Dr. Leszek Demkowicz, professor of aerospace engineering and engineering mechanics at The University of Texas at Austin, has been elected a fellow of the International Association for Computational Mechanics for his “significant contributions in the field of computational mechanics.”
Currently, a major thrust of Dr. Demkowicz’s research involves developing software for acoustic and electromagnetic simulations that could improve the quality of hearing aids by modeling how the ear locates sounds. This research also could help improve the antennas and radar signals for U.S. Air Force jets.
Dr. Demkowicz was the founding member of the Polish Association for Computational Mechanics and served as its first president. He has taught at UT Austin since 1993 and is the assistant director for the Texas Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics, a research and teaching unit that develops computer models for complex systems ranging from underground aquifers to human hearing.
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