Horacio Espinosa

J. and N. Farley Chaired Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Director, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics

Phone: (847) 467-5989
Fax: (847) 491-3915
E-mail: espinosa@northwestern.edu

Web Page:

http://clifton.mech.northwestern.edu/~espinosa

Horacio D. Espinosa received his undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering from the Northeast National University, Argentina, his M.Sc. in Structural Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Italy, and his Ph.D. in Applied Mechanics from Brown University, in 1992. He subsequently joined the Purdue University faculty and later moved to Northwestern University in 2000.

He has made contributions in the areas of dynamic failure of advanced materials, micro and nanomechanics. He has published over 150 technical papers and book chapters in these fields. He is a co-inventor of four patents. His current research interests are on size scale plasticity and fracture of nanostructures, MEMS and NEMS, in-situ electron and atomic probe microscopy testing of nanostructures, and the development of microdevices for massively parallel atomic probe microscopy writing with inorganic and organic molecules.

Professor Espinosa has received numerous awards and honors recognizing his research and teaching efforts, including two Young Investigator Awards, NSF-Career and ONR-YIP, the American Academy of Mechanics (AAM) 2002-Junior Award, the Society for Experimental Mechanics 2005 Hetenyi Award (Best Paper of the Year Award), and the Society of Engineering Science (SES) 2007 Junior Medal. He is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Mechanics (AAM) and the ASME.

He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Experimental Mechanics and as Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied Mechanics. He is an editorial board member of Research Letters in Nanotechnology. He also served as the editor of Mechanics, a publication of AAM.