Blog posts
Yuhang Hu is the recipient of the 2021 Eshelby Mechanics Award for Young Faculty
It gives me great pleasure to announce the outcome of the 2021 competition for the Eshelby Mechanics Award for Young Faculty. This award is given annually to rapidly emerging junior faculty who exemplify the creative use and development of mechanics. The intent of the award is to promote the field of mechanics, especially among young researchers. The selection committee consisted of: K. Ravi-chandar (UT Austin), Huajian Gao (Brown University), G.
PhD position available at University of Louisville
One fully-funded Ph.D. position is available in my team for Fall 2022 or Spring 2023. The prospective Ph.D. student should be highly motivated to participate in computational and/or experimental research related to the mechanics of lithium-ion batteries. Applicants should submit a full CV to yanyu.chen [at] louisville.edu.
Alain Goriely's Seminars on Growth at UC Berkeley
Dear Colleague,
I'm delighted to annouce that Alain Goriely (Oxford U) is visiting the Department of Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley as a Russell Severence Springer Lecturer.
He will be giving a colloquium later today and lectures in the coming weeks that are remotely accessible via the zoom link:
https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/95721081399
Opening at Harvard Medical School on Device Characterization & Development
The Traverso Laboratory is seeking a mechanical/biomedical reseach engineer to join the team focused on the development of novel gastrointestinal (GI) devices for treatment of major diseases. This includes technologies such as drug delivery systems, smart pills and stents, soft actuators, and ingestible electronics. The ideal candidate will have experience with designing and analyzing mechanical systems and materials for biological application.
Postdoc position at the University at Buffalo – SUNY (Elastic Metamaterials)
The Sound and Vibrations Lab (http://svl.eng.buffalo.edu), directed by Prof. Mostafa Nouh at the University at Buffalo – SUNY, has an opening for a postdoc position in the areas of phononics and elastic metamaterials. The position is supported by an NSF project whose main objective is to investigate the mechanics of space-time-periodic material systems operating within asymmetric, nonreciprocal, non-Hermitian, and/or frequency-selective regimes.
Ph.D. position in Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences / Brno University of Technology
There is an available PhD position at the Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague to work under the design, modelling, preparation and characterization of smart structures.