Positions for Ph.D. Students at Duke University

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The Duke Acoustofluidics Group (https://acoustofluidics.pratt.duke.edu/) is inviting the most motivated, talented Ph.D. candidates to join us.  We have multiple positions now. We conduct research at the interface of physics, engineering, micro/nano technology, chemistry, and biomedicine.  Our group is highly dynamic and has a strong track record of impactful research, with publications in Nature Materials, Nature Methods, Nature Communications, Science Advances, and other high-impact journals. The graduate students from our group have been recognized with more than 100 awards for their research achievements, including National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Fellowships, Fulbright Scholarships, NASA Space Technology Research Fellowships, Baxter Young Investigator Awards, Materials Research Society (MRS) Graduate Student Award, Founder’s prize from the American Academy of Mechanics, a Boris P. Stoicheff Memorial Scholarship from Optical Society of America, a SPIE fellowship in Optics and Photonics, and best paper awards at the IEEE Ultrasonics Symposiums and MicroTAS Conferences.  Our alumni have an outstanding career trajectory, with over 60% gaining faculty positions after graduation. To date, twenty-six of our former Ph.D. students and postdocs have received tenured or tenure-track faculty positions at prestigious research institutions worldwide such as Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania (USA), The University of Texas, Austin (USA), ETH Zurich (Switzerland), University of Birmingham (UK), Virginia Tech (USA), University of Colorado, Boulder (USA), Indiana University (USA), West Virginia University (USA), North Carolina State University (USA), Binghamton University (USA), University of Iowa (USA), University of Nebraska, Lincoln (USA), University of Dayton (USA), Technical University of Munich (Germany), Peking University, Zhejiang University, Southern University of Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Dalian University of Technology, Shanghai University, Zhengzhou University..

The three values that are core to our group are (1) hard work; (2) innovation; (3) collaboration. Thus we would like to recruit Ph.D. candidates who honor these three values at the highest level. In terms of background, we consider candidates with excellent training in one of the following fields: Physics, Engineering, Biology, and Chemistry. We recruit candidates with strong background in physics or engineering to develop new technologies; we also recruit candidates with strong background in chemistry or biology to develop new applications for these technologies. Candidates with strong publication record and excellent research training will have significant advantages. If you are interested in joining us, please send to Prof. Tony Jun Huang (email: tony.huang@duke.edu) with your CV.