PhD in Machine Learning Approaches to Simulating Active Matter in New Ensembles University of Bristol in United Kingdom

University of Vienna is advertising a predoctoral (PhD) university assistant position in the Faculty of Physics with the Computational and Soft Matter Physics Group led by Prof. Christos Likos . The project focuses on soft condensed matter physics , especially the collective self-organization of active polymers and swimmers under hydrodynamics. The group’s broader research interests include active matter , glass formation , self-assembly , topological interactions , statistical mechanics , polym...

PhD studentship at the University of Birmingham in robotic materials , mechanical metamaterials , active matter physics , and embodied artificial intelligence . The project focuses on self-learning active mechanical networks and will combine table-top robotic experiments with theoretical modelling . Research directions may be tailored to the successful candidate’s interests and expertise, with opportunities to work on decentralized learning, physical reservoir computing, contrastive learning, no...

AstraZeneca-funded PhD studentship at the University of Cambridge in the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics . The project, Physics-Guided Representation Learning from Free Energy Perturbation Data for Affinity Prediction and Candidate Down-Selection , sits at the interface of statistical machine learning , molecular simulation , drug discovery , and computational chemistry . The successful student will work on developing new machine-learning methods for predicting molecul...

PhD opportunity at the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research , University of Southampton , on sports acoustics and impact sound in cricket , with methods extended to baseball , golf , and tennis . The project investigates how ball–equipment impact sounds reveal performance quality, contact mechanics, and ball trajectory. It combines acoustic analysis , physics-based modelling , and machine learning to extract high-fidelity performance information from sound signals and to develop robust indi...

Postdoctoral Researcher position in Statistical Physics of Active Matter at the University of Luxembourg , Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine (FSTM), based at Belval Campus in Luxembourg. The project focuses on developing novel analytical and numerical techniques to study collective states in active matter . Depending on the candidate’s profile and interests, the research may include modeling and optimal control of active systems . The selected researcher will also participate in the sc...