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We are now seeking to fill an academic position at Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader rank for a successful academic to join the Division of Systems, Power and Energy Engineering. We specifically seek a candidate who can potentially contribute to the James Watt School of Engineering in the area of modelling of materials and/or processes at lower length scales where continuum assumption ceases to be valid.

A new PhD position is availale at Tribology and Suface Mechanics (TSM) group for Fall 2021/Spring 2022. Candidates with strong mechanical engineering background on both experimental and analytical works are encouraged to apply. In particular, experience on metalic alloys, coatings, addtivie manufacturing, surface engineering and mechanics, contact fatigue, corrsoion and finite element anaylses is a plus.

We are looking for a doctoral student to work on numerical modeling of ridging of sea ice. Ridging is central to understanding the behavior of sea ice from scales varying from tens of meters up to hundreds of kilometers and has a close connection to sea ice dynamics models, which have an important role in predicting the effects of climate change. The applicant should be advanced in solid and computational mechanics and have at least average programming skills.

The research — We use x-ray phase contrast imaging (XPCI) to study deformation and fracture of materials under dynamic loading on microsecond and sub-microsecond time scales. For example, we might like to measure the change in pore size distribution of a granular material such as sandstone under impact loading. Answering this question requires us to address theoretical and computational questions of XPCI image interpretation, and also poses an interesting challenge to the experimentalist.

There is an immediate opening for a post-doctoral scholar in the Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute (http://hemi.jhu.edu) at Johns Hopkins University, working with Prof. K.T. Ramesh (ramesh [at] jhu.edu (ramesh[at]jhu[dot]edu)) and Prof. Todd Hufnagel (hufnagel [at] jhu.edu (hufnagel[at]jhu[dot]edu)).

Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Fellow research position in modelling fracturing with thermal-hydro-mechanical (THM) coupling processes at Wuhan University. Code writing ability and strong background in numerical modelling are required. Specific knowledge of TOUGH2 and parallel processing is preferred. Applicants must hold a PhD in Petroleum Engineering, Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or a related discipline.

We have a number of open permanent positions at Assistant Professor level in the Department of Engineering at Durham University in the UK. We are seeking to fill posts in civil or structural engineering, and in offshore geotechnical engineering, with no restriction on nature of interests, e.g. computational or otherwise.

I am looking to recruit a highly motivated and independent postdoctoral researcher to study, via the development of new topology optimization techniques, various scientific issues surrounding phononic topological insulators.  An example of recent related work from my group can be found here.  The position is available for a 20-month duration, with possible extension to 36 months depending on the availability of funding, with a proposed start date of June 1 or July 1, 2021. &nb

PhD position

A summer internship position is available in Joint academic-industrial project between Nordisch LLC and Michigan State University. We seeks to improve the understanding of the constitutive behavior of soft materials in extreme conditions. In particular, this is important for evaluating the long-term performance of soft materials that are used as critical components in various systems.