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Core Faculty

Kaushik Bhattacharya
Professor of Mechanics and Materials Science
Mechanics of materials, continuum mechanics, active materials, thin films

Chiara Daraio

Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Applied Physics
Materials science, condensed matter physics, and solid mechanics

Julia R. Greer
Assistant Professor of Materials Science
Mechanical deformation and materials characterization at the nanoscale

Nadia Lapusta
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Geophysics
Continuum mechanics, computational modeling, fracture and frictional processes, and mechanics and physics of earthquakes

Michael Ortiz
Dotty and Dick Hayman Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering
Solid Mechanics

Sergio Pellegrino
Professor of Aeronautics and Civil Engineering
Design and Analysis of Space Structure Systems

Guruswami Ravichandran
John E. Goode, Jr., Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering
Mechanics of materials, dynamic deformation and failure, wave propagation, micro mechanics, composite and active materials, experimental mechanics

Ares J. Rosakis

Theodore von Kármán Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering
Director, Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories (GALCIT)

Solid mechanics, dynamic mechanical properties, ballistic impact, hypervelocity impact of micrometeorites on spacecraft, dynamic fracture and fragmentation, adiabatic shear banding, earthquake fault mechanics, mechanics of metallic glasses, restoration of ancient stone monuments, mechanics of thin films



Emeritus

Wolfgang G. Knauss
Theodore von Kármán Professor of Aeronautics and Applied Mechanics, Emeritus
Solid Mechanics

James K. Knowles
William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor and Professor of Applied Mechanics, Emeritus
Continuum mechanics of solids, with emphasis on the modeling of materials that undergo mechanically-induced solid-solid phase transformations



affiliated

Thomas H. Heaton
Professor of Engineering Seismology

Engineering seismology, earthquake rupture physics





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