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Matthew R. Begley has been a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Professor of Materials at UCSB since 2010, following faculty positions at the University of Connecticut (1997-2001) and the University of Virginia (2001-2009). He received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from UCSB in 1995, where developed failure models for fibrous composites, with an emphasis on high temperature applications. From 1995-1997, Prof. Begley was a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University: during this time, he worked on the thermo-mechanical performance of multilayered systems, with an emphasis on material behavior at small scales and the reliability of multifunctional coatings. While at UVA, his research focus expanded to include the development of microfluidic point-of-care devices and the structure-property relations of nano-porous metals. Prof. Begley has more than 100 archival publications, with an emphasis on computational mechanics and device physics. He is a recipient of the NSF Early Career Award (2000). Prof. Begley’s publications and analysis codes used in industry have let his being an invited speaker at the International Congress on Fracture (2001), the Advanced Metallization Conference (2003), Gordon Conference on Small-Scale Mechanical Behavior (2006), and the National Materials Advisory Board to the National Academy of Science (2007). Prof. Begley has served as an Associate Editor for the ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics. In 2013, Professor Begley was awarded a Fraunhofer-Bessel Fellowship from the Humboldt Foundation in Germany. He has received about $10M in funding (serving as lead PI on ~$5M) from NSF, AFOSR, DARPA, the Semiconductor Research Consortium, Intel, and NIH. Prof. Begley has also served as a consultant regarding material behavior and structural performance, for industries including nuclear energy (Areva), fuel cell energy (FCE), biomedical implants (legal consulting), and thin films/coatings (Intel, Pratt & Whitney, Raytheon). Professor Begley has taught more than 15 different courses at all levels, including those in mechanics, design, and experimentation. Prof. Begley's student evaluations rate him above school-wide averages, placing him in the top quartile of instructors. In 2002, Prof. Begley was selected as one of eight University Teaching Fellows at UVA in a university-wide competition. Prof. Begley has mentored 15 graduate students, who have produced more than 50 archival journal publications and several patents. Prof. Begley's students have found employment with ABAQUS, Intel, ATMI, the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, the Harvard-MIT-MGH consortium for Bio-MEMS, and the faculty at UC Davis.