Jaime Peraire

H.N. Slater Professor in Aeronautics and Astronautics

Contact Info

Office Phone

617.253.1981

Administrative Contact

Jean Sofronas
617.258.5548

Financial Coordinator

Quentin Alexander
617.253.6270

Specialization and Research Interests

Numerical simulation, Computational mechanics and aerodynamics, Finite Elements

Teaching Interests

Aerodynamics, computational mechanics, numerical methods for partial differential equations, dynamics

Academic Degrees

Ingeniero de Caminos, Canales y Puertos, 1983, University of Barcelona Ph.D., 1986, University of Wales Doctor Ingeniero de Caminos, Canales y Puertos, 1987, University of Barcelona

Society Memberships

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Fellow; International Association for Computational Mechanics, Fellow;

Positions Held at MIT

Department Head, 2011-2018; Professor, 1999-present; Associate Professor, 1993-1999; Director, Aerospace Computational Design Lab, 1993-2011.