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Charles Dorn is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the University of Washington. His research focuses on structural mechanics, architected materials, and reconfigurable systems. Prior to UW, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at ETH Zurich (2021–2024), and completed his PhD in Space Engineering at Caltech (2021), with additional degrees from Ecole Polytechnique and UW-Madison.
Education:
- PhD, Space Engineering, California Institute of Technology, 2021
- M.S., Multiphysics and Multiscale Modeling, Ecole Polytechnique, 2018
- M.S., Space Engineering, Caltech, 2017
- B.S., Engineering Mechanics, UW-Madison, 2016
Research Interests:
His work bridges mechanics, computation, and design to create structures with extreme properties like wave steering and shape reconfiguration. Key areas include mechanical metamaterials, origami-inspired systems, and spatially graded metamaterials for vibration suppression. Recent projects explore inverse design methods and multi-configuration rigidity.
Key Achievements:
- Developed ray-tracing tools for elastic waves in graded metamaterials
- Winner of 2018 R&D 100 Award for video-based vibration measurement techniques
- Collaborated with industry leaders like Prof. Sergio Pellegrino (Caltech) and Prof. Dennis Kochmann (ETH Zurich)
Labs/Teams: Leads a research group at UW focused on advanced structural architectures and their applications across aerospace, robotics, and electronics.
