FEMTO-ST is organizing the MSCA-PF Boostcamp to support applications to the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships (MSCA PF) under Horizon Europe. I’m sure you know these prestigious fellowships, funded by the European Commission, which offer international researchers the opportunity to carry out a 1- to 2-year postdoctoral project in a European host institution. They represent a … Read more
The long awaited MecaNano Summer School 2025 is now fully organized to present new topics related to Mechanics at the Nanoscale! The summer school will be held 28. July to 1. August in Kassel, Germany home to the UNESCO mountain park and elected happiest city of Germany in 2024. The organizers (B. Merle, C. Kirchlechner, … Read more
For those members working closely with dislocations, the 7th Dislocations Conference will be held in Miami, FL (US) on November 10-14 2025. The Dislocations Conference Series is one of the major scientific meetings dedicated to the mechanics and physics of crystal dislocations and related topics. Following in the steps of its six previous editions, the objective of this conferenceis to bring … Read more
A fully-funded 4-year PhD position is available within a collaboration between KU Leuven (prof. Joris Everaerts & prof. Claudia Fleischmann) and imec, which is a world-leading research & development organization active in the fields of nanoelectronics and digital technologies. The goal of this PhD is to understand the mechanisms that lead to failure of multilayered … Read more
A fully-funded 4-year PhD position is available within a collaboration between KU Leuven (prof. Joris Everaerts) and imec, which is a world-leading research & development organization active in the fields of nanoelectronics and digital technologies. The PhD aims at studying and improving the mechanical behavior of nano-interconnects. These interconnects handle power and signal distribution in … Read more
Applications will be accepted until the position is successfully filled. The project will start on 01.05.2025. More details here !
The Institute of Materials and Process Engineering (IMAP) of the Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) is looking for a post-doctoral researcher to support transmission electron microscopy characterization of advanced aluminium alloys processed by additive manufacturing and also possibly involving multi-material (steel, Mg, oxides, …) interfaces. The candidate needs to be trained in high resolution (scanning-) … Read more
A PhD position is available in micro- and nanomechanical testing of cement lines in bone at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg. Nanoindentation, micropillar compression, and fracture mechanical experiments will be conducted on cement lines in human bone of different donor age, tissue age and health condition (healthy/osteoporotic). The aim of the project is to unravel the role the … Read more
Deadline: 17th April 2025 National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Japan https://www.jsps.go.jp/english/e-fellow/e-ippan/index.html https://rcsm.nims.go.jp/english/about/organization-members/materials-evaluation-field/page000215.html Dr. Thomas Edwards The Mechanical Properties group at NIMS enthusiastically welcomes applications for the JSPS postdoctoral fellowship program (2-year duration). We are a dynamic, international lab headed by experimental leads Prof. Takahito Ohmura and Assoc Prof. Thomas Edwards, and simulation (MD, … Read more
Topic: “_NANOengineering INTerfaces and adhesion in INTerface-dominated materials_” (Nano-INT²) Supervision: Dr. Matteo Ghidelli, Dr. Martin Robin Ideal starting date: October 2025 (negotiable). More details here !