Dr. Ramazan Karakuzu, born in 1964, received his BSc degree in 1986 at the
Department of Mechanical Engineering, his MSc degree in 1988 and his
PhD degree in 1992 at the Mechanics branch of the Graduate School of
Natural and Applied Sciences, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey. He is
currently a Professor of Mechanics at the Department of Mechanical
Engineering, Engineering Faculty in Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey.
His areas of research are the impact and post impact behaviors of
laminated composite plates and composite pressure vessels, failure
analysis of pinned joint composite structures, elasto-plastic stress analysis
of composite plates. He is a member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences
and the Turkish Society of Mechanical Engineers (TSME) and a founding
member of the Association of Biomechanics, Biomaterial, Tissue
Engineering Research and Development

Erdogan Madenci, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Arizona. With a rich academic background, including a Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics from UCLA and multiple degrees from Lehigh University, Dr. Madenci has held various esteemed positions such as Visiting Faculty at MIT and Visiting Scientist at NASA. He is a Fellow of ASME, an Associate Fellow of AIAA, and the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Peridynamics and Nonlocal Modeling. His research focuses on engineering mechanics, multiphysics simulations, and nonlocal modeling, earning him numerous awards, including the IEEE Electronic Packaging Society's Outstanding Sustained Technical Contribution Award.