The Lehigh University Plasma Control Laboratory within the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics is seeking to fill several PhD positions, which are fully funded (tuition + stipend) by the Office of Fusion Science at the US Department of Energy. These positions lie at the boundary of Nuclear Fusion Engineering, Plasma Physics, Computational Methods, Applied Mathematics, Control Systems, and Machine Learning. The PhD candidates should have background in one or more of these research areas and should ideally have an undergraduate or preferably a Masters degree in engineering, physics or applied math. Solid analytical skills, as well as programming/coding abilities, are also required for these positions.   Besides providing an education across the areas mentioned