Ricardo Mejia
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering
Engineering Research Complex, 1449 Engineering Research Ct Room A117
Biography
Dr. Ricardo Mejia-Alvarez obtained his BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from The National University of Colombia in 2000 (Summa Cum Laude), and a MSc degree in Thermal Engineering in 2004 from the Universidad de Antioquia - Colombia. He obtained a MSc and a PhD degree in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a Fulbright Scholar. Dr. Mejia-Alvarez joined the Physics Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 2010, where he conducted researc
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Ph.D. Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2010
M.S. Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006
M.S. Thermal Engineering, Universidad de Antioquia - Colombia, 2004
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2016 Pollution Prevention Award. Los Alamos National Laboratory, April 2016.
Outstanding Young Alumni Award. Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2015.
Honor Mention. Colombian National Army, 1993.
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S.T. Miller, C.F. Cooper, P. Elsbernd, J. Kerwin, R. Mejia-Alvarez and A.M. Willis. Localizing Clinical Patterns of Blast Traumatic Brain Injury Through Computational Modeling and Simulation. Frontiers in Neurology. 12:459 (2021). doi: 10.3389/fneur.2021.547655.
S. Vidhate, A. Willis, and R. Mejia-Alvarez. Experimental Technique to Generate Complex Pressure Cycles in TBI-related In-vitro or Ex-vivo Samples. Experimental Techniques (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40799-021-00453-5.
R. Mejia-Alvarez and K.T. Christensen. Low-Order Representations of Irregular Surface Roughness and Their Impact on a Turbulent Boundary Layer. Physics of Fluids. 22(1):015106 (2010).
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