CHAD MATTHEW LANDIS
Professor
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
The University of Texas at Austin
1 University Station, C0600
210 East 24th Street, Austin, TX 78712-0235
(512) 471-4273
http.//www.ae.utexas.edu/~landis
EDUCATION
1999 Ph.D., Mechanical and Environmental Engineering
University of California, Santa Barbara
1997 M.S., Mechanical and Environmental Engineering
University of California, Santa Barbara
1994 B.S.E., Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics
University of Pennsylvania
1994 B.S., Economics (Finance)
University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business
EXPERIENCE
2014-present Professor, Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
The University of Texas at Austin
2008-2014 Associate Professor, Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
The University of Texas at Austin
2007-2008 Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
The University of Texas at Austin
2005-2006 Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Rice University
2000-2005 Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Rice University
1999-2000 Postdoctoral Fellow, Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Harvard University, advisor: Professor John W. Hutchinson
1995-1999 Research Assistant in the Department of Mechanical and Environmental
Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara
advisor: Professor Robert M. McMeeking
HONORS AND AWARDS
2014 Elected Fellow of ASME
2008 Thomas J.R. Hughes Young Investigator Award
(ASME Applied Mechanics Division)
2005 Materials Research Society Outstanding Paper Award
2003 National Science Foundation Career Award
2003 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award
1995,1997-1998 Regents Fellowship, University of California
ACTIVITIES
2011-present Regional Editor – International Journal of Fracture
2011-present Editorial Board – International Journal of Solids and Structures
2009-present Associate Editor – Journal of Applied Mechanics
2006-present Treasurer – American Academy of Mechanics
2005-present Associate Editor – Journal of the American Ceramic Society
2001-2003 Recording Secretary – ASME Applied Mechanics Division
Member of American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Member of American Academy of Mechanics
Member of the Materials Research Society
Member of the American Ceramic Society
Member of Society of Engineering Science
Member of Tau Beta Pi
PUBLICATIONS
http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ercfpvkAAAAJ&hl=en
TEACHING
Undergraduate level Advanced Strength of Materials, Fall 2008, 2010
Graduate level Mechanics of Active Materials, Spring 2008, 2013
Undergraduate level Structural Analysis, Fall 2007, Spring 2010, 2012
Undergraduate level Statics, Spring 2007, 2010, Fall 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2014, Summer 2010
Undergraduate level Mechanics of Solids, Spring 2011, Fall 2013
Undergraduate level Engineering Mechanics (Statics and Dynamics), Fall 2000-2006
Undergraduate level Advanced Mechanics of Materials, Spring 2006
Graduate level Theory of Elasticity, Fall 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006
Graduate level Theory of Plasticity, Spring 2002, 2004, 2009
Graduate level Theoretical Fracture Mechanics, Spring 2003, 2012
CURRENT RESEARCH
Phase field modeling of ferroelectric and ferromagnetic domain evolution.
Constitutive behavior of ferroelectric ceramics.
Fracture of ferroelectric ceramics.
Phase-field modeling of fracture.
ADVISEES
Jianxin Wang – PhD, Rice University, 2006
Jianshun Sheng – MS, Rice University, 2003
Wenyuan Li – MS, Rice University, 2006, PhD, UT Austin, 2011
Brian Meason – MS, UT Austin, 2008
Dorinamaria Carka - PhD, UT Austin, 2012
Zacharias Petrou - MS, UT Austin, 2013
Zachary Wilson - PhD candidate at UT Austin
Alexandra Woldman - PhD candidate at UT Austin
Amin Anvari - PhD candidate at UT Austin
Yalin Yu - PhD candidate at UT Austin
Nikolas Bouklas - PhD candidate at UT Austin
Dongjie Jiang - PhD candidate at UT Austin
Yu Su – Postdoctoral Associate, Rice University, 2004-2006
Antonios Kontsos – Postdoctoral Associate, UT Austin, 2007-2009