Tactile Internet for Tele-healthcare/ joint PhD with Technische Universität Dresden MPhil/PhD

King's College London, University of London

The Department of Engineering has an international reputation and critical mass in the fields of robotics and telecommunications with increasing strengths in systems engineering, control, material science, and thermofluids. We have a strong grant portfolio in all our major areas of activity. Staff are reputed nationally and internationally and collaborate closely with the KCL Health Schools (including St Thomas’ and Guy’s Hospitals) and numerous industrial partners. The Department is strongly interested in multidisciplinary research at the interfaces between Engineering, Mathematics, Physical Sciences, Computer Science, and Medicine.We partner across interdisciplinary boundaries at King’s including the health schools and hospitals, and national and international universities, on wide-ranging themes covering the arts and humanities, law, healthcare, and social sciences. We also partner with policy makers, industry and cultural leaders.King’s College London and Technische Universität Dresden (TUD) has a long-standing partnership with joint PhD degrees in the areas of life sciences and medicine. This new degree is an effort to extend the fruitful partnership to the physical science and engineering areas, within the NMES faculty. The two communication engineering teams at King’s College London and Technische Universität Dresden also have a long-standing research collaboration outside the transCampus activities and partnership, and this joint PhD will further build on this collaborative research partnership.Students are required to spend at least six months at Technische Universität Dresden. Any exceptions to the rule will require approval from the supervisory board.