Current Positions:

• • Ph.D.: 3 (U.S. citizens and Green card holders should contact the PI before applying/being admitted for scholarships from NSF, NIH, etc.)

  • Masters: 1 (only two thesis-based MS students will be considered per year and salary is available from the third semester based upon satisfactory performance)

  • Bachelors: 1 (Junior students are encouraged to contact the PI for scholarships before applying; current UGA scholarships or interns include the REU, CURO research award, CURO research course, CURO thesis class, and others

  • Middle/high school students: 1 for research experience; please notice that the students will have to provide the following documents:

    • A signed parental release form is kept on file in the lab (attached).

    • Hazardous Waste, Fire, and Lab training are required.

  • Exchange Students for international students: 1

Ph.D. Candidate Requirements and Positions:  Students with a background in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanics, Chemical Engineering, or, Materials Science especially Polymer Science and Engineering, are strongly encouraged to contact the PI for the following openings. Candidates are expected to be self-motivated, team-oriented, and rich in hands-on experience, including but not limited to: 

• • mechanical design of experimental set-up, 

  • manufacturing at nano-micro-macro scale, and, 

  • test of material physical and chemical properties (i.e., mechanical, thermal, electrical, optical, morphological, topographical, rheological, tribological, surficial and interfacial interactions) and usage of scientific tools (i.e., DMA, DSC, TGA, UV-Vis, SEM, TEM, AFM, tribo-indenter, rheometer, goniometer, tensiometer, profilometer, FTIR, Raman, WAXD, SAXS, SANS), as well as, 

  • expertise in modeling/simulation tools (i.e., Finite Element Method using ANSYS/ABAQUS/COMSOL, Molecular Dynamics using MATLAB/LAMMPS)

Please apply to UGA first before you contact the PI (Kenan Song, Ph.D., Email: kenan.song@uga.edu). Ph.D. candidates will be provided with financial support with Research Assistantships (RAs) or Teaching Assistantships (TAs) through their graduate studies. We collaborate closely with scholars from France, Germany, Israel, Qatar, UAE, and Egypt, so visiting opportunities are available and optional. US citizens/green card holders should contact the PI before your applications to NSF GFRP, NASA NSTGRO, DOD NDSEG, DOE SCGF, and other fellowships from our supporters.  

• UGA ECAM Ph.D. program, especially the Ph.D. Engineering- Mechanics and Materials emphasis

Expected requirements to satisfy before graduation:

• Be mature and professional (e..g, responsive, responsible, reasonable, and peaceful); 

• Publish at least one peer-reviewed paper per year in prestigious journals (expected >5 papers in total to complete the 4+ chapters in thesis, see the previous students' publication records);

• Attend national and international conferences (expected 1+/year to ACS, APS, MRS, ASME MSEC, AIChE, SAMPE, TechConnect World) to present research results, build networking, and explore diverse career paths;

• Possess collaborative attitudes with colleagues from the AMAML lab and others from the US industry/international institutes (1+ collaborative project with supervised junior Ph.D., M.S., or undergrads);

• Become independent researchers to propose an idea, validate the hypothesis, design the research methodology and execute the tasks; 

• Meet other standards from the university.