Postdoctoral Fellow in Origami Materials at McGill University
I am seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow to work on origami metamaterials in the Architected Metamaterials Group at McGill University (https://pasinigroup.mcgill.ca/).
Blog posts
Open PhD Position – Spring 2026 – Georgia Tech
The Daedalus Lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology (D. Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering) is recruiting a PhD student for Spring 2027.
Our group works at the intersection of fracture mechanics, experimental mechanics, computational modeling, and artificial intelligence. Current research directions include:
Thermodynamic State Index and Conditional Phase-Space Entropy
Someone asked how "Thermodynamic state index in the Unified Mechanics Theory relates, conceptually or mathematically, to conditional phase-space entropy in finite Hamiltonian systems." I posed the question to Gemini AI. Here is its answer in the attached file.
Paper on MechanicsArxiv by Akshay Pakhare, Naba Karan, and Pradeep Guduru: reading sodium storage in hard carbon through stress
As a theoretician, I usually gravitate more towards papers of that kind, but the recently uploaded paper by Pakhare et. al. on MechanicsArxiv, caught my attention simply because it begs for some theoretical mechanics work to be done.
Physics-informed neural networks for transient diffusion interface problems: Kolmogorov–Arnold networks versus multilayer perceptrons
Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) remain challenging for transient interface problems with discontinuous coefficients, sharp interfacial gradients, and multiple temporal scales. In this work, we develop a PINN framework for transient diffusion interface problems with physically consistent interface conditions and compare multilayer perceptron (MLP) architectures with several radial-basis-function Kolmogorov–Arnold network (RBF–KAN) variants.
Maxwell, Airy and Hill walk into a bar, here is the theorem they write
The lemma of Hill (or of Hill-Mandel) is crucial to the consistent treatment of effective properties in the theory of composites. Building on various classical results (notably by Maxwell and Airy), I've recently applied the lemma sort of "out of context" to characterize (count really) the (infinitesimal) isometric deformations of periodic surfaces.
EML Webinar by Miguel Bessa: Disentangling Uncertainty in AI for Engineering
Dear colleagues,
I am pleased to invite you to the next webinar in the Extreme Mechanics Letters (EML) Webinar Series.
Our upcoming seminar will be delivered by Prof. Miguel Bessa (Brown University):
"Disentangling Uncertainty in AI for Engineering"
Date: Wednesday, 15 July 2026
Time: 10:00 am Boston / 3:00 pm London / 4:00 pm Paris / 10:00 pm Beijing
Call for nominations for the 2026 International Society of Materials Modeling Awards and Honors
The International Society of Materials Modeling (ISMM) is pleased to announce the call for nominations for the 2026 ISMM Awards and Honors.
Nominations are now open for:
1) Distinguished Career Achievement Award in Materials Modeling: Recognizing outstanding, sustained contributions to materials modeling over a distinguished career.
Past recipients:
William A. Curtin, Jr., 2022
Jörg Neugebauer, 2024
Postdoc position at Oxford on experimental materials engineering (mechanical testing of metals, hydrogen embrittlement)
I am hiring a postdoc at the University of Oxford to work on my ERC Starting Grant ResistHfracture project. Further details below and at:
https://eng.ox.ac.uk/jobs/job-detail?vacancyID=187458
Postdoctoral fellowship in the area of crystal plasticity finite element modeling
Applications are invited for a 2-year postdoc position in the area of crystal plasticity finite element modeling of polycrystals. This is a full-time position at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, and the selected applicant may begin immediately. In addition, this position is extendable for another two years, depending on the availability of funds and the applicant’s performance.