Ostoja-Starzewski selected as SES Fellow

9/30/2016

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MechSE Professor Martin Ostoja-Starzewski has been named a Fellow in the Society of Engineering Science (SES). 
 
SES Fellow is a select honor given to an individual who is distinguished in one of the fields comprising the Society and has made significant contributions to the Society and the technical community.
 
An expert in the mechanics of random media and thermomechanics, Ostoja-Starzewski has been a professor in the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering since 2006.
 
Before coming to the University of Illinois in 2006, Ostoja-Starzewski worked in academic positions at McGill University, the Institute of Paper Science and Technology, Michigan State University, and Purdue University. He received his degree in mechanical engineering from Cracow University of Technology in Poland (1977), and his masters (1980) and Ph.D. (1983) in mechanical engineering from McGill University in Canada.
 
Ostoja-Starzewski's main research is in the mechanics of heterogeneous media, fractal structures, continuum mechanics, and thermodynamics. He has also done work blending basic physics concepts with mathematical modeling, analyzing spatio-temporal multiscale dynamics of head trauma based on MRI imaging of the brain, and has co-authored a book on generalized thermoelasticity. He is widely recognized as a pioneer in the study of Representative Volume Element (RVE) size with respect to random heterogeneous materials, having written the first book on the subject.

 


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This story was published September 30, 2016.