Ettore Barbieri's blog

Dear Friends,

I am looking for a postdoctoral candidate who wishes to apply for a JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) fellowship.

This fellowship is a highly competitive scheme and includes a generous monthly salary (at the current exchange rate, around 3000 Euro or 3300 $) plus airfare (round-trip ticket to Japan).

I will support the application as a host and will help writing the proposal.
Applicants are allowed to suggest their own project, but preference will be given to candidates with experience and interest in two topics:

For more details on the job opportunity, see here
https://www.jamstec.go.jp/e/about/recruit/mat_20190329.html

For more details on this ambitious project, see here
https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Hundreds-of-years-worth-of-rare-earths-…

Only for citizens of the following countries: US, Canada, European Union, Switzerland, Norway and Russia.

More information here:

http://www.jsps.go.jp/english/e-oubei-s/index.html

Let me know if you are interested before 20th March 2019, I could act as a host.

Dear Friends,

in addition to the PhD studentship available in my group posted before, there is another PhD opportunity available for Chinese students.

Details here

https://www.sems.qmul.ac.uk/research/studentships/?sid=248

 ESSENTIAL requirements are a strong background in Nonlinear Solid Mechanics, Finite Element Methods and practical skills in Computer Programming (either C, C++, Fortran or Matlab).

The deadline is the end of the month.

You can find more details here
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AWI331/phd-studentship-modelling-and-simulati…

If interested in applying, please use the following link rather than sending your application to me via email
http://www.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate/research/subjects/engineering/index…

Fellow iMechanicians,

the deadline for submission for the next European Solid Mechanics Conference has been extended to the 30th November.

The conference will be the "place-to-be" next year in the Solid Mechanics community, with a truly outstanding line-up for the plenary lectures.

In particular, I am co-organizing with Nicola Pugno a mini-symposium on Micro and Nano Mechanics

http://www.esmc2015.org/_medien/_content/pdf/NicolaPugno_EttoreBarbieri…

Dear iMechanicians, 

I have a PhD Studentship available for UK settled status residents.

Settled status in the UK, meaning they have no restrictions on how long they can stay and been 'ordinarily resident' in the UK for 3 years prior to the start of the grant. This means they must have been normally residing in the UK (apart from temporary or occasional absences) and not been residing in the UK wholly or mainly for the purpose of full-time education. (This does not apply to UK or EU nationals).

The word "extreme" seems to be "trending" a lot these days, see the recent discussions on the new journal Extreme Mechanics Letters.

My collaborator Ruben Sevilla at Swansea and I were interested in very curved crack paths that develop in nature and have been replicated experimentally in thin films attached to elastic substrates.