The Soft Technologies Lab at the National University of Singapore (.stl@NUS) is seeking PhD students and Postdoctoral fellows in 2025 & 2026. We are looking for creative individuals who are eager to engage in transdisciplinary research and well-equipped to explore the intersection between soft matter, the internet-of-things, and their human and nature-centric applications.
Topics interweave with each other and include:
- Computational Textiles and Digital Craft: Advance digital knitting, weaving, embroidery, and other textile arts and craft techniques with functional fibers to design sensing and actuation fabrics with tunable electrical and mechanical properties.
- Electronic Skins and Distributed Networks: Develop novel architectures for dense, large-area soft electronic systems or skins that enhance functionality, modularity, and programmability. Explore multi-modality, localized processing, and new networking, communication, and power paradigms.
- Physiological/Physical Sensing and Intervention: Build wearable systems for movement expression, continuous health monitoring, and active interventions to augment interaction, enhance comfort, promote wellness, and improve quality of life.
- Interactive Media and Immersive Environments: Design interfaces and ecosystems that integrate soft and multimedia technologies for human-computer interaction, smart building and environmental systems, as well as interactive multi-sensory experience.
- AI for Data and Design: Harness computational design and generative AI to innovate in textile and sensor development, and leverage deep learning to analyze complex sensor datasets to inform intelligent decision-making.
Qualifications
We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds! They ideally should hold a degree in media arts, architecture+design, electrical/ mechanical /biomedical engineering, computer science, material science, or related fields. We seek members who are not only creative, bold, and original, but also technically-adept in hacking, making, and prototyping, eager to learn, and passionate in exploring the intersection between material, technology, and aesthetics.
Candidates should showcase proficiency in at least one or two key areas, such as textile design and integration, digital fabrication, functional polymers, soft robotics, haptics, sensor networks, circuit/hardware design and fabrication, augmented/virtual reality, data visualization, user interface, computational design, generative AI, machine learning, and embedded systems.
More information on how to apply, please access this link and feel free to contact me,
https://www.softtechnologies.info/join-us Closing dates: 1 July 2025 (January 2026 intake) and 15 January 2026 (August 2026 intake).