Topic: product development

Investigate generative AI for engineering design, combining large language models with formal design grammars. Explore how models represent, reason about and generate designs with human collaborators, with applications in products, manufacturing and structures. The fully funded salaried doctorate includes teaching support in design, product development and CAD, and begins between February and September 2027. Apply through the ETH online recruitment portal. Application deadline: 2026-11-01.

Medical physicist Nick Zacharopoulos, chief executive of Aktina Medical, talks with Tami Freeman about developing radiation-oncology technologies and combining industry with academic research. He traces a career that began building radiotherapy components with his father, discusses product development at Aktina, and explains how persistence and a conversation with a colleague led him to a doctorate at McGill University.