Candidate Affiliation: Princeton University 

Biographical Sketch 

Professor Paulino is the Margareta E. Augustine Professor of Engineering at Princeton University. His seminal contributions in the area of computational mechanics include the development of methodologies to characterize the deformation and fracture behavior of existing and emerging materials; topology optimization for large-scale multiscale/multiphysics problems; variational methods; deployable and adaptable structures; and origami engineering. He is a Fellow of USACM (US Assoc. Computational Mechanics), IACM (Int. Assoc. Computational Mechanics), AAM (American Academy of Mechanics), ASCE/EMI (Engineering Mechanics Institute), and SES (Society of Eng. Science). He has been recognized with the Ted Belytschko Medal from ASME (2014), the Daniel C. Drucker Medal of ASME (2020), the Raymond D. Mindlin Medal of ASCE (2020), the Reddy Medal from Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures (MAMS 2020), the Melville Medal from ASME (2022), and the Eringen Medal from SES (2023). He also received the 2015 Cozzarelli Prize from the National Academy of Sciences, “which recognizes recently published PNAS papers of outstanding scientific excellence and originality.” He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE), and a former President of SES. More information about his research and professional activities can be found at the following link: http://paulino.princeton.edu/ 

Statement of Motivation for Serving on the ISSMO Executive Committee 

The ISSMO is comprised of a unique group of educators, researchers, industrial consultants and practitioners, whose primary focus centers on structural and multidisciplinary optimization (SMO). Prof. Paulino has a long tradition of participating in the WCSMO biannual events. If elected, he plans to help with recruitment of new members from the broader engineering community, and to encourage technical exchanges and member participation. He will also support the SMO (Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization) Journal by contributing to the journal himself, facilitating state-of-the-art special issues, and by encouraging scholarly contributions of ISSMO members. He plans on strengthening ties with a diverse set of academic institutions, national laboratories, and industry collaborators, bringing them together at our bi-annual conferences. Moreover, Prof. Paulino has substantial administrative experience as a former Program Director for the Mechanics of Materials program of the US National Science Foundation (NSF). His contributions to NSF emerged from a combination of innovative thinking, high energy, the ability to connect and work with diverse constituencies and people, a desire to help others, and a passion to make a difference, which are examples of approaches that, if elected, he intends to use as a member of the EC of ISSMO. Thus, he is enthusiastically looking forward to continuing his association with ISSMO as a member of its EC.