Doctoral Candidate in Computational Mechanics

The University of Luxembourg is an international research university with a distinctly multilingual and interdisciplinary character. The University was founded in 2003 and counts more than 6,700 students and more than 2,000 employees from around the world. The University’s faculties and interdisciplinary centres focus on research in the areas of Computer Science and ICT Security, Materials Science, European and International Law, Finance and Financial Innovation, Education, Contemporary and Digital History. In addition, the University focuses on cross-disciplinary research in the areas of Data Modelling and Simulation as well as Health and System Biomedicine. Times Higher Education ranks the University of Luxembourg #3 worldwide for its “international outlook,” #20 in the Young University Ranking 2021 and among the top 250 universities worldwide.

The Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine (FSTM) contributes multidisciplinary expertise in the fields of Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, Computer Science, Life Sciences and Medicine. Through its dual mission of teaching and research, the FSTM seeks to generate and disseminate knowledge and train new generations of responsible citizens, in order to better understand, explain and advance society and environment we live in.

The University of Luxembourg (UL) invites applications for the position of a Doctoral Researcher (PhD candidate) in Computational Mechanics. The successful applicant is expected to perform original research in the area of advanced computational solid/structural mechanics with applications in civil and/or mechanical engineering and to contribute to associated teaching activities in the department’s bachelor and master programmes. You will be working in the research team led by Prof. Dr. Andreas Zilian (Department of Engineering / Computational Engineering and Sciences ).

Potential areas of your future research could include – but are not limited to – ageing and degradation of concrete structures, novel techniques for finite strain elasto-plasticity of continua, advanced models and discretisation strategies for shell structures. Depending on your background and PhD research specialisation you will be trained in the programme Data and Computational Sciences or the programme Engineering Sciences of the faculty’s doctoral school.