Education

University of California at Berkeley, Ph.D. in Solid Mechanics (1998)
University of Bucharest, Romania, M.S. in Mathematics

Research Interests

The general area of solid mechanics, with three main areas of interest: (1) electromechanical effects, (2) fiber networks, and (3) biomechanics.

Selected Publications

E. Baesu, R. E. Rudd, M. McElfresh and J. Belak, “Continuum Modeling of Cell Membranes”, International Journal of Nonlinear Mechanics 39, 369-377 (2004).

E. Baesu, “On Electroacoustic Energy Flux”, Journal of Applied Mathematics and Physics (ZAMP) 54, 1001-1009 (2003).

E. Baesu, “Finite Deformations of Elastic-Plastic Filamentary Networks”, International Journal of Nonlinear Mechanics 38, 1473-1479 (2003).

M. McElfresh, E. Baesu, R. Ballhorn, J. Belak, M. Allen, and R. E. Rudd, “Combining Constitutive Materials Modeling with Atomic Force Microscopy to Understand the Mechanical Properties of Living Cells”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 99 6493-7 (2002).

E. Baesu and E. Soos, “Antiplane Fracture in a Prestressed and Prepolarized Crystal”, IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics 66, 499-508 (2001).

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