Postdoc or PhD positions at the Institute of Structural Mechanics, Bauhaus University of Weimar

At the chair of Computational Mechanics (chair Prof. T. Rabczuk) at the Bauhaus University Weimar, there are

                                6 open positions for PhD-students or Post-Docs

for a maximum period of 5 years; the earliest start date is June 1, 2014. Postdoctoral candidates will be preferred. The applicants supposed to work in an international team on several aspects of multi-scale and multi-physics modeling of polymers, polymeric nanocomposites and Lithium ion batteries.

Requirements
- PhD or M.Sc. in Computational Physics, Computational Chemistry, Applied Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering or Civil Engineering

- Excellent knowledge in Computational Methods (in particular FEM, XFEM), Mechanics and Applied Mathematics

- Experience on one or more of the following topics: Development of MD potentials, DFT, MD, computational modeling of polymers, polymer-matrix composites or lithium ion batteries, multiscale modeling (FE^2, BDM, Arlequin method, BSM, QCM, etc.), peridynamics, phase field modeling, goal oriented error estimation and adaptivity, uncertainty quantification, optimization.

-Excellent coding skills (C/C++ or Fortran)

The salary is according to TV-L East E13 BBesG (around 2200-2500 Euro/month depending on family status).

Please send your application including CV, list of publications and transcripts (for PhD-students only) to: timon.rabczuk@uni-weimar.de