Volker Blum

Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Associate Dean for Research, Rooney Family Associate Professor of MEMS

Volker Blum Profile Photo
Volker Blum Profile Photo

Research Themes

Computation & Artificial Intelligence, Energy Systems & Materials

Education

  • Dr. rer. nat. Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany), 2001

Positions

  • Rooney Family Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
  • Associate Professor in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
  • Associate Dean for Research and Infrastructure in the Pratt School of Engineering
  • Associate Professor of Chemistry

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

  • August-Wilhelm-Scheer Visiting Professorship. Technical University of Munich. 2016
  • Outstanding Referee of the Physical Review journals. APS. 2016
  • Staedtler Foundation Prize. Staedtler Foundation. 2002

Courses Taught

  • ME 592: Research Independent Study in Mechanical Engineering or Material Science
  • ME 591: Research Independent Study in Mechanical Engineering or Material Science
  • ME 560S: Materials Science and Engineering Seminar
  • ME 555: Advanced Topics in Mechanical Engineering
  • ME 511: Computational Materials Science
  • ME 494: Engineering Undergraduate Fellows Projects
  • ME 493: Engineering Undergraduate Fellows Projects
  • ME 491: Special Projects in Mechanical Engineering
  • ME 221L: Structure and Properties of Solids
  • CHEM 995: Graduate Training Internship

Publications