Dr. Alexander Tessler (PhD in Applied and Computational Mechanics, UCLA, 1979) has been employed by the U.S. aircraft industry, Army research, and NASA Langley Research Center (1991-2017). He has also served as adjunct professor at Northeastern University, Old Dominion University, George Washington University, and University of Virginia. In 2019, he was a visiting professor at Politecnico di Torino, Italy.
Dr. Tessler is a recognized international authority in applied mechanics and finite element methods and is credited with the development of techniques and finite element methods used in commercial, university, and government software. Many of his methods and formulations have been documented in the state-of-the-art textbooks on finite element methods. To date, he has contributed over two hundred technical papers, book chapters, and reports, and has made numerous presentations at national and international conferences, industry workshops, and universities.
Dr. Tessler is a NASA Floyd Thompson Fellow. He has received numerous awards for his technical excellence and outstanding contributions. His biography has been published in Marquis Who's Who in Science and Engineering, Who's Who in America, and Who's Who in the World.
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