Celia Reina
William K. Gemmill Term Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM)
Honors and Awards: Eshelby Mechanics Award for Young Faculty - 2017, Lawrence Fellowship - 2011, Charles D. Babcock Award - 2008, Rolf D. Buhler Memorial Award - 2007, First National B.S. Award in Spain - 2006
Research Expertise: Computational Mechanics | Mechanics of Materials | Micro- and Nanomechanics
Celia's interests are focused on the multiscale modeling and simulation of materials. She works on the development of new techniques for scale transition as well as on the use of existing techniques to understand inelastic and non-equilibrium processes in materials. Examples of her research include modeling of plasticity in the large deformation setting, developing multiscale tools for modeling and simulating elastic metamaterials, and understanding fast phase transformations for applications to new memory devices. Celia's research is very interdisciplinary and combines tools from continuum mechanics, statistical physics and applied mathematics.
Education:
Postdoc Material Science 2013 - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Postdoc Applied Mathematics 2011 - University of Bonn
PhD Aeronautics 2011 - California Institute of Technology
MS Aerospace Engineering 2007 - California Institute of Technology
MS Structural Dynamics 2006 - Ecole Centrale Paris
BS Mechanical Engineering 2006 - University of Seville
Recent Publications 
- Kinematics of elasto-plasticity: Validity and limits of applicability of F=FeFpfor general three-dimensional deformations, Reina, C. | Fokoua Djodom, L. | Ortiz, M. | Conti, S., Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2018
- Computing diffusivities from particle models out of equilibrium, Embacher, P. | Dirr, N. | Zimmer, J. | Reina, C., Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 2018
- Broadband locally resonant metamaterials with graded hierarchical architecture, Liu, C. | Reina, C., Journal of Applied Physics, 2018
- Incompressible inelasticity as an essential ingredient for the validity of the kinematic decomposition F=FeFi, Reina, C. | Conti, S., Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2017
- Variational coarse-graining procedure for dynamic homogenization, Liu, C. | Reina, C., Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2017