W. A. "Tex" Moncrief, Jr. Chair in Computational Engineering and Sciences II
Assistant Director, representing the Cockrell School of Engineering Oden Institute
Professor Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics
Leszek F. Demkowicz is Assistant Director of the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences and holder of W. A. ``Tex'' Moncrief, Jr. Chair in Computational Engineering and Sciences II. He is a Professor in the Departments of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, and Mathematics, at the University of Texas at Austin. He has a M.S. in mathematics from Jagiellonian University, and M.S., Ph.D. and Sc.D. degrees in mechanics from Cracow University of Technology (CUT). Dr. Demkowicz authored and/or co-authored several books, over 200 journal articles, book chapters and technical reports in the general area of computational mathematics and mechanics. His work and scientific interests span across numerical analysis, adaptive finite element methods, wave propagation problems, including acoustics, elastodynamics and electromagnetics, and CFD.