Anthony M. Waas is the Fulton Chair Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering and Director of the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy (SEMTE) at Arizona State University (ASU), Tempe, AZ; and at the University of Michigan Waas is the Felix Pawlowski Collegiate, emeritus, Professor of Aerospace Engineering, emeritus and the Richarad A. Auhll Department Chair of Aerospace Engineering, emeritus. Prior to that, Waas was the Boeing Egtvedt Endowed Chair Professor and department chair in the William E. Boeing Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the University of Washington (UW), Seattle, and the director of the Composite Structures Laboratory at the University of Michigan. Waas’ current research interests are recyclable composite materials, robotically manufactured lightweight structures, including in-space manufactured structures, computational modeling of composite aerostructures, 3D printed lightweight structures, damage tolerance of composite structures, affordable textile composites, hydrogen storage for mobility, and data science applications in modeling of materials and structures. Waas is a fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME), the American Society for Composites (ASC), the American Academy of Mechanics (AAM) and the Royal Aeronautical Society, UK. Waas is a recipient of several best paper awards, the AIAA/ASME SDM award, the AAM Jr. Research Award, the ASC Outstanding Researcher Award, and several distinguished awards from the University of Michigan, including the Stephen S. Attwood award for Excellence in Engineering, one of the highest honors for an Engineering faculty member at the University of Michigan. Waas received the AIAA-ASME-ASC James H. Starnes, Jr. Award, for seminal contributions to composite structures and materials and for mentoring students and other young professionals. Waas is the recipient of the AIAA ICME Prize, the ASME Warner T. Koiter Medal, the AIAA Dryden Lecture in Research presented at the International Scitech Conference, and the CT Sun Medal from the American Society of Composites. Waas is a member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. Waas earned a Ph.D. in aeronautics and applied mathematics from Caltech.
