Technun - Escuela de Ingeniería-Universidad de Navarra
Technun - School of Engineering, belongs to University of Navarra. The aim of the School is to contribute to the professional training, scientific and human development of future engineers. Since its creation in the spring of 1961, it has maintained a balance between teaching, research and service to society, making these activities complement each other.
It currently has two sites campus: the older site, located at the university campus in the Ibaeta district, is made up of the laboratory buildings, the teaching and representation building completed in 1989, and a multipurpose building erected in 1996. The other site is located in the Miramon Technology Park and includes classrooms and research laboratories in the areas of Electricity, Electronics and Communications.
Job Description
Tecnun, the Engineering School of the University of Navarra offers a 4- year doctoral contract at the Technological Campus in San Sebastian (Spain). The PhD project is part of ADAPT-BONE,



a research project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities. The project aims to develop adaptive porous implants for personalised orthopaedic reconstruction.
The PhD will focus on the design and optimisation of porous and lattice orthopaedic implant architectures with tailored mechanical properties and long-term performance. The research will study how porous architecture influences mechanical behaviour and fatigue under physiological loading. Finite element modelling, computational optimisation and experimental characterisation will be combined to develop improved implant designs.
A key aspect of the project will be an iterative design-manufacture-test-redesign approach. Porous architectures will be designed and optimised computationally. They will then be manufactured using laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) and tested under mechanical and fatigue loading. The experimental results will be used to improve the models and

📌 PhD candidate for the Design and optimisation of porous orthopaedic implants for long-term performance (San Sebastián)
🏢 Navarra Center for International Development (NCID)
📍 San Sebastián