Status:Closed

Opening date: 3 May 2023

Closing date: 30 June 2023

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Context

The Institute plans to fund up to three post-doctoral students for a maximum of 24 months (12 months + possible extension of 12 months) from October 2023. The recruitment procedure will be as follows:

  • subjects to be collected from the Institute's researchers(deadline 03/05).
  • selection of 6 topics by the Scientific Advisory Board and publication on the Institute's website.
  • Submission of applications(deadline 06/30).
  • ranking of candidates by the Institute Council in early July (with a main list and a complementary list). A hearing of candidates (early July, videoconference possible) will be scheduled before the ranking.

Project selection criteria are as follows:

  • Scientific project
  • Supervision / Post-doctoral work
  • Impact and spin-offs

Post-doctoral students are expected to take part in teaching activities, which can take many forms: supervision of projects or trainees, participation in teaching activities at advanced levels (M2 and PhD), seminars presenting their research activities to a student audience, dissemination of scientific culture.

Timetable

  • Application deadline : June 30, 2022

Contact

If you have any questions: cedric.fages@univ-amu.fr

Awardees

  • Awardee

    2023
    Call for HR projects

    WTDI - Elastic waves in metamaterials with time-modulated interfaces

    Project leader(s)
    Michaël DARCHE (GeoEND Laboratory, Gustave Eiffel University, Bouguenais, France)
    Laboratory(s)
    LMA
    Call for HR projects

    WTDI - Elastic waves in metamaterials with time-modulated interfaces

    Project leader(s)
    Michaël DARCHE (GeoEND Laboratory, Gustave Eiffel University, Bouguenais, France)
    Laboratory(s)
    LMA
    • Topic supervised by Bruno LOMBARD (LMA)

    By structuring materials, it is possible to control waves and obtain surprising effects: high-resolution lenses, directional antennas, invisibility cloaks, etc. This is the paradigm of metamaterials, a field of research that has been very active since the early 2000s and which promises many technological developments, for example improving Wi-Fi coverage or insulating buildings against seismic waves. However, the properties accessible with these materials also have limits, given by the usual laws of physics. Reciprocity is one of these laws [4]. In the linear regime and without flow, a wave transmitted between two points remains the same when the source and receiver are interchanged. Breaking the reciprocity makes it possible to control the waves in a novel way by making directional band gaps possible. Applications include wave filtering, diode design and logic gates in elastodynamics.(...)

    Further information

    See the associated call for project

  • Awardee

    2023
    Call for HR projects

    Self-contracting vascular solids

    Project leader(s)
    Faisal AHMAD (Rheology and Processes Laboratory, Grenoble Alpes University, France)
    Laboratory(s)
    IRPHE & IUSTI
    Call for HR projects

    Self-contracting vascular solids

    Project leader(s)
    Faisal AHMAD (Rheology and Processes Laboratory, Grenoble Alpes University, France)
    Laboratory(s)
    IRPHE & IUSTI
    • Topic supervised by Martin BRANDENBOURGER (IRPHE) & Joel MARTHELOT (IUSTI)

    Inspired by nature, pneumatic soft robots use vascular networks and external pumps to twist, deform, move and bend in ways that traditional hard robots cannot. So far, these soft robots lack autonomy compared to organisms, which control fluid transport in vascular networks in much more advanced ways. From animals to fungi, one of the most efficient fluid transport mechanism is based on vessels that can actively contract upon local sensing of stimuli. This adaptive fluid transport enables advanced functionalities in organisms such as autonomous locomotion toward objectives. The main goal of the proposed research is to design self-contracting vascular networks to study active solids that deform upon sensing.

    Further information

    See the associated call for project

  • Awardee

    2023
    Call for HR projects

    Acoustofluidics in the micro-environment of bone cells: assessment of mechanical stimuli

    Project leader(s)
    Elisa GHIRINGHELLI (IMFT, Toulouse, France)
    Laboratory(s)
    LMA & IRPHE
    Call for HR projects

    Acoustofluidics in the micro-environment of bone cells: assessment of mechanical stimuli

    Project leader(s)
    Elisa GHIRINGHELLI (IMFT, Toulouse, France)
    Laboratory(s)
    LMA & IRPHE
    • Supervised by Carine GUIVIER-CURIEN (IRPHE), Cécile BARON (IRPHE), Philippe LASAYGUES (LMA)

    Bone is a mechanosensitive living tissue subjected to constant remodeling in response to mechanical constraints. Bone remodeling is a skillful balance between the action of bone-forming cells (osteoblasts), and bone-resorbing cells (osteoclasts) orchestrated by bone-mechanosensing cells (osteocytes). However, this natural process is insufficient to address numerous bone disorders such as complex bone fracture or bone cancer, in which bone reconstruction must be assisted. As mechanical waves, ultrasound can provide additional local mechanical stimulation and potentially restore the balance of bone remodeling. (...)

    Further information

    See the associated call for project