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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Materials Engineering,Biophysics |
| Keywords | mechanics of materials, computational mechanics, biomechanics, adhesion, materials failure |
| Honours and awards | 2018: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Alumni Award 2018: Honorary Doctor of Engineering, University of Glasgow, Scotland 2018: Leibniz Chair, Leibniz Institue for New Materials, Saarbruecken 2014: American Society of Mechanical Engineers Timoshenko Medal 2014: Fellow, Royal Society of Edinburgh 2014: Society of Engineering Science William Prager Medal 2013: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Forschungspreis (Renewal) 2012: Fellow, Royal Academy of Engineering, UK 2007: Brown Engineering Alumni Medal, Brown University 2005: Member, National Academy of Engineering of the United States of America 2004: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Forschungspreis 1998: Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers |
Current contact address
| Country | United States of America |
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| City | Santa Barbara |
| Institution | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Institute | Department of Mechanical Engineering |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Eduard Arzt | Max-Planck-Institut für Intelligente Systeme, Stuttgart |
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| Prof. Dr. Manfred Rühle | Max-Planck-Institut für Intelligente Systeme, Stuttgart |
| Prof. Dr. Eduard Arzt | Leibniz-Institut für Neue Materialien gGmbH (INM), Saarbrücken |
| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/01/2006 |
Programme(s)
| 2004 | Humboldt Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Professor McMeeking is a world leading expert in the field of large strain computation methods for metals, ductile fracture analysis for cracks, models for the toughness, creep and fatigue of ceramics and composite materials, the characterization of material interface test methods, models for powder consolidation, and the constitutive analysis of ferroelectric materials and actuators. With the support of the Humboldt award, he will work on models and computations for motion and force generation in biological systems covering length scales from the actions of the cell cytoskeleton to the behaviour of cephalopods. |