Faculty - Markus J. Buehler

Education

• Postdoctoral Scholar, 2004-2005; Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
• Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) 2004 in Materials Science (Chemistry), Max Planck Institute for Metals Research at the University of Stuttgart
• M.S. 2001 in Engineering Mechanics, Michigan Tech
• B.S. equiv./pre-diploma 2000 in Process and Chemical Engineering, University of Stuttgart

Editorial Activities

Research Interests

Materials science and mechanics of natural and biological protein materials (materiomics), how protein materials define our body and how they fail catastrophically (fracture, deformation, disease), large-scale atomistic modeling, protein based materials and biopolymers, interaction of chemistry and mechanics, bridging chemical scales to continuum theories of materials, modeling of bio-nano-materials phenomena, multiple-scale simulation, development and use of multi-scale simulation tools.

Teaching Interests

• MIT Professional Education: Materials By Design (http://web.mit.edu/professional/short-programs/courses/materials_by_desi...)
• Mechanics of materials, materials science, multi-scale modeling and simulation, biomechanics, molecular mechanics.
• Subjects taught:
  
  • 1.021J Introduction to Modeling and Simulation
  • 1.050 Engineering Mechanics I
  • 1.545 Atomistic Modeling and Simulation of Materials and Structures
  • 2.797J Molecular-, Cellular-, and Tissue-Biomechanics (guest instructor)
  • 3.320 Atomistic Modeling of Materials (guest instructor)
  • 3.22 Mechanical Properties of Materials
  • 1.978 From Nano to Macro: Introduction to Atomistic Modeling Techniques

Awards and Honors