Pol D. Spanos#
| Membership Number: | 2543 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2008 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | https://profiles.rice.edu/faculty/pol-d-spanos |
Present and Previous Positions
- Lewis B. Ryon Professor of Mechanical and Civil Engineering at Rice University
- Professor of Materials Science and NanoEngineering
Fields of Scholarship
- Digital signal processing and simulation
- Dynamical systems
Honours and Awards
- 2024 Blaise-Pascal-Medal in Engineering for his "exceptional contributions to the field of dynamics"
- 2021 ASME Gold Medalist
- 2021 Lifetime Contributions European Structural Dynamics Award
- 2020 Recipient of the T.K. Caughey ASME Medal for Lifetime Contributions to Nonlinear Dynamics
- 2017 International Scientific and Technological Cooperation Award of the People's Republic of China
- 2014 Palermo (Italy) University Prize for international scientific collaboration
- 1995 Senior Researcher Award from the Von Humboldt Foundation (Germany)
- Member of the National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Academy of Europe, the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, the National Academy of Greece, the Russian Academy of Engineering, the Indian National Academy of Engineering, the Canadian Academy of Engineering and the Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Fellow of the American Academy of Mechanics
- Fellow of Engineering Mechanics Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
- Honorary member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME) and the ASCE
