Biography:Assimina Pelegri

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Short description: Greek-American materials scientist

Assimina A. (Mina) Pelegri (born 1968) is a Greek-American aerospace engineer and materials scientist whose research involves the use of the finite element method to model and study composite materials and biological soft tissue. She is a professor at Rutgers University, where she chairs the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering.[1]

Education and career

Pelegri was born in 1968.[2] After earning a diploma in metallurgy at the National Technical University of Athens in 1992, Pelegri went to Georgia Tech for graduate studies in Aerospace Engineering, supported by a Fulbright Fellowship. She earned a master's degree in aerospace engineering in 1994, and completed a Ph.D. degree in 1997, also completing a degree in the management of technology at the same time through Georgia Tech's Scheller College of Business.[3]

She has been on the Rutgers University faculty since 1997,[3] and from 2010 to 2013 held the M. W. Railser Distinguished Teaching Chair there.[4]

Recognition

Pelegri was named an ASME Fellow in 2014.[5]

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