Crystal plasticity, fracture of advanced materials, micromechanics of polycrystals Western University in Canada

Fully funded PhD position in Functional Materials and Advanced Manufacturing is available at Western University, Canada, within the Data-Driven Advanced Manufacturing (D2M) Group in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering. The doctoral thesis, Functional Materials for Hierarchical Manufacturing , focuses on developing and applying functional materials for wearable energy storage and sensor technologies. The research sits at the intersection of materials science, mechanical enginee...

The National Research Council Canada is recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow in Composite Structure Virtual Testing in Ottawa, within its Aerospace organizational unit. This two-year fellowship will develop a Certification-by-Analysis framework for composite airframe structures. The project will create a Physics-Informed Mesh Graph Network solver that combines deep learning with governing physics to model complex composite failure mechanisms. The intended outcome is a fast, reliable and data-efficie...

PhD opportunity at Concordia University in Building and Wind Engineering with Professor Hua Ge . The project focuses on wind-driven hail impacts on building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) , façade, and roofing systems under present and future climate conditions. Research topics include hail hazards, building aerodynamics, hail trajectories, impact mechanics, and computational modelling. Students with interests in Civil Engineering , Mechanical Engineering , Building Engineering , and Wind Engine...

PhD opportunity at the Université de Sherbrooke in Canada, focused on the optimization of a micropillar microfabrication process for Fan-Out Wafer Level Packaging (FOWLP). The project sits at the intersection of advanced microelectronics, heterogeneous integration, and manufacturing process development for high-performance computing, AI, aerospace, and defense applications. The thesis aims to develop high-density vertical interconnections with a pitch below 30 μm, compatible with a manufacturing...

PhD opportunity at the University of Victoria in the Gharehkhani Group, co-supervised by Prof. James Olson and Prof. Peter Wild. The project focuses on developing novel wood-based materials, with particular attention to microfibrillated cellulose and the refining process. The research combines experimental work with extensive data analysis and may include machine learning tools to improve process understanding and materials development. Preferred backgrounds include mechanical engineering, pulp ...