Maciej Kumosa

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Born1953 (age 7273)
OccupationsMaterials scientist and academic
KnownforHVT Center and research on Extreme Materials and their Applications
TitleJohn Evans Professor
Maciej S. Kumosa
Born1953 (age 7273)
OccupationsMaterials scientist and academic
Known forHVT Center and research on Extreme Materials and their Applications
TitleJohn Evans Professor
Academic background
EducationMS., Applied Mechanics and Materials Science
PhD., Applied Mechanics and Materials Science
Alma materWrocław University of Science and Technology
Doctoral advisorLeszek Golaski
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Denver
Center for Novel High Voltage/Temperature Materials and Structures (HVT)

Maciej S. Kumosa is a materials scientist and academic. He holds the title of John Evans Professor at the University of Denver, and is the director of the Center for Novel High Voltage/Temperature Materials and Structures (HVT).[1]

Kumosa's research interests involve analyzing advanced materials at multiple scales, both experimentally and numerically, for applications in electrical, aerospace, and other fields under extreme operating conditions.[2]

Kumosa serves as an Editorial Board Member for Composites Science and Technology,[3] Structural Durability & Health Monitoring,[4] and Fibers.[5]

Maciej Kumosa was born on July 13, 1953, in Warsaw, Poland, to a family with teaching, medicine, and farming backgrounds. His father, Dr. Stefan Kumosa,[6] was a well-respected physician in Słupca, a small town in the middle of communist Poland with approximately 5,000 residents during that period. At age five, Kumosa was relocated from Warsaw to Slupca, where he received his elementary and high school education from primary school number 1 and Marshal Józef Piłsudski High School [7] in 1968 and 1972, respectively.

Education

Kumosa earned his Masters's degree in Applied Mechanics and Materials Science from the Technical University of Wroclaw, in 1978. He continued his studies at the same university, completing his Ph.D. in Applied Mechanics and Materials Science in 1982.[8]

Career

In 1981, Kumosa began his career as a senior research assistant in the Institute of Materials Science and Applied Mechanics at the Technical University of Wroclaw and was appointed as an assistant professor in 1983. He then served as a senior research associate at the University of Cambridge from 1984 to 1990, followed by an appointment as an associate professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Department of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics at Oregon Graduate Institute (OGI) in Portland from 1990 until 1998. In 1996, he joined the University of Denver as a research professor in the Department of Engineering and was later promoted to the roles of associate professor and full professor. Since 2006, he has been serving as a John Evans Professor at the University of Denver (DU).[9] He retired as an academic in 2024.[1]

Kumosa was the chair of the Mechanical and Materials Engineering (MME) Department at DU from 2007 to 2009 and later served as the director of the Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering from 2007 to 2012. Since 2014, he has been serving as the center director of the National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Novel High Voltage/Temperature Materials and Structures (the HVT Center).[10] The first Phase of the HVT Center was completed on September 30, 2024. During its 10 years of operation, the Center graduated 42 PHD and 15 master's students and published 205 journal papers at its four academic sites.[1]

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