About

Meredith Silberstein received her Ph.D. in June 2011 from the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, with a major in solid mechanics and a minor in energy. She subsequently served as a postdoctoral fellow at the Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where she investigated mechanochemically active materials. Her research interests are centered on using mechanical experiments and modeling methods in material design, with particular focus on multifunctional, active, and polymeric materials. She leads the Mechanics for Materials Design (MMD) Lab, which explores computational solid mechanics, materials design, micro/nano systems, solid mechanics, and advanced manufacturing and materials. Silberstein's teaching interests include statics, mechanics, mechanical properties of materials, and polymers. Her work has contributed to understanding the activation of mechanophores within viscous rubbery networks, deformation mechanisms of non-woven polypropylene, and the development of morphing metal and elastomer bicontinuous foams for soft machines. She has received numerous awards, including the DARPA Young Faculty Award, NSF Career Award, and the DOE Early Career Award, recognizing her contributions to mechanics and material design.

Research topics

• Materials science
• Composite material
• Nanotechnology
• Computer science
• Chemistry

Recent grants

• CAREER: Building a Mechanistic Understanding of Mechanochemically Adaptive Polymers

  NSF · $500k · 2017–2023

• Collaborative Research: Knowledge and Data-driven Design of Mechanical Metamaterials

  NSF · $299k · 2018–2022

Frequent coauthors

• Yuval Vidavsky

  14 shared

• Charles E. Diesendruck

  Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

  12 shared

• Steven J. Yang

  12 shared

• Michael Buche

  Sandia National Laboratories

  11 shared

• Hongyi Cai

  Cornell University

  10 shared

• Meenakshi Sundaram Manivannan

  SASTRA University

  9 shared

• Naigeng Chen

  9 shared

• Mary C. Boyce

  Columbia University

  8 shared

Education

• PhD, Mechanical Engineering

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  2011

Awards & honors

• DARPA Young Faculty Award 2020
• AFRL Summer Faculty Fellowship 2019
• Sonny Yau '72 Teaching Award, College of Engineering, Cornel…
• DOE Early Career Award 2018
• Sonny Yau ‘72 Excellence in Teaching Award 2018

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