PhD Scholarship Opportunity (SCOPE/EPSRC, Oct 2026 start): AI-ready encoding of metamaterials for property-based search
We seek an outstanding PhD candidate to develop AI-ready representations of metamaterial geometries (geometrical material structures). The project will build an atlas of common metamaterial typologies and learn compact latent representations using variational autoencoders, enabling property-driven search, generative design, and optimisation for targeted physical performance.