hard at work studying fluid-structure interactions
Prof. Martin Ostoja-Starzewski
Department of Mechanical Science & Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL, 61801-2906
USA
Tel: 217-265-0900
Fax: 217-244-9980
Site co-Director of NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Novel High Voltage/Temperature Materials and Structures
Member of The Institute for Condensed Matter Theory, 2007-
Faculty at Beckman Institute, 2008-
Member of University Senate, 2007-2009
IACAT Fellow of NCSA (2013-14)
Associate of Center for Advanced Study (2013-14)
Member ISIMM (Executive Committee, 2013-2016)
Awards
Academia Europaea, Foreign Member (2024)
European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Member (2022)
Worcester Reed Warner Medal (ASME – 2018)
Fellow ASME
Fellow AAM
Fellow SES
Fellow WIF
Associate Fellow AIAA
Distinguished Fellow of TK Collegium of Eminent Scientists
Member ISIMM (Executive Committee,2013-2016)
Chairman of PACAM (Pan American Congresses of Applied Mechanics, 2004-2012), AAM
Education
- 1977, Engineer, Cracow University of Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Poland
- 1980, M.Eng. (Thesis), McGill University, Mechanical Engineering
- 1983, Ph.D. (Dean’s Honour List), McGill University, Mechanical Engineering
Visiting scientist
- 1989 and 1990, Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Cornell University
- 1994 and 1995, Institute for Mechanics and Materials, UCSD
- 1994, EPFL – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne
- 1995, École Polytechnique, France
- 1999 and 2000, École des Mines de Paris, France
- 2001, GKSS Research Centre, Geesthacht, Germany
- 2004, IMWF, University of Stuttgart, Germany
- 2011, Università degli Studi di Sassari, Italy
- 2012, Timoshenko Distinguished Visitor, Mechanics and Computation Group, Stanford University
- 2012, Visiting Professor, Laboratoire Modélisation et Simulation Multi Echelle – MSME UMR 8208 CNRS Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France
- 2014, Université de Rennes 1 – Institut de Recherche Mathématiques de Rennes, France
- 2019, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- 2023, Rothschild Distinguished Visiting Fellow, “Uncertainty quantification and stochastic modelling of materials” at Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge
Recognition
TTA-UQ and Probabilistic Modeling webinar “Tensor Random Fields in Mechanics” – January 18, 2024
Interview on International Innovation download
AIAA short course: Stochastic Mechanics of Materials and Structures
Illinois team uses Ember to simulate 1 million-grain cube of steel
Short-Course: Mechanics-of-Random-and-Fractal-Materials-and-Structures
Discussing multifunctional filters at Freiberg-workshop
S. Kale, P. Karimi, F. Sabet, I. Jasiuk, M. Ostoja-Starzewski, “Tunneling-percolation model of multicomponent nanocomposites,” Journal of Applied Physics, 123, 085104-1-12 (2018) featured article