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 [at] jhu.edu. Email subject: “Injury biomechanics postdoc”.