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 edit
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 edit
Shea won the 2001 Philip Leverhulme Prize in Engineering.[3] She is a Fellow of the ASME, elected in 2013.[5]
References edit
- ^ Mehar, Pranjal (16 May 2018), "No Motor, No Battery, No Problem: New robot concept uses responsive materials to swim through water", Tech Explorist
- ^ Jackson, Beau (9 May 2017), "ETH Zurich demonstrates self-assembling 4D printed "deployable and active" trusses", 3d printing industry
- ^ a b c d "Prof. Dr. Kristina Shea", People, ETH Zurich Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, retrieved 2023-02-04
- ^ Shea, Kristina (August 1997), Essays of Discrete Structures: Purposeful Design of Grammatical Structures by Directed Stochastic Search (PDF) (Doctoral dissertation), Carnegie Mellon University – via ETH Zurich
- ^ All Fellows (PDF), ASME, 2022, retrieved 2023-02-04
External links edit
- Kristina Shea publications indexed by Google Scholar