exeter.ac.uk).

EPSRC funded PhD studentships: 

We have a number of PhD scholarships funded by the EPSRC. Please visit  following website: https://www.exeter.ac.uk/study/funding/award/?id=4345. I encourage interested applicants to contact me via email (p.kripakaran@exeter.ac.uk).

Below are some other opportunities for obtaining funding for PhD studentships and postdoctoral research.

• Commonwealth split-side scholarships (for low and middle income countries)
• MSCA postdoctoral fellowships

I am happy to support and work with enthusiastic applicants on proposals to seek funding for studentships from external funding bodies (national councils, EU etc).  

PhD Topics 

I am keen to supervise PhD students interested in topics related to structural design and management of civil infrastructure. Below are a list of potential PhD topics.

• Machine learning techniques for structural health monitoring
• Resilience of civil structures to extreme events such as flooding and storms
• Experimental studies on scour and erosion around hydraulic structures including bridge piers
• Impact forces from water-borne debris with bridges
• Fluid-structure interaction at offshore structures such as wind turbine monopiles
• Computational modelling of free surface fluid flow
• Design optimisation of steel structures 
• BIM and Augmented Reality for enhancing productivity in construction

• Edmond Gabriel Ewah (2021-), Experimental and numerical modelling of large wood debris collisions with bridge structures
• Anmar Al-Adly (2022-), Physics-informed machine learning approaches for structural health monitoring of bridges
• Vik Reid (2021-), Vortex-induced vibration in offshore power cables

I am second supervisor for the following students

• Saugat Sharma (2023 - ), Approaches coupling CFD and DEM for modelling erosion, QUEX studentship
• Hojune Ann (2020 - ), Computer vision for structural health monitoring
• Hiba Talmoust (2023 - ), Evaluating embodied and operational carbon of mechanical and electrical systems to deliver Net Zero Buildings

• Jalil Kwad (2019) (Now academic at Anbar university, Iraq)
• Rolands Kromanis (2014) (Now academic at Twente University)

Postdoctoral researchers

• Diego Panici (2019 - 2020) (Now academic at University of Exeter)
• Recep Kahraman (2015-2018) (Now at HiETA technologies)
• Mohsen Ebrahimi (2015-2018) (Now at Mott MacDonald)