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The Multiscale Mechanics and Multiphysics of Materials Lab (http://m4lab.unibs.it) at the School of Engineering at the University of Brescia, Italy announces a PhD fellowship on the subject of Chemo-Mechanics of Angiogenesis. The student, who must have graduated in a non-Italian institution, will be co-advised by Proff. A. Salvadori, S. Mitola, and other colleagues. The candidate will work at the forefront of experimental and modeling in the vibrant area of cell motility and receptor-ligands interactions.

There are three PhD fellowships available in PhD Programme of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering (University of Trento) on the following topics:

1 Design, simulation and testing of smart metamaterials/metastructures for vibration mitigation of civil/mechanical systems

2 Modelling and simulation of novel opto-acoustic sensors for monitoring crack growth in pressure vessel steels

3 Laser-Beam Cutting Modeling and Testing For Improved Quality and High-Demanding Structural Applications

The Multiscale Mechanics and Multiphysics of Materials Lab (http://m4lab.unibs.it) at the School of Engineering at the University of Brescia, Italy announces a joint PhD fellowship between the Universities of Brescia (Italy) and Notre Dame (USA) on the subject of  Co-designed modeling and experimental investigations on electrodes modified with lithiated organic ligands. The student, who must have graduated in a non-Italian institution, will be co-advised by Prof. A. Salvadori (UNIBS) and J. Schaefer (ND).

Greetings 

We are looking for a new postdoc to work on mechanical challenges in energy conversation technologies.

If you are interested you can take a closer look at the job description here:

http://www.dtu.dk/job/job?id=977f380d-dbcd-41f5-a8cc-78315cff25e1

Best regards 

Henrik Lund Frandsen 

Greetings - I am seeking two self-motivated PhD students for two separate NSF projects:

Project 1 is on nonlinear nonconservative dynamics of fiber-based flexible piezoelectric composites for complex 3D deformations (involves theory and experiments)

keywords: vibration, piezoelectricity, nonlinear, dissipation, plates, actuation

(a co-PI and another student will be on the fluid dynamics side of the multiphysics problem, involves strong collaboration)

Sabyasachi Chatterjee, Amit Acharya, Zvi Artstein

A computational tool for coarse-graining nonlinear systems of ordinary differential equations in time is discussed. Three illustrative model examples are worked out that demonstrate the range of capability of the method. This includes the averaging of Hamiltonian as well as dissipative microscopic dynamics whose ‘slow’ variables, defined in a precise sense, can often display mixed slow-fast response as in relaxation oscillations, and dependence on initial conditions of the fast variables. Also covered is the case where the quasi-static assumption in solid mechanics is violated. The computational tool is demonstrated to capture all of these behaviors in an accurate and robust manner, with significant savings in time. A practically useful strategy for initializing short bursts of microscopic runs for the accurate computation of the evolution of slow variables is also developed.

A postdoc position in the area of mechanics of metamaterials is available in the group of Prof. Stefano Gonella (http://personal.cege.umn.edu/~gonella/) at the University of Minnesota. This exciting opportunity is in the context of a National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded interdisciplinary project whose main objective is to investigate the behavior of innovative topological metamaterials with asymmetric wave transport capabilities.