4/8/2024
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MechSE Professor Martin Ostoja-Starzewski has been elected as a Foreign Member of Academia Europaea, the Pan-European Academy of Sciences, Humanities and Letters, founded in 1988 on the initiative of the Royal Society (United Kingdom) and other National Academies in Europe. He is part of the Academy’s Physics and Engineering Sciences section.
Membership in the Academy is by invitation and follows a rigorous peer review selection process by each relevant section. Scientists and scholars are elected based on demonstrated international distinction, irrespective of nationality, citizenship, gender, location or discipline.
The Academia Europaea is the only Academy with individual membership from the Council of Europe states and from other nations around the world. The objectives of Academia Europaea are the advancement and propagation of excellence in scholarship in the humanities, law, the economic, social, and political sciences, mathematics, medicine, and all branches of natural and technological sciences anywhere in the world for the public benefit and for the advancement of the education of the public of all ages in the aforesaid subjects in Europe.
The mission of Academia Europaea is to:
- Promote a wider appreciation of the value of European scholarship and research.
- Make recommendations to national governments and international agencies concerning matters affecting science, scholarship and academic life in Europe.
- Encourage interdisciplinary and international research in all areas of learning, particularly in relation to European issues.
- Identify topics of trans-European importance to science and scholarship, and propose appropriate action to ensure that these issues are adequately studied.
Ostoja-Starzewski’s research program is at the intersection of (thermo)mechanics and transport phenomena in random and fractal media, advanced continuum theories, and stochastic wave propagation.