PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Soft Matter Physics in Luxembourg

This postdoctoral position is based at the Institut Charles Sadron (ICS), Strasbourg , within a collaborative consortium bringing together the ICS polymer theory and simulation team, the soft matter and membranes team, and L’Oréal Hair & Skin Science in Clichy, Paris. The project focuses on AI-assisted molecular simulations for sustainable hair-care formulations. The successful researcher will work on bio-based polymer and surfactant systems, developing accelerated coarse-graining approaches and...

This postdoctoral project at CNRS focuses on the self-assembly and dynamics of nanoparticles in liquid crystal blue phase matrices . The research aims to understand how inserting nanoparticles can stabilize blue phases, extend their temperature range, and modify their structure and properties. The project is centered on soft-matter physico-chemistry, with particular attention to blue-phase liquid crystals that are attractive for light-based applications such as display technologies because they ...

This postdoctoral position is based at the Ecole supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles de la Ville de Paris and focuses on experimental research in active matter. The project aims to understand the physical mechanisms of self-regulation in active systems using reconstituted active nematics built from cytoskeleton components. The researcher will investigate how mobile inclusions interact with an active environment, with special attention to the reciprocal effects between the inclusion...

[Annual stipend at the UKRI minimum rate currently £21,805 per year plus £1,000 per annum enhancement, with a research training support grant of up to £20,000 for the full 4-year programme.] This 4-year PhD studentship at The University of Manchester explores interdisciplinary methods for liquid crystal-based biosensing . The project focuses on how liquid crystals interact with prototype cells and soft flexible surfaces, and how those interactions can be turned into measurable sensing signals. T...

The Department of Mathematics at the University of South Carolina is seeking a postdoctoral scholar to join an interdisciplinary project on multiscale modeling of stimuli-responsive drug delivery systems . The position brings together mathematical modeling, computational simulation, and experimental methods to study the flow behavior of smart micellar materials . The successful candidate will contribute to an NIH-funded research effort that integrates rheological experiments, stochastic modeling...

Masaryk University’s Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC MU) is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow to join the Robert Vácha Research Group in Brno, Czech Republic. The project focuses on lipid nanoparticles and related delivery systems for mRNA-based cancer immunotherapy vaccines. These systems must deliver therapeutic mRNA reliably to the cytosol while maintaining safety, long-term stability, high loading efficiency, uniform particle size, and suitability for scalable manufacturing. The...

Stockholm University is offering a postdoctoral position in experimental chemical physics within the Department of Physics and the Division of Chemical Physics. The fellow will join Foivos Perakis’s research group and contribute to HYDRA, a project funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. HYDRA investigates how water and protein sequence jointly control the formation and maturation of biomolecular condensates. The research follows these systems from early molecular interactions and li...

Gesse R., an Assistant Professor at Villanova University, is seeking a PhD student to join a research group working in computational soft matter . The fully funded position is scheduled to start in Fall 2027. The group studies the modeling and simulation of particles—including both active and passive particles—and macromolecules in fluids. The research involves computational approaches to soft matter, fluid mechanics, colloidal physics, numerical methods, and applied mathematics, with potential ...

This postdoctoral project at the CNRS explores how to control the permeability of water-in-water emulsions stabilized by self-assembled lyotropic phases at the droplet interface. These emulsions, formed from phase separation in aqueous polymer solutions such as PEG and dextran, are attractive for encapsulation and controlled release of hydrophilic molecules without oil or organic solvent. The research sits within the ANR SHEILA project and focuses on making interfacial transport stimulus-respons...