Michael Thouless
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3672 G. G. Brown Addition
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2125 Phone: (734)763-5289
Fax: (734)647-3170
E-mail: thouless@umich.edu
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Brief Biography
I am the Janine Johnson Weins Professor of Engineering, and an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, in addition to being a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and a Professor of Materials Science & Engineering at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. I was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and went up to Churchill College, Cambridge to read engineering in 1978. After graduating from Cambridge in 1981, I went to the University of California, Berkeley, to do graduate work under the direction of Tony Evans in the Department of Materials Science and Mineral Engineering. After getting my PhD in 1984, I continued to work with Tony Evans, first at Berkeley, and then at the new materials program at UCSB. In 1988, I joined the Physical Sciences Department at IBM Research Division in Yorktown Heights as a Research Staff Member. In 1995 I moved to the University of Michigan. I have also held brief visiting positions in the Engineering Mechanics Department at Tsinghua University (1994), at Ford Research Laboratories in Dearborn (1995), in the Engineering Department at Cambridge University (1985, 2002, 2011 and 2017-2018), and in the Wind Energy Department at the Danish Technical University (2013 and 2014). Degrees
2009 Sc.D., University of Cambridge (a higher doctorate)
1984 Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
1982 M.S., University of California, Berkeley
1981 B.A. (1st class honours), University of Cambridge
(M.A. awarded in 1985) Other professional qualifications
Chartered Engineer (CEng) - UK