Michael Ortiz
Fellowship
Hans Fischer Senior Fellow
Appointment
2010
Institution
California Institute of Technology
Department
Mechanical Engineering
Host
Wolfgang Wall
Focus Group
Advanced Cardiac Mechanics Emulator
Short CV
Professor Ortiz received a BS degree in Civil Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain, and MS and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. From 1984-1995 he held a faculty position in the Division of Engineering of Brown University, where he carried out research activities in the fields of mechanics of materials and computational solid mechanics. He is currently the Dotty and Dick Hayman Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology, where he has been in the faculty since 1995 and currently serves as the director of Caltech’s DoE/PSAAP Center on High-Energy Density Dynamics of Materials. Professor Ortiz has been a Fulbright Scholar, a Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Scholar at Caltech, Midwest and Southwest Mechanics Seminar Series Distinguished Speaker, a Fellow and an elected member-at large of the US Association for Computational Mechanics, and an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Professor Ortiz has served in the University of California Office of the President Science and Technology Panel and in the Los Alamos National Laboratory T-Division Review Committee. He currently serves in the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Predictive Science Panel, the Sandia National Laboratories Engineering Sciences External Review Panel, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Chemistry, Materials, Earth and Life Sciences Directorate Review Committee, the National Research Council Panel for the Evaluation of QMU and he chairs the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Engineering Directorate Review Committee.
Selected Awards
- 2010, Hans Fischer Senior Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Technical University of Munich
- 2008, IUTAM Rodney Hill Prize
- 2007, Elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts & Sciences
- 2007, USACM Computational Structural Mechanics Award
- 2004, Named Chair, Dotty and Dick Hayman, Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering
- 2002, International Computational Mechanics Awards for Research 2002 Fellow, International Association for Computational Mechanics
- 2002, Humboldt Research Award for Senior U.S. Scientists
- 2000, ISI Highly Cited Researchers Award
- 1999, Spanish Academy of Engineering, Corresponding Member
- 1998, Southwest Mechanics Lecture Series - Distinguished Speaker
- 1997, U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics – Fellow
- 1995-1996, Midwest Mechanics Seminar - Distinguished Speaker
- 1994-1995, Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Scholar, Caltech
- 1977-1978, Fulbright Scholarship
Research Interests
The chief objective of Ortiz’ work is the development of a complete computational model of the human heart, the Advanced Cardiac Mechanics Emulator (ACME), which will enable detailed and high-fidelity predictions of cardiac function in both healthy and diseased individuals.
Selected Publications
- Cyron, C. J.; Arroyo, M.; Ortiz, M.: Smooth, second order, non-negative meshfree approximants selected by maximum entropy. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering 79 (13), 2009, 1605-1632.
- Schmidt, Bernd; Fraternali, Fernando; Ortiz, Michael: Eigenfracture: An Eigendeformation Approach to Variational Fracture. Multiscale Modeling & Simulation 7 (3), 2009, 1237-1266.
- Schmidt, Bernd; Leyendecker, Sigrid; Ortiz, Michael: Γ-convergence of Variational Integrators for Constrained Systems. Journal of Nonlinear Science 19 (2), 2008, 153-177.
- Lucas, L.J.; Owhadi, H.; Ortiz, M.: Rigorous verification, validation, uncertainty quantification and certification through concentration-of-measure inequalities. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 197 (51-52), 2008, 4591-4609.
- Conti, S.; Ortiz, M.: Minimum principles for the trajectories of systems governed by rate problems. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 56 (5), 2008, 1885-1904.
- Mielke, Alexander; Ortiz, Michael: A class of minimum principles for characterizing the trajectories and the relaxation of dissipative systems. ESAIM: COCV 14 (3), 2007, 494-516.
- Gavini, Vikram; Knap, Jaroslaw; Bhattacharya, Kaushik; Ortiz, Michael: Non-periodic finite-element formulation of orbital-free density functional theory. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 55 (4), 2007, 669-696.
- Gavini, Vikram; Bhattacharya, Kaushik; Ortiz, Michael: Quasi-continuum orbital-free density-functional theory: A route to multi-million atom non-periodic DFT calculation. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 55 (4), 2007, 697-718.
- Gavini, Vikram; Bhattacharya, Kaushik; Ortiz, Michael: Quasi-continuum orbital-free density-functional theory: A route to multi-million atom non-periodic DFT calculation. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 55 (4), 2007, 697-718.
- Conti, Sergio; Hauret, Patrice; Ortiz, Michael: Concurrent Multiscale Computing of Deformation Microstructure by Relaxation and Local Enrichment with Application to Single‐Crystal Plasticity. Multiscale Modeling & Simulation 6 (1), 2007, 135-157.
- Tadmor, E. B.; Ortiz, M.; Phillips, R.: Quasicontinuum analysis of defects in solids. Philosophical Magazine A 73 (6), 1996, 1529-1563.