{"id":1817,"date":"2026-10-10T11:15:54","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T15:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nld\/?page_id=1817"},"modified":"2026-10-10T11:15:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T15:15:55","slug":"join-the-lab","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nld\/join-the-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Join the lab"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"nld-page-band\" style=\"background:#132433;padding:28px 32px;display:flex;align-items:center;justify-content:space-between;gap:24px;margin:0 0 32px\">\n<div><p style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-size:13px;line-height:16px;letter-spacing:0.12em;text-transform:uppercase;font-weight:600;color:#A9B6BF\"><span style=\"display:inline-block;width:24px;height:4px;background:#D98A52;vertical-align:middle;margin-right:10px\"><\/span>Nonlinear Dynamics Laboratory<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"color:#F7F6F2;font-size:36px;line-height:42px;margin:0\">Join the lab<\/h1><\/div>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nld\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1815\/nld-hero-on-navy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"96\" height=\"96\" style=\"width:96px;height:auto;flex:none\">\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We have open positions for a Ph.D. or M.S. student, funded by current research grants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Who can apply<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Research Assistantships are available to U.S. citizens only, as required by our current funding<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A B.S. or M.S. in mechanical engineering, applied mechanics, physics or a related field<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Strong background in dynamics, vibrations and MATLAB or Python<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to apply<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Email Professor David Chelidze at <a href=\"mailto:chelidze@uri.edu\">chelidze@uri.edu<\/a> with your CV, transcripts and a short statement of the research you want to do. Then apply to the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/graduate-school\/\">URI Graduate School<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read our <a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nld\/research\/\">research themes<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nld\/publications\/\">recent papers<\/a> first, and say which one interests you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nonlinear Dynamics Laboratory Join the lab We have open positions for a Ph.D. or M.S. student, funded by current research grants. Who can apply How to apply Email Professor David Chelidze at chelidze@uri.edu with your CV, transcripts and a short statement of the research you want to do. Then apply to the URI Graduate School. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1291,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-1817","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1827,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1817\/revisions\/1827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}