Openings

Ph.D. Students: Our group is looking for talented graduate students from MechE, AeroAstro, DMSE, and ChemE (or related departments). Particularly, we’re looking for candidates interested in Mechanics of Materials, Nanomechanics, Advanced Material Synthesis, and Computational Mechanics. If you are interested, please send an email with your CV to cportela@mit.edu.

Postdoctoral Positions: We currently one position available in the area of computational mechanics of metamaterials under extreme conditions (familiarity/experience with experiments is a plus)— see application information and details below. 

Prof. Carlos Portela

cportela@mit.edu

Office – 1-304

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Ave, Rm. 1-304

Cambridge, MA 02139

Portela Research Group Laboratory – 31-383

Administrative Assistant

Janet Sabio Maslow

jsabio@mit.edu