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Markus J. Buehler

Associate Professor

Group Leader, Mechanics and Materials in CEE

Director, MIT-Germany Program

Co-Director, MIT Computation for Design and Optimization Program

MIT
Room 1-235A&B
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139

Telephone: 617.452.2750 Fax: 617.324.4014 Email: mbuehler@mit.edu [1]">mbuehler@mit.edu [2] Research Website: http://web.mit.edu/mbuehler/www/ [3]

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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

- Associate Editor,  J. Engineering Mechanics (American Society of Civil Engineers)
- Academic Editor, PLoS ONE
- Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Nanomechanics and Micromechanics
- Executive Editor, International Journal of Applied Mechanics
- Editorial Board, Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials
- Editor, Acta Mechanica Sinica
- Associate Editor, Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience

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... [6])
  • 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)