The Melosh Symposium took place last week on the campus of Duke University. The names of the four successful applicants that made it to the final stage and their current institutions are:

Prajwal Kammardi Arunachala, Stanford University

Mario de Lucio – Purdue University

Hendrik Geisler – University Hannover

Tianyi Hu – Purdue University

The finalists gave oral presentations before our distinguished judges, José Andrade from Caltech and Sanjay Govindjee from UC Berkeley. Tianyi Hu from Purdue won the competition!

I am happy to share our recent paper entitled ‘Nonlinear aerothermoelastic analysis of deployable control fin with actuator stiffness subjected to high-speed compressible flows’ published in the journal Acta Mechanica.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

LINGNAN-60 GLOBAL TALENT RECRUITMENT

We are hiring 2 post-docs soon in Italy at the Department of Mechanics DMMM of the Politecnico di BARI.  The subject is here described.

link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LojTCFCDSew

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.