Dear iMechanicians,
It's great to see the site up and running again. Some of you might be interested in the following PhD and postdoc positions within my group (the Mechanics of Materials Lab) at the University of Oxford.
- PhD in Computational Fracture Mechanics, funded by my ERC Starting Grant ResistHfracture: https://mechmat.web.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/mechmat/documents/media/ercphd2_advert.pdf
Funded PhD positions are available in the department of Structural Engineering and the Program in Materials Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in Prof. Semnani’s research group, with start dates of Spring 2026 and Fall 2026. The positions are in the areas of research listed in Prof. Semnani’s group website below:
A fully funded PhD position is now available in Dr. Zhengwei Li’s research group in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Houston (UH), with a start date in Spring 2026 or Fall 2026. The position will focus on the mechanics of soft biointegrated and biohybrid systems, including wireless bioelectronics, soft implantable devices, and bioengineered living systems.
A fully supported PhD position on Machine Learning for Scientific Computing is available in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Rutgers University. The successful applicant will work under the supervision of Dr. George Moutsanidis and the desired start date is January 2026 or September 2026.
Dear Colleagues,
We (Christian Franck (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Xueju "Sophie" Wang (University of Connecticut), and Ruobing Bai (Northeastern University)) are organizing a special issue for Experimental Mechanics (Editor-in-Chief: Junlan Wang) on Mechanics of Soft and Living Matter. We would like to invite you to contribute to this themed issue.
Authors: Abhishek Arora, Caglar Oskay
We are seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral fellow with an interest in the high-pressure and high-strain-rate behavior of geomaterials (e.g., sandstones) and concrete. The successful candidate will be appointed as a Postdoctoral Fellows in the Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute (HEMI) at Johns Hopkins University. A portion of the successful candidate’s work will be associated with the Materials Science in Extreme Environments University Research Alliance (MSEE URA).
The Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department of the Cullen College of Engineering at the University of Houston invites applications for the Panos Family Endowed Chair position at the rank of Full Professor. The Panos Family Chair Professorship has been established from a $4.5 million gift from the Thomas Michael Panos Family Estate and a $2 million matching from the University’s $100 million Challenge Aspire Fund.
It is my pleasure to solicit nominations for the "Eshelby Mechanics Award for Young Faculty". This award, launched in 2012, is given annually to rapidly emerging junior faculty who exemplify the creative use and development of mechanics. The intent of the award is to promote the field of mechanics, especially among young researchers. While interdisciplinary work that bridges mechanics with physics, chemistry, biology and other disciplines is encouraged, the ideal awardee will demonstrate clear inspiration from mechanics in his/her research.
It is known that the balance laws of hyperelasticity (Green elasticity), i.e., conservation of mass and balance of linear and angular momenta, can be derived using the first law of thermodynamics and by postulating its invariance under superposed rigid body motions of the Euclidean ambient space---the Green-Naghdi-Rivlin theorem. In the case of a non-Euclidean ambient space, covariance of the energy balance---its invariance under arbitrary time-dependent diffeomorphisms of the ambient space---gives all the balance laws and the Doyle-Ericksen formula---the Marsden-Hughes theorem.
