Prof. Dr. Dr. habil. Valery Levitas

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsMechanics,Thermodynamics and Kinetics as well as Properties of Phases and Microstructure of Materials
KeywordsMultiscale mechanics, phase transformations, mechanochemistry, plasticity, energetic, superhard and smart materials
Honours and awards

2026: Lifetime Fellow of the International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM), Sweden.

2025: Journal Materials Research Letters Impact Award 2025 (MRL, 2022, 10, 163).

2025: ScholarGPS Highly Ranked Scholar in area of Phase Transitions: #5 lifetime.

2024: ScholarGPS Highly Ranked Scholar in area of Phase Transitions: #6 lifetime.

2024: The best paper of the Journals of Alloys and Compounds award in 2024 (Vol. 2002, 174667).

2023: Elected to the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

2023: Fellow of the International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM), Sweden.

2023: Murray Harpole Chair in Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA.

2023: ScholarGPS Highly Ranked Scholar in area of Phase Transitions: #9 lifetime.

2022: Elected to the EU Academy of Sciences.

2022: the most cited paper in Material Transactions during 2016-2023 (MT, 2019, 60, 1294-1301.)

2021: Phase transformations and other structural changes in materials: special issue of the International Journal of Plasticity in Honor of Professor Valery I. Levitas; Editorial: Liming Xiong, International Journal of Plasticity, 2021, Vol. 139, 102948. www.sciencedirect.com/journal/international-journal-of-plasticity/specialissue/ 10TLR51Q4P6

2019: Symposium on Phase Transformations and other Structural Changes in Materials in honor of Khan’s Medal Awardee Prof. Valery Levitas at 25th International Conference on Plasticity, Damage & Fracture 2019, Panama, 1/3/19-1/9/19.

2018: Anson Marston Distinguished Professor in Engineering, ISU, Ames, IA.

2018: Khan International Award for outstanding contributions to the field of plasticity.

2017: Symposium on Structural Changes in Materials in honor of Prof. Valery Levitas at 23rd International Conference on Plasticity, Damage & Fracture 2017, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, 1/3/17-1/9/17

2017: Vance Coffman Faculty Chair Professorship, Iowa State University, Ames, IA.

2016: Iowa State University Award for Outstanding Achievement in Research.

2012: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship for alums for 3 months research in Germany.

2011: Honorary Doctor in Materials of the Institute for Superhard Materials, Kiev, Ukraine.

2007: ASME Fellow.

2005: Barnie E. Rushing Faculty Distinguished Research Award (Texas Tech University).

1998: Richard von Mises Award of GAMM (Society of Applied Mathematics & Mechanics).

1995: International Journal of Engineering Sciences Distinguished Paper Award.

1993: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship, Germany.

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityAmes
InstitutionIowa State University
InstituteDepartment of Aerospace Engineering
Homepagehttp://www.aere.iastate.edu/directory/?user_page=vlevitas

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Erwin SteinInstitut für Baumechanik und Numerische Mechanik (IBNM), Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hannover
Start of initial sponsorship01/08/1993

Programme(s)

1992Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme