Martin Ostoja-Starzewski is a Polish-Canadian-American
scientist
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and
engineer
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, a professor of mechanical science and engineering at the
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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. His research includes work on deterministic and stochastic mechanics: random and
fractal
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media,
representative elementary volume
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in linear and nonlinear material systems, universal elastic anisotropy index,
random fields In physics and mathematics, a random field is a random function over an arbitrary domain (usually a multi-dimensional space such as \mathbb^n). That is, it is a function f(x) that takes on a random value at each point x \in \mathbb^n(or some other ...
, and bridging
continuum mechanics
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to
fluctuation theorem
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.
Education and Career
Ostoja-Starzewski is an immigrant to Canada and the United States from Poland. He received his undergraduate education at
Cracow University of Technology, followed by Master’s and Ph.D. degrees at
McGill University
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.
He worked as a faculty member at
Purdue University
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,
Michigan State University
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,
Institute of Paper Science and Technology
The Renewable Bioproducts Institute (RBI), is a research institute at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Founded in 1929 as the Institute of Paper Chemistry in Appleton, Wisconsin, it moved to Georgia Tech's campus in 1989, and integrated its op ...
at Georgia Tech, McGill University, and (since 2006) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He is also affiliated with the university's
Beckman Institute,
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
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and
Institute for Condensed Matter Theory
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ICMT was founded in 2007. The first director of the institute w ...
. He has been Site co-Director of the NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Novel High Voltage/Temperature Materials and Structures (2012-2022).
Recognition
He serves as Editor of
Acta Mechanica, Editor-in-Chief of the
Journal of Thermal Stresses, and Chair Managing Editor of
Mathematics and Mechanics of Complex Systems
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. He is Fellow of
ASME
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, American Academy of Mechanics, Society of Engineering Science, and Associate Fellow of
AIAA
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. His distinctions include Timoshenko Distinguished Visitor at Stanford University (2012), the
Worcester Reed Warner Medal
Worcester Reed Warner (May 16, 1846 – June 25, 1929) was an American mechanical engineer, entrepreneur, manager, astronomer, and philanthropist. With Ambrose Swasey he cofounded the Warner & Swasey Company.
Biography Life and career
Warne ...
of ASME (2018), membership in
European Academy of Sciences and Arts
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(2022), and Rothschild Distinguished Visiting Fellow at
Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
The Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences is an international research institute for mathematics and its many applications at the University of Cambridge. It is named after one of the university's most illustrious figures, the mathemat ...
(2023).
Books
# D. Jeulin and M. Ostoja-Starzewski, Eds.
''Mechanics of Random and Multiscale Microstructures'' CISM, Vol. 430, Springer, Wien-New York, 2001. (print), 9783709127803 (online)
# M. Ostoja-Starzewski
''Microstructural Randomness and Scaling in Mechanics of Materials'' CRC Press (2007).
# J. Ignaczak and M. Ostoja-Starzewski
''Thermoelasticity with Finite Wave Speeds'' Oxford University Press (2009).
# A. Malyarenko and M. Ostoja-Starzewski
''Tensor-Valued Random Fields for Continuum Physics'' Cambridge University Press (2019).
# A. Malyarenko, M. Ostoja-Starzewski and A. Amiri-Hezaveh
''Random Fields of Piezoelectricity and Piezomagnetism: Correlation Structures'' Springer (2020).
References
Faculty pageat the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Publication Timeline
Google Scholar page
ResearchGateprofile.
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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
McGill University alumni
Tadeusz Kościuszko University of Technology alumni
20th-century Polish engineers
21st-century American engineers
Polish expatriates in the United States
Polish expatriates in Canada
Academic journal editors
Fellows of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Canada Research Chairs
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people