| RefNo | EC/2024/88 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Rosakis, Ares J: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Date | 21 April 2024 |
| Description | Certificate endorsing election of Ares J Rosakis as a Foreign Member of the Royal Society. Includes personal details of the elected Foreign Member, citation giving the reasons for election, and names of proposers. Signed by the Executive Director of the Royal Society, Julie Maxton. |
| Citation | Rosakis is a highly interdisciplinary engineer who invented multiple high-speed diagnostic methods for studying failure phenomena in all length and time scales, enabling his seminal discoveries of Intersonic fracture and delamination in composites and Supershear rupture in frictional geological faults. He introduced the concept of Laboratory Earthquakes and used scaling to resolve paradoxes in earthquake science and to study earthquakes worldwide. His vision gave birth to an interdisciplinary school of thought at the fertile interfaces between Experimental Mechanics, Earthquake Source-Physics and Hazard Mitigation, leading to his election to the US National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Sciences. |
| Extent | 4p |
| Format | Computer printout |
| PhysicalDescription | A4 papers |
| AccessStatus | Closed |
| AccessConditions | Election certificates are subject to 50 year closure period from date of election. Details of proposers and date certificate was first submitted for candidacy are kept confidential until the 50 year closure period has elapsed. |