Joint Postdoctoral Fellow Position at KAUST and Georgia Institute of Technology

Joint Postdoctoral Fellow Position at KAUST
and Georgia Institute of Technology — Accepting applications until the
position is filled

We have one more opening and have no U.S. visa waiver requirement anymore.

Job description
A joint Postdoctoral Fellow position is available in the Computational
Solid Mechanics Laboratory (CSML) at King Abdullah University of
Science and Technology (KAUST) and School of Civil and Environmental
Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The candidate will
be based at KAUST but will spend time at Georgia Tech while working on
a collaborative project. Candidates with experience in one or more of
the following research areas are encouraged to apply:

(1) Geometric mechanics, geometric discretization of field theories
(2) Applied mathematics with emphasis on solid mechanics applications
(3) Constitutive modeling of materials (metals, biological tissues, polymers, gels, soft active materials, …etc.)
(4) Large scale computing and software design with experience in computational solid mechanics

Qualifications
A successful candidate must have a Ph.D. in the field of computational
or theoretical solid mechanics or applied mathematics with experience
in one or more of the aforementioned areas of research.

Appointment, salary, and benefits
Appointment period: One year, renewable annually for a maximum appointment of three years.
Salary: Competitive, no tax paid to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Other benefits: Free housing, medical, dental, free schools for children, air transportation to KAUST. 

Contacts, application material, and deadlines
Interested applicants should send a letter of interest and a
detailed C.V. with at least three professional references to Professor
Tamer El-Sayed at tamer.elsayed@kaust.edu.sa and Professor Arash Yavari at arash.yavari@ce.gatech.edu
The position will remain open until filled.

About CSML (http://www.kaust.edu.sa/tamerelsayed)
The focus of the Computational Solid Mechanics Laboratory (CSML) at
KAUST is to develop multi-scale constitutive models for metals and soft
materials. The following summarizes current research activities:
•    Development of multi-scale constitutive models for nanocrystalline
metals. The developed models are capable of capturing distinctive
features of nanocrystalline materials, such as the grain size
dependence both in classical Hall-Petch form for greater grain sizes
(> 10-25nm) and inverse Hall-Petch for finer grain sizes (< 10-25
nm).
•    Development of constitutive models intended to reproduce damage in
polymers caused by high strain rate loading. Applications include the
design of high-strength composites for impact mitigation.
•    Development of constitutive models for soils and rocks taking into
account multiphase and mixedphase flow, grain-grain and grain-liquid
interaction under high-pressure, high-temperature conditions.
Applications include Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR).
•    Development of constitutive models intended to reproduce the
damage of biological soft tissues induced by bubble cavitation, growth,
and coalescence.
The developed constitutive models are invaluable parts of predictive
simulation methods, which can be used in designing tailor-made
materials with superior properties. The long-term goal is to reduce the
amount of experimental efforts, which are expensive and time consuming
with the developed simulation tools.

About KAUST (http://www.kaust.edu.sa/)
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) is an
international, graduate-level research university located on the Red
Sea in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Dedicated to inspiring a new age of
scientific achievement that will benefit the region and the world,
KAUST exemplifies the future of world-class research. It is the vibrant
home to an international community of students, faculty and staff,
researchers, and families, situated in a unique Red Sea coastal
location near Thuwal, 80 kilometers (50 miles) north of Jeddah – Saudi
Arabia’s second largest city. The total area of the self-contained
community spans more than 36 million square meters, including a unique
coral reef ecosystem that the University preserves as a marine
sanctuary. KAUST houses the Shaheen Supercomputer, a 16-rack IBM Blue
Gene/P System, equipped with 4 gigabytes of memory per node and capable
of 222 teraflops — or 222 trillion floating-point-operations — per
second, making KAUST’s campus in Thuwal the site of one of the world’s
fastest supercomputers. KAUST is also connected directly into the
worldwide research networks, running 10 Gbps directly to networks such
as Internet2 & GEANT2.  More details are available at http://www.kaust.edu.sa/

Solid Mechanics at Georgia Tech
The Georgia Institute of Technology is one of the top American research
universities located in Atlanta, Georgia. The focus of Professor
Yavari’s research is on geometric formulation of discrete and
continuous solid mechanics problems. The current problems of interest
are: mechanics of growing bodies, surface growth, solids with
distributed defects, geometric discretization of elasticity and
anelasticity, and elastic cloaking. For more details see: http://www.ce.gatech.edu/people/faculty/421/overview