Title: Professor of Mechanical Science and Engineering

Company: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Location: Urbana, Ill.

Dr. Iwona Jasiuk’s work with biological materials focuses on bone. In addition to teaching at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she has been a professor since 2006, she volunteers teaching students at summer camps. She also visits high schools and grammar schools to discuss her work and inspire young women to go into science. In addition, she serves on the editorial review boards of several scientific journals. Dr. Jasiuk previously taught at Concordia University in Montreal, The George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, and Michigan State University in East Lansing.

Ms. Jasiuk received a Ph.D in theoretical and applied mechanics from Northwestern University. She attributes her success to her hard work and love of what she does, and initially became involved in her profession because she enjoys teaching and spending time with students. Throughout her work-week, she provides the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with expertise in teaching a mechanics of materials course and a biomechanics course to graduate and undergraduate students, while advising students on the correct courses to take, including master’s-level students and Ph.D. candidates on their dissertations, and helping with undergraduate research. In five years, Dr. Jasiuk intends to continue doing her research, expanding her work on biological applications, biological materials and emerging projects in metal nano-composites.