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| Full Name | Lawrence Smith |
| lsmith@is.mpg.de | |
| Languages | English native, German A2, Spanish B1 |
research interests
| Electrostatic Transduction | Soft liquid-solid dielectric systems for harvesting the energy in ocean waves. |
| Computational Design | Automatic production of solutions to challenging mechanical design problems, specifically in nonlinear design spaces where human intuition struggles. |
| Additive Manufacturing | Squeezing the capabilities of cutting edge additive manufacturing technologies to create multiphase, multimaterial, multiscale complex artifacts. |
work history
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2024 – present Postdoctoral Researcher
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Robotic Materials Department -
2018 – 2023 Doctoral Candidate & Researcher
University of Colorado, Boulder -
2018 – 2021 Independent Contractor, Engineering Design and Analysis
FPrin, LLC -
2014 – 2017 Mechanical Engineer Lv.1, Lv.2
Triple Ring Technologies
education
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2023 PhD
University of Colorado Boulder, Mechanical Engineering -
2019 MSc
University of Colorado Boulder, Mechanical Engineering -
2014 BSc
California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, Mechanical Engineering
awards
- Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship
- AB Nexus Spring 2021 Research Collaboration Grant
- Matching Research Grant, Sandia National Laboratories
- Finalist, CU Boulder New Venture Challenge 2018
interests
| Design | Solidworks (expert certification), Inventor, Pro-E, Blender, Fusion360 |
| Numerical Analysis | Abaqus, COMSOL, Ansys, FEniCS, Simulink, Solidworks simulation |
| Fabrication | Additive manufacturing, laser cutting, mill, lathe, aluminum casting |
| Data Processing & Presentation | Matlab, git, MS Office Suite, LaTeX, Inkscape |