Voyiadjis Awarded 2023 Blaise Pascal Medal
July 18, 2023
BATON ROUGE, LA – Boyd Professor and Chair of the LSU Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering George Voyiadjis has been awarded the 2023 Blaise Pascal Medal for Engineering by the European Academy of Sciences. The medal was established in 2003 to recognize “an outstanding and demonstrated personal contribution to science and technology and the promotion of excellence in research and education.”
Voyiadjis has been invited to receive the medal in person at the European Academy of Sciences’ Ceremony of Awards, which will take place in October in Madrid, Spain, at the Symposium on “Science Multidisciplinary in the 21st Century – The Future of Energy.”
“This is a great honor for me, and I am extremely proud to be recognized by my peers in such a way,” Voyiadjis said. “My experience in industry and my academic appointment in the USA and overseas has allowed me to think in a more global sense and at the same time, stay relevant to engineering applications in my research endeavors. Working with my students has been the catalyst of my success in my academic career. The importance of this interaction is to challenge them but also allow them to interact with you through the evolution of the research work.”
Voyiadjis was elected as a member of the European Academy of Sciences in 2019. In fact, he is a member of all three European Academies—the other two being the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Academia Europaea of Physics & Engineering Sciences. He is also a Foreign Member of both the Polish Academy of Sciences, Division IV (Technical Sciences), and the National Academy of Engineering of Korea.
In terms of past awards, Voyiadjis was the recipient of the 2008 Nathan M. Newmark Medal of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the 2012 Khan International Medal for outstanding life-long contribution to the field of plasticity. He was also the recipient of the Damage Mechanics Medal for his significant contribution to continuum damage mechanics in 2015 and the 2022 American Society of Mechanical Engineers Nadai Medal for outstanding achievements in micro-mechanical characterization of plasticity and damage in materials and for pioneering contributions to multi-scale modeling and localization problems.
In 1980, Voyiadjis began his career at LSU as an assistant professor after working at the California Institute of Technology, where he earned his master’s in civil engineering, and Columbia University, where he earned his PhD in engineering mechanics.
He is an expert in multi-scale modeling of size effects in materials with different methods of atomistic simulation and continuum-enhanced models, including gradient plasticity and gradient damage. His research activities of particular interest encompass macro- and micro-mechanical constitutive modeling, experimental procedures for quantification of crack densities, thermal effects, interfaces, failure, fracture, impact, and deflect nucleation and evolution in crystalline metals.
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