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Applications are invited for a postdoctoral position in the Micro and Nano Mechanics Laboratory within the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University. Successful candidates will participate in a vibrant interdisciplinary research group and be involved in projects pursuing MEMS and probe-based techniques for biological studies at the single-cell level including chemo-mechanics and pathway studies. Collaborations are in place with investigators at the Northwestern Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center, the Feinberg School of Medicine, the International Institute for Nanotechnology, and Argonne and Sandia National Laboratories.

Applications are invited for a postdoctoral position within the Micro and Nano Mechanics Laboratory in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University. The successful candidate will participate in a vibrant interdisciplinary research group and will be involved in projects addressing multiscale mechanics of hierarchical carbon-based materials as part of a Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI). In our research group, we believe in a combined experimental-computational approach; therefore, the candidate will be working in close collaboration with theoretical modelers to facilitate the understanding of experimental findings.

Applications are invited for a postdoctoral position within the Micro and Nano Mechanics Laboratory in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University. The successful candidate will participate in a vibrant interdisciplinary research group and will be involved in projects addressing multiscale modeling to understand load-transfer mechanisms in hierarchical carbon-based nanostructures, as well as modeling of semiconducting nanowires to understand failure modes and size effects in electromechanical properties.

One postdoc and several PhD student positions are available at Arizona State University for fall 2012. Research background in at least one of the following areas is preferred.

1. Fatigue and fracture of materials and structures

2. Computational mechanics and micromechanics

3. Damage detection for composite materials