Michael Ortiz (mathematician)

Not to be confused with J. Michael Ortiz.

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.

Michael Ortiz
Born	(1954-08-06) 6 August 1954 (age 70)
Nationality	American/Spanish
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley (MS, PhD) Polytechnic University of Madrid (BS)
Known for	Quasi continuum method, optimal transportation mesh-free (OTM), variational methods in computational mechanics[1]
Scientific career
Institutions	Brown University California Institute of Technology Bonn University
Thesis	Topics in constitutive theory for inelastic solids (1981)
Doctoral advisor	Egor Popov
Doctoral students	Yashashree Kulkarni

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.

Awards

• Rodney Hill Prize, International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM) 2008.
• Timoshenko Medal, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015.^[3]
• Doctor Honoris Causa, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain, 2019.
• John von Neumann Medal, US Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM), 2019.^[4]

Academy Membership

• 2013 Elected Member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE).
• 2007 Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (AAAS).
• 1999 Corresponding Member, Spanish Academy of Engineering.