Professor Dr. Joaquim Martins

Biography

Joaquim R. Martins is the Pauline M. Sherman Collegiate Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan, where he heads the Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Laboratory. His research focuses on developing new multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO) techniques and applying these techniques to the design of aircraft and engineering systems. He is a co-author of the textbook "Engineering Design Optimization" published by Cambridge University Press. Martins is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Royal Aeronautical Society. He joined the University of Michigan faculty in 2009 following his tenure as an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies, where he held the Tier II Canada Research Chair in Multidisciplinary Optimization. Martins earned his undergraduate degree in Aeronautical Engineering from Imperial College, London, was a recipient of the British Aerospace Award, and obtained M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University, where he was awarded the Ballhaus Prize for his thesis in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He has received multiple paper awards from AIAA Conferences and has served as an associate editor for several academic journals.

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