Dr. Martín Abadi
Thomas J. R. Hughes MEMBERS
Computational and Applied Mathematics Chair (III) , Oden Institute at The University of Texas at Austin
United States
More Info
  • 2012
  • Mechanical Engineering (Materials) (M.M.E.)
More Info
  • 2012
  • Mechanical Engineering (Materials) (M.M.E.)
Election Remark
Thomas Joseph Robert Hughes (born 1943) is a Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics and currently holds the Computational and Applied Mathematics Chair (III) at the Oden Institute at The University of Texas at Austin.

Hughes has been listed as an ISI Highly Cited Author in Engineering by the ISI Web of Knowledge, Thomson Scientific Company.
 
A leading expert in computational mechanics, Hughes has received numerous academic distinctions and awards for his work.

He is a research fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the American Academy of Mechanics, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM), the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM), the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and has been elected as a foreign member of The Royal Society.

He is a founder and past President of USACM and IACM, and past chairman of the Applied Mechanics Division of ASME.

In 2012, he was elected as member of the European Academy of Engineering.
 
2020 - A.C. Eringen Medal
2017 - SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering For pioneering finite element methods to solve PDEs that are used world-wide in engineering design and simulation, and science.
2011 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
2009 - SIAM Fellow For the development of finite element methods for solid, structural, and fluid mechanics.
2009 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
2009 - Theodore von Karman Medal
2007 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2007 - Timoshenko Medal, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers
1998 - IACM Congress Medal (Gauss-Newton Medal)