Technische Universität München

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.

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

1995-96 Midwest Mechanics Seminar - Distinguished Speaker

1994-95 Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Scholar, Caltech

1977-78 Fulbright Scholarship

More publications are available here.

1. C. J. Cyron, M. Arroyo and M. Ortiz: „Smooth, second order, non-negative meshfree approximants selected by maximum entropy“; Int. J. Numer. Meth. Eng; 79:1605–1632; 2009

2. B. Schmidt, S. Leyendecker and M. Ortiz : „Γ-convergence of Variational Integrators for Constrained Systems“; Journal of Nonlinear Science 19: 153-177, 2009

3. L.J. Lucas, H. Owhadi, M. Ortiz: „Rigorous verification, validation, uncertainty quantification and certification through concentration-of-measure inequalities“; J Comp Meth Appl Mech Eng 197: 4591-4609; 2008

4. B. Schmidt, F. Fraternali and M. Ortiz: „Eigenfracture: An Eigendeformation Approach to Variational Fracture“; Multiscale Model Simul 7: 1237-1266; 2009

5. A. Mielke, M. Ortiz : „A Class of Minimum Principles for Characterizing the Trajectories and the Relaxation of Dissipative Systems“; ESAIM: COCV 14: 494-516; 2008

6. S. Conti, M. Ortiz: “Minimum principles for the trajectories of systems governed by rate problems”; J Mech Phys Solids 56: 1885-1904; 2008

7. S. Conti, P. Hauret, M. Ortiz: „Concurrent Multiscale Computing of Deformation Microstructure by Relaxation and Local Enrichment with Application to Single-Crystal Plasticity“; Multiscale Model. Simul. 6: 135-157; 2007

8. V. Gavini, J. Knap, K. Bhattacharya, M. Ortiz: „ Non-periodic finite-element formulation of orbital-free density functional theory“; J Mech Phys Solids 55: 669-696, 2007

9. V. Gavini, K. Bhattacharya and M. Ortiz: „Quasi-continuum orbital-free density-functional theory: A route to multi-million atom non-periodic DFT calculation“; J Mech Phys Solids 55: 697-718, 2007

10. M. Ortiz, E.A. Repetto and L. Stainier: „A theory of subgrain dislocation structures“; J Mech Phys Solids 48 (10): 2077-2114; OCT 2000

11. E.B.Tadmor, R. Phillips and M. Ortiz: „Quasicontinuum analysis of defects in solids“; Philos Mag A 73 (6): 1529-1563; JUN 1996

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.