JSA Young Investigator Lecture

Sponsored by the Journal of Strain Analysis for Engineering Design

The Journal of Strain Analysis for Engineering Design provides a forum for research relating to the measurement and analysis of strain that is appropriate to engineering design and practice.

The JSA Young Investigator Lecture is intended to recognize a member of SEM in early to mid-career whose work demonstrates considerable potential in the field of Experimental Mechanics.

CRITERIA FOR SELECTION:

The recipient should be recognized for the potential of work early in his/her career.
The recipient should be a member of the Society.

The award shall consist of a plaque recognizing the recipient, presented at the time the lecture is given.

Past JSA Young Investigator Lecturers

2012	C. Daraio
2011	I. Chasiotis
2010	M. R. Hill
2009	E. N. Brown

2011 JSA Young Investigator Lecturer: Chiara Daraio

Professor Daraio’s research aims at designing and testing new materials with unprecedented mechanical properties. She is interested in developing a physical understanding of how stress waves propagate in nonlinear, ordered and disordered solid media at length scales ranging from nanometers to meters. She received her undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Universita’ di Ancona, Italy (2001). She received her M.S. (2003) and Ph.D. degrees (2006) in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of California, San Diego. Chiara joined the Aeronautics and Applied Physics departments of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in fall of 2006, where she now is a full professor. She won several awards. Among these, she received a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2011, she was selected as one of the Brilliant 10 by Popular Science Magazine (2010) and as an ONR Young Investigator (2010). She is a winner of the NSF CAREER award (2009) and the Richard Von Mises Prize (2008).