Biographical Sketch

Sanjay Govindjee received his S.B. in Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1986, his M.S. from Stanford University in Mechanical Engineering in 1987, and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Physics from Stanford University in 1991. From 1991-1993 he worked at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as an engineering analyst in the Applied Mechanics Group. From 1993-2006 was employed in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of California at Berkeley. From 2006-2008, he was Professor of Mechanics at ETH Zurich. Beginning Fall 2008, he will return to Berkeley.

He also serves as a consultant to several governmental agencies and private corporations. He is an active member in major societies such as the American Academy of Mechanics, American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the US Association for Computational Mechanics. He is also a registered Professional Mechanical Engineer in the state of California