Markus J. Buehler named 2012 MRS Outstanding Young Investigator for computational modeling
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delivery, and heart valve repair. She has demonstrated how photodegradable gels that allow real-time manipulation of materials properties or chemistry can provide dynamic environments to answer fundamental questions about materials regulation of live cell function. This ability can affect an array of applications from design of drug delivery vehicles to tissue engineering systems. Anseth’s contributions have been translated into a number of medical products, and she has started two startup companies on biomaterials and tissue engineering. Following her research fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Anseth joined the University
Markus J. Buehler named 2012 MRS Outstanding Young Investigator for computational modeling
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arkus J. Buehler, associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has been named the 2012 Materials Research Society Outstanding Young Investigator. Buehler was cited for “highly innovative and creative work in computational modeling of biological, bioinspired and synthetic materials, revealing how weakness is turned into strength through hierarchical material design.” He will deliver an award talk at the 2012 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting in San Francisco. Buehler has made profound contributions by bridging disciplines to explain the mechanical properties of structural biological materials in both normal physiological and disease states using an innovative bottom-up approach that combines simulation with experiment.
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Through research rooted in atomisticlevel multiscale models of materials, Buehler has identified the core principles that link the fundamental atomisticscale chemical structures to functional, engineering scales by understanding how biological materials achieve superior mechanical properties through the formation of hierarchical structures by merging structure and material concepts. He has demonstrated that the way components are connected at distinct scales defines what functional materials properties can be achieved, how they can be altered to meet functional requirements, and how they fail in disease states and under extreme conditions. Moreover, Buehler’s work is extradisciplinary. For example, he discovered through an application of category theory that a striking similarity exists
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of Colorado in 1996. Among her many honors are election to the National Academy of Engineering and to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, selection as the first engineer to become a Howard Hughes Investigator, and recognition by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers as “one of the 100 engineers of the modern era.” Anseth is a Fellow of MRS, she received the MRS Outstanding Young Investigator award, and she has served the Society as a member of the Board of Directors, chair of the Planning Committee, and co-chair of the 2009 MRS Fall Meeting. She received her PhD degree from the University of Colorado in 1994. She holds 17 patents and has published over 220
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