Raul Radovitzky
Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Who they work with
Raul Radovitzky is the Raymond L. Bisplinghoff Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics in MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and the associate director for the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies. His research interests include computational modeling and large-scale simulation of the response of solid materials and of fluid, structure interaction problems with particular interest in fundamental aspects of material and structural failure and blast effects on humans and structures. Radovitzky is a member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, International Association of Computational Mechanics, American Academy of Mechanics, Materials Research Society and U.S. Association of Computational Mechanics. He earned a degree in civil engineering from the University of Buenos Aires, an MS in applied mathematics from Brown University, and a PhD in aeronautical engineering from the California Institute of Technology.
Selected Publications
- Moore, D.F., Jaffee, M., Ling, G., Radovitzky, R. (2020). Overview of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). Traumatic Brain Injury, 1-13.
- Giovanardi, B., Ćliwiak, A.A., Koshakji, A., Lin, S., Zhao, X., Radovitzky, R. (2019). A path-following simulation-based study of elastic instabilities in nearly-incompressible confined cylinders under tension. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 131, 252-275.
- Veysset, D., Kooi, S.E., Haferssas, R., Hassani-Gangaraj, M., Islam, M., Maznev, A.A., Chernukha, Y., Zhao, X., Nakagawa, K., Martynowych, D., Zhang, X., Lomonosov, A.M., Schuh, C.A., Radovitzky, R., Pezeril, T., Nelson, K.A. (2019). Glass fracture by focusing of laser-generated nanosecond surface acoustic waves. Scripta Materialia 158, 42-45.
- Lin, S., Mao, Y., Radovitzky, R., Zhao, X. (2017). Instabilities in confined elastic layers under tension: Fringe, fingering and cavitation. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 106, 229-256.
Media
- May 31, 2019: MIT News, For the women of McCormick, a new space in which to create.
- May 3, 2017: MIT News, MIT community celebrates its many cultures.
- July 9, 2015: MIT News, Three undergraduate communities to welcome new housemasters this fall.
- September 29, 2014: MIT News, Modeling shockwaves through the brain.