Dear Sir,

I am writing with reference to your recent advertisement in www.jobs.ac.uk  for an engineering doctorate studentship related to the engineered materials for high performance applications in aerospace.

As you can see from my enclosed CV, I am a second year master student at the University of Tokyo(Is it called like that? Isn't it Tokyo University?), hoping to graduate by September, 2007.I have been doing a research on “Implementation of Advanced Seismic Response Analysis of a Dam into Integrated Earthquake Simulation (IES)” under the supervision of Prof. Hori Muneo. I have submitted a paper for Journal of Applied Mechanics (JSCE), it is under review now. For further information please refer my CV. Also, I have been was  awarded the Japanese government scholarship (MEXT) for this master degree in 2005.

I have finished my BSc.Engineering degree in 2004, securing first class honors with rank 1, specializing in Civil Engineering, in the University of Peradeniya, in Sri Lanka. And I have won the “Ceylon Development Engineering prize for the best performance in Civil Engineering” and “University prize for Academic Excellence” in 2004. I did undergraduate research on "Development of correlation for cone penetrometer results for Sri Lankan soils" under Prof. S. B. Abeyakoon. And I have published a paper which you can refer  from to my CV for further information.

I hope the knowledge and experience gained during undergraduate study in material science & mechanics of materials, and knowledge gained in programming and numerical analysis skill in master degree will help me to pursue this engineering doctorate offer as your expectation. I shall be thankful if you could let me know the possibilities of getting this studentship under your supervision.

Thank you.(I am not sure of this finish.)   

This is my try.