Krishna Garikipati, Ph.D.

Professor Krishna Garikipati, a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics at the University of Michigan, is a computational scientist specializing in applied mathematics, nonlinear mechanics, and thermodynamics. His research focuses on mathematical biology, biophysics, and materials physics, exploring tumor growth models, cell mechanics, and phase transformations in structural and battery materials. With a Ph.D. from Stanford University and over two decades at Michigan, he develops physical models, their mathematical forms, numerical methods, and open-source computational tools. Professor Garikipati leads the Coursera course "The Finite Element Method for Problems in Physics," offering insights into mathematical modeling and numerical analysis for real-world physics applications.