SEM Bios

Dr. Doug Adams is the Daniel F. Flowers Professor of Engineering at Vanderbilt University. He has pioneered the development of nonlinear system identification approaches in experimental structural dynamics to realize state estimation and health monitoring technology for application in the energy, defense, and manufacturing sectors. He has advised 59 graduate students, written 270 papers, and received 10 patents. He authored a textbook on structural health monitoring as well as 5 book chapters including one on nonlinear experimental dynamics for the upcoming SEM Experimental Structural Dynamics Handbook. He has organized sessions and delivered talks at the International Modal Analysis Conference for 27 years.
 

Last Updated: 11/23/2020

Dr. Matt Allen is a Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Brigham Young University. Prior to that he taught for 15 years in the department of Engineering Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from BYU, M. S. and PhD degrees from the Georgia Tech in 2005 and was a post-doc at Sandia National Laboratories. He enjoys playing sheep’s head (Bavarian card game) during breaks at IMAC, trying new kinds of ice cream and skiing, hiking, biking or almost anything to do with mountains.
 

Last Updated: 09/04/2024

Dr. Andersen is a Civil Engineer with specializations in computational methods for structural dynamics. He got his M.Sc. in 1993 from Department of Civil Engineering at Aalborg University, and his Ph.D. in 1997. Since 1999 he has been the managing director and co-founder of Structural Vibration Solutions A/S. He is the senior developer of the ARTeMIS software for Operational Modal Analysis. For more than 20 years, he has been giving lectures and courses on Operational Modal Analysis and the use of ARTeMIS software worldwide. He is the author and co- author of more than 100 papers and articles on Operational Modal Analysis and Damage Detection, and the co-inventor of the Frequency Domain Decomposition patent. Today one of the most used techniques for Operational Modal Analysis.
 

Last Updated: 08/28/2024

Dr. Sez Atamturktur Russcher returned to Clemson University in July 2023 as Associate Vice President for the Charleston Innovation Centers (located at the CURI Campus in Charleston, SC) and Professor of Mechanical Engineering. She provides leadership in academic matters and scientific research portfolio of the CURI campus and is responsible for staffing, budgeting, and maintaining the facilities and campus operations. In addition, she serves as a liaison between Clemson’s Charleston campus and the main campus in Clemson.

Previously, she was the Harry and Arlene Schell Professor and Department Head of Architectural Engineering in the College of Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. As the department head, she served as the chief academic officer of her unit responsible for all matters related to instruction, finance, human-resource, and facilities management. By revitalizing the curriculum and implementing innovative strategies, she led her unit to achieve dramatic increases in student enrollment, engagement and success, notable gains in research productivity, and sharp hikes in philanthropic giving. Prior to joining Penn State, she served at Clemson University as Associate Vice President for Research and Distinguished Professor and founded the Office of Research Development. Previously, Dr. Russcher was at Los Alamos National Laboratory as an LTV technical staff member. Dr. Russcher holds a master’s degree in architectural engineering and a doctorate in civil and environmental engineering from Penn State University.

Focused on uncertainty quantification, experimental calibration and validation of predictive models of engineering systems, Dr. Russcher’s research has received funding from several federal agencies including the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, the Department of the Interior, the Department of Transportation, the Department of Education, as well as industry organizations and corporate partners. Her work has been documented in over 120 peer-reviewed publications in engineering science journals and proceedings. Among her current professional services, is her role as a member of the board of directors for the National Institute for Building Science, a federally charged entity that reports directly to the President of United States. Dr. Russcher also holds lead advisory roles for the United Nation’s High Performance Building initiative, the Vice President of the Society of Experimental Mechanics, and serves as a board member for several academic and research entities worldwide.

Dr. Russcher has a track record of broadening participation in engineering. She has served as the inaugural director of the National Science Foundation-funded ADVANCE project, which focuses on improving the status of women and minority faculty and was the principal investigator and director of the National Science Foundation-funded National Research Traineeship project funding for over 30 doctoral students on scientific computing and data analytics for resilient infrastructure systems. In addition, she has spearheaded federally funded projects on revitalizing undergraduate curricula and on improving transfer student success. In addition, Dr. Russcher was the director of two separate Department of Education-funded Graduate Assistantships in Areas of National Need projects that each provided funding for 10 doctoral students. Dr. Russcher served as one of the four codirectors of Clemson University’s Center of Excellence in Next Generation Computing and Creativity
 

Last Updated: 01/02/2024

Dr. Peter Avitabile is Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Lowell (1985-pres). He has over 4 decades of experience in design and analysis using FEM and experimental techniques. His focus is structural dynamics specializing in the areas of modeling, testing and correlation of analytical and experimental models along with advanced applications for developing linear and nonlinear structural dynamic models. Pete has written papers for every IMAC Conference since IMAC I as well as organized many sessions over the years. Numerous journal papers (50+) have also been published with his research assistants who are critical to moving the research agenda forward. He has published a book on “Modal Testing: A Practitioners Guide” as well as 17 years of “Modal Space” articles for Experimental Techniques. He is also Co-Editor of the Handbook of Experimental Structural Dynamics along with two handbook chapters contributed.
 

Last Updated: 01/04/2022

Carter Barkley is currently a M.S. student in Mechanical Engineering at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSM&T) where he also received his B.S. in 2019. Carter has been involved with the Composites and Polymers Engineering (CAPE) lab at SDSM&T where he assisted with the manufacturing of continuous fiber reinforced thermoplastic prepreg production machines. In addition to projects at the CAPE lab, Carter’s masters research investigates the response of thermoplastic matrix composite joints to various loading conditions. The research project also aims to compare experimental techniques such as digital image correlation (DIC) with numerical models.
 

Last Updated: 09/24/2020

Dr. Blough received his BSME and MSME from Michigan Technological University. Dr. Blough attended the University of Cincinnati to obtain his Ph.D. in structural dynamics. Dr. Blough’s Ph.D. was on rotating machinery signal processing methods. Dr. Blough is currently a Professor in the Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics Department at Michigan Technological University. Dr. Blough has been active in SEM and IMAC for over 20 years publishing papers, serving on the SEM Executive Board, and continues to be an instructor in the “Young Engineers” program at IMAC. Dr. Blough’s research is industry funded, with support from the auto and powersports industries, and defense. Dr. Blough has graduated over 40 graduate students and published over 135 papers. Dr. Blough has taught over 40 short courses to industry on various NVH topics.
 

Last Updated: 11/23/2020

Anders Brandt is currently professor and Head of the Department of Mechanical and Production Engineering at Aarhus University in Denmark. He received a MSc degree in electrical engineering from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, in 1986, and a Licentiate of Engineering degree in medical electronics from the same university in 1989 with a thesis on bone conduction hearing. For the next 20 years he worked with support, education and consultancy in industry in Sweden and abroad, in the areas of applied signal analysis. In 1996 he co-founded Axiom EduTech, a company dedicated to serve industry and academia with his expertise in advanced signal analysis methods for vibration analysis. During this time, he gave over 250 short-courses on various topics such as frequency analysis, modal analysis, order tracking, and vibration testing. He was also teaching at universities on similar topics.

In 2009, professor Brandt left the company and joined University of Southern Denmark (SDU) as an associate professor, building up a research group focusing on research within operational modal analysis and structural health monitoring. He has supervised and co-supervised 11 PhD students and 31 master students to completion and was promoted to full professor in 2019. He has published over 100 cited papers in the fields of vibration analysis and structural health monitoring. He left SDU to become Head of Department at Aarhus University in 2021.

Professor Brandt is the author of Noise and Vibration Analysis: Signal Analysis and Experimental Procedures, 2nd edition, published by John Wiley and Sons, 2023. In addition, he also published the free ABRAVIBE toolbox for MATLAB and GNU Octave, and maintains the site www.abravibe.com from which the toolbox and other educational material may be downloaded. The toolbox is used throughout universities and industry worldwide and has over 5,000 registered users. He also has a YouTube channel which contains lectures for many of the chapters of his book.
 

Last Updated: 06/24/2024

Dr. Eric N. Brown is the Division Leader for the Explosive Science and Shock Physics Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory where he oversees the premier research program on energetic materials and dynamic material response in support of National Security. His research has spanned fracture and damage of complex heterogeneous polymers and polymer composites for energetic, reactive, and structural applications including crystalline phase transitions, plasticity, dynamic loading conditions, and self-healing materials. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Dynamic Behavior of Materials and been named Fellow of the Society for Experimental Mechanics. He has received awards for his technical achievements in solid mechanics and materials science from the ASC, DOE-NNSA, LANL, MRS, SEM, TMS and the University of Illinois. He has served on several committees in SEM including Board of Directors as Member-at-Large, Research Committee, Technical Activities Council, Biological Systems and Materials Technical Division, and SEMEF. He has organized and chaired sessions for the Dynamic Behavior of Materials, Composites, and Biological Systems, and Materials Technical Divisions. He served three terms as an Associate Technical Editor of Experimental Mechanics. Eric was a Director’s Postdoctoral Fellow and Technical Staff Member in the Materials Science and Technology Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Technical Advisor for the Joint DoD/DOE Munitions Technology Program in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense, and managed the Neutron Science and Technology Group in the Los Alamos National Laboratory Physics Division. Eric received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 1998 and a Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics in 2003, both from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
 

Last Updated: 12/28/2021

Prof. Bruck is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical of Engineering at the University of Maryland, where he also serves as Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs. He was a pioneer of Digital Image Correlation with over 250 publications characterizing and modeling the thermomechanical behavior of bulk metallic glasses, functionally graded materials, nanostructured materials, biological/bio-inspired composites, and multifunctional structures for robotics. He is a SEM Fellow, and has served as an at-large member of the executive board, Fellows Committee Chair, Research Committee Chair, National Meetings Council member, associate editor for Experimental Mechanics, and founded the Biological Systems and Materials TD.
 

Last Updated: 11/08/2023

Daniel Casem received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1993. After a brief time doing manufacturing support and structural analysis at General Dynamics Electric Boat Division he returned to the University of Maryland and obtained both M.S. (1998) and Ph.D. (2000) degrees in mechanical engineering. In 2001 he started at the US Army Research Laboratory as a National Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellow for one year and has been there as a federal employee ever since. His research focusses on high rate experimental solid mechanics and shock.
 

Last Updated: 05/21/2024

University Distinguished Professor Gary L. Cloud joined the faculty of Michigan State University in 1961 and now conducts research in the MSU Composite Vehicle Research Center, of which he was Founding Director. He is a licensed Professional Engineer and Chartered Physicist as well as a Fellow of the Society for Experimental Mechanics and the Institute of Physics. His research brings together optical and electronic techniques to solve problems in geomechanics, biomechanics, composites, fracture mechanics, fastening, nondestructive evaluation, and design. He has written extensively, including the book Optical Methods of Engineering Measurement, and he holds 5 patents.
 

Last Updated: 11/08/2023

Wendy C. Crone is the Karen Thompson Medhi Professor in the College of Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She also holds the title of Discovery Fellow with the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery. Her research is in experimental solid mechanics, and many of the topics she has investigated are connected with nanotechnology and biotechnology. She has applied her technical expertise to improving fundamental understanding of mechanical response of materials, enhancing material behavior through surface modification and nanostructuring, exploring the interplay between cells and the mechanics of their surroundings, and developing new material applications and medical devices. Dr. Crone has published 80 journal publications, dozens of explanatory education products, four patents, and two books: Introduction to Engineering Research and Survive and Thrive: A Guide for Untenured Faculty. Prof. Crone has garnered numerous awards for research, teaching and mentoring, including the Award for Mentoring Undergraduates in Research, Scholarly and Creative Activities from UW–Madison and the M.M. Frocht Award from SEM. She has been a member of the Society for Experimental Mechanics since 1988, Fellow since 2015, and has served in several roles including President. She has also served in numerous leadership roles including Interim Dean and Associate Dean of the Graduate School at UW-Madison and Program Director at the National Science Foundation.
 

Last Updated: 02/12/2024

Dr. James De Clerck is a Professor of Practice in the Mechanical Engineering – Engineering Mechanics Department at Michigan Technological University. He earned BS, MS and PhD degrees from Michigan Tech, receiving his Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics in 1991.

Prior to joining the Michigan Tech faculty in 2009, Jim was a Project Design Engineer at the General Motors Noise and Vibration Center where he worked on improving vehicle noise and vibration performance at every stage of the vehicle development process. Jim led the development and implementation of new vibration analysis and testing technology. He also developed techniques for establishing design performance requirements and for validating analytical model predictions.

In addition to advising the Michigan Tech Formula SAE Team, Jim teaches classes on Model Based Design, Dynamics, System Dynamics Senior Capstone Design, Analytical and Experimental Modal Analysis, Machine Design, and Analytical Vibro-Acoustics classes. Jim’s areas of expertise include noise and vibration, structural dynamics, design, modal analysis, model validation, inverse methods applied to design, and advanced measurement techniques.
 

Last Updated: 10/20/2020

Anna Lena Eberle has a Diploma degree in Biology from the University of Tübingen and holds a doctoral degree in neurosciences, obtained at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biological Cybernetics. Multi-modal microscopy measurements were a key element of her work as a researcher on quantitative investigations of the brain’s vasculature. Since 2012, she joined ZEISS as Product Manager for the ZEISS MultiSEM. She and her colleagues are working on developing the application space of this first commercial multi-beam SEM to a broader spectrum beyond its current main application in neuroscientific research.
 

Last Updated: 05/15/2024

David Epp is currently the Reactor Facility Development manager at Sandia National Laboratory. He received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Oklahoma in 1997, 2001 and 2002, respectively with a focus on dynamics and controls. David joined Sandia in 2002 and has held a variety of positions as a staff member, including a test engineer, experimental facility owner, principle investigator, and project leader. David’s Sandia career started with modal and structural dynamic testing and includes applications such as MEMS, satellites, and other Sandia missions. David was promoted to manager of the Structural Dynamics and Radiography/NDE department in 2012 and has since held several management positions including a two year rotation in Washington DC.
 

Last Updated: 10/21/2020

Garrison Stevens Flynn completed her Ph.D. at Clemson in 2016 as a U.S. Department of Education GAANN fellow studying propagation of model uncertainties and systematic bias in multi-scale and multi-physics models. She is currently an R&D Engineer at Los Alamos National Laboratory on the Data Analysis Team of the Test Engineering group. Her research interests focus on statistical methods for inverse analysis of complex systems, with applications including nuclear nonproliferation and arms control and treaty verification. Garrison has been an active member of SEM since 2013. She currently serves as Vice-Chair of the Model Validation and Uncertainty Quantification Technical Division. In addition to her research, Garrison is passionate about mentorship. She has served as a mentor to a Girls in STEM program, providing mentorship to seven girls as they progress from 6-12th grade. She was a founding member of an early career development initiative promoting career discovery and collaboration across weapons engineering at LANL. Garrison received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from Clemson University in Civil Engineering with an emphasis in structural engineering.
 

Last Updated: 06/12/2024

Mr. Jacobsen joined Brüel & Kjær (now Hottinger Brüel & Kjær (HBK)) in 1986 as a Digital Signal Processing software developer on analyzer systems. Later job positions include project manager, application specialist, vibration group manager and product manager as which he is currently working with responsibility for HBK’s structural dynamics solutions. Mr. Jacobsen has worked intensively with both theoretical and practical aspects in the fields of structural dynamics, machine diagnostics and industrial acoustics. He has been the author of several technical papers and articles and is frequently lecturing worldwide. Mr. Jacobsen holds a B.Sc. in Electronic Engineering from the Technical University of Denmark and a B.Sc. in International Business from Copenhagen Business School.
 

Last Updated: 08/28/2024

Michael W. Keller received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Tulsa in 2001 and his Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2007. After completing his Ph.D. he served as a Post-doctoral researcher in the Dept. of Chemistry and Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Arizona. After his postdoctoral appointment, he joined the faculty of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Tulsa in 2008, where he is currently a Professor and the Associate Dean for Research of the College of Engineering and Computer Science. Over his career he has received numerous honors for research and teaching, including an NSF CAREER Award (2014), the SAE Ralph R. Teetor Award (2017), the University Teaching Award (2018), and the University Research Award (2021).
 

Last Updated: 12/05/2023

Prof. Lambros received a B.Eng. degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the Imperial College of Science and Technology of the University of London in 1988, an M.S. degree in Aeronautics from Caltech in 1989, and a Ph.D. degree also in Aeronautics from Caltech in 1994. After a year as a postdoctoral researcher, he joined the Mechanical Engineering department of the University of Delaware as an Assistant Professor in 1995 and moved to the Aerospace Engineering department of the University of Illinois in 2000, where he is currently a Professor. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Society for Experimental Mechanics, and the American Academy of Mechanics. He has served as an Associate Editor for Experimental Mechanics (1999-2005) and the ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics (2011-2014). He has also served on the Executive Board of the SEM (2008-2010) and recently completed one term as Associated Head for Graduate Studies in the Aerospace Engineering Department at Illinois (2011-2016). Over his 20-year career he has received numerous honors and awards for both research and teaching achievements including an NSF CAREER Award (1999), the SEM Hetényi (2012) and Frocht (2015) Awards, and the UIUC Campus Award for Excellence in Graduate and Professional Teaching (2015).
 

Last Updated: 10/20/2020

Randy Mayes began his structural dynamics career as a finite element analyst using NASTRAN in 1979 at Sandia National Laboratories. He moved into the modal testing group in 1989 where he worked until retirement in 2020. He has always enjoyed the friendly IMAC conference of SEM. An ElliptiGO stand-up bicycle and a classical guitar provide great hobbies. His favorite paraphrased scripture from the book of James is “Count it a joyous opportunity when you have an interruption or obstacle to your plans. As you patiently watch God work it out, He will change you into a fantastic person”.
 

Last Updated: 01/04/2022

Stephan Nickell earned his Diploma degree in Physics from the University in Heidelberg and his doctoral degree from the Technical University in Munich. In his studies he turned towards optics and electron microscopy. He was working as a group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Munich where he contributed to the development of cryo electron microscopy and structural biology. In 2011, Stephan Nickell joined ZEISS in Oberkochen, Germany. Stephan Nickell is currently Head of Product Management Academia & Other Industry for the ZEISS MultiSEM.
 

Last Updated: 05/15/2024

Dr. H. Nevzat Özgüven (PhD, The University of Manchester) is a Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering at METU (Türkiye) with over 40 years of experience in mechanical vibrations. His primary research interests include gear dynamics, machine tool dynamics, and both linear and nonlinear structural dynamics. His work on nonlinear systems has focused particularly in the areas of identification of nonlinearity, analytical and experimental nonlinear modal analysis, and nonlinear substructuring. Dr. Özgüven has been a Visiting Fulbright Professor at The Ohio State University for two years and a TUM Global Visiting Professor at the Technical University of Munich. His extensive administrative experience includes serving as Vice President of The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye for over five years and as Vice President of METU for eight years. He is an ASME Fellow and is a member of the Science Academy (Türkiye).
 

Last Updated: 09/05/2024

Benjamin Pacini is a Principal Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories where he has been working since 2011 after receiving his B.S and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs and Oklahoma State University, respectively. In 2013 he joined the Experimental Structural Dynamics Department and has conducted modal tests on a variety of structures ranging from Saguaro cactus to aerospace structures. His research interest has been, and will always be, nonlinear structural dynamics with a particular focus on bolted joints. With three young boys at home, his free time is filled with chasing them around, whether in a back yard soccer game or on a hiking trail in the mountains.
 

Last Updated: 09/04/2024

Emily Retzlaff is currently an Associate Professor in the Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department at the US Naval Academy. She received her PhD from Johns Hopkins University, advised by Dr. K.T. Ramesh. Her dissertation focused on temperature and dynamic strain rate effects on aluminum alloys. Dr Retzlaff then completed a post doc at the Army Research Lab, advised by Dr. Brian Schuster and Dr. Dan Casem. While at ARL she developed an optically instrumented miniature Kolsky bar. Dr Retzlaff has been a member of SEM since 2008 and is Chair of the Additive and Advanced Manufacturing technical division.
 

Last Updated: 05/21/2024

Dr. Phillip L. Reu is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories. He has received an MS in biomedical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an MS and PhD in mechanical engineering from the University of Wisconsin – Madison (2002). Phillip specializes in developing novel full-field measurement techniques in previously un-measurable regimes often using digital image correlation (DIC) or coherent optical measurement techniques. He was awarded the Brewer award for outstanding experimentalist from SEM in 2016. Current research efforts in DIC are focused on uncertainty quantification. Phillip is the author of the “Art and Application of DIC” article series in the journal of Experimental Techniques, international instructor in DIC techniques for “Metrology beyond colors”, chair of the DIC Challenge, president of the international digital image correlation society (iDICs), author of more than 30 peer reviewed journal articles, and pater familias to 6 kids.

Dr. Phillip L. Reu earned a Master’s of Science in biomedical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Master’s of Science and a PhD in mechanical engineering from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Phil specializes in developing novel full-field measurement techniques in previously un-measurable regimes often using digital image correlation (DIC) or coherent optical measurement techniques. He has been instrumental in the popularization and wide-spread adoption of full-field and optical measurement techniques both at Sandia and globally. Phillip is the founding Vice President & current President of the International Digital Image Correlation Society (iDICs), and an international instructor in DIC techniques and best practices, training over 90 Sandians as well as researchers at LANL, AWE and the DoD. Phil’s leadership and technical contributions in developing and deploying these techniques, have been critical in proving that digital high-speed cameras can be used to make quantitative measurements with an understanding of the uncertainty, enabling their widespread use at the labs today.
 

Last Updated: 03/04/2020

Professor Rixen, (b. 1967) received his engineering degree from the University of Liège (ULg, Belgium) and an MSc degree in Aerospace Vehicle Design from the College of Aeronautics in Cranfield (UK). He obtained his doctorate degree from ULg in 1997, supervised by Professor Géradin. After a research assistantship at the Center for Aerospace of the University of Colorado (USA), he became in 2000 full professor at Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands) as Chair of Engineering Dynamics. Since 2012 he is heading the Department of Applied Mechanics at TUM. His field of interest includes theoretical, numerical and experimental aspects of the dynamics of structures and mechatronical systems.
 

Last Updated: 05/17/2023

Dr. Rogers received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Engineering Mechanics from Iowa State University in 1980, 1984 and 1986, respectively. Jon joined Sandia in the fall of 1986 in the Vibration Testing Division. In the test organization, he worked as the test engineer for vibration and shock testing on a number of systems. Jon was the project leader for the VIBRAFUGE development project which placed a 4000 lb force rated shaker on the 29-foot underground centrifuge, and for the Acoustic Test Facility development project. This resulted in the construction of the 16,000 cu. ft., high-level chamber with combined acoustic and vibration test capabilities.

Jon moved to Systems Studies in the fall of 1992. He has worked on a variety of studies including Advanced Manufacturing, the Impact of Technology on the Economy, and many studies involving the weapons program and Underground Facilities. Jon was made a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in the fall of 2002 and was promoted to manager in the fall of 2003. He is currently the manager of the Strategic Weapons Studies Department which focuses primarily on nuclear and conventional weapons related issues.

Jon has been an active member of the Society for Experimental Mechanics since 1981. He has served many roles for the Society, including: Member of the Executive Board, Chairman of the Technical Program for the Annual Meeting (4 times), President of the Society, Associate Technical Editor of Experimental Techniques, Chairman of the Editorial Council, and Treasurer of the Society.
 

Last Updated: 10/20/2020

Dr. Daniel Rohe is a Principal Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories. Dan works in the Experimental Structural Dynamics department where he specializes in dynamic characterization testing using non-contact diagnostics and MIMO vibration control. His current research focus is in incorporating radiographic measurements into modal tests.
 

Last Updated: 08/28/2024

Meredith Silberstein is an Associate Professor in the Sibley School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University and Director of the Engineered Living Materials Institute. She received her PhD in June 2011 from the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering. Afterward, she served as a postdoctoral fellow at the Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She has received the NSF CAREER (2017), DOE CAREER (2018), and DARPA young investigator (2020) awards. Meredith Silberstein's Mechanics for Materials Design Lab is devoted to using mechanical experiments and modeling methods in material design, with particular focus on multifunctional, active, and polymeric materials.
 

Last Updated: 06/12/2024

Dr. Raman P. Singh serves as the Associate Dean for Engineering at OSU-Tulsa and as the Head of the School of Materials Science and Engineering in the College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology at Oklahoma State University (OSU). He also serves as the Director of the Helmerich Advanced Technology Research Center on the OSU-Tulsa campus and is appointed as the Helmerich Family Endowed Chair Professor of Engineering.

Raman holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Ap-plied Mechanics from the University of Rhode Island, and a B.Tech. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology–Kanpur, India. Prior to joining OSU in 2006 he was a faculty member at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and before that a post-doctoral scholar at the California Institute of Technology.

Raman’s academic interests are in student mentorship, development, and re-tention with a focus on new pedagogical methods. His research interests are in the mechanics of advanced materials, with an emphasis on the investigation of modern engineered materials and development of new techniques for mechanical characterization at highly localized length scales. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, NASA, the Oklahoma Center for the Ad-vancement of Science & Technology, the Oklahoma Transportation Commission, the US Army Research Office, the Department of Energy, and industry. He has authored or co-authored several archival journal publications and conference proceedings and holds two patents. He is an active member of the Society of Experimental Mechanics (SEM) and serves as an Associate Technical Editor for Experimental Mechanics. He is also a member of the Materials Research Society and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Besides academia, Raman enjoys travel, backpacking, photography, and spending time with his two daughters.
 

Last Updated: 12/21/2020

Valéry Valle is an experimental solid mechanician, Professor at the University of Poitiers, and researcher at the Pprime Institute. Valéry obtained his Ph.D. on the development of an optical measurement technique adapted to high strain rates, under the supervision of A. Lagarde and M. Cottron. Recruited in 1997, he specialized in adapting optical methods for measurements in dynamic regimes and in the presence of discontinuities in kinematic fields. Recently, Valéry has developed an extended DIC method, suitable for measurements in the presence of cracks and for analyzing slip bands appearing during the plasticity of metallic materials.
 

Last Updated: 05/15/2024

Prof. Ventura is a Civil Engineer with specializations in structural dynamics and earthquake engineering. He has been a faculty member of the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Canada since 1992. He is a registered professional engineer in British Columbia, California and Guatemala. He is currently the Director of the Earthquake Engineering Research Facility (EERF) at UBC, and is the author of more than 650 papers and reports on earthquake engineering, structural dynamics and modal testing. He is a member of several national and international professional societies and advisory committees. Prof. Ventura has conducted research for more than thirty-five years in the dynamic behavior and analysis of structural systems subjected to extreme dynamic loads, including severe ground shaking. His research work includes experimental studies in the field and in the laboratory of structural systems and components.
 

Last Updated: 08/28/2024

Junlan Wang is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington. Her research focuses on mechanics of thin films/multilayers, biological and bioinspired materials, high strain rate phenomena, and additively manufactured materials. She received her B.S. (1994) and M.S. (1997) in Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China, and Ph.D. (2002) in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After a year of postdoctoral research at Brown University, she joined the Mechanical Engineering department of University of California, Riverside in 2003 as an Assistant Professor (later promoted to Associate Professor) and moved to UW in December 2008.

She has received a number of research and teaching awards, including an NSF CAREER Award (2008), SEM Hetenyi (2004) and Durelli (2016) Awards from the Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM), Beer and Johnston Outstanding New Mechanics Educator award (2007) from the American Society of Engineering Education, and Teaching Excellence Award (2007) from Bourns College of Engineering. She has served as Secretary, Vice-Chair and Chair of the SEM Research Committee (2011-2017), organizer of Track 5 (Mechanics of Additive and Advanced Manufacturing) for the 2017 and 2018 SEM annual conference, and Associate Editor for Experimental Mechanics (2015-present). She has also served in multiple leadership roles in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, including Chair of Applied Mechanics Division (AMD) Experimental Mechanics Committee (2008-2010), Materials Division (MD) Executive Committee (2010-2015; Chair 2014-2015), General Conference Chair of joint AMD-MD Mechanics and Materials Conference (McMat 2015), and Associate Editor for Journal of Applied Mechanics (2016-2018).
 

Last Updated: 10/20/2020

Bryan Witt is the Technical Manager of the Structural Dynamics Department at Sandia National Laboratories which includes the Modal and System-Level Vibration teams. He has eighteen years of professional experience in the field of structural dynamics and oversees multiple research projects including non-contact diagnostics, multi-input/multi-output methods, substructuring, and nonlinear dynamics. He received a MS in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University in 2011.
 

Last Updated: 09/03/2024

Satoru Yoneyama is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Aoyama Gakuin University in 1995 and 1997 respectively and Ph.D. degree from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2000. After several years of research assistant work, he joined the faculty of Osaka Prefecture University in 2004 and returned to Aoyama Gakuin University in 2007 where he has been ever since. He was a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Florida from 2013 to 2014 and a Visiting Professor at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency from 2015 to 2017. He received several awards from professional societies including the R.E. Peterson Award in 2002 and A.J. Durreli Award in 2014. He was an Executive Board Member of SEM from 2014 to 2016. He has served as an Associate Technical Editor of SEM's Journal of Experimental Mechanics.
 

Last Updated: 03/04/2020

Kristin Zimmerman became a member of the Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM) in 1988. She was the inaugural Student Paper Competition Winner under the guidance of Professor Gary Cloud at Michigan State University in 1990; Chair of the Education Committee from 1991-2007; Associate Editor of Experimental Techniques from 1996-today, and Senior Editor from 2000-2007; President from 2008-2009; Assistant Treasurer 2012-2013 and appointed Treasurer in 2014. She was awarded the Tatnall award in 2014.

Dr. Zimmerman’s professional career began with the General Motors (GM) Research and Development (R&D) Center in 1993 – 1997 where she created GM’s Academic Partnerships program of over 100 Research Laboratories across the globe. From 1997-99, Zimmerman worked in the areas of advanced engineering and design and in 1999/2000, she received a Fellowship to the National Academy of Engineering to work on STEM policy. From 2000-09, Zimmerman worked in energy and environmental policy including an assignment in Beijing, China (2008-09) managing GM China’s Automotive Energy Research Center (CAERC) at Tsinghua University. She continued her energy and environmental policy work on the Chevy Volt Team, 2006-12.

Dr. Zimmerman is currently consulting full time as the President of MedFor: Inc., a translational sciences consulting firm spanning forensic medicine and engineering mechanics - founded with her husband in 1999.

Dr. Zimmerman’s educational background includes: Physics, Mechanical Engineering, and Engineering Mechanics. She holds a Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics from Michigan State University.
 

Last Updated: 03/03/2020