Marianna Maiaru
Research Interest
Marianna Maiaru (Associate Professor in Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at Columbia University) is an expert in Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME), virtual manufacturing, and computational mechanics. She received her Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering as a collaboration between Politecnico di Torino in Italy and the University of Michigan. Her research interests include composite structures, damage mechanics, multi-scale analysis, higher-order finite elements, and additive manufacturing. Maiaru has received numerous grants from NASA, NSF, and the Air Force, including the AFOSR Young Investigator Program award in 2020 and the NSF CAREER award in 2022. She received the DEStech Young Researcher Award in 2021 and the AIAA ICME Prize in 2020 and 2022. Prof. Maiaru is an Assistant Editor for Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing.
- NSF CAREER Award, 2022
- AIAA SciTech ICME Award, 2022
- 2021 ASC/DEStech Young Composites Researcher Award, 2021
- UMass Lowell Award for Faculty Mentoring Faculty, 2020
- AIAA SciTech ICME Award, 2020
- AFOSR YIP Award, 22020
- University of Massachusetts Lowell Teaching Excellence Award, 2017
- Top three “Aldo Muggia Best Thesis Award”, 2012
- Italian Engineering Licence (Aerospace Engineering, December 2011
- Student Ambassador at G8 University Summit in Turin, May 2009
- Postdoctoral Research Associate, William E. Boeing Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, University of Washington, Seattle (WA).
- Postdoctoral Research Associate, Aerospace Engineering Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI).
- Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell (MA)
- American Society for Composites Conference Chair, Boston 2023
- AIAA SciTech 2021-2023 Materials TC Deputy Rep, AIAA SciTech 2023 Materials TC Deputy
- Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures (MAMS), since April 2023
- Editorial Board Member of the International for Multiscale Compurational Engineering, since September 2017
- Member of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Materials Technical Committee, since January 2017