Postdoc position (9-month initial appointment): Injury biomechanics (Johns Hopkins University)

The postdoc fellow will work in Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute (HEMI), a division of Johns Hopkins University.

Duties

• Conduct underwater impulsive loading tests on a lung simulant structure (a sphere filled with porous medium)

• Develop numerical models to simulate the lung simulant structural response

• Write technical papers and research proposals

• Guide the graduate students in the group

Requirements

• PhD in Mechanical/ Biomedical Engineering or other related areas

• Fluency in LS-DYNA and Hypermesh

• Knowledge of injury biomechanics

• Experience of handling FE models with very complex geometry and visco-elastic material behavior (like biological organs)

• Knowledge of fluid-solid interaction is a plus

Others

• Competitive salary

• The successful candidate will work with our industrial partner on a government funded project

• Current appointment is 9 months (this is the performance period of this project); Renewable based on funding availability and mutual interest

Interested candidates please send me a single PDF containing CV, and name/contact information of three references to fzhu8@jhu.edu. Email subject: “Injury biomechanics postdoc”.