Pedro Miguel Nunes Pereira de Almeida Reis

Expertise

• Mechanics and physics of solids and structures;* Buckling of slender structures;* Harvesting function from mechanical instabilities;* Coupling between flexible structures and fluid flow;* Experimental mechanics. Expertise
• Mechanics and physics of solids and structures;* Buckling of slender structures;* Harvesting function from mechanical instabilities;* Coupling between flexible structures and fluid flow;* Experimental mechanics. Pedro M. Reis is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the école Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, where he is the Director of the Institute of Mechanical Engineering. Prof. Reis received a B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Manchester, UK (1999), a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Mathematics (Part III Maths) from St. John's College and DAMTP, University of Cambridge (2000), and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Manchester (2004). He was a postdoc at the City College of New York (2004-2005) and at the CNRS/ESPCI in Paris (2005-2007). He joined MIT in 2007 as an Instructor in Applied Mathematics. In 2010 he moved to MIT's School of Engineering, with dual appointments in Mechanical Engineering and Civil & Environmental Engineering, first as the Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Assistant Professor and, after 2014, as Gilbert W. Winslow Associate Professor. In October 2013, the Popular Science magazine named Prof. Reis to its 2013 «Brilliant 10» list of young stars in Science and Technology. He has received the 2014 CAREER Award (NSF), the 2016 Thomas J.R. Hughes Young Investigator Award (Applied Mechanics Division of the ASME), the 2016 GSOFT Early Career Award for Soft Matter Research (APS). In 2021, he was the President of the Society of Engineering Science (SES). He is a Fellow of the APS. Teaching & PhD PhD Students Mario Wageeh William Ibrahim, Danick Lamoureux, Gilad Eliyahu-Yakir, Eduardo Gutierrez Prieto, Javier Sabater Gazulla Past EPFL PhD Students Paul Johanns, Arefeh Abbasi Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector Xin Liu, Recep Ekin Kubilay, Rahbarniazi Masoud Courses Mechanics of slender structures ME-411 Analysis of the mechanical response and deformation of slender structural elements. Solid mechanics ME-331 Fundamental understanding and analysis of the mechanical behavior of engineering materials and their use in mechanical design based on the continuum mechanics of solids.