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Pedro Ponte Castañeda

Pedro Ponte Castañeda

· Professor Raymond S. Markowitz Faculty Fellow

University of Pennsylvania · Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics

Active 1987–2026

h-index60
Citations11.8k
Papers27133 last 5y
Funding$2.3M

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Pedro Ponte Castañeda is a Professor and Raymond S. Markowitz Faculty Fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at the University of Pennsylvania. He holds a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University (1986), along with M.S. and B.S. degrees in Engineering Sciences and Mechanical Engineering, respectively, and a B.A. in Mathematics from Lehigh University. Since 1998, he has been a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also holds secondary professorship in the Department of Mathematics and is a member of several graduate groups including Applied Math & Computational Science and Material Science & Engineering. His professional experience includes visiting and research positions at prestigious institutions such as Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, University of Stuttgart, and the University of Cambridge, among others. He has been recognized with numerous honors including the 2016 ASME Warner T. Koiter Medal, ASME Fellowship, and the Humboldt Senior Research Award. Ponte Castañeda's research focuses on applied mathematics and mechanics, particularly in variational and homogenization methods, multi-scale and multi-physics analyses, and asymptotic analyses. His work addresses nonlinear composite materials and polycrystals, porous plasticity and damage, mechanics of polycrystalline deformation and texture evolution, soft composite materials, instabilities in elastomeric composites, smart materials, and rheology of complex…

Research topics

  • Composite material
  • Mechanics
  • Materials science
  • Physics
  • Mathematics
  • Climatology
  • Thermodynamics
  • Mathematical analysis
  • Geology
  • Oceanography

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Frequent coauthors

  • Martín I. Idiart

    82 shared

  • Oscar Lopez‐Pamies

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    59 shared

  • Kostas Danas

    40 shared

  • Joshua Furer

    Applied Mathematics (United States)

    29 shared

  • Pierre Gilormini

    19 shared

  • M. Agoras

    University of Thessaly

    19 shared

  • François Willot

    Centre des Matériaux

    15 shared

  • Morteza H. Siboni

    Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

    14 shared

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Education

  • Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering

    University of Pennsylvania

    2005

  • M.S., Mechanical Engineering

    University of California, Berkeley

    2000

  • B.S., Mechanical Engineering

    University of California, Berkeley

    1999

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