Stewart Silling

Stewart Silling recently retired after a 35-year career at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He has a Ph.D. in applied mechanics from the California Institute of Technology. His research is in theoretical and computational mechanics. Dr. Silling is known primarily as an originator and developer of the peridynamic theory of solid mechanics. He has a broad range of experience in the computer modeling of applications in industry and was a Visiting Scholar at The Boeing Company. He was awarded the Ted Belytschko Medal by the U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics in 2015. Dr. Silling was a founding co-editor of the Journal of Peridynamics and Nonlocal Modeling, published by Springer Nature. He currently has an appointment as Visiting Collaborator at the Department of Mathematics at Lehigh University and is writing a book about peridynamics.