About the Role

We are looking for up to 5 fully funded PhD candidates across a range of disciplines to carry out advanced research in building security and resilience in a digitalised world, as part of a partnership led academically by the Universities of Surrey and Strathclyde and supported by the Surrey-Strathclyde-NPL strategic partnership and a number of industry partners. The world is becoming increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous. At the same time, our Critical Infrastructure is becoming increasingly dependent on digital technologies, introducing new strengths and vulnerabilities as advances in communications, networking, robotics, sensing, data processing, AI and edge and cloud computing are made. All this rapid change gives rise to unforeseen disruptions that are increasingly difficult to predict, in part because they cascade through the digitally interconnected fabric of our society. Research will be driven by the major challenges a...