Ph.D. students opening in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the Iowa State University

A research group at Iowa State University is looking for research assistants in the field of solid mechanics, computational mechanics, and computational materials science. Research topics will fall into a broad area of modeling and simulation of mechanical and transport behaviors, such as plasticity, fracture, phase transformation, thermal transport, or mass transport, in a variety of materials. In particular, self-motivated individuals who have research experience in one or more of the following areas are strongly encouraged to apply for the full-support Ph.D. positions in our group (https://www.aere.iastate.edu/lmxiong/):

• Continuum Mechanics
• Finite Element Modeling, Atomistic Simulation, first principle calculations
• LAMMPS, DL_POLY, GULP
• Dislocation Dynamics, Phase Field Method, XFEM, Crystal Plasticity
• Multiscale Modeling of Materials
• FORTRAN, C++, OpenMPI

To apply for the position, please submit a single PDF file via email (lmxiong@iastate.edu) with (i) your most recent CV; (ii) a transcript; (iii) relevant research experience or publications if there are any, as well as (iv) a list of references. Please name your file “FirstName.LastName.pdf”.