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Professor Ioannis Chasiotis
Caterpillar Professor in Aerospace Engineering
Associate Head and Director of Graduate Studies

EDUCATION

2002 Ph.D. in Aeronautics - Minor in Materials Science
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California

1998 Master in Aeronautics
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California

1996 Diploma in Chemical Engineering
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

APPOINTMENTS

2020
2012
2008 - 2012
2005 - 2008
2008 -
2008 -
2001 - 2004 
2003

Caterpillar Professor in Aerospace Engineering
Professor, Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
Associate Professor, Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
Affiliate of Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory, UIUC
Affiliate of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, UIUC
Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Virginia
Visiting Researcher, Mechanics and Durability Branch, NASA Langley, Hampton, Virginia

HONORS AND AWARDS

-- Caterpillar Professor of Aerospace Engineering, 2020
-- Fellow of the Society for Experimental Mechanics, 2020
-- University of Illinois Scholar, 2016-2019
-- ASME Fellow, 2015-
-- Engineering Council Outstanding Advising Award, 2015
-- A.J. Durelli Award, Society for Experimental Mechanics, 2013
-- Hetenyi Best Paper Award in the journal Experimental Mechanics, 2012
-- ASME Thomas J.R. Hughes Young Investigator Award, 2011
-- Journal of Strain Analysis Young Investigator Lecture, 2011
-- Society for Engineering Science Young Investigator Award, 2010
-- Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), nominated by NSF, 2010
-- Xerox Award for Faculty Research: College of Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2010
-- Willett Faculty Scholar of Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2009
-- Best Paper Award, 4th IASME/WSEAS International Conference on Continuum Mechanics, Cambridge, UK., 2009
-- National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2008
-- First Prize in MEMS Design University Competition by Sandia National Laboratories in the category “Novel MEMS Designs for Nanoscale Measurements”
    with graduate student M. Naraghi, 2008
-- Best Paper Award in journal Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures, 2007
-- First Prize in MEMS Design University Competition by Sandia National Laboratories in the category “Novel MEMS Designs for Nanoscale Measurements”
    with graduate student M. Naraghi, 2007
-- Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, 2007
-- Xerox Award for Faculty Research: College of Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2007
-- Best Research Paper Award: 6th International Symposium on MEMS & Nanotechnology, Annual Meeting of the Society for Experimental Mechanics, 2005
-- American Academy of Mechanics (AAM) Founders Prize and Grant: ASME Congress 2000, Orlando, FL, 2000
-- Charles Babcock Memorial Award: California Institute of Technology, 1999
-- Outstanding Research Presentation Award: American Vacuum Society (AVS), 1998.

EDITORSHIPS

-- Editor in Chief, Experimental Mechanics, 2016-2020
-- Associate Editor, journal Experimental Mechanics, 2006-2012
-- Guest Editor for special issue on “Mechanical Measurements at the Nanoscale” in Experimental Mechanics, 2006
-- International Advisory Board of Experimental Mechanics, 2005-2008
-- Associate Editor for Strain, 2006-2009.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM)
American Society for Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Society for Engineering Science (SES)
Materials Research Society (MRS)

TEACHING

AE 523: Nanoscale Contact Mechanics: This course focuses on aspects of SPMs to provide fundamental/theoretical background in connection with practical operations. Topics include adhesive contact mechanics, short & long-range force interactions, principles of Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM), electron tunneling, tip & surface preparation, AC and DC Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM), detectors, control systems, basics of piezoelectric elements, issues and solutions in SPM instrumentation, force/scale calibration, modeling of oscillating cantilever, force interactions with surface, stability conditions, optimization of AC/DC experiments, high-resolution AFM, force spectroscopy, energy dissipation at the AFM tip, lateral contact stiffness, scanning thermal microscopy, electrostatic force and Kelvin probe microscopy, capacitance sensing, quantitative magnetic force studies, near-field optical imaging, molecular spectroscopy, macromolecular deposition/unfolding/binding, atomic friction, quantitative mechanics at the nanometer scale, application of SPMs in biological systems. The course includes four laboratory assignments where basic and advance principles in AFM are taught, the appication of theory in instrumented nanoindentation is studied, and the measurement of adhesive energies at the nanoscale using SPM probes is conducted.

AE 461: Structures and Controls Laboratory: This course examines theory and application of experimental techniques in aerospace engineering with emphasis on structural mechanics, vibrations, dynamics, and control systems. The course includes 2-hour lectures and 9 laboratory assignments with regular pre-lab and post-lab reports and memos.

AE 321: Aerospace Structures I: This course examines fundamental concepts in the linear theory of elasticity, including stress, strain, equilibrium, compatibility, material constitution and properties. Introduction to failure mechanisms and criteria. Application to plane stress/strain problems, beams in extension and bending, and shafts in torsion.

AE 322/323: Aerospace Structures II: This course examines fundamental concepts in the analysis of beams and shafts of monocoque and semi-monocoque construction, energy methods, theory of elastic stability with applications to buckling of columns, introduction to finite element structural analysis - with application to trusses, frames, and plane stress/strain problems.