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J. Lasheras elected member of the National Academy of Engineering

Aeronautic Engineer and Doctor "Honoris Causa” by the Technical University of Madrid (UPM), J.Lasheras is granted for his outstanding contributions to engineering research and practice.

The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) of the USA has announced the election of Professor Juan Carlos Lasheras, aeronautical engineer and Doctor Honoris Causa by ETS Aeronautics Engineering of the Technical University of Madrid as one of its new members.

Lasheras is the second Spanish professor who becomes a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Currently, another two professors collaborate with this institution as "foreign associates". One of them, Manuel Elices is professor at Materials Science Department of the ETS Civil Engineering of the UPM:

Election to the National Academy of Engineering is one of the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. Academy membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions to engineering research and practice including significant contributions to the engineering literature and to the pioneering of new and developing fields of technology.

Professor Juan C. Lasheras is an aeronautical engineer by training who works at the intersection between medicine and engineering. His original contributions to the field of mechanics have led to major advances in both engineering research and practice.

Some of his most remarkable jobs are the elucidation of the mechanisms of explosive (disruptive) burning of multicomponent and emulsion of fuel droplets and clarification of the structure and stability of turbulent mixing layers and jets. He has contributed to improvements in the efficiency in jet propulsion and identified and explained the regimes of liquid atomization relevant to the design of rocket engines and chemical reactors.

For the last 10 years, Lasheras has been working at the interface between mechanics, biology and medicine. His recent studies have led to advances in biomechanics at both the macroscopic and cellular levels. He evaluated the effects of unsteady blood flows in the risk of rupture of aortic and intracranial arterial aneurysms and clarified some of the biochemical pathways for the generation of the traction forces exerted by cells during migration.

He currently works on several aspects of mechanobiology, including cell mechanotransduction, cell migration, and cancer cell invasion.

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Juan C. Lasheras received an Aeronautical Engineering degree from the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid in 1975 and a Masters and Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1979 and 1982 respectively.

He is a distinguished professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Bioengineering and he has been elected Director of the Center for Medical Devices and Instrumentation at the Institute of Engineering in Medicine. He is also the Stanford and Beverly Penner Professor of Applied Sciences at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering.

Lasheras received the F.N. Frenkiel Award for Fluid Dynamics from the American Physical Society (APS) in 1990. He is a corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain (Real Academia de Ingenieria de Espana), and a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS).

He was a Guggenheim Fellow and a George Van Ness-Lothrop Fellow and served as the Chairman of the Division of Fluid Dynamics of the APS. He was awarded Doctor Honoris Causa degrees from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain in January 2011 and from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain in October 2011.

Lasheras holds 44 US patents in medical devices technology and was the co-founder of InnerCool Therapies Inc. currently a part of Philips' Clinical Care Systems.

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