Mark F. Horstemeyer was born in Martins Ferry, Ohio (USA) in 1962. After moving
to Weirton, WV at a young age, he graduated from Weir High School in 1981 showing
strong interest in physics, mathematics, anatomy, physiology, and chemistry. Just before
his senior year in high school Mark became a dedicated follower of Jesus Christ, and
from that vantage point his life he has used nature as an inspiration for design ever since.
He attended West Virginia University, graduating with a degree in Mechanical
Engineering (Magna Cum Laude) in 1985. After marrying his wife Barbara, they returned
to Ohio for his Masters in Mechanical Engineering at Ohio State University (OSU). In 1987
he started at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, CA., where he worked on
systems design, finite element analysis, structural mechanics, shock wave physics,
computational fluid dynamics, and multiscale modeling. Under the Doctoral Study
Program at Sandia, Mark was able to earn his PhD in 1995 at Georgia Tech with Dr.
David McDowell in Mechanical Engineering, where he studied crystal plasticity modeling
and bridged length scales from the single crystal level to the polycrystalline level.
After spending several years at Sandia National Laboratories with his final position there
being Manager of Fluid/Thermal Modeling Department, Mark jointed Mississippi State
University (MSU) as a Chair Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department in
2002. Two years later, he also joined the Computational Engineering Department of the
University, and eventually joined MSU’s Agricultural & Biological Engineering as well as
the Physics departments on 2010 and 2015 respectively. In 2010 he received a Honorary
Professor of Mechanical Engineering position at Xihua University in Chengdu, China, and
at 2013 an Adjunct Professor position at the Department of Materials Science and
Engineering in Tuskegee University, AL. Apart from his extensive activity in academia
and national laboratories, he has also been heavily involved in the industrial industry,
having started three start-up companies in trying to put predictive science into engineering
designs: Predictive Design Technologies, LLC; Advanced Technology Associates, LLC;
and Yobel Technologies, LLC.
In January 2019, Mark joined Liberty University as the Dean of Engineering, bringing 30
years of industrial, national laboratory, and academic experience. Mark is a fellow in the
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, American Society of Metals, Society of
Automotive Engineers, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a
member of the National Academy of Engineering in the European Union. He has
demonstrated strong leadership in creating and implementing multiscale modeling
strategies into the research and academic process. He has published over 500 journal
articles, conference papers, books, and technical reports with a citation impact h-factor
of over 60 with over 12,000 total citations; he has been invited to give over 160 lectures
throughout the world, and has mentored over 200 graduate students and post-doctoral
researchers.
Prof. Mark Horstemeyer, Receiving the Fray International Award from Dr. Florian Kongoli at FLOGEN SIPS 2022
Dr. Florian Kongoli congratulating Prof. Mark Horstemeyer on his award at FLOGEN SIPS 2022
Prof. Mark Horstemeyer, Delivering his acceptance speech to Dr. Florian Kongoli during the FLOGEN SIPS 2022 ceremony
FLOGEN SIPS 2022 Awards: Dr. Mark Horstemeyer, Professor, Liberty University, USA