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Poster #31 - Douglas Holmes

Boston University, United States

Biography

Douglas Holmes is an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Boston University. He received degrees in chemistry from the University of New Hampshire (BSc 2004), polymer science and engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (MSc 2005, PhD 2009), and was a postdoctoral researcher in mechanical & aerospace engineering at Princeton University. Prior to joining Boston University, he was an assistant professor of engineering science and mechanics at Virginia Tech. His group’s research specializes on the mechanics of slender structures, with a focus on understanding and controlling shape change. His research has utilized elastic instabilities to pattern surfaces with deformable shells, create ultralight mechanisms inspired by kirigami, described the mechanics of wrinkling and folding thin films, quantified the dynamics shape change of snapping beams and shells, and examined the fundamental interactions between granular materials and slender structures. He has received the NSF CAREER Award and the ASEE Ferdinand P. Beer and E. Russell Johnston Jr. Outstanding New Mechanics Educator award.