Jaime Peraire
PROFESSOR
AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
United States of America
Biography
Academic Degrees Ingeniero de Caminos, Canales y Puertos, 1983, University of Barcelona Ph.D., 1986, University of Wales Doctor Ingeniero de Caminos, Canales y Puertos, 1987, University of Barcelona Honors and Awards The Research Corporation Trust, UK Young Researchers Award, 1986; NASA Group Achievement Award, 1989; D.Sc, University of Wales, 1997; NASA Exceptional Achievement Award, 1997; IACM Young Researchers Award in Computational Mechanics, 1998; Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT, Raymond L. Bisplinghoff Faculty Fellow, 2003-2006; Honorary Professor, School of Engineering, University of Wales, Swansea, 2005; H.N. Slater Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT, 2011; Spanish Society for Numerical Methods in Engineering, SEMNI Prize, 2013; Catalan Civil Engineers Association, Ildefons Cerdá Medal, 2015; US Association for Computational Mechanics, T.J. Hughes Medal, 2015. Society Memberships American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Fellow; International Association for Computational Mechanics, Fellow; American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Member Positions Held at MIT Department Head, 2011- present; Professor, 1999-present; Associate Professor, 1993-1999; Director, Aerospace Computational Design Lab, 1993-2011.
Research Interest
Numerical analysis, finite element methods, computational aerodynamics
