The inaugural JMPS Young Investigator Award was announced on 1 September 2026.
The 2026 JMPS Young Investigator Award is awarded to:
Lu Lu, Sophie Leanza, Luyuan Ning and Ruike Renee Zhao
for their paper:
“2D-to-3D transformation of ring origami via snap-folding instabilities,”
Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, Volume 206, Part B, 2026, 106404.
We are hiring: Assistant or Associate Professor, Tenure Track or Tenured, Materials Science and Engineering. Review of applicants will begin on October 31, 2026, and will continue until the position is filled. Please share with your network.
Applications are open for one post-doctoral research fellowship at IDMEC, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, within the project DEEPFRAC (Deep fracture), FCT 2024.14907.PEX, supervised by Pedro Areias.
Reference of the call: BI 30.PL750.2026.IDMEC.
I am recruiting PhD students in reprogrammable matter at Imperial College London: https://aimlab.uk/join-us/vacancies/. The positions are fully funded and start Autumn of 2027.
In addition, I am hosting externally funded PhD scholarships and Postdoc fellowships through a variety of mechanisms, some of which are listed here https://aimlab.uk/join-us/.
“A Physics-Informed Neural Networks framework for simulating natural convection of Cu–water micropolar nanofluid in a porous enclosure with internal heat generation”
The paper has been published in the European Journal of Mechanics / B Fluids.
The Department of Mechanical Engineering at Boston University invites applications for two tenure-track Assistant Professor positions.
For the first position, we are primarily seeking candidates working at the frontiers of intelligent systems and physical AI but welcome all candidates whose work complements and extends our core strengths in advanced manufacturing, aerospace, biomechanics and mechanobiology, dynamics and control, energy and sustainability, materials, robotics, solid mechanics, and thermofluids. More information about this position can be found here:
We are seeking a highly motivated PhD student for an Intel PhD Fellowship at the University of Arizona, starting in January 2027.
Research Area:
Computational Mechanics / Peridynamics
Eligibility:
U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident
Our latest paper on ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene is now published in Modelling Simul. Mater. Sci. Eng. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-651X/ae9f79
Computed tomography (CT) has transformed fields by enabling non-destructive three-dimensional (3D) imaging. However, conventional CT is fundamentally limited by acquisition speed: high-quality 3D reconstruction typically requires thousands of X-ray radiographs acquired over a full specimen rotation, taking minutes to hours. This makes CT unsuitable for fast, transient phenomena such as additive manufacturing, impact, fracture and high-rate deformation.
