Prof. Dr. Dr. habil. Valery Levitas

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.