The group on “Mechanics of soft and living interfaces” (https://www.lacan.upc.edu/mechanics-of-soft-and-living-interfaces/) lead by Marino Arroyo (https://www.lacan.upc.edu/arroyo/) is looking for a highly motivated and creative postdoctoral researcher to study the mechanical organization of epithelial cells and tissues, and how this understanding can lead to a precise control of tissue structure, mechanical properties, and dynamics.

We've recently published our new study about Uncertainty Quantification in Molecular Dynamics (MD) Simulations. Due to the selection of functional forms of interatomic potentials or the numerical approximation, MD simulations may predict different material behavior from experiments or other high-fidelity results. In this study, we used Stochastic Reduced Order Modeling (SROM) to achieve

(1) mechanical behavior of graphene predicted by MD simulations in good agreement with the continuum model which has been calibrated by experiments;

Composite materials are increasingly used in industry due to the possibility of tailoring their properties based on the applications. Their greatest advantage is strength and stiffness combined with lightness. However, their optimal design and performance is still limited by the lack of knowledge of physical mechanisms that control their fracture behavior. Machine learning and big data driven approaches have not been extensively studied for fracture behavior predictions.

The focus of this symposium is to discuss current research and key developments in theory, computational and experimental methods to study and predict the mechanical properties of materials in application-orientated environments. These environments may include, but are not limited to high temperature, cryogenic temperature, electrical and magnetic field, gas, radiation, chemical, pressure extremes, and humidity.

Many of modern life activities involve the risk of fire, explosions, and impacts. In addition, natural extreme events are becoming more and more common. us, robustness, the ability to avoid disproportionate collapse due to an initial damage, and resilience, the ability to adapt to and recover from the effects of changing external conditions, represent two important characteristics of current structures and infrastructures. eir definitions are reviewed in this paper with the aim of sorting and describing the different approaches proposed in the literature and in the international standards.

All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.

Institution: University of Windsor, Canada ( https://youtu.be/RuAxubYgKcM )

Professor: http://www.uwindsor.ca/engineering/mame/440/cherniaev-aleksandr

Salary:

I hope this work be of interest to some of you, in particular, those in the field of tribology, contact and damage mechanics. We examined the opposite contribution of interfacial adhesion into the process of surface material removal during adhesive wear. https://journals.aps.org/prmaterials/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.3.063604

In this paper, a computational hierarchical multiscale method is presented to investigate the effect of temperature on mechanical behavior of heterogeneous nanomaterials. The embedded-atom method many-body interatomic potential is employed to investigate the complex interaction between the atoms of copper–aluminum (Cu-Al) alloy at various temperature levels. The thermo-mechanical properties of Cu-Al alloy are studied at various percentages of Cu-Al. The Nose-Hoover thermostat is proposed for the molecular dynamics analysis.

We have one postdoc position on soft matter tribology (focused on theory and simulations) at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Lecce, Italy (Center for Biomolecular Nanotechnologies, CBN, https://cbn.iit.it/). The activities will be performed in strict collaboration with the University of Salento, located in the same city, as well as with an international industrial partner. The salary is highly competitive and depends on scientific skills. 

[https://www1.unisalento.it/bandi-concorsi/-/bandi/view/64558739]

The Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Arnesano-Lecce, Italy (Center for Biomolecular Nanotechnologies, CBN, https://cbn.iit.it/) is financing five PhD openings at the University of Salento, Lecce.

Research topics:

- Flexible piezoelectric micro elelctro mechanical systems (MEMS)

- Nano-bio-interactions

- Nanomedcine

- Neurotechnologies

- Optogenetics