Ares Rosakis#
| Membership Number: | 3885 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2014 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | http://rosakis.caltech.edu |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2018 - 2023 Nanyang Visiting Professorship Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
- 2018 Distinguished Simpson Visiting Professorship, Northwestern University
- Spring 2013 - 2015 Otis Booth Leadership Chair, Division of Engineering and Applied Science and Theodore von Kármán Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
- Spring 2009 - 2015 Chair, Division of Engineering and Applied Science, California Institute of Technology
- Summer 2008 Visiting Professor, Columbia University
- Spring 2008 Astor Visiting Professor, Oxford University
- Summer 2005 Visiting Professor, Department of Terre-Atmosphère-Océan École Normale Supérieure, Paris
- 2004 - present Theodore von Kármán Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
- 2004 - 2009 Director of the Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories (GALCIT), California Institute of Technology
- 2003 - 2004 Interim Co-Director, Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories (GALCIT), California Institute of Technology
- 2000 Professor of Aeronautics & Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
- 1993 - 2000 Professor of Aeronautics & Applied Mechanics, California Institute of Technology
- 1988 - 1993 Associate Professor of Aeronautics & Applied Mechanics, California Institute of Technology
- 1982 - 1988 Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Applied Mechanics, California Institute of Technology
- 1980 - 1982 General Electric Foundation Fellow and University Scholar, Brown University
- 1978 - 1980 Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant, Brown University
Fields of Scholarship
- Engineering sciences
- Aerospace
- Solid mechanics
- Materials science
- Geophysics
- Fracture mechanics
- Impact mechanics
- Thin films
- Experimental mechanics
- Optical methods
Honours and Awards
- 2024 Foreign Member of the Royal Society, UK
- 2023 Awarded Honorary PhD – National Technical University of Athens, NTUA
- 2023 Awarded Honorary Degree of Doctor of Engineering University of Illinois, UC
- 2021 Zdeněk P. Bažant Medal for Failure and Damage Prevention (2020), ASCE
- 2021 Horace Mann Medal – Brown University (alumni award) Brown University
- 2019 Aurel Stodola Medal and Lecture – 160 th Anniversary of Stodola’s birth, ETH Zurich
- 2018 Timoshenko Medal, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, ASME
- 2017 Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science AAAS
- 2017 Elected Fellow, American Geophysical Union AGU
- 2017 Elected Honorary Fellow, International Congress of Fracture ICF
- 2016 Elected to the National Academy of Sciences NAS
- 2016 Theodore von Karman Medal , American Society of Civil Engineers ASCE
- 2015 Sia Nemat-Nasser Medal, Society of Experimental Mechanics SEM
- 2014 Elected member of the Academia Europaea (Academy of Europe) Academia Europaea, London
- 2013 Elected Corresponding member of the Academy of Athens National Academy of Greece
- 2013 Elected Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering
- 2013 Elected member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea)
- 2013 Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)
- 2013 P.S. Theocaris Award, Society for Experimental Mechanics
- 2012 Commandeur de l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques, Republic of France
- 2011 U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE), Elected Member
- 2010 A.C. Eringen Medal, For sustained outstanding achievements in Engineering Science, Society of Engineering Science
- 2010 Robert Henry Thurston Lecture Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- 2010 Brown Engineering Alumni Medal, Brown University
- 2009 Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2009 Elected Fellow of the Society for Experimental Mechanics
- 2008 M. Hetényi Award, For Best Paper in Experimental Mechanics, Society for Experimental Mechanics
- 2007 J.R. Harting Award, For Best Paper in Experimental techniques, Society for Experimental Mechanics
- 2005 William R. Murray Medal and Lecture, Highest recognition and prestige lecture, Society for Experimental Mechanics
- 2003 Max Frocht Award, Experimental Mechanics Educator of the Year, Society for Experimental Mechanics
- 1998 Excellence in Teaching Award, Graduate Student Council, California Institute of Technology
- 1996 B.J. Lazan Award, For outstanding Achievements in Dynamic Fracture, Society for Experimental Mechanics
- 1995 Elected Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- 1989 Rudolf Kingslake Medal and Prize, International Society of Optical Engineering (SPIE)
- 1985 Presidential Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation, USA
- 1984 & 1985 IBM Faculty Development Award, California Institute of Technology
