SISSA and ICTP Trieste have each a Condensed Matter Theory postdoctoral openings in the area
of theory modeling and simulation of nanofriction, in the group of E. Tosatti,
https://sites.google.com/site/tosattierio/ . The group just obtained an ERC Advanced Research Grant
in this field. For some recent work see: http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.3234v3 (Rev. Mod. Phys.
Colloquium in press); Vanossi et al., PNAS 109, 16429 (2012); Pellegrini et al., Phys. Rev. Lett.
105, 146103 (2010).