Research support technician (70 %)

at  Universit du Luxembourg

The University of Luxembourg aspires to be one of Europe’s most highly regarded universities with a distinctly international and interdisciplinary character. It fosters the cross-fertilisation of research and teaching, is relevant to its country, is known worldwide for its research and teaching in targeted areas, and is establishing itself as an innovative model for contemporary European Higher Education. The University`s core asset is its well-connected world-class academic staff which will attract the most motivated, talented and creative students and young researchers who will learn to enjoy taking up challenges and develop into visionary thinkers able to shape society.
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 FSTM invites candidates to apply for a Research Support Technician, short term position currently open in the Physics and Materials Science department (DPhyMS).

The group Physics of active matter headed by Prof. Fodor has recently developed minimal models for a new class of living systems called pulsating active matter. This class entails contractile biological tissues which feature the emergence of deformation waves. To study the energetics of pulsating active matter, there is a dire need to numerically study some thermodynamically consistent models.

The technician will perform:

• Some numerical simulations of models of thermodynamically consistent pulsating active matter
• This will include large scale simulations using the High Performance Computer available free of charge in Luxembourg
• The main task will be to write and optimize numerical codes, and to run an efficient search in parameter space to identify relevant regimes where deformation waves develop