Erdogan Madenci is a Professor in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Arizona. Prior to that he worked at Northrop Corporation (1983–1985), The Aerospace Corporation (1985–1988), and The Fraunhofer Institute (1989). He also worked at the Royal Institute of Technology (1996), NASA LaRC (2003), Sandia National Labs (2011) and MIT (2018) as part of his sabbatical leaves. He is the lead author of four books and his research has in part led to the publication of 250 journal and conference papers. He also recently started the Journal of Peridynamics and Nonlocal Modeling as the Co-Editor-in-Chief. He is a fellow of ASME and an Associate Fellow of AIAA.