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Joaquim R. R. A. Martins is a Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan, where he heads the MDO Lab. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society. Before joining the University of Michigan faculty in 2009, he was an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto, where from 2002 he held a Tier II Canada Research Chair in MDO. Prof. Martins received his undergraduate degree in Aeronautical Engineering from Imperial College, London, with a British Aerospace Award. He obtained both his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University, where he was awarded the Ballhaus prize for best thesis in Aeronautics. He has served as Associate Editor for the AIAA Journal, Optimization and Engineering, and Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization. He is currently an Associate Editor for the Journal of Aircraft.

Online Profiles

• orcid.org/0000-0003-2143-1478
• Google Scholar
• Research Gate
• Academia.edu
• Linkedin

Education

• Ph.D, Nov 2002, Stanford University, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics
• M.Sc., Jun 1997, Stanford University, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics
• M.Eng., Jun 1995, Imperial College, Dept. of Aeronautics, London, UK
• (Final project at Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering)

Keynote Presentations

• National Conference on Multidisciplinary Design, Analysis & Optimization, Trivandrum, India (virtual event), Oct 2020
• Aircraft Structural Design Conference, Royal Aeronautical Society (virtual event), Oct 2020
• The 60th Israel Annual Conference on Aerospace Sciences, Tel-Aviv & Haifa, Israel, Mar 2020
• International Conference on Flow Dynamics, Sendai, Japan, Nov 2019
• Aerodynamic Tools and Design Methods in Aircraft Design Conference, London, UK, Oct 2019
• AIAA Aviation MDO Keynote, Atlanta, GA, Jun 2018
• Workshop on MDO for Industrial Applications in Aeronautics, Braunschweig, Germany, Oct 2017
• EUROGEN Conference, Madrid, Spain, Sep 2017
• Plenary speaker, MOPTA Conference, Bethlehem, PA, Aug 2017
• Congress on Numerical Methods in Engineering, Lisbon, Portugal, Jun 2015
• International Conference on Engineering and Applied Sciences Optimization, Kos, Greece, Jun 2014 (Semi-plenary).
• SIAM Conference on Optimization, San Diego, May 2014
• Aircraft Structural Design Conference, Royal Aeronautical Society, London, UK, Oct 2010
• International Forum on Aeroelasticity and Structural Dynamics, Stockholm, Sweden, Jun 2007

Honors and Awards

• Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2020
• Fellow, Royal Aeronautical Society, 2019
• AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Best Paper, 2019
• Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, 2015–2016
• Best Paper Award, 15th AIAA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Conference, Sep 2014
• Best Paper Award, 14th AIAA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Conference, Sep 2012
• Best Paper Award, 11th AIAA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Conference, Sep 2006
• Canada Research Chair in Multidisciplinary Design Optimization (Tier II), 2003–2009
• Ballhaus Prize for Best Thesis in the Department of Aeronautics, Stanford University, Jun 2003
• Best Paper Award, 9th AIAA/ISSMO Symposium on Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization, Sep 2002
• Praxis XXI Scholarship, 1997–2001
• US–Norway Fulbright Foundation Stipend, 1996–1997
• British Aerospace Award, May 1995

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