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🥝 2 PhD Positions: Designing intelligence in battery-less micromechanical structures

ETH | zürich, Switzerland | Posted June 04, 2026

Job Description

Job description

The tasks of the student will be:

  • Design mechanical structures that use nonlinear elasticity to perform computations using ambient energy
  • Develop efficient simulation algorithms capable of tackling complex devices consisting of thousands of parts
  • Conducting table-top experiments to validate the concepts
  • The envisioned starting date is October/November .

    Your profile

    We are looking for two students with experience (or strong interest to learn) in the topics of:

  • Finite Element Method (FEM) simulation, specifically nonlinear FEM
  • Model reduction and substructuring component mode synthesis methods
  • Nonlinear and stochastic dynamics
  • Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)
  • Digital logic and physical computing
  • Furthermore, we expect excellent command of English, both written and oral....

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