Pauline M. Sherman Colegiate Professor

Location

3032 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Aerospace Building
1320 Beal Avenue Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2140

Additional Title(s)

Professor, Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering

Primary Website

https://mdolab.engin.umich.edu/staff_members/jmartins

Education

Stanford University
PhD Aeronautics and Astronautics ’02
MSc Aeronautics and Astronautics ’97

Imperial College
MEng Aeronautics ’95

Teaching

• Aircraft Design
• Multidisciplinary Design Optimization

Research Interests

• Aircraft Design
• Sustainable Aviation
• Multidisciplinary Design Optimization
• Aerodynamic Shape Optimization
• Computational Fluid Dynamics

Biography

Joaquim R. R. A. Martins is the Pauline M. Sherman Collegiate Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan, where he heads the Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Laboratory. His research ranges from developing new MDO techniques to applying those techniques to the design of aircraft and other engineering systems. He is a co-author of “Engineering Design Optimization”, a textbook published by Cambridge University Press. Prof. Martins is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society. Before joining the University of Michigan faculty in 2009, he was an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies, where from 2002 he held a Tier II Canada Research Chair in Multidisciplinary Optimization. He received his undergraduate degree in Aeronautical Engineering from Imperial College, London, with a British Aerospace Award. He obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University, where he was awarded the Ballhaus prize for best thesis in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He has received the Best Paper Award in AIAA Conferences five times. He was a member of the AIAA MDO Technical Committee (2006–2018) and was the technical co-chair for the 2008 AIAA Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Conference. He has served as Associate Editor for the AIAA Journal, Optimization and Engineering, and Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization. He is currently an Associate Editor for the Journal of Aircraft.

Awards

• Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2020
• Fellow, Royal Aeronautical Society, 2019
• AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Best Paper, 2019
• Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, 2015–2016
• Best Paper Award, 15th AIAA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Conference, Sep 2014
• Best Paper Award, 14th AIAA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Conference, Sep 2012
• Best Paper Award, 11th AIAA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Conference, Sep 2006
• Canada Research Chair in Multidisciplinary Design Optimization (Tier II), 2003–2009
• Ballhaus Prize for Best Thesis in the Department of Aeronautics, Stanford University, Jun 2003
• Best Paper Award, 9th AIAA/ISSMO Symposium on Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization, Sep 2002
• Praxis XXI Scholarship, 1997–2001
• US–Norway Fulbright Foundation Stipend, 1996–1997
• British Aerospace Award, May 1995