Dr. Catalin R. Picu is a professor and Associate Head for Undergraduate Studies, Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is an ASME fellow, recognized for significant contributions to the field of mechanics of materials. He has contributed chapters to several edited works, including Trends in Nanoscale Mechanics (Springer, 2014) and Materials with Internal Structure (Springer, 2016), and has authored more than 100 journal articles.