Nasr Ghoniem

Nasr Ghoniem

DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR EMERITUS
MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING

46-147M, Eng IV

Email: ghoniem@ucla.edu
Phone: (310) 825-4866

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RESEARCH AND INTERESTS
Damage and Failure of Materials in Mechanical Design; Mechanics and Physics of Material Defects (point defects, dislocations, voids and cracks); Material Degradation in Severe Environments (e.g. Nuclear, Fusion, Rocket Engines, etc.); Plasma and Laser Processing; Materials Non-equilibrium, Pattern formation and Instability Phenomena; Radiation Interaction with Materials (neutrons, electrons, particles, laser & photons).
NOTABLE PUBLICATIONS
EDUCATION
Wisconsin, 1977
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
  • Royal Society of London Visiting Professorship Award
  • Outstanding Achievement Award of American Nuclear Society
  • Fellow of the American Nuclear Society
  • Outstanding Young Man of America Award
  • Kan Tong Po Visiting Professorship in Hong Kong, Royal Society of London
  • Research Fellowship, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
  • Who’s Who in Frontier Science and Technology
  • International Who’s Who in Energy and Nuclear Science
  • UCLA Faculty–Staff Partnership Award
  • General Chair, Second International Conference on Multiscale Materials Modeling
  • Chair, NSF Review Panel
  • Outstanding Achievement Award of American Nuclear Society, Materials, and Fusion Energy Divisions
  • Fellow of the American Nuclear Society
  • Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Mechanics
  • Fellow of the Materials Research Society
  • Fellow of the Japan Society for Promotion of Sciences