
Assistant Professor
Materials Science and Engineering
Phone: | 848-445-4942 |
Fax: | 732-445-5595 |
Email: | ryan.sills@rutgers.edu |
Office: | CCR-108 |
Link to Dr. Sills’ Google Scholar Page
Biography
Professor Sills joined the MSE faculty at Rutgers in 2019 after working as a staff member at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, CA for 9 years. At Sandia, Prof. Sills partnered with experimentalists, materials scientists, microscopists, and theorists on research projects across a variety of applications while serving as PI for an R&D portfolio. Prof. Sills also served as a design engineer on products for storage of high pressure hydrogen isotopes. He is trained as a mechanical engineer with his research interests focused on computational materials science techniques applied to mechanics of materials.
Research
Professor Sills leads the Micromechanics of Deformation (mMOD) Research Group, which focuses on applying advanced computational tools to study the mechanical behaviors of materials. The research conducted in his group lies at the intersection of multiscale materials modeling, deformation micromechanics, and mechanical performance of materials. Prof. Sills’ primary expertise is in the multiscale simulation of plasticity, damage, and fracture in metals and laminated composites, but he has broad interests across many different material classes, modeling techniques, and failure modes. His research group has a dedicated 1000 core, 4 GPU computing cluster in the School of Engineering that enables large systems to be rapidly modeled.
Teaching
Professor Sills' teaching responsibilities during the 2023-2024 school year are:
Fall 2023:
- MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF MATERIALS, 16:635:513