POTSDAM -- Ioannis Mastorakos has been granted tenure and promoted to associate professor of mechanical and aeronautical engineering in Clarkson’s University Wallace H. Coulter School of Engineering.

Mastorakos’ research investigations span interests in mechanical properties of nanomaterials and new materials design driven by computer simulations. A common thread in this research is the understanding of the underlying mechanisms at the nanoscale, responsible for the deformation and fracture of metallic materials, where computer simulation techniques employ various length scales, from the nanoscale to the microscale.

His current research focuses on the deformation and fracture of nanoscale metallic composites and nanofoams, the mechanical properties of composite nanowires, the effect of irradiation on steels, crack-dislocation interactions, and the deformation and fracture of aluminum alloys.