Joint Postdoctoral Fellow Position at KAUST and Georgia Institute of Technology

                                     
Joint Postdoctoral Fellow Position at KAUST and Georgia Institute of Technology — Accepting applications until the position is filled

We have one more opening and have no U.S. visa waiver requirement anymore.

Job description
A joint Postdoctoral Fellow position is available in the Computational Solid Mechanics Laboratory (CSML) at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The candidate will be based at KAUST but will spend time at Georgia Tech while working on a collaborative project. Candidates with experience in one or more of the following research areas are encouraged to apply:

(1) Geometric mechanics, geometric discretization of field theories
(2) Applied mathematics with emphasis on solid mechanics applications
(3) Constitutive modeling of materials (metals, biological tissues, polymers, gels, soft active materials, …etc.)
(4) Large scale computing and software design with experience in computational solid mechanics

Qualifications
A successful candidate must have a Ph.D. in the field of computational or theoretical solid mechanics or applied mathematics with experience in one or more of the aforementioned areas of research.

Appointment, salary, and benefits
Appointment period: One year, renewable annually for a maximum appointment of three years.
Salary: Competitive, no tax paid to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Other benefits: Free housing, medical, dental, free schools for children, air transportation to KAUST. 

Contacts, application material, and deadlines
Interested applicants should send a letter of interest and a detailed C.V. with at least three professional references to Professor Tamer El-Sayed at tamer.elsayed@kaust.edu.sa and Professor Arash Yavari at arash.yavari@ce.gatech.edu
The position will remain open until filled.

About CSML (http://www.kaust.edu.sa/tamerelsayed)
The focus of the Computational Solid Mechanics Laboratory (CSML) at KAUST is to develop multi-scale constitutive models for metals and soft materials. The following summarizes current research activities:
•    Development of multi-scale constitutive models for nanocrystalline metals. The developed models are capable of capturing distinctive features of nanocrystalline materials, such as the grain size dependence both in classical Hall-Petch form for greater grain sizes (> 10-25nm) and inverse Hall-Petch for finer grain sizes (< 10-25 nm).
•    Development of constitutive models intended to reproduce damage in polymers caused by high strain rate loading. Applications include the design of high-strength composites for impact mitigation.
•    Development of constitutive models for soils and rocks taking into account multiphase and mixedphase flow, grain-grain and grain-liquid interaction under high-pressure, high-temperature conditions. Applications include Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR).
•    Development of constitutive models intended to reproduce the damage of biological soft tissues induced by bubble cavitation, growth, and coalescence.
The developed constitutive models are invaluable parts of predictive simulation methods, which can be used in designing tailor-made materials with superior properties. The long-term goal is to reduce the amount of experimental efforts, which are expensive and time consuming with the developed simulation tools.

About KAUST (http://www.kaust.edu.sa/)
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) is an international, graduate-level research university located on the Red Sea in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Dedicated to inspiring a new age of scientific achievement that will benefit the region and the world, KAUST exemplifies the future of world-class research. It is the vibrant home to an international community of students, faculty and staff, researchers, and families, situated in a unique Red Sea coastal location near Thuwal, 80 kilometers (50 miles) north of Jeddah – Saudi Arabia’s second largest city. The total area of the self-contained community spans more than 36 million square meters, including a unique coral reef ecosystem that the University preserves as a marine sanctuary. KAUST houses the Shaheen Supercomputer, a 16-rack IBM Blue Gene/P System, equipped with 4 gigabytes of memory per node and capable of 222 teraflops — or 222 trillion floating-point-operations — per second, making KAUST’s campus in Thuwal the site of one of the world’s fastest supercomputers. KAUST is also connected directly into the worldwide research networks, running 10 Gbps directly to networks such as Internet2 & GEANT2.  More details are available at http://www.kaust.edu.sa/

Solid Mechanics at Georgia Tech
The Georgia Institute of Technology is one of the top American research universities located in Atlanta, Georgia. The focus of Professor Yavari’s research is on geometric formulation of discrete and continuous solid mechanics problems. The current problems of interest are: mechanics of growing bodies, surface growth, solids with distributed defects, geometric discretization of elasticity and anelasticity, and elastic cloaking. For more details see: http://www.ce.gatech.edu/people/faculty/421/overview