Office Location: AERO N309
Focus Area
Structural & Material Systems
Education
Ph.D., Civil Engineering, with highest honors, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, 1998
Dipl.-Ing. Aerospace Engineering, with highest honors, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, 1992
Professional Experience
2023 - Present, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, College of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Colorado Boulder
2012 - Present, Professor, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder
2012 - 2014, Associate Dean for Research, College of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Colorado Boulder
2006 - 2012, Associate Professor, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder
2000 - 2006, Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder
1998 - 2000, Post-doctoral Research Associate, Center for Aerospace Structures, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado
1992 - 1998, Research Associate, Institute of Structural Mechanics, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Awards (selected)
Palmer Endowed Chair (2016 - Present)
Outstanding Research, Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (2016)
Joseph Negler Professorship (2011 - 2016)
H. Joseph Smead Faculty Fellow (2006 - 2011)
Dean's Award for Outstanding Junior Faculty, College of Engineering & Applied Science, University of Colorado at Boulder (2005)
NSF Career Award (2004)
Award for Excellent Research, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Research Interests
Structural topology and shape optimization, multidisciplinary optimization, optimization of aeroelastic systems, adaptive discretization methods in structural optimization, optimization of materially nonlinear structures