3 PhD & 2 Postdoctoral Positions in Mechanics of Materials & Structures, Ghent University, Belgium (2016)

The vacancies are available in the “Mechanics of Materials and Structures” research group at Ghent University. The offices and laboratories of this group are situated in the south of Ghent.

Who do we look for ?
- you are interested in research and have obtained a Master and/or PhD degree,
- you are interested to interact and collaborate closely with the industrial partners during the research period,
- you have an education in Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Computational Mechanics, or similar,

What do we offer ?
- you will be working in a dynamic environment. Our group has expanded quite fast the last few years and currently, 10 postdoc’s and 19 PhD students are working in our group. Besides, 18 PhD students have successfully obtained their PhD degree in the last five years,
- we have extensive experimental and numerical facilities. You will have access to several Linux workstations and a high performance computing cluster to run finite element simulations on 2000+ cores,

- PhD vacancy (4 years) on the ultrasonic polar scan method for non-destructive testing and characterization of multilayered fiber reinforced plastics
- PhD vacancy (4 years) on multi-scale fatigue damage modelling of unidirectional fibre-reinforced composites
- PhD vacancy (4 years) on simulation and testing of short fibre-reinforced composites for application in heat exchangers
- Postdoctoral vacancy (24 months) on FE simulation of mechanics of short fibre-reinforced composites at high temperatures and pressures
- Postdoctoral vacancy (18 months) on FE simulation of 3D printed lattice structures

Further details:
http://academicpositions.eu