Dr. Ken Kamrin

Biography

Ken Kamrin is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He completed his Bachelor of Science in Engineering Physics with a minor in Mathematics at UC Berkeley in 2003 and received his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2008. Prior to his current position, he was a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences before joining the mechanical engineering faculty at MIT in 2011, where he was appointed the Class of 1956 Career Development Chair. In 2024, he joined the faculty at UC Berkeley. Kamrin's research specializes in constitutive modeling and computational mechanics, particularly in large deformation processes, elastic and plastic solid modeling, granular mechanics, amorphous solid mechanics, and fluid-structure interaction. He has received several prestigious honors, including the Nicholas Metropolis Award from the American Physical Society in 2010, the NSF CAREER Award in 2013, the 2015 Eshelby Mechanics Award for Young Faculty, the ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics Award in 2016, and the MacVicar Faculty Fellowship from MIT in 2022. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Society of Engineering Science and is an associate editor for several academic journals.

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