The Extreme Mechanics Letters (EML) Young Investigator Award 2026 edition is organized by the journal and Elsevier to honor the best paper by a young scientist. The papers must have been published in volumes 80-87, from 2025 to 2026.

The award is made annually to the corresponding authors of the paper who received their Ph.D. no more than 10 years prior to the year of award. Corresponding authors who have yet to receive a Ph.D. will also be considered and self-nominations are allowed.

Sodium-ion batteries have emerged as low-cost and resource-abundant alternatives to lithium-ion systems; however, their practical deployment is fundamentally constrained by interfacial instability, dendrite growth, and mechanical degradation. Although extensive efforts have been devoted to electrolyte development, current research remains fragmented.

There is an immediate opening for a postdoctoral researcher position in Professor Albert To’s research group in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at University of Pittsburgh. Our group is seeking a highly motivated individual with a strong background in topology optimization to work on a new project.

The 12th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Smart Structures and Materials – SMART 2027 will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, from June 28 to 30, 2027.

Within this conference, Jakob Scheidl (TU Wien, Austria), Alexander Humer (JKU Linz, Austria), and myself (University of Trento, Italy) are organizing the Mini-Symposium:

MS04 – Deployable and Sliding Flexible Structures

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Aarhus University invites applications for a full-time, nine-month Research Assistant position in its Group of Integrated Photonics. Based in Aarhus, Denmark, the position is expected to start on 1 November 2026 or as soon as the recruitment process permits. You will help design, model, and experimentally investigate photonic integrated devices, including work on wavelength conversion and chip-scale light sources.

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