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The MechE Postdoc Community

MechE postdoctoral scholars are part of a large network of more than 1,400 postdocs across the entire Institute. Postdocs hold doctoral degrees and pursue a program of research and training under the direction of an MIT faculty member.

Postdoctoral scholars are a very important part of the research community here in MechE, adding insight and energy, expertise and a fresh perspective to our many research endeavors. We hope that, in exchange, postdocs receive one final spark that comes from working side-by-side with a MechE faculty member before shooting out on their own to begin what I know will be careers marked by excellence.

- Gang Chen, Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering

Meche News + Media

Water is Life

As overpopulation and lack of rainfall fuel a crisis-level need in rural India for affordable drinking water, PhD candidate Natasha Wright and Assistant Professor Amos Winter work to design a low-cost desalination system, guided by insight from their extensive in-the-field research.

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Engineers develop a vibrating, ingestible capsule that might help treat obesity

Professor Giovanni Traverso and his team designed an ingestible capsule that vibrates within the stomach, creating an illusory sense of fullness and reducing appetite. The pill could help treat obesity.

Adhesive coatings can prevent scarring around medical implants

Professor Xuanhe Zhao, Hyunwoo Yuk SM ’16, PhD ’21, and postdoc Jingjing Wu have found a way to eliminate the buildup of scar tissue around implantable devices, by coating them with a hydrogel adhesive.