Valery I. Levitas

Valery I Levitas is a Ukrainian mechanics and material scientist, academic and author. He is an Anson Marston Distinguished Professor and Murray Harpole Chair in Engineering at Iowa State University and was a faculty scientist at the Ames National Laboratory.

Levitas is most known for his works on the mechanics of materials, stress and strain-induced phase transformations and chemical reactions. Among his authored works are his publications in academic journals, including ''Science'', ''Nature Communications'', ''Nano Letters'' as well as monographs such as ''Large Deformation of Materials with Complex Rheological Properties at Normal and High Pressure''. He is the recipient of the 2018 Khan International Award for outstanding contributions to the field of plasticity. Provided by Wikipedia