NanoBrücken 2026 will take place 8-10 April at the Technical University Leoben in Leoben, Austria and is Bruker’s annual Nanomechanical Testing Conference and User Meeting covering all aspects of nanoindentation and nanotribological testing, featuring presentations by leading experts in the field. The symposium will cover all aspects of mechanical characterization and simulation, from the micro … Read more
March 8–13, 2026 in Dresden, Germany Abstract submission is open until December 1, 2025 here. We’re excited to announce the topical session: Advanced Nanomechanics – Accelerating Materials Physics from the Bottom About the session: Recent breakthroughs in nanomechanics and micromechanics are transforming how we understand and design materials. Combining in-situ deformation testing in TEMs and … Read more
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