Yijie Cai, Jie Ma, Zihang Shen, Xianmin Shao, Zheng Jia *, Shaoxing Qu, Enhancing the fracture resistance of hydrogels by regulating the energy release rate via bilayer designs: Theory and experiments, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 170, 105125 (2023)
Multiscale mechanics and extreme materials lab (https://z.umn.edu/ravi-research-lab) at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities has two fully funded Ph.D. positions starting in fall 2023. Interested candidates may reach out to sravi [at] umn.edu (sravi[at]umn[dot]edu). The research will be on two main topics
Postdoctoral positions on mechanical metamaterials and/or biomechanics are available at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital. The project on mechanical metamaterials is in collaboration with Prof. Xiaoming Mao at University of Michigan funded by Office of Naval Research (MURI).
We are running a faculty search in the area of Machine Learning at ASU School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy this year. We seek applicants who are interested in developing novel Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence-based approaches for advancing the fields of mechanics and materials engineering. Please feel free to share this information with colleagues, former and current advisees and others that may be interested. Application link:
Happy to announce that along with Oscar Lopez-Pamies from UIUC, I will be hosting a webinar this Friday 11/4 at noon Eastern time. The webinar will discuss undergraduate research opportunities in STEM. It will be held over Zoom but also live-streamed via Facebook.
Interested students or faculty can register here:
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jGIHjz9RR8ycX4JiErO3nA
Two funded PhD positions are available at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Louisiana State University for Fall 2023. One position will be focused on computational geomechanics, and the other will be focused on material characterization and modeling of metals. Please refer to the attachments for details.
Fatemeh Ahmadpoor
New Jersey Institute of Technology
This is the invitation to the Workshop on Computational Fatigue Analysis 2022, which is held on the important topic of Vibration Fatigue Analysis this year. Key researchers in this topic in Europe - Denis Benasciutti, Adam Nieslony, Filippo Cianetti, Janko Slavič and Massimiliano Palmieri - will summarize their knowledge and experience to the expert audience. The event takes place in few weeks, between November 14 and 16 in Prague, Czechia. If you find this location too far away from your workplace, you can use the on-line mode of the attendance.
A postdoc position as a University Assistant for 6 years, fully employed (40 hours/week), expected commencement of employment: February 1, 2023, at the Institute of Biomechanics, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Acceptance conditions: Completed doctoral study of engineering.
Job description:
· Independent research in the field of modeling and simulation of soft biological tissues; the aim should be a habilitation
School of Engineering and Physical Sciences at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh have multiple openings at Assistant Professor level in Mechanical Engineering. These positions are on a permenant basis.
More details https://bit.ly/3CC9fQI and below.
Successful candidates will contribute to research in areas related to Biomedical Engineering (as PI in our Research Institute among a few other PIs and research groups) and teaching in Mechanical Engineering.
Examples of desirable research areas include (but not limited to):
