Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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Professor Markenscoff is interested in solid mechanics, and stress analysis with particular emphasis on micromechanics, bridging the micro with the macro scales in solid mechanics, defect dynamics, high-pressure phase transformations, and geo-dynamics.
Bio
Xanthippi Markenscoff is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and a member of the Materials Science Program. She received her Ph.D. from Princeton University and a Diploma in Civil Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. She has been a research associate at MIT, an assistant professor at Carnegie-Mellon University, and a professor at UCSB before joining UCSD in 1988. She has also been intermittently a visiting professor of solid mechanics at Brown University, a Visiting Miller Professor, and a Distinguished Russell Springer Visiting Professor in Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley. Her research includes elastodynamics, micromechanics, dislocation theory, and the dynamics of defects. Markenscoff is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, a Fellow of the Society of Engineering Sciences, and was awarded a Doctor honoris causa degree from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, in 2022.