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• Open PhD position in Active Matter group at the Department of Applied Physics, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland.
• The APS March Meeting will be held from March 14 – 18, 2022, in Chicago, USA, including a Focus Session dedicated to Soft Robotic Matter within the Division of Soft Matter (DSOFT). Abstract deadline: October 22, 2021.
• 1st European PhD days in miniaturized robotics, November 17, 2021. More infos here.
• The Department of Robotics Engineering at Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), Republic of Korea, invites applications for several open Positions (Research Professors, Postdoctoral Research Fellows, Graduate Students through master’s, PhD, or integrated master’s-PhD program) in micro/nano-robotics, magnetic control systems, biomedical engineering, artificial intelligence (AI), and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) for micro/nano-robots.
• The School of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University invites applications for a tenure track faculty position at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering – Robotics.
• Faculty openings in UWaterloo Engineering’s Systems Engineering department: Assistive & Rehabilitation Robotics.
• Special issue on Nanomanipulation, edited by Prof. Dr. Victor Koledov (Kotelnikov Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia) to be published in Nanomaterials Journal.
• The 15th IEEE International Conference on Nano/Molecular Medicine & Engineering (IEEE-NANOMED 2021) will be held from November 15 – 18, 2021, (UTC+8) / November 14 – 17, 2021 (UTC-8) virtually. The conference is one of the premier annual events organized by the IEEE Nanotechnology Council (NTC), dedicated to provide a forum to discuss the latest developments in all areas of the Nano/Molecular Medicine & Engineering.
• The 21st International Symposium on Optomechatronic Technology (ISOT2021), November 2 – 5, 2021, Besançon, France, is coorganized by Prof. Philippe Lutz, a member of MARSS Program Committee, and Prof. Cédric Clévy, a member of MARSS Steering Committee.
• Special issue on Robotic Micromanipulation, Volume II, guest edited by Dr. Aude Bolopion (Femto-ST Institute, Besançon, France) to be published in Micromachines Journal.
• The 10th Asia-Pacific Conference of Transducers and Micro-Nano Technology  (APCOT 2022), May 29 – June 1, 2022 in Shanghai, China (postponed from 2020), organized by Prof. Tie Li, a member of MARSS Steering Committee, and Prof. Yuelin Wang, a member of MARSS Academic Advisory Board.
• Guinness World Record: Stardust Odyssey – Smallest 3D stop-motion animation character (300µm) filmed in an SEM. A coproduction between FEMTO-ST, ULB, and DARROWAN PROD. More infos here.