Marino Arroyo's blog

The group in “Mechanics of soft and living interfaces” at UPC in Barcelona (also affiliated to IBEC and CIMNE) lead by Prof. Marino Arroyo seeks for candidates with a background in theoretical/computational mechanics, scientific computing, applied mathematics or biophysics to work in an int

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.

Mechanics fundamentally governs the way cells and tissues adopt their functional shapes, the way they resist stresses, and the way they move, individually or collectively. In turn, mechanical forces critically influence cell behavior. Over the last decade, the field of mechanobiology has emerged, emphasizing the tight interplay between mechanics and biological function.

We are looking for highly motivated and creative PhD researchers to study the mechanical organization of epithelial cells and tissues through theory, computations and tight interaction with experimental collaborators, and to use this understanding to a precisely control tissue structure, mechanical properties, and dynamics. The ultimate goal is to predict the behavior of living matter, manipulate it, and use it to engineer new bio-inspired technologies. If selected, you will work in a highly interdisciplinary environment, in an expanding group headed by Prof.

We are seeking applications for a PhD position at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-BarcelonaTech, Spain. The applicant will develop mathematical models, perform numerical simulations, and closely interact with experimental collaborators to quantitatively understand various aspects of single cells and epithelial tissues, pertinent to mechanobiology and to the mechanics of living materials.

"Hydraulic fracture during epithelial stretching"

I hope some of you may find this work interesting:

http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nmat4206.html 

http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nmat4206

Dear colleagues,



I wanted to draw your attention to a paper published last year in PNAS



http://www.pnas.org/content/109/44/17874



where we analyze physical aspects of how euglenoids move



http://euglena.msu.edu/public_html/Movies/Eutreptiella/eutrep2.mov

Six PhD positions are available at the Laboratory of Computational Methods and Numerical Analysis (http://www-lacan.upc.edu/) of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-BarcelonaTech (http://www.upc.edu/) in Spain.

The four-year PhD fellowships cover the full tuition, a monthly stipend, and health insurance.

Details about the different positions can be found at http://www.lacan.upc.edu/node/49

The Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC, http://www.upc.edu/eng ) opens tenure-track assistant professor positions in Computational Mechanics. Please follow this link for more information.