Are you dreaming about a career as a researcher in composite materials? Then the new PhD position at DTU might be what you are looking for. We work on crack growth in composites materials at a high international level and offer you the possibility for establishing you as an up-coming scientist in this field and make important contributions to science by being part of an exciting work environment that has the focus on scientific excellence. See the link below

We are pleased to announce the IUTAM Summer School on Mechanobiology of Microtissues and Organoids, to be held November 15–21, 2026 at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen, China. The school is organized under the auspices of the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM).

Confirmed Invited Lecturers:

From outside Mainland China:

We’re hiring! The NexCom Laboratory at the FAMU–FSU College of Engineering is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Computational Solid Mechanics.
We are looking for an outstanding researcher interested in nonlinear finite element methods, iterative and nonlinear solvers, multigrid and Krylov methods, scientific machine learning, and AI-enabled acceleration of large-scale computational mechanics.
Apply: FSU Careers site (jobs.fsu.edu)
Search Job ID: 63230

UPDATE: This webinar has been postponed. 
A new date will be announced in due course.

Dear colleagues,

I am pleased to invite you to the next webinar in the Extreme Mechanics Letters (EML) Webinar Series.

Our upcoming seminar will be delivered by Prof. Ritu Raman (MIT):

"Tissue engineering biological actuators for biohybrid robots"

Date: Thursday, 24 September 2026

The inaugural JMPS Young Investigator Award was announced on 1 September 2026.

The 2026 JMPS Young Investigator Award is awarded to:

Lu Lu, Sophie Leanza, Luyuan Ning and Ruike Renee Zhao

for their paper:

“2D-to-3D transformation of ring origami via snap-folding instabilities,”
Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, Volume 206, Part B, 2026, 106404.

We are hiring: Assistant or Associate Professor, Tenure Track or Tenured, Materials Science and Engineering.  Review of applicants will begin on October 31, 2026, and will continue until the position is filled. Please share with your network.

"I am pleased to share, Dr. Hsiao Wei Lee's recent work, “A unified mechanics theory framework for fully reversed high cycle fatigue of FCC aluminum based on two-scale microplasticity entropy production,” has been published online in the  International Journal of Fatigue.

Applications are open for one post-doctoral research fellowship at IDMEC, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, within the project DEEPFRAC (Deep fracture), FCT 2024.14907.PEX, supervised by Pedro Areias.
Reference of the call: BI 30.PL750.2026.IDMEC.

I am recruiting PhD students in reprogrammable matter at Imperial College London: https://aimlab.uk/join-us/vacancies/.  The positions are fully funded and start Autumn of 2027. 

In addition, I am hosting externally funded PhD scholarships and Postdoc fellowships through a variety of mechanisms, some of which are listed here https://aimlab.uk/join-us/.

“A Physics-Informed Neural Networks framework for simulating natural convection of Cu–water micropolar nanofluid in a porous enclosure with internal heat generation”

The paper has been published in the European Journal of Mechanics / B Fluids.