We will have an opening for a postdoctoral position at the CC&B, University of Milan in the group of Prof. Zapperi. We are looking for candidates with strong programming skills who are interested in working at the frontier between academic and industrial research. The candidates should have a Ph. D in computer science, computational materials science, physics, mathematics or engineering.
We anticipate the opening of four postdoctoral positions in 2012 to work on statistical aspects of fracture and plasticity, and in particular on size effects in the fracture of disordered media and in microplasticity. The positions will be funded by the ERC Advanced Grant 2011, SIZEFFECTS.
We look for candidates with a strong background in one or more of the following areas:
- statistical mechanics (scaling, critical phenomena, disordered systems)
- numerical modeling fracture
- dislocation dynamics simulations