SIA NEMAT-NASSER

Director of the Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials (CEAM)
Distinguished Professor of Mechanics and Materials

Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering University of California, San Diego  4209 Engineering Building 1 9500 Gilman Drive  La Jolla, CA 92093-0416  E-Mail: sia@ucsd.edu Office: 4209 EBUI  Phone: (858) 534-4914  FAX: (858) 534-2727  Web Site: http://www-ceam.ucsd.edu

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EDUCATION

Doctor of Philosophy, 1964
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.

Master of Science, 1961
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.

CURRENT RESEARCH INTEREST

Experimentally-based analytical/computational, nano-scale modeling of response and failure modes of materials, particularly multifunctional structural systems, e.g., structural composites with tunable electromagnetic functionality, thermal management, self-healing, self-sensing and metamaterials with negative refractive index; polyelectrolytes and ionic polymer metal composites as soft-actuators and sensors; shape-memory alloys; bio-hybrid interfaces and their short- and long-term functionality; advanced metals and ceramics; elastomers; granular materials; and hybrid composites.

CURRENT RESEARCH TOPICS

• Fatigue Failure of Hybrid Polymer Composites with Integrated Sensing
• Multiscale Multifunctional Materials: self-healing, self-sensing, and electronically tuned composites
• Experimental and Microstructural Characterization and Physically-Based Micromechanical Modeling of Ionic Polymer Metal Composites
• Adaptive Materials for Energy-Absorbing Hybrid Structures
• Sensors: Self-Monitoring Structural Composite Materials with Integrated Sensing Networks
• Dynamic Response of Elastomers (particularly polyurea and polyurethane)
• Dynamic and Quasi-Static Response of Shape-Memory Alloys and Structures
• Self-assembling Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes
• Structural Composites with Tuned EM Chirality

ACADEMIC CAREER

2004-	Distinguished Professor of Mechanics and Materials, Dept. of MAE, UC San Diego
1999-	Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UC San Diego
1998-00	Director, Institute for Mechanics and Materials, UC San Diego
1992-97	Co-Director, Institute for Mechanics and Materials, UC San Diego
1989-94	Founding Director, Materials Science and Engineering Program, UC San Diego
1986-	Director, Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials, UC San Diego
1985-99	Professor, Applied Mechanics and Engineering Sciences, UC San Diego
1972-73	Visiting Professor, The Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Dept of Solid Mech.
1970-85	Professor of Civil Eng. and Applied Math., Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL
1969-70	Associate Professor of Applied Mechanics, UC San Diego
1966-69	Assistant Professor of Applied Mechanics, UC San Diego
1965-66	Senior Research Engineer, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
1964-65	Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
1963-64	Teaching Fellow (part-time), UC Berkeley
1961-62	Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, California State College (now University), Sacramento

AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS AND RECOGNITION

2009	SEM establishes the 'Sia Nemat-Nasser Award' to recognize an individual for distinguished, innovative and outstanding work that has realized the impact of experimental mechanics on other scientific and engineering fields through an integrated multidisciplinary research.
2009	Murray Medal, Society of Experimental Mechanics
2009	Society of Experimental Mechanics Murray Lecture
2008	Stephan P. Timoshenko Medal, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
2008	ASME Materials Division establishes 'The Sia Nemat-Nasser Early Career Medal,' to recognize the excellence of young investigators who are within ten years after their Ph.D
2008	Distinguished Service Award, California State University, Sacramento, & Sacramento State Alumni Association
2007	American Society of Mechanical Engineers IMECE Symposium on Modeling and Experiments in Nanomechanics and Nanomaterials - In Honor of Sia Nemat-Nasser, Seattle, WA, Nov. 2007
2007	B.J. Lazan Award, Society of Experimental Mechanics
2006	Robert Henry Thurston Lecture Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
2006	Certificate of Recognition-Outstanding Dedication as Faculty Mentor, UC Faculty Mentor Program
2005	Honorary Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
2005	Faculty Research Lecturer Award, UC San Diego
2004	Honorary Member, World Innovation Foundation
2003	Willard F. Rockwell Medal, International Technology Institute
2003	Honorary Member World Level of the Hall of Fame for Engineering, Science and Technology, HOFEST
2003	Best Paper of the Year Award, Adaptive Structures and Materials Systems, [Nemat-Nasser, S. "Micromechanics of Actuation of Ionic Polymer-metal Composites," Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 92, No. 5 (2002) 2899-2915], American Society of Mechanical Engineers Aerospace Division
2002	Nadai Medal, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
2002	William Prager Medal in Solid Mechanics, Society of Engineering Science
2001	Life Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
2001	National Academy of Engineering, Member
2001	MMC2001 Conference Symposium on Experiments and Modeling of Failure of Modern Materials-In Honor of Sia Nemat-Nasser’s 65^th Anniversary, San Diego, CA
2000	Teacher of the Year Award, Jacobs School of Engineering, UC San Diego
2000	Certificate of Recognition - Outstanding Support as Faculty Mentor to McNair Scholar, UC San Diego
1997	Technical University of Crete's Gold Medal
1997-98	Chair, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Materials Division
1996-97	Outstanding Teaching Award, School of Engr. Mechanical Engineering, UC San Diego
1996-97	President, American Academy of Mechanics
1996	Int'l Symposium on Deformation Characteristics and Modeling of Materials - In Honor of Sia Nemat-Nasser's 60th Anniversary, Sendai, Japan; [Mech. of Mater. Vol. 28 (1-4) 1998].
1995-00	John Dove Isaacs Chair in Natural Philosophy
1994-95	Teacher of the Year Award, School of Engineering-AMES Dept, UC, San Diego
1988-94	Secretary, American Academy of Mechanics
1988	Fellow, Society of Engineering Science
1987	Foreign Fellow, Danish Center for Applied Mathematics and Mechanics
1979	Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
1979-80	President, Society of Engineering Science
1976-82	Director, Society of Engineering Science
1975	Alburz Educational Foundation Prize
1972-73	Fellowship, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby
1970	Founding Fellow, American Academy of Mechanics
1963-64	Ford Foundation, UC Berkeley
1962-63	Arthur Gould Tasheira Fellowship, UC Berkeley
1959-60	Student Award Certificate, American Society for Testing and Materials

SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS (Current):

• American Academy of Mechanics

- Member, Honors (Awards) Committee (2005-)

- President (1996-97)

- President-Elect (1995-96)

- Secretary (1989-1994)

- Founding Fellow (1970 - present)

• American Association of University Professors (since 1983)
• American Society of Civil Engineers

- Charter Member of Engineering Mechanics Institute (2009)

- Lifetime Membership Certification 2003

- Engineering Mechanics Division:

- Committee on Inelastic Behavior (1983-85) (1992-95)

- Member (1975)

• American Society of Mechanical Engineers

- Honorary Member (2005)

- Lifetime Membership Certification for 35 years of support (2001-)

- Fellow (1979)

- Applied Mechanics Division:

Committee on Geomechanics, Member (1992-1995)

Committee on Geomechanics, Chairman (1981-85)

Program Committee, Member (1979-82)

- Materials Division:

Executive Committee, Member (1993-98)

Chair (1997-98)

- Materials & Structures Technical Group:

International Congress Group Representative (1995)

• International Society for Computational Engineering & Sciences (ISCES)

- Founding Member (1999-)

• International Technology Institute (2003-)
• National Academy of Engineering

- Member, 2001 -
- Co-Chair Section 10 Search Committee (2007-2010)
- Member, 2009 Nominating Committee

• Society of Engineering Science

- Fellow (1988 - present)

- Committee on Geophysical and Geotechnical Phenomena, Chairman (1984)

- President (1979-80)

• Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) (1999-) 

• The American Society for Metals (ASM) International (1987- )
• The Mathematical Association of America (2004 –)
• The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS) (1996-)

• The Society for Experimental Mechanics (1984- )

• World Innovation Foundation (2004-)

SERVICE TO SCHOLARLY BOOKS AND JOURNALS

• Editor of Mechanics Today, series of books (Vols. 1-6 published by Pergamon Press on behalf of the American Academy of Mechanics) (1974-1976, 1978, 1980-1981)
• Co-Editor of Mechanics of Elastic and Inelastic Solids, series of seven books, published by two publishers;  Martinus Nijhofff and Kluwer Academic (1980 - 1989)
• Editor, Three Dimensional Constitutive Relations and Ductile Fracture, North Holland Publishing (1981)
• Editor-in-Chief, international journal Mechanics of Materials (1982 - present)
• Editor, Mech. Mater. "Inelastic Deformation and Failure Modes,” Vol. 4 (1985)
• Honorary Editorial Advisory Board Member, Iranian Journal of Science and Technology (until l979)

• Advisory Board Member, international journal Mechanics-Research Communications (until 1985)

• Editorial Board Member, international Journal of Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (1980-1990)
• Editorial Advisory Board Member, Microcomputers in Civil Engineering
• Editorial Advisory Board Member, international journal Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (1990-1994)
• Editorial Board Member, international journal Mechanics and Materials in Design (2001-)
• Editorial Board Member, journal Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures (2004-)

PUBLICATIONS AND LECTURES:

Has authored, co-authored, or edited over twenty books and proceedings, and has organized over forty scientific workshops and meetings, including organization of the 2001 Mechanics and Materials Summer Conference, jointly sponsored by ASME's Materials and Applied Mechanics Divisions, ASCE Engineering Mechanics Division and the Society of Engineering Science.  He has published over 400 scientific articles and has presented over 430 lectures and seminars at scientific meetings and at various institutions, thirty of which were plenary or keynote lectures.

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