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We are looking for a Postdoc Fellow (with PhD) or a Research Engineer (w/o a PhD) in the area of injury biomechanics and human body modeling. The sucessful cadidate will work on numerical simulations of pilot neck injuries during combat and training. Due to the funding source, the applicant must have either U.S. Citizenship or Permanent Residency (i.e. "Green Card").

Location: Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute, Johns Hopkins University

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Composite tape-spring hinge (CTSH) is a simple yet elegant mechanical component for various deployable space structures. This paper formulates and addresses cut-out shape optimization of a CTSH, which is seldom touched upon in literature. Both the maximum strain energy stored during the folding process as well as the maximum bending moment during deployment were maximized in a concurrent way, and the multi-objective optimization problem was realized by merging data-driven surrogate modeling and shape optimization.

The research focuses are both the study and the optimization of innovative laser cutting and mechanical machining techniques for structural and automotive application.

One position for a PhD Student to perform tests of coronary arteries in interaction with a stent for 3 years; expected start as soon as possible at the Institute of Biomechanics, Graz University of Technology in Austria.

Acceptance conditions: M.Sc. in Physics, (Bio)mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Mechatronics or related field and experience with desire to pursue a PhD degree. Interest in experimental laboratory work; desire to work in a multidisciplinary, collaborative team environment; fluent English is required.

One position for a PhD Student to perform experimental tests of aortas and the myocardium for 3 years; expected start as soon as possible at the Institute of Biomechanics, Graz University of Technology in Austria.

Acceptance conditions: M.Sc. in Physics, (Bio)mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Mechatronics or related field and experience with desire to pursue a PhD degree. Interest in experimental laboratory work; desire to work in a multidisciplinary, collaborative team environment; fluent English is required.

1 Ph.D. position (36 months) within the research activity relative to my ERC AdG Grant "Beyond" will be funded by and available at the University of Trento (Italy). The student will be supervised by me and my collaborators Francesco Dal Corso, Diego Misseroni, Andrea Piccolroaz, and Roberta Springhetti. See also the PDF attached.

Published in Applied Physics Letters: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/5.0087730

PhD positions in Civil Engineering at the University of Technology Sydney starting early 2023.  The research is on computational modelling of energy-absorbing materials, computational fracture mechanics, and computational optimisation.  Applicants with a strong publication track record in this research field are preferred.

Interested applicants should send their CV, brief (maximum one page) supporting statement, 3 referees, and publications (if applicable) to Jianguang.Fang [at] uts.edu.au

We have an opening at Ansys for a manufacturing simulation specialist for developing solutions for manufacturing simulation and enabling digital/advanced manufacturing, considering as-built design vs as-drawn/as-designed!

Job posting: https://careers.ansys.com/job-invite/10612/

Please take a look at the paper of our PhD student Beatrice Bisighini in Advances in Engineering Software: "EndoBeams.jl: A Julia finite element package for beam-to-surface contact problems in cardiovascular mechanics". We propose an efficient framework for modelling beam-to-surface contact, specifically designed to model endovascular devices. 

You can find the paper (open-access) here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0965997822000849