Raúl A. Radovitzky

Raúl A. Radovitzky is the Jerome C. Hunsaker Professor in Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT, and Associate Director of the MIT Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies. He holds a Civil Engineer degree from the University of Buenos Aires (1991), an S.M. from Brown University (1995), and a Ph.D. from Caltech (1998). His research focuses on computational solid mechanics, fluid-structure interaction, hypersonic vehicle thermal protection systems, multiscale modeling, and high-performance computing.

Key research areas include computational mechanics of materials under extreme conditions, multiscale modeling, and parallel computing. He leads the Hypersonics Research Lab and is affiliated with the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies and the Center for Computational Science and Engineering. Notable awards include the MIT AIAA Teaching Award (2021, 2016), Arthur C. Smith Award (2021), and Alan J. Lazarus Advising Award (2018).

His work spans theoretical and applied mechanics, with applications in aerospace engineering, materials science, and biomedical safety. He has pioneered numerical methods for fracture mechanics and peridynamics, contributing to advancements in computational modeling of complex systems.