Somnath Ghosh, Michael G. Callas Chair Professor in the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering (CaSE) at Johns Hopkins University’s Whiting School of Engineering, has been elected as a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA). Ghosh joins the Academy’s Technical and Environmental Sciences class, which honors internationally recognized leaders for sustained academic excellence and distinction in their field.
Founded in 1990 as a learned society, promotes scientific and societal progress. Its members are leading scientists, artists, and practitioners of governance, who are dedicated to innovative research, interdisciplinary and transnational collaboration, as well as the exchange and dissemination of knowledge. Academy members are elected for their outstanding achievements in science, arts, and governance.
Selected by the EASA senate, Ghosh joins a prestigious group of approximately 2,000 eminent scientists, artists, and policymakers, including 28 Nobel Prize laureates.
The formal inauguration of new members will take place on March 7, 2026, during the academy’s plenary session in Salzburg, Austria, where the organization is headquartered.
As a leading figure in computational engineering and sciences, Ghosh is internationally recognized for his research in computational multiscale multiphysics solid mechanics, an area that integrates materials science, mechanics, machine learning, and uncertainty quantification. His innovative approaches to modeling and simulation have transformed how researchers and industries predict material behavior under a variety of conditions, including extreme environments.
At Johns Hopkins, Ghosh directs the Computational Mechanics Research Laboratory (CMRL) and founded the Center for Integrated Structure-Materials Modeling and Simulations (CISMMS). His research spans topics such as multiscale modeling, additive manufacturing, damage sensing, and life prediction of materials, with applications in aerospace, automotive, and defense industries.
The computational tools developed by Ghosh and his team are in use by major corporations such as General Electric, Pratt & Whitney, and Rolls-Royce, multiple NASA centers, and in multiple U.S. Department of Defense laboratories, including the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory and Army Research Laboratory.
He currently serves as co-director of NASA’s Space Technology Research Institute for Model-based Qualification and Certification of Additive Manufacturing (IMQCAM), where he leads the development of digital twins for advanced manufacturing. Ghosh previously directed the Air Force Center of Excellence on Materials Modeling from 2012 to 2018.
In recognition of his work, Ghosh has been elected a Fellow of numerous scientific societies, including the Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI), The Materials and Minerals Society (TMS), Society of Engineering Science (SES), International Association of Computational Mechanics (IACM), American Academy of Mechanics (AAM), American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM), ASM International, and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
Prior to joining Johns Hopkins University’s Whiting School of Engineering in 2011, Ghosh was a distinguished faculty member at The Ohio State University. Over the course of his career, he has published a large number of papers in peer-reviewed journals. He has authored Micromechanical Analysis and Multi-Scale Modeling Using the Voronoi Cell Finite Element Method, co-edited two books, and is a co-editor of Crystal Plasticity: Atomistics to Macroscale in the Handbook of Materials Modeling, Volume 1 Methods: Theory and Modeling.
Ghosh earned his bachelor’s in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, his master’s in theoretical and applied mechanics from Cornell University, and his PhD in mechanical engineering and applied mechanics from the University of Michigan.