José E. Andrade is the George W. Housner Professor of Civil and Mechanical Engineering in the Division of Engineering and Applied Science at the California Institute of Technology. He earned a B.S. from the Florida Institute of Technology in 2001, an M.S. from Stanford University in 2003, and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Stanford University in 2006. After his Ph.D., he served as an Assistant Professor of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics at Northwestern University for four years before joining Caltech as Assistant Professor in 2010, advancing to Associate Professor from 2010 to 2013, Professor from 2013 to 2017, and assuming the Housner Professorship in 2017. He also held the Drinkward Leadership Chair of the Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering from 2017 to 2022 and served as Executive Officer from 2016 to 2022.

Professor Andrade's research specializes in computational geomechanics and multiscale modeling of the multiphysical behaviors of granular and porous materials, including soils, rocks, concrete, bone, sand, and snow. His efforts develop predictive analytical and numerical models for complex systems, with applications to energy storage systems like mechanical batteries, infrastructure, defense, space missions involving regolith and asteroids, and carbon sequestration. He has received major awards such as the 2006 Zienkiewicz Medal in computational mechanics, 2010 NSF CAREER Award, 2011 AFOSR Young Investigator Award, 2011 ASCE Casagrande Award, 2016 Thomas J.R. Hughes Young Investigator Award, 2018 Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize, and election as Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2022. Key publications include "Structured fabrics with tunable mechanical properties" (Nature, 2021), "All you need is shape: Predicting shear banding in sand with LS-DEM" (Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2018), "Level set discrete element method for three-dimensional computations with triaxial case study" (Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2016), and "Multiscale modeling and characterization of granular matter: from grain kinematics to continuum mechanics" (Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2011). His work has advanced fields including geotechnical engineering and granular mechanics.

Professional Email: jandrade@caltech.edu