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I'm interested in computational and applied mechanics of solids and structures and hypersonics.
Contact Info
Assistant
Corrine Giordani
617.452.3840
Financial Officer
Jei Lee Freeman
617.253.1695
Specialization and Research Interests
Computational Solid Mechanics and Fluid, Structure Interaction, Mechanics of Materials, Multiscale Modeling and Simulation, High-Performance and Massively Parallel Computing
Teaching Interests
Computational Mechanics, Aerospace Structures, Numerical Methods, Continuum Mechanics
Positions Held at MIT
Charles Stark Draper Assistant Professor, 2001-2006; Associate Professor, 2006-2012; Professor, 2012-present. Associate Director MIT Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies, 2008-present.
Academic Degrees
Civil Engineer, 1991, University of Buenos Aires S.M., 1995, Brown University Ph.D., 1998, California Institute of Technology
Society Memberships
Associate Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics; American Society of Mechanical Engineers; Materials Research Society; American Association of Mechanics; International Association for Computational Mechanics; United States Association for Computational Mechanics
Affiliated Labs
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Hypersonics Research Lab
- Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies
- Center for Computational Science and Engineering (CCSE)
Awards & Honors
2021
MIT AIAA Undergraduate Teaching Award, AIAA Student Chapter
2021
Arthur C. Smith Award, MIT
2018
Alan J. Lazarus Award (1953) Excellence in Advising Award, MIT
2016
MIT AIAA Undergraduate Teaching Award, AIAA Student Chapter
2015
AIAA Associate Fellow, AIAA
2014
Student Champion (Freshman Advising) Award, MIT
2012
Dr. César Milstein Fellowship, Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation of Argentina