The In-situ Electron Microscopy Workshop website is now open! If you are a beginner or looking to advance your knowledge on in-situ mechanical testing with electron microscopy, check out: https://mecanano-insitu.sciencesconf.org The workshop (Toulouse, France) will take place over four half-days (Jan. 26th-28th 2026) and will include invited talks (30 minutes), short contributed talks (20 minutes), … Read more
Starting date : December 2025 Duration :1 year Lab : CEMES-CNRS, Toulouse, France Contact person : F. Mompiou mompiou@cemes.fr More details here ! Full job description available here: post-doc-doremi-CEMES Future aeronautic and aerospace applications will require materials able to sustain very high temperatures, i.e in the range 1200°C – 1600°C under mechanical loading. Over the last … Read more
Starting date : October 2025 or as soon as possible Duration : 3 years Place/Lab : Chair of Materials Physics and Institute for Physical Metallurgy and Materials Physics, RWTH Aachen University Contact person : Ulrich Kerzel More details here !
Johann Michler and Jakob Schwiedrzik will be teaching a four day block course on thin film and small scale mechanics from Nov 25th to 28th, 2025 at Empa in Thun. Both theory and experiments will be covered and practical sessions are also planned. The course is open to both doctoral students and postdocs in principle. … Read more
3 years – PhD offer at CEMES-CNRS, Toulouse, France Starting date : Oct 1st 2025 For more details, please contact F. Mompiou mompiou@cemes.fr and go see the detailed offer
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
Project description: More and more technologies, implemented in nowadays devices or foreseen in next-generation ones, are or will be based on the intriguing properties of the quantum world. Applications include single-molecule and precise field sensing, quantum computing, single-particle emission/detection, twistronics and so on. They require the design and manipulation of materials at the nanometric scale, … 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