Postdoc biological physics (Max Planck Göttingen)

I have an opening for a Postdoc position in Biological Physics in my group at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPIDS) in Göttingen.

Project: Role of viscoelasticity in the dynamics of droplets inside cells or related topics
Starting date: Flexible (position is for 2 years initially, with possibility for extension)
Deadline: March 1st, 2023

Best wishes,
David Zwicker

CRCN at INRAE Montpellier – process design for granular matter

A permanent research scientist position in process design for granular matter should open soon in our group! 

Missions: 

  • Understanding the physical mechanisms at play during the transformation of matter into granular form with focus on plant biomass powders.
  • Developing new approaches to exploit the variety of rheological and mechanical behaviors of granular materials at the process scale.  

Our strengths: 

We are a dynamic team which combines experimental, theoretical and numerical developments to model the physics and mechanics of granular matter from the microscopic to the process scale. You will benefit from the local scientific environment of the university of Montpellier (France) and its strong international collaborations.

Location:

The IATE research unit in Montpellier consists of 80 permanent people and focusses on the processing of renewable resources from agriculture and forestry. Our research topics are at the interface of physics, mechanics, computational modeling, chemical engineering and biochemistry.

Interested?

Go to the INRAE Jobs website from January 30, 2023 to apply!

https://jobs.inrae.fr/en/open-competitions/open-competitions-research-scientists-jo! b-profiles-crcn

For further information:

jean-yves.delenne@inrae.fr

Summer school Freezing and Interfaces (Cargèse, May 1-5, 2023)

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to organize a Thematic Summer School named Freezing & Interfaces which will take place in Cargèse, Corsica, on May 1-5, 2023.

The objective of this school is to present the fundamentals, the latest theoretical advances and experimental activities in the field of ice formation in capillary systems (drop, film, foam, porous media) and heterogeneous mixtures (solution, suspension, emulsion, granular).

The list of lectures and speakers is as follows:

– Freezing of solutions and formation of sea ice, with Grae Worster, DAMTP, Cambridge (4h)

– Freezing of suspensions and emulsions, with Sylvain Deville, Institut Lumière Matière, Lyon (4h)

– Freezing of soil and geomorphology, with Alan Rempel, University of Oregon (4h)

– Surface of ice and ice wetting, with Daniel Bonn, Institute of Physics, University of Amsterdam (4h)

– Formation of snow crystals, with Kenneth Libbrecht, Caltech (4h)

– Ice accretion in aeronautics, with Claire Laurent & Pierre Trontin, Onera, Toulouse (4h).

Participants will have the opportunity to present their work during two poster sessions.

More information can be found on the website of the conference: https://interfreeze.sciencesconf.org/.

Registration for the school is open and needs to be done on the dedicated webpage : https://interfreeze.sciencesconf.org/registration

Places will be limited to 80 participants. The registration deadline is March 10, 2023
We hope that many of you will be interested and we are looking forward to seeing you in May. 

Best regards,

The Organizing Committee :
Axel Huerre (MSC)
Juliette Pierre (Institut ∂’Alembert)
Christophe Josserand (LadHyX)
Thomas Séon (Institut ∂’Alembert)

Postdoc optimization of gas-liquid exchange interface (LGPM, CentraleSupélec)

We invite applications for a 1-year postdoc position available at CentraleSupélec (Université Paris-Saclay, France), with a flexible start date around March 2023.This is an experimental project in collaboration with Air Liquide R&D that aims at improving the geometry of the structured packings used in cryogenic distillation. See pdf attached for more information.

We are looking for a highly motivated candidate with a solid background in fluid mechanics, mechanics or physics.

Feel free to contact Hervé Duval (herve.duval@centralesupelec.fr) or Mikaël Wattiau (mikael.wattiau@airliquide.com) with any question.

Postdoc Acoustic confinement of bacteria (Emory University, Atlanta)

The Physics Department at Emory University in Atlanta, GA, USA invites applications for a postdoctoral position in experimental soft matter and biological physics. The candidate will have the opportunity to work on a newly funded, highly interdisciplinary project centered on how bacteria and other microbes survive, grow, and interact in the air. The research is motivated by overwhelming evidence that airborne microbes critically impact everyday life, e.g., rainfall, disease spread, land fertilization, and food production. The candidate will help build and optimize acoustic levitators to grow bacteria on isolated particles in analog atmospheric conditions in the laboratory. A major goal of this research is to develop a new way to culture bacteria in the air and use this cutting-edge technology to understand the physiology, metabolism, ecology, and evolution of airborne microbes. The candidate will also be joining a collaborative research team, with physicists and microbiologists at Emory University, and Earth scientists at the University of Oregon.

Candidates are requested to send their curriculum vitae including a list of publications to Justin Burton at justin.c.burton@emory.edu and arrange to have 3 recommendation letters sent to the same address. Review of the applications will begin immediately, until the position is filled. The starting date for the position is flexible, from late Spring 2023 – early Fall 2023. Emory is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Therefore, women and minorities are especially encouraged to apply. For more information about employment at Emory, please visit https://www.hr.emory.edu/careers/.

Justin C. Burton
https://www.jcburtonlab.com/

Workshop Mesoscale modelling of driven disordered materials: from glasses to active matter (CECAM EPFL, May 24-26 2023)

Dear colleagues,

We would like to bring to your attention the upcoming CECAM meeting on « Mesoscale modelling of driven disordered materials: from glasses to active matter », to be held on May 24-26, 2023 at the CECAM headquarters at EPFL in Lausanne (Switzerland).

All the information can be found on the associated website: https://www.cecam.org/workshop-details/1206

A limited number of slots will be available for contributed talks. Upon registration, researchers interested in giving such a contributed talk and/or presenting a poster are invited to submit an abstract through the workshop website, before March 11, 2023. Please note that the selection for the confirmed participants and the abstracts will be notified on March 18, 2023.

Best regards,

Elisabeth Agoritsas, Misaki Ozawa, Sylvain Patinet