George Z. Voyiadjis#
| Membership Number: | 5237 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | http://csmlab.lsu.edu |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/george.voyiadjis |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/george-voyiadjis-32191920/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2016 - present Freeport-MacMoRan Endowed Chair in Engineering, Louisiana State University (LSU), Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
- 2012 - present Director of Center for GeoInformatics C4G, LSU, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
- 2009 - 2013 Visiting Honorary Endowed Chair Professor, Hanyang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
- 2001 - present, Chair and B.C. Stewart Distinguished Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, LSU, USA
- 1996 - present Boyd Professor (Highest Professorial Rank in Louisiana State University System), USA
- 1992 - 1994 Acting Associate Dean of Graduate School, LSU, Louisiana, USA
- 1990 - 1996 Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, LSU, Louisiana, USA
- 1987 Visiting Professor (eight months), Department of Civil & Engineering Mechanics, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
- 1985 - 1990 Associate Professor (Tenured, 1985), Department of Civil Engineering, LSU, Louisiana, USA
- 1980 - 1985 Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, LSU, Louisiana, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Damage mechanics
- Impact mechanics
- Gradient plasticity
- Molecular dynamics
- Bridging the length scales
- Engineering sciences
- Solid mechanics
- Materials science
- Thin films
- Experimental mechanics
Honours and Awards
- 2023 Blaise Pascal Medal
- 2022 Nadia Medal by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- 2019 Foreign Member of the European Academy of Sciences
- 2016 Foreign Member of the National Academy of Engineering of Korea, Republic of Korea
- 2016 Doctor Honoris Causa of Poznan University of Technology, Poland, October
- 2016 Honor Member of Chi Epsilon, The National Civil Engineering Honor Society, Louisiana State University Chapter
- 2015 Elected to the grade of Distinguished Member (top honor) of the American Society of Civil Engineers
- 2015 Louisiana Section ASCE Civil Engineering Wall of Fame Award. Highest award given by the Louisiana Section
- 2015 Damage Mechanics Medal for his significant contribution to Damage Mechanics, presented in the Int. Conf. Damage Mech
- 2015 Fellow of the Society of Engineering Science, USA
- 2014 ASCE Journals for outstanding performance as Chief and Founding Editor of Journal of Nanomechanics and Micromechanics
- 2013 Foreign Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Division IV (Technical Sciences)
- 2013 Diplome d’ Ingenieur Honoris Causa de l’ Ecole Polytechnique d’ Agadir, Universiapolis, Royaume du Maroc
- 2013 Fellow of the Engineering Mechanics Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers, USA
- 2012 Khan International Medal for outstanding life-long Contribution to the field of Plasticity
- 2010 Associate Editor Award for consistent and exemplary service to the Journal of Engineering Mechanics of the ASCE
- 2008 Nathan M. Newmark Medal of the American Society of Civil Engineers, for Multi-scale Modeling and Localization problems
- 2008 Educator of the Year Award for 2008 of the State of Louisiana Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
- 2007 Member of the Board of Governors of the Engineering Mechanics Institute of the ASCE (2007-2012)
- 2005 Most Cited Author 2005-2008 of IJSS, Elsevier, Gradient Plasticity Theory with a Variable Length Scale Parameter, Vol. 42(14)
- 1999 Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, USA
- 1998 Fellow of the American Academy of Mechanics, USA
