A new opening for PhD studies has come out at University of Sheffield:
Computational Mechanics of Fracture on Advanced Composite Aerospace Structures using XFEM
For further details click on http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/mecheng/phd/projects/mechanics-of-materials/fracture-composite-structures
or email to jlcurie [at] yahoo.es (jlcurie[at]yahoo[dot]es)