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Ann Marie Sastry
 Ann Marie Sastry MMPEI Faculty Fellow |
- Professor, Mechanical Engineering
- Professor, Biomedical Engineering
- Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Dr. Sastry is Professor of Mechanical, Biomedical and Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan.
She holds MS and PhD degrees in M.E. from Cornell University, and a BS from the University of Delaware. She is the recipient of numerous honors for her work, including the 2007 ASME Gustus Larson Award, the University of Michigan Faculty Recognition Award (2005), the University of Delaware Presidential Citation for Outstanding Achievement (2004), the UM College of Engineering 1938E (2000), the University of Michigan Henry Russel Award (1999), and NSF's Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (1997).
She has served on three Editorial Boards: the ASME Journal of Engineering Materials and Technologies, Journal of Composite Materials, and as a Founding Associate Editor of the Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials. She founded and directs the nation’s first graduate degree program in Energy Systems Engineering, launched in 2007 to provide graduate education in advanced energy technologies.
Her research spans the biology/energy interface. She has published over 60 articles and book chapters, and delivered over 50 invited seminars at academic institutions and organizations, including the National Academy of Sciences and the National Institutes of Health. Her work has featured in Nature, Business Week, and other publications.
In energy technologies, her laboratory has developed new materials, invented techniques for manufacture and optimization of batteries, and algorithms for optimization of power systems. Her work in batteries for the Department of Energy, for example, comprises the first coupled mechanical and electrochemical simulation technique to understand failure initiation in high power battery systems.
Her laboratory’s projects, sponsored by the DoE, Army Research Office, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, NSF, and Ford Motor Company, range from design of microbatteries for implantable systems, to creation of biological batteries comprised of cellular organelles coupled with engineered substrates, to fully integrated structural batteries for realization of multifunctional, composite materials, to automotive Li-ion batteries, for hybrid electric vehicles.
Dr. Ann Marie Sastry is a MMPEI Faculty Fellow.