Junuthula N. Reddy (born 12 August 1945) is a Distinguished Professor, Regents' Professor and inaugural holder of the Oscar S. Wyatt Endowed Chair in Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA. He is one of the researchers responsible for the development of the Finite Element Method (FEM). He is an authoritative figure in the broad area of mechanics. He has made significant seminal contributions in the specific areas of finite element method, plate theory, solid mechanics, variational methods, mechanics of composites, functionally graded materials, fracture mechanics, plasticity, biomechanics, classical and non-Newtonian fluid mechanics, and applied functional analysis. Reddy has over 620 journal papers, 20 books (with several second and third editions), and has given numerous (over 150) national and international talks. He has served as a member of International Advisory Committee at ICTACEM, 2001 and keynote addressing in 2014.

He has advised around 36 postdoctoral fellows, 65 Ph.D. students, and 46 M.S students over 40 years. Many of his (former) Ph.D. and postdoctoral students are currently faculty members in reputed universities throughout the world. He has been listed as an ISI Highly Cited Author in Engineering by the ISI Web of Knowledge, Thomson Scientific Company. Reddy is one of the original top 100 ISI Highly Cited Researchers in Engineering around the world, with h-index of over 66 as per Web of Science; the number of citations is over 54,000 with h-index of 94 and i10-index of 438 (i.e., 438 papers are cited at least 10 times) as per Google Scholar.

In addition to being a world-class researcher, he is also renowned as an educator. He has won many teaching awards, and his books are widely used as textbooks in many courses at various universities across the world. His books are known for explaining very difficult theories in a lucid manner.

Carlos Alberto Mota Soares is Emeritus Professor of the University of Lisbon at Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST) since 2018, where he was admitted in 1977 and was a full professor from 1985 to 2015.

The career of Professor Carlos Mota Soares started in 1964 as Engineering Apprentice at British Leyland Motor Corporation, where, as a member of the Task Force for Design Automation, which he integrated in 1968, he was a pioneer in introducing computer-assisted design for vehicle components and systems. He obtained a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering and an M.Sc. in Solid Mechanics at the University of Aston, Birmingham. Then he got his Ph.D. in Structural Dynamics from the University of Surrey and joined the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research of the University of Southampton, as Associate Researcher between 1974 and 1977. Professor Carlos Mota Soares started working at Technical University of Lisbon since 1977 and became a professor since 1985. He acted as the chairman of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Institute of Mechanical Engineering.

During his career as a researcher, he has had very significant contributions in several scientific areas such as the computer-aided optimal design of structural and mechanical systems, topology design of structures, mechanics of composite materials and structures, structural engineering, and structural and multidisciplinary optimization. He also had a relevant involvement in national and international organizations promoting science in the field of Computational Mechanics, recognized by his peers through the appointment to high positions and attribution of several awards, which represent the recognition of his prestige as a researcher.

The new winner of J. N. Reddy Medal will be announced at ICMAMS 2019

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 J.N. Reddy was selected to receive the 2019 Stephen P. Timoshenko Medal

We are proud to announce that Professor J.N. Reddy is selected to receive the 2019 S. P. Timoshenko Medal “for life-time contributions to research and education in applied  mechanics through the authorship of creative and highly cited papers on variational principles, refined theories of plates and shells, computational methods, and nonlocal theories, which have impacted generations of engineers.”

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