Glaucio Paulino#
| Membership Number: | 7522 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | ENGINEERING |
| Affiliated section(s): | PHYSICS |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | https://paulino.scholar.princeton.edu |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-3493-6857 |
| X: | @ghpaulino |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/glaucio-paulino |
| Publication Link: | https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-P7aPQMAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2021 - present Margareta Engman Augustine Professor of Engineering, CEE Dept. & PMI, Princeton University
- 2015 - 2021 Professor and Raymond Allen Jones Chair, School of Civil \& Env. Eng., Georgia Institute of Technology
- 2016 Shimizu Visiting Professor, Stanford University
- 2005 - 2015 Professor, Dept. of Civil \& Env. Eng., Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
- 2009 - 2011 Program Director, Mechanics of Materials; National Science Foundation (NSF), Arlington, VA, USA
- 2009 - 2010 Acting Program Director, Nano and Bio-Mechanics; National Science Foundation (NSF), Arlington, VA, USA
- 2004 MTS Visiting Professorship of Geomechanics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
- 2001 - 2005 Associate Professor, Dept. of Civil \& Env. Eng., Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
- 1999 - 2001 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Civil & Env. Eng., Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
- 1995 - 1998 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Civil & Env. Eng., Univ. of California, Davis (UC-Davis)
Fields of Scholarship
- Topology optimization
- Reconfigurable structures
- Structural engineering
- Fracture and damage mechanics
- Origami engineering
- Optimization
- Tensegrity structures
- Mechanics
Honours and Awards
- 2025 European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA), Foreign Member
- 2021 US National Academy of Engineering (NAE), Member
- 2025 Ted Belytschko MEDAL, US Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM)
- 2023 A.C. Eringen MEDAL, Society of Engineering Science (SES)
- 2022 G.W. Melville MEDAL, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
- 2020 J.N. Reddy MEDAL, Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures (MAMS) Journal
- 2020 Daniel C. Drucker MEDAL, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
- 2020 Raymond D. Mindlin MEDAL, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
- 2015 Cozzarelli Prize, National Academy of Sciences (NAS), USA
- 2014 Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Award and MEDAL, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
- 2004 Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
- 2025 FELLOW, International Society for Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization (ISSMO),
- 2020 FELLOW, Society of Engineering Science (SES)
- 2019 FELLOW, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
- 2017 FELLOW, Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI), ASCE
- 2015 FELLOW, American Academy of Mechanics (AAM)
- 2012 FELLOW, International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM),
- 2011 FELLOW, US Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM)




