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...

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...

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...

This postdoctoral position is hosted by the Polymer Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava, within the Department for Biomaterials Research and the Department of Molecular Simulations of Polymers. The successful researcher will work on molecular modeling of polymer systems at different levels of approximation, combining computational approaches with a strong mathematical and physical foundation. The project is framed around the development and application of new models and com...

The Department of Mathematics in Penn State’s Eberly College of Science is seeking a postdoctoral scholar to join research at the intersection of fluid dynamics, soft matter, and data-driven mathematical modeling. The project is based in the department’s Pritchard Laboratory, where the successful candidate will conduct laboratory experiments and contribute to the development of mathematical models informed by experimental data. The appointment is centered on collaboration with Dr. Karol Bacik , ...