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My group in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Northeastern University has multiple fully funded PhD positions, starting Spring/Fall 2021. Successful candidates will be working in the broad area of mechanics and/or materials, including but not limited to biomimetic and biological materials, soft active materials, soft robotics, multiphysics characterization, design, and functionalization. Research will be focused on the combination of theory and experiment.

Self-excited vibrations represent a big concern in engineering, particularly in automotive, railway and aeronautic industry. Many lumped models have been proposed over the years to analyze the stability of such systems. Among the instability mechanisms a falling characteristic of the friction law and mode coupling have been shown to give friction-excited oscillations. The mass-on-moving-belt system has been studied extensively in Literature, very often adopting a prescribed form of the friction law and linearizing the contact stiffness.

The Chen lab at Dartmouth is looking for two postdocts in solid mechanics/mechanical metamaterials/soft robotics/biomechanics areas with an expected start date after 7/1/2020.

A Postdoctoral researcher position is available in the Anderson lab in the Department of Evolution, Ecology and Behavior at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The Anderson lab seeks a post-doctoral scholar with strong experience in some combination of the following: experimental fracture mechanics, Impact dynamics, dynamic fracture modeling, energetics and/or biomechanics. Please see the attached ad for more information. More information about the Anderson Lab can be found here: https://www.philipslanderson.com/

Northwestern Professor and solid mechanician Yonggang Huang is among the 276 new members elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) in 2020. He joins the assembly that was founded in 1780 by John Adams, James Bowdoin, John Hancock, and others who believed the new republic should honor exceptionally accomplished individuals and engage them in advancing the public good.

The weblink to the new AAAS members elected in 2020: https://www.amacad.org/new-members-2020

EML Webinar on April 29, 2020 will be given by Prof. Huajian Gao at Nanyang Technological University via Zoom meeting. 

Title: Simulation-assisted discovery of membrane targeting nanomedicines

Time: 7 am California, 10 am Boston, 3 pm London, 10 pm Beijing on April 29, 2020

Zoom Link: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/271079684 

Zoom ID: 271 079 684

A joint Ph.D position between two Labs of the Univ lyon: Laboratoire de Mécanique des Contacts et des Structures (LaMCoS UMR CNRS 5259) and Laboratoire de Tribologie et Dynamique des Systèmes (LTDS UMR CNRS 5513) is available.
The subject is financed by the Laboratory of Excellence, namely Labex CeLyA (Centre Lyonnais d’Acoustique), and its duration will be three years. Please see the attached for more details.

(1) Bonding by elastic adhesive contact: This community here is perhaps more familiar with bonding elastic solids by adhesive contact, such as gecko adhesion, or more generally rough surface adhesion. But what about bonding two pieces of metals? 

https://www.iit.it/careers/openings/opening/1151-1-post-doc-position-fo…

To be started soon. Contact me for further information at michele.scaraggi [at] iit.it 

Best regards 

M