Massimo Ruzzene

Massimo Ruzzene is the vice chancellor of research and innovation and the Slade Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. He joined CU in the summer of 2019, after serving as the Pratt and Whitney Professor in the Schools of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. He received a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the Politecnico di Torino (Italy) in 1999.

Ruzzene has authored 2 books, more than 180 journal papers and 240 conference papers. He has participated as a PI or co-PI in various research projects funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Army Research Office, the Office of Naval Research, NASA, the US Army, US Navy, DARPA, the National Science Foundation, as well as companies such as Boeing, Eurocopter, Raytheon, Corning and TRW.

Most of his current and past research work has focused on solid mechanics, structural dynamics and wave propagation with application to structural health monitoring, metamaterials, and vibration and noise control. He served as program director for the Dynamics, Control and System Diagnostics Program of CMMI at the National Science Foundation between 2014 and 2016.