Martin Ostoja-Starzewski#
| Membership Number: | 6707 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | https://mechse.illinois.edu/people/profile/martinos |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-3493-363X |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-ostoja-starzewski-45ab2ab/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2008 - present Faculty Affiliate, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- 2006 - present Professor of Mechanical Science & Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- 2004 - 2005 Member, McGill Institute for Advanced Materials, McGill University
- 2001 - 2005 Canada Research Chair in Mechanics of Materials (Tier I), McGill University
- 1997-2002: Adjunct Faculty, Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
- 1995 - 2001 Professor of Materials Engineering, Institute of Paper Science and Technology
- 1990 - 1995 Associate Professor of Materials Science & Mechanics, Michigan State University
- 1985 - 1990 Assistant Professor of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Purdue University
- 1984 - 1986 Founder and President, Quadra Dynamics Inc., Montréal, Canada
- 1983 - 1984 Research Associate in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, McGill University
Fields of Scholarship
- Mechanics and transport phenomena in random and fractal media
- Scaling laws in mechanics
- Quasi-particle and cellular automata models
- MRI-/MRE-based modelling of traumatic brain injury
- Electro-thermomechanics of electrosurgery
- Generalized thermoelasticity
- Tensor random fields
- Stochastic finite elements
- Continuum mechanics with spontaneous violations of the second law of thermodynamics
- Waves in random media
Honours and Awards
- 1980 - 1982 NSERC (Canada) Postgraduate Fellowship
- 1987 - 1989 Research Initiation Award, National Science Foundation
- 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1999, and 2008, presentations at 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 6th, and 9th Pan American Congresses of Applied Mechanics were selected among the best papers and invited (in expanded form) to Special Journal Issues
- 2001 Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
- 2001 - 2005 Canada Research Chair in Mechanics of Materials (Tier I)
- 2001 Fellow, World Innovation Foundation
- 2001 Listed in "The Roll of Honour of the Polish Science"
- 2005 Associate Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
- 2007 Fellow, American Academy of Mechanics
- 2010 Interviewed about the paper "Material spatial randomness: From statistical to representative volume element" (Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics 21[2]: 2006) selected by Essential Science IndicatorsSM of Thomson Reuters as one of the most-cited papers in New Research Areas of Engineering
- 2011 Honorary Fellow, Australian Institute of High Energetic Materials
- 2012 Timoshenko Distinguished Visitor, Division of Mechanics and Computation, Stanford University
- 2013 Interviewed by Research Media-International Innovation
- 2013 - 2014 Associate, Center for Advanced Study at the University of Illinois
- 2017 Fellow, Society of Engineering Science (SES)
- 2018 Worcester Reed Warner Medal (ASME)
- 2019 Distinguished Fellow of Collegium of Eminent Scientists, The Kosciuszko Foundation
- 2021 Vebleo Fellow Lecture
- 2022 Member, European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA)
- 2023 Rothschild Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge
