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Ph.D. positions starting from 2021 Fall and 2022 Spring in YIN group at NCSU.

The research program will focus on soft robotics and mechanical metamaterials. Candidates with high self-motivation, experimental or modeling background and interests in mechanical engineering, materials science and engineering, and mechanics are highly encouraged to apply.

Context

As part of a Europeanproject between different industrial partners and Universities, the main objective of the doctoral position will be to develop methodologies in thecontext of data-driven stochastic multi-scale simulations.

PhD opportunity

The doctoral project will be supervised by Prof. L. Noels of ULg (http://www.ltas-cm3.ulg.ac.be/), in close collaboration with the partners of the project. The position is that of a research engineer starting in Fall2021.

STORM-BOTS is a new european training network (ITN) dedicated to liquid crystalline elastomers and soft robotics.

We are seeking to fill 13 early stage researcher (ESR) positions across Europe, including openings for chemists, fabricators, roboticists and theorists. The ESRs will collaborate on the design and creation of liquid crystal elastomers devices, and will benefit from training and secondment opportunities coordinated by the network.  Twelve of the positions include enrolment in a PhD program, while one is primarily based in a company.

Dr John Biggins (supervisor) and Prof Mark Warner FRS (co-supervisor) are searching for a talented theorist with interests in mechanics and geometry to work on the design of soft liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) machines. The studentship is part of a new Marie Sklodowska-Curie training network called storm-bots, which will encompass 13 students across Europe working on the design and creation soft LCE machines. The soft, anisotropic materials of the project, liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) and glasses, contract along their director on heating/illumination.

Applications are invited for the post of Research Associate (RA) in a project sponsored by the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) entitled “3D elastodynamic fracture simulations” supervised by Prof. Ranjith Kunnath. NSM is a joint initiative of the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeITY). 

Eligibility:

Ph.D. in Engineering/Mathematics/Physics with background in the area of Applied Mechanics and/or High Performance Computing

The Multiscale Materials Modelling Team in WMG (University of Warwick), led by Dr Figiel, is currently seeking a Research Fellow to carry out research in the area of Computational Micromechanics of Solid-state Batteries. This post is part of a large consortium SOLBAT (https://www.solbat-faraday.org/), focussed on developing next-generation solid-state batteries, which has been led by the University of Oxford, and funded by the Faraday Institution (https://faraday.ac.uk/).

One postdoc position is available in Wang Research lab (https://www.wangresearchlab.com) in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) and the Institute of Materials Science (IMS) at the University of Connecticut (UConn).