DonaldSiegel
- donald.siegel@austin.utexas.edu
- ETC 5.208A
Computational materials science; Materials for energy storage; Sustainable transportation; Materials discovery; Machine learning; Microstructural and mechanical properties
About
Don Siegel is Professor and Chair of the Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin (UT). At UT he is a Temple Foundation Endowed Professor and holds a Cockrell Family Chair for Departmental Leadership. He is a Core Faculty Member in the Texas Materials Institute and in the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences. Prior to joining UT in 2021, Prof. Siegel spent 12 years as a faculty member in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan (UM). Prior to joining UM, he was a Technical Expert at Ford Research and Advanced Engineering in Dearborn, MI, and held postdoctoral research positions at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and Sandia National Labs.
Educational Qualifications
- B.S., Mathematical Physics, Case Western Reserve University, 1995
- Ph.D., Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001
- Certificate in Computational Science Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001
Select Awards & Honors
- E. M. Ulsoy Citation Leader Award, UM Mechanical Engineering Department (2021)
- KAIST BK21 Lectureship (2019)
- U.S. Department of Energy, Secretary of Energy’s Achievement Award (2018)
- Invited Panelist and Writer, Basic Research Needs for Next Generation Electrical Energy Storage (2017)
- VELUX Visiting Professor – Technical University of Denmark (2015)
- NAE Gilbreth Lecturer (2014)
- NSF CAREER Award (2013)
- TMS/Japan Institute of Metals International Scholar Award (2009)
- TMS Young Leader Professional Development Award (2008)
- Materials Research Society Graduate Student Award (2001)