Ryan S. Elliott received his B.S. in Engineering Mechanics from Michigan State University, East Lansing. He received a M.S.E. in Aerospace Engineering, a M.S. in Mathematics, and a PhD in Aerospace Engineering and Scientific Computing, all from The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. In 2004 he was a Research Fellow at The University of Michigan. Elliott was appointed, as an Assistant Professor, in January 2005 to the faculty of the Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics Department at The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. In 2011 he was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure and to Professor in 2018. In 2010 he held the position of Visiting Researcher at the Laboratoire de M'ecanique des Solides (LMS) of The Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France. Elliott served as the first KIM Editor for the Knowledgebase of Interatomic Models (KIM) (https://openkim.org) from 2012--2018. Elliott was appointed to the Journal of Elasticity Board of Editors in 2015, and to the International Journal of Solids and Structures Board of Editors in 2017. In 2017, Elliott was elected Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
Dr. Elliott's research interests are in the areas of stability and non-uniqueness in nonlinear systems, active materials and shape memory alloys, and the accuracy or "transferability" of interatomic force laws for atomistic simulations. He also has significant interest in the general areas of scientific computing and software engineering. He applies all of these interests to study the detailed post-bifurcation behavior of periodic architected materials (such as honeycombs), as well as the detailed atomic scale behavior of martensitic phase transformations, and defects in crystalline solids. Elliott is co-author (with E.B. Tadmor and R.E. Miller) of the book Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics: From Fundamental Concepts to Governing Equations, Cambridge University Press, 2011. He has received numerous awards, including: the Tau Beta Pi Matthews Fellowship (1998), the U.S. D.O.E. Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (2000), the Ivor K. McIvor Award in Applied Mechanics, the Frederick A. Howes Scholar in Computational Science award (2005), a National Science Foundation CAREER grant (2007), a University of Minnesota McKnight Land-Grant Professorship (2009), the Russell J. Penrose Faculty Fellowship (2012), and the Thomas J.R. Hughes Young Investigator award (2014). Elliott's research has been presented at numerous national and international conferences.
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