Michael Ortiz (mathematician)

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Michael Ortiz
Born (1954-08-06) 6 August 1954 (age 69)
NationalityAmerican/Spanish
Alma mater
Known forQuasi continuum method, optimal transportation mesh-free (OTM), variational methods in computational mechanics [1]
Scientific career
Institutions
Thesis Topics in constitutive theory for inelastic solids  (1981)
Doctoral advisor Egor Popov

Michael Ortiz (born August 6, 1954) is a dual American-Spanish scientist and researcher in the fields of structural, continuum and computational mechanics and is a Frank and Ora Lee Marble Professor Emeritus of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering at California Institute of Technology. Prior to his arrival at Caltech in 1995, he was Professor of Engineering at Brown University.

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Since 2020 he is a Professor Emeritus in the Engineering and Applied Science Division at Caltech, also holding positions as Research Chair in the Institute of Applied Mathematics, University of Bonn [2] and as Adjunct Professor and Timoshenko Distinguished Fellow in the departments of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics and Astronautics of Stanford University.

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References

  1. "Caltech Division of Engineering and Applied Science | News | Professor Ortiz Receives the Timoshenko Medal".
  2. "Michael Ortiz - Caltech". www.ortiz.caltech.edu. Retrieved 2020-10-15.
  3. "Timoshenko Medal". www.asme.org. Retrieved 2020-10-15.
  4. "Honors and Awards". www.usacm.org. Retrieved 2020-10-15.