Background
Ponte-Castañeda, Pedro was born on January 5, 1961 in Santa Cruz, Tenerife, Spain. Son of Pedro Ponte-Pedreira and Glenda (Castañeda) De Ponte. came to the United States, 1977.
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Pedro Ponte-Castañeda
Edit ProfileMechanical engineering educator
Pedro Ponte-Castañeda, Spanish, American mechanical engineering educator. Recipient Research Initiation award National Science Foundation, 1988; grantee National Science Foundation, Air Force Office of Science Research. Member American Society of Mechanical Engineers (Special Achievement award for Young Investigators in Mechanics 2000), Society for Industrial Applied Mathematics, Phi Beta Kappa.
Education
Bachelor of Science, Bachelor, Lehigh University, 1982; Master of Science, Harvard University, 1983; Doctor of Philosophy in Applied Mathematics, Harvard University, 1986.
Career
Research officer University Bath, England, 1986-1987. Assistant professor Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1987-1990, University Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1990-1994, associate professor, 1994—1998, professor, since 1998, Ecole Polytech., Paris, 2003—2008. Senior researcher Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies in Materials, IMDEA-Materials, since 2010.
Visiting professor Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, 1994, 2001. Visiting fellow Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University, 1994.
Achievements
Membership
Member American Society of Mechanical Engineers (Special Achievement award for Young Investigators in Mechanics 2000), Society for Industrial Applied Mathematics, Phi Beta Kappa.
