PhD Position on the Mechanical Properties of DNA Nanostructures

Applications are invited for a PhD position at Johns Hopkins University (beginning Fall 2018) on a collaborative project between the labs of Extreme Mechanics of Architected Materials (Prof. Stavros Gaitanaros) and Mechanochemistry And Functional Imaging Applications (Prof. Yun Chen) at Johns Hopkins University.
The project will focus on the combination of multi-scale modeling and experiments in order to examine the mechanical behavior of DNA origami nanostructures.
Interested applicants should apply either to the Civil Engineering department and indicate "Mechanics of Solids" as a focus area, or in the Mechanical Engineering department and choose "Engineering in Biology and Medicine".

Significant experience in at least one of the following areas is required:

- Computational Solid Mechanics
- Molecular Dynamics Simulations
- Nanomaterials Synthesis and Characterization
- Magnetic Tweezers and Imaging