Please, give a look to my research activity at http://www.ing.unitn.it/~bigoni and to my group at http://ssmg.unitn.it
If you are strongly motivated to work with a very active group in Solid Mechanics, we have a PhD position (3 years) available from November 2014, but the deadline for application is June 30, 2014!
The position is on a EU grant and is addressed to numerical/theoretical modelling of ceramics.
For details on the application see the attachment.
Davide Bigoni