Biography:Kristina Shea
Kristina Shea is a mechanical engineer whose research topics include generative design, tensegrity structures, aquatic soft robotics,[1] and 4D printing.[2] She is a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering at ETH Zurich, where she holds the chair in Engineering Design and Computing.[3]
Education and career
Shea studied mechanical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, earning a bachelor's degree in 1993, master's in 1995, and PhD in 1997.[3] Her doctoral dissertation, Essays of Discrete Structures: Purposeful Design of Grammatical Structures by Directed Stochastic Search, was supervised by Jonathan Cagan.[4]
She came to Switzerland as a postdoctoral researcher at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, in the Applied Computing and Mechanics Laboratory of the Department of Civil Engineering. She became a lecturer in engineering design at the University of Cambridge, and then from 2005 to 2012 she was a professor of virtual product development at the Technical University of Munich, before taking her present position at ETH Zurich.[3]
Recognition
Shea won the 2001 Philip Leverhulme Prize in Engineering.[3] She is a Fellow of the ASME, elected in 2013.[5]
References
- ↑ Mehar, Pranjal (16 May 2018), "No Motor, No Battery, No Problem: New robot concept uses responsive materials to swim through water", Tech Explorist, https://www.techexplorist.com/no-motor-no-battery-no-problem/14264/
- ↑ Jackson, Beau (9 May 2017), "ETH Zurich demonstrates self-assembling 4D printed "deployable and active" trusses", 3d printing industry, https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/eth-zurich-demonstrates-self-assembling-4d-printed-deployable-active-trusses-112660/
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "Prof. Dr. Kristina Shea", People (ETH Zurich Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering), https://mavt.ethz.ch/people/person-detail.shea.html, retrieved 2023-02-04
- ↑ Shea, Kristina (August 1997), Essays of Discrete Structures: Purposeful Design of Grammatical Structures by Directed Stochastic Search, Carnegie Mellon University, https://ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/special-interest/mavt/design-materials-fabrication/engineering-design-and-computing-lab/DoctoralTheses/Shea_PhDThesis.pdf
- ↑ All Fellows, ASME, 2022, https://www.asme.org/getmedia/356e1810-c2f4-41d8-80c2-f5de20f64442/fellows-all-updated-2022.pdf, retrieved 2023-02-04
External links
- Kristina Shea publications indexed by Google Scholar
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