Deadline for application: 1st of SeptemberWorking Place: Safety of Future Nuclear Reactors Unit, Institute for Energy, DG-JRC, European Commission, Petten, The Netherlands

Max Duration: 36 Months

Information about how to apply, job descriptons and employment conditions can be found on the website: ie.jrc.ec.europa.eu and then click on "jobs" and "Grantholders"

The post is IE-SFNR-2009(03)-30.2. There may be other posts of interest as well! For instance the Post IE-SFNR-2009(03)-30.3 is related but more oriented towards materials testing.

Please see the job-announcement attached, for a better format.
PhD or Postdoc position
The Interdisciplinary Centre for Advanced Materials Simulation (ICAMS) is a new research centre at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. At ICAMS an interdisciplinary team of scientists from engineering, materials science, chemistry, physics and mathematics is working on the development and application of a new generation of simulation tools for multi-scale materials modelling.

The Hanyang Structures and Composites Laboratory in Hanyang University, Korea seeks a post-doctoral fellow in the broad area of composite materials. The scholar will perform Finite Element Analysis and experimental measurements of short and long term behavior of composite materials. The scholar is supervised by Prof. Sung Ha, and also expected to guide graduate students. Candidates with experiences in manufacturing of composite materials are also encouraged to apply. The nominal starting date is Sept. 1, 2009. Please apply with a CV, recent publication and a list of references to Prof. Sung Ha, sungkha@gmail.com

A postdoctoral position is available in the area of interfacial mechanics of soft materials at Rutgers University working under the supervision of Prof. Cuitino. The position is supported by the National Science Foundation and industrial partners of the NSF Engineering Research Center for Structured Organic Particulate Systems (http://ercforsops.org/).

I have an open Ph.D. position on multiscale modeling of congenital heart disease. Candidates with M.S. or B.S. degree with background in fluid/solid mechanics, material science and applied mathematics with strong academic record are encouraged to apply. The project has both computational and experimental components. Interested candidates may send a CV and name of two references to arashkh@sc.edu. Further information about my group can be obtained from: http://www.me.sc.edu/fs/kheradvar.html.

A postdoctoral fellowship is available in the Duke Computational Mechanics Laboratory, beginning in September of 2009 (with flexibility on timing).  Funding for the fellowship concerns research in the simulation of large-scale fragmentation phenomena.  The ideal candidate will have experience in some combination of the following areas:

We are looking for a post-doctoral candiate in the area of computational (bio)mechanics. The project involves solving inverse problems in finite deformation elasticity with applications to the detection and diagnosis of cancerous tumors. Interested applicants should contact Prof. Oberai (http://www.rpi.edu/~oberaa/).

Researchers at Duke University are seeking applications for NRC research associates, to work with Professors David Stepp and John Dolbow.  The NRC program is unique in the sense that applicants have the opportunity to perform research on a program they design.  The positions are well-paid fellowships and are nominally for two years, extendable to a third.  

We are seeking applicants who are generally interested in examining the intrinsic relationships between the structure of polymeric and biological materials and their mechanical and/or optical properties, as influenced by composition, processing, environment, and applied stimulus.  Researchers with a strong computational or experimental background are particularly encouraged to apply.  

The Center for the Predictive Modeling and Simulation of High-Energy Density Dynamic Response at the California Institute of Technology seeks a post-doctoral scholars in the broad area of multiscale modeling of materials.  The scholar will be supervised by Professor Kaushik Bhattacharya, and will develop fast multiscale models that implicitly account for the microstructural features during the dynamic deformation of materials.  Candidates with experience in incorporating Density Functional Theory calculations into coarse-grained models of mechanical behavior are especially encouraged to apply.

        I am a Ph.D. student in Department of Aeronautical Structural Engineering. I expect to receive my PhD degree in July 2009 from Northwestern Polytechnical University. This university features as a top 10 engineering universities in China. My dissertation is on active/passive vibration control with piezoceramics. Part of my work has been published in an international peer-reviewed journal (“Vibration suppression of a hard disk driver actuator arm using piezoelectric shunt damping with a topology optimized PZT transducer” in Journal of Smart Materials and Structures).

Colleagues

Can I draw your attention to a Chair position and Lectureship in Bioengineering at the School of Engineering, Durham University. While the curent Chair position is occupied by an experimentalist, the postitions are open to candidates with interests in computational modelling and I would encourage anyone in that area to take a look.

Further details are available at the Durham jobs website https://jobs.dur.ac.uk/default.asp. Closing dates are 10/07/09 for the Chair and 31/07/09 for the Lectureship.

Charles Augarde 

Halmstad University (Sweden) is looking for young researchers to join our research groups in embedded and intelligent systems, specifically for intelligent vehicles in joint work with Volvo Technology in Gothenburg. Two positions are currently open: one with a focus on vehicle diagnostics, maintenance and uptime, and one with a focus on autonomous vehicles. Please se advertisement at: http://www.hh.se/english/abouttheuniversity/vacantpositions.2064_en.html (click on link Assistant Professors in Information Technology)

A Ph.D. position has recently become available in my research group (www.eng.uwyo.edu/mechanical/research/frick/), to explore thermo-mechanical
behavior of shape memory polymers for biomedical applications.  A
strong candidate with a M.S. or B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering,
Materials Science, or a related discipline is required.  A good
academic record, a clear interest in experimental sciences, and an
enthusiasm to conduct outstanding research are the only prerequisites.
Prospective candidates should contact me (cfrick@uwyo.edu) for additional information.

Dear All:

A post-doc researcher position is available from Sept 2009. Please contact Prof. John Wen at the Univerity of Waterloo.  (jzwen@uwaterloo.ca)

A postdoctoral research fellow position is currently open in the Computational Nanomechanics group at the University of Pittsburgh for the following research projects in the multidisciplinary areas of computational nanomechanics, nanotechnology, renewable energy, and nanomedicine: 

1. Hydrogen and bio-sensing nanowire fabrication

HELP WANTED

I am looking for a graduate student or a Postdoc who is interested to work on a research project in modeling and simulation of self-healing surfaces and related topics.

Please see attached file.

This position is located in Lancaster, California.

A Ph.D. Research Assistantship position in multi-scale computational mechanics of fracture of composites (with application on concrete) will be available to start in January 2010 in the Department of Civil Engineering, at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado, USA.

Please find attached the position description

Please find a phd position at Ecole des Mines de Douai related to the fatigue of composite materials.

Post doctoral associate or post-graduate researcher position is available in the Department of Civil Engineering at the Catholic University of America ,Washington, DC. The candidate should be proficient in C++ programming and OOP concepts and preferably (but not necessarily) GIS applications. PhD degree is not necessary. The project involves developing an agent-based fish life cycle model for San Francisco Bay and Delta.

Assistant Professor, Fluid Dynamics

Department of Mechanical Engineering
A. James Clark School of Engineering
University of Maryland, College Park

The Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland seeks applications for a tenuretrack
faculty position at the Assistant Professor level in the area of Fluid Dynamics. Specifically,
applicants studying both the fundamental and applied aspects of flow physics using computational and/or
theoretical techniques with a particular focus on the role of interfacial fluid dynamics within flows across