Recent Computational Mechanics Group Awardees (since 2010)


Yuri Bazilevs:

- 2018 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher

- 2018 E Paul Sorensen Professor of Engineering at Brown University

- 2018 ASCE Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize

- 2017 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher

- 2016 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher

- 2015 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher

- 2015 USACM Fellow Award

2014 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher

- 2012 Thomas JR Hughes Young Investigator Award (AMD-ASME)

- 2011 Richard H Gallagher Young Investigator Award (USACM)

- 2011 NSF CAREER Award

- 2010 IACM Young Investigator Award


Victor Calo:

- 2018 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher

- 2017 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher

- 2016-2021 CSIRO Professorial Chair in Computational Geoscience

- 2016 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher

- 2015 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher

- 2014 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher


Maytee Vipavayangku Chantharayukhont:

- 2015 ASE - EM Faculty Endowed Scholarship

- 2015 Graham F. Carey Undergraduate Scholarship

- 2015 Unrestricted UT Endowed Presidential Scholarship

- 2014 James E. Nugent Family Endowed Scholarship

- 2013 Russell U. Smith Family Endowed Scholarship

- 2012 Dowell Vann Allen Memorial Endowed Scholarship in Engineering


J. Austin Cottrell:

- 2017 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher

- 2016 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher

- 2015 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher

- 2014 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher


John Evans

- 2018 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher

- 2017 Jack Rominger Faculty Fellowship in the College of Engineering and Applied Science, CU Boulder.

- 2017 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher

- 2016 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher


Laura De Lorenzis:

- 2011 AIMETA Junior Prize for Structural Mechanics:  Awarded, on a biennial basis, by the Italian Association of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (AIMETA) to young (i.e., under 40) Italian scientists for outstanding research results concerning one of the Association scientific areas.

- 2011 ERC Starting Grant

 

Hector Gomez:

- 2017 R.H. Gallagher Young Investigator Medal from the US Association for Computational Mechanics.

- 2017 Princess of Girona Scientific Research Award (For Spanish researchers under age 36 in all fields of science, engineering and humanities).  Presented by the King of Spain.

- 2015 Young Investigator Award, Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain 

- 2014 Innovators under 35, MIT Technology Review, Spain 

- 2012 JC Simo Young Investigator Award (SEMNI, Spain)

- 2012 ERC Starting Grant


Ming-Chen Hsu:

- 2018 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher

- 2017 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher

- 2016 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher

- 2013 Chancellor's Dissertation Medal (UCSD)

 

Josef Kiendl:

- 2017 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher

- 2016 GAMM Richard Von Mises Prize


Ju Liu:

- 2013 Ju Liu won the 24th Robert J. Melosh Medal competition held at the Duke University. The Robert J. Melosh Medal Competition was inaugurated in 1989 by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Duke University to honor Professor Melosh, a pioneering researcher in finite element methods and former chairman of civil and environmental engineering at Duke. The competition was reviewed by top scholars in computational mechanics, and the winner was selected based on the quality of both the paper, entitled "A Thermodynamically Consistent Algorithm for Liquid-Vapor Phase Transitions in Complex Geometries,” and the oral presentation. 

 

Simone Morganti:

- 2014 Centre of Mechanics and Biological Materials Award (University of Padua), for research activities in the field of biological tissue mechanics investigated through computational methods.

- 2012 PhD Olympiad Winner (ECCOMAS)

 

Alessandro Reali:

- 2018 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher

2018: Bruno Finzi Prize for Rational Mechanics and other strictly related fields, awarded by Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere

- 2017 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher

- 2017 Appointed Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (by the President of the Italian Republic)

- 2016 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher

- 2016 IACM Fellow Award

- 2015 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher

- 2015 TUM-IAS Hans Fischer Fellowship

- 2014 IACM John Argyris Award for Young Investigators 

- 2014 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher

- 2013 AIMETA Junior Prize for Mechanics of Solids and Structures

- 2012 ECCOMAS OC Zienkiewicz Award

- 2010 ERC Starting Grant


Giancarlo Sangalli:

- 2013 ERC Consolidator Grant


Dominik Schillinger:

- 2017 ERC Starting Grant

- 2017 DFG Emmy Noether Award    

- 2017 NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award

- 2016 CISE Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) Award (NSF) 

- 2015 Richard Von Mises Prize for exceptional scientific achievements in the fields of Applied    Mathematics and Mechanics.  (International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, GAMM)

- 2015 O.C. Zienkiewicz Medal (Institution of Civil Engineers)

- 2012 IACM John Argyris Award for Young Investigators


Michael Scott

- 2018 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher

- 2017 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher

- 2016 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher



Guglielmo Scovazzi:

- 2014 Department of Energy Career Award

 

Jessica Zhang:

2019 Simons Visiting Professor, University of Rome, Tor Vergata

- 2018 Best Paper Award – 1st Place, Solid and Physical Modeling Conference, Solid Modeling Association. Bilbao, Spain. June 11-13, 2018.

- 2017-2018 ELATE (Executive Leadership in Academic Technology and Engineering) Fellow, Drexel University

- 2016 Best Paper Award, CompIMAGE’16 Conference

- 2015 Autodesk Best Paper Award – 1st Place, SIAM Conference on Solid and Physical Modeling (GDSPM)

- 2014-2016, 2016 One of the 5 Most Highly Cited Papers Published in Computer-Aided Design 

- 2014 Clarence H. Adamson Career Faculty Fellow in Mechanical Engineering (CMU)

- 2013 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)

- 2013 Richard H Gallagher Young Investigator Award (USACM)

- 2012 NSF CAREER Award

- 2011 Donald L. and Rhonda Struminger Faculty Fellow in Mechanical Engineering (CMU)

- 2010 ONR Young Investigator Award

- 2010 George Tallman Ladd Research Award (CMU College of Engineering)





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