Polytechnical University of Madrid, Spain
B.S. Civil Engineering, June 1977

University of California, Berkeley
M.S. Civil Engineering, June 1978
Major fields: Structural Engineering and Structural Mechanics

University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D. Civil Engineering, December 1981
Major fields: Structural, Continuum and Computational Mechanics
Dissertation title: "Topics in Constitutive Theory for Inelastic Solids"

Professional Appointments

1/79 - 4/82: Research Assistant, Department of Civil Engineering, University of California, Berkeley.

5/82 - 5/83: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mathematics, Ministry of Public Works Research and Experimentation Center, Madrid, Spain.

5/83 - 5/84: Research Scientist, Computational Hydrodynamic Program, Department of Coasts and Harbors, Ministry of Public Works, Madrid, Spain.

7/84 - 7/87: Assistant Professor, Division of Engineering, Brown University

7/87 - 6/90: Associate Professor, Division of Engineering, Brown University

7/90 - 6/95: Professor, Division of Engineering, Brown University

6/95 - Present: Professor, Division of Aeronautics, California Institute of Technology

7/04 - Present: Dotty and Dick Hayman Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology

Honors and Awards

1977-78 Fulbright Scholarship

1994-95 Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Scholar, Caltech

1995-96 Midwest Mechanics Seminar - Distinguished Speaker

1997 U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics - Fellow

1998 Southwest Mechanics Lecture Series - Distinguished Speaker

1999 Spanish Academy of Engineering, Corresponding Member

2000 ISI Highly Cited Researchers Award

2002 Humboldt Research Award for Senior U.S. Scientists

2002 Fellow, International Association for Computational Mechanics

2002 International Computational Mechanics Awards for Research

2004 Named Chair, Dotty and Dick Hayman, Professor of Aeronautics
and Mechanical Engineering

2007 Elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts & Sciences

2007 USACM Computational Structural Mechanics Award

2008 IUTAM Rodney Hill Prize

Committees and Professional Activities

Director, Caltech’s DoE/PSAAP Center for the Predictive Modeling and Simulation of High Energy Density Dynamic Response of Materials, March 2008 – present

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Engineering Directorate Review Committee, Chair, 2008-present

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Chemistry, Materials Earth and Life
Sciences Directorate Review Committee, 2008-present

National Research Council, Study Committee for the Evaluation of QMU, 2007-present

Engineering Sciences External Review Panel, Sandia National Laboratory, 2006 - Present

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, Engineering Directorate, Predictive Science Panel, 2006 - Present

Los Alamos National Laboratories, T-Division DRC, 2004-2006

Los Alamos National Laboratories, ESA Division DRC 2004-2006

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, Predictive Science Panel, 2006

Editorial Board, Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics, 2004

University of California Science & Technology Panel, 2002 - 2007

Editor, Journal Computational Mechanics, 2002-2008

Elected Member-at-Large, U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics, 2000-2008

Advisory Editor, International Journal of Non Linear Mechanics, 1999

Associate Editor, J. Appl. Mech., ASME, 1995-2001

Associate Editor, J. Engrg. Mech. Div., ASCE, 1990-1992

Chairman, Computational Mechanics Committee of the ASCE/EMD, 1990-1992

Editorial Board, Modeling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering, 1996

Editorial Board, Journal of Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 1996

Editorial Board, Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, 1999

Founding Member - Spanish Society of Numerical Methods in Engineering
Committee on Application of Expert Systems to Materials Selection During Structural Design, Nat'l Materials Advisory Board, Nat'l Academy of Sciences, 1992

Panel on ONR Research Opportunities in Solid and Fluid Mechanics, National Research Council, 1991

Organizer (with C. F. Shih), IUTAM Symposium on Computational Mechanics of Materials, Brown University, June 15-18, 1993

Professional Societies:

Member, American Academy of Mechanics

Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Fellow, U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics

Biographical Sketch

Professor Ortiz received a BS degree in Civil Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain, and MS and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. From 1984-1995 he held a faculty position in the Division of Engineering of Brown University, where he carried out research activities in the fields of mechanics of materials and computational solid mechanics. He is currently the Dotty and Dick Hayman Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology, where he has been in the faculty since 1995 and currently serves as the director of Caltech’s DoE/PSAAP Center on High-Energy Density Dynamics of Materials. Professor Ortiz has been a Fulbright Scholar, a Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Scholar at Caltech, Midwest and Southwest Mechanics Seminar Series Distinguished Speaker, a Fellow and an elected member-at large of the US Association for Computational Mechanics, and an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Professor Ortiz is the recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Research Award for Senior U.S. Scientists, the IACM International Computational Mechanics Awards for Research, the USACM Computational Structural Mechanics Award, the ISI Highly Cited Researcher Award, and the inaugural 2008 Rodney Hill Prize conferred every four years by the IUTAM. Professor Ortiz has served in the University of California Office of the President Science and Technology Panel and in the Los Alamos National Laboratory T-Division Review Committee. He currently serves in the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Predictive Science Panel, the Sandia National Laboratories Engineering Sciences External Review Panel, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Chemistry, Materials, Earth and Life Sciences Directorate Review Committee, the National Research Council Panel for the Evaluation of QMU and he chairs the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Engineering Directorate Review Committee. He has been editor of the Journal of Engineering Mechanics of ASCE and of the Journal of Applied Mechanics of the ASME, associate editor of the journal Modeling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering and of the Journal for Computational Mechanics, and is presently associate editor of the Journal for the Mechanics and Physics of Solids and of the Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis.

Professor Michael Ortiz
Dotty and Dick Hayman Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering
Mail Code 105-50
Engineering and Applied Sciences Division
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA 91125
Phone: (626) 395-4530
Fax: (626) 449-6359
E-mail: ortiz@aero.caltech.edu
http://www.solids.caltech.edu/~ortiz/

last modified: 09-Jun-2008