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The Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Houston (UH) invites applications for two Presidential Frontier Faculty positions at the rank of tenure-track Assistant Professor or tenured early Associate Professor, depending on the qualifications of the successful candidates, with appointments beginning in Fall 2025. The Presidential Frontier Faculty program at UH is a university-wide, integrated, interdisciplinary faculty hiring initiative designed to address pressing federal priorities and societal challenges.

The Nguyen Lab (nguyenlab.wse.jhu.edu) invites applications for a postdoctoral position in computational biomechanics with applications to ocular biomechanics. The postdoctoral scholar will be involved in an R01 funded project to study the relationship between the structure and mechanical properties of the optic nerve head tissues and remodeling with glaucoma.  The project is highly interdisciplinary and involves long-standing collaborations between the Nguyen Lab and world-renowned glaucoma clinician-scientists at the Wilmer Eye I

The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University (Ithaca campus) invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in the broad area of dynamics related to the mechanics of structures and materials. Our definition of structures is broad and includes buildings, bridges, dikes, wind turbines, and solar devices/solar panels.

We are interested in applicants whose research is related to any of the following or related areas:
    • Material and/or structural response to dynamic loading arising from wind, waves, blast, seismic waves

The Mechanics of Functional Ceramics group (https://faculty.hitsz.edu.cn/yanzilin) at HITsz, led by Dr. Zilin Yan, Associate Professor, is seeking highly motivated Ph.D. students  in the following areas.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

LINGNAN-60 GLOBAL TALENT RECRUITMENT

We invite applications for multiple PhD openings in the Salahshoor Research Group (https://salahshoor.pratt.duke.edu) at the Duke University. We are building a team of exceptional researchers who are driven by passion and curiosity and are excited by fundamental questions about physics of solids. Our lab operates at the intersection of mechanics, data science, material science and biology, and applied mathematics. Current areas of interest include:

One PhD position is available in the Computational Cardiovascular Bioengineering Lab (C2BL) at the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University for Summer/Fall 2025 entry.

Ph.D/Postdoc positions will be available at the Programmable Materials and Structures lab (www.promastlab.com) of the University of Pavia in Italy. Candidates with background in mechanics, materials, finite element analysis, topology optimization, 4D printing are all welcome to apply. 

Prospective candidates are welcome to contact Prof. Giulia Scalet (giulia.scalet [at] unipv.it). Please attach a CV.