Editors-in-Chief

Prof. Surya R. Kalidindi
Dr. N. Ramakrishnan
Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Raimund Rolfes
Dr. Vinod Tewary

Professor Surya R. Kalidindi is currently the Department Head and a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, and the Director of the Centralized Research Facilities in the College of Engineering at Drexel University. His research efforts over the past fifteen years have made seminal contributions to the fields of crystal plasticity and microstructure design. His work is currently being cited over 300 times a year, and has resulted in a h-index of 20. His research has been supported by NSF, AFOSR, ARO, NASA, DARPA/ONR, and The Whitaker Foundation. He was awarded the prestigious Young Investigator Award from the Whitaker Foundation, the Drexel Research Award, and was inducted into the 10^6 club at Drexel University. He also serves as the Director of an NSF REU Site and a DoEd GAANN program at Drexel University.

Prof-Dr. Raimund Josef Rolfes is currently Professor at Leibniz University Hannover, and Deputy Head of ForWind (Common Wind Energy Research Center of Universities of Oldenburg and Hannover). He is a member of the Working Group of the European Cooperation on Standardization in Space (ECSS 30-24) “Buckling Handbook”. His scientific research work has been contributed to DFG priority programme “Textile Composites”, EU large scale project MAAXIMUS on Affordable Composite Structures, OGOWin–Project on Optimal Design of Offshore Foundation Structures (German Ministry for Environmental Affairs, BMU), SHM for Wind Turbine Rotor Blades (BMU), Hydrosound Reduction for Offshore Installations (BMU) as well as to simulation of nano-composites. He has published more than 100 scientific papers, and was invited to give lectures world-wide.

Dr. Vinod K. Tewary is a theoretical solid state physicist at the Materials Reliability Division at NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) Boulder, Colorado, USA. Before joining NIST, he was a professor of Physics and Dean of Research at the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India. He is the originator of the Green’s function method for lattice statics and has done pioneering work on multiscale Green’s functions for quantum nanostructures. He has done extensive work on diverse applications of static and dynamic Green’s functions to problems in phonons, lattice defects, radiation damage, nanomaterials, semiconductors, composite materials, elastic waves, and scattering theory. He is the author of a monograph on “Mechanics of Fiber Composites” (published by John Wiley), several review articles, and more than 100 research papers published in international journals of repute. He is the winner of the Pride of India award, Boulder Colorado Multicultural award, Department of Commerce (US Govt.) Bronze medal, and the Eric Reissner medal of the ICCES for his work on Green’s functions method for solids.

Founding and Honorary Editor

Prof. Satya N. Atluri

Prof. Satya Atluri's professional interests lie in the areas of aerospace and mechanical engineering. His teaching and research interests at UCI lie in the disciplinary areas of: applied mathematics; theoretical, applied, and computational mechanics of solids and fluids at various length and time scales; computer modeling in engineering and sciences; meshless and other novel computational methods; structural longevity, failure prevention, and health management.

He received Doctor of Science degrees from: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (earned); National University of Ireland (honoris causa); Slovak Academy of Sciences (honoris causa); and the University of Patras (honoris causa).

He is a Distinguished Alumnus of the Indian Institute of Science.

He previously taught at: UCLA (Distinguished Professor); Georgia Tech (Institute Professor, Regents’ Professor of Engineering, and Hightower Chair in Engineering); MIT (JC Hunsaker Professor); and the University of Washington (Assistant Professor).

He is a Tsing Hua Honorary Chair Professor at the National Tsing Hua University, in Taiwan, and an Honorary Professor at the University of Patras. Previously he was an Honorary Professor at the Tsinghua University in Beijing, and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, Korea.

He is Fellow of the American Academy of Mechanics; Fellow of AIAA; Fellow of ASME; Honorary Fellow of the International Congress on Fracture, Fellow of the Aeronautical Society of India; Fellow of the Chinese Society of Theoretical & Applied Mechanics, and many others. He was elected to membership in the US national Academy of Engineering; the India National Academy of Engineering; the Third World Academy of Sciences (Trieste); and the European Academy of Sciences.

Some notable recognitions he received include those from AIAA ( the Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Medal; the Pendray Aerospace Literature Medal` and the SDM Lecture Award); from the Federal Aviation Administration ( “Excellence in Aviation Award”); from the ASCE ( the Aerospace Structures and Materials Award); from the Society of Engineering Science ( The Eringen Medal); from ICCES ( the “ Hilbert Medal” and the “ICCES Gold Medal”); from JSME, Japan ( the Computational Mechanics Medal); from the Greek National Association of Computational Mechanics( The Computational Mechanics Medal); from JSPS, Japan ( JSPS Fellow); from the US Secretary of Commerce ( Distinguished Service Award, the President’s National Medal of Technology Committee); from Georgia Tech (the annual Distinguished Professor Award; and twice the annual Outstanding Researcher Awards). From Sigma-Xi (the Sustained Research Award); from the Science Citation Index (one of 100 most highly cited researchers in engineering); from the National Academy of Engineering (Technical Achievement Award). He has been a Midwestern Mechanics Lecturer, as well as a Southwestern Mechanics Lecturer.