Oliver Giraldo-Londoño is an Assistant Professor and James W. and Joan M. O’Neill Faculty Scholar in Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Missouri.
His research focuses on computational mechanics, particularly on the fields of topology optimization and computational fracture mechanics. His work has been published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society A, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, among others. Dr. Giraldo-Londoño has worked in collaboration with Sandia National Laboratories and Siemens Corporate technology to develop frameworks for topology optimization of structures subjected to general dynamic loading and thermomechanical loading, respectively.
Dr. Giraldo-Londoño received the Young Researcher Award from COLCIENCIAS (the Colombian equivalent to the National Science Foundation); he won the Emilio Robledo Award (best undergraduate student award), awarded by the Colombian Society of Engineers; and he has recently been selected as the College of Engineering’s inaugural James W. and Joan M. O’Neill Faculty Scholar in Engineering at Mizzou.
Employment
Assistant Professor
University of Missouri, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Education
Doctor of Philosophy, Civil Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology – Atlanta, Georgia
- Advisor: Prof. G.H. Paulino
- GPA: 4.0/4.0
PhD Student, Civil Engineering
University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
- Advisor: Prof. G.H. Paulino
- GPA: 3.9/4.0
Master of Science, Civil Engineering
Ohio University – Athens, Ohio
- Advisor: Prof. E. Steinberg
- GPA: 3.9/4.0
- Thesis: "Finite element modeling of the load transfer mechanism in adjacent prestressed concrete box-beams"
Bachelor of Science, Civil Engineering
National University of Colombia – Medellin, Colombia
- Advisor: Prof. J.D. Aristizábal-Ochoa
- GPA: 4.6/5.0
- Thesis (Spanish): "Second-order analysis of imperfect Timoshenko beamcolumns resting on a two-parameter elastic foundation"
Research Experience
Graduate Research Assistant
Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Supervisor: Prof. G.H. Paulino
Graduate Research Assistant
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Supervisors: Profs. G.H. Paulino and W.G. Buttlar
Graduate Research Assistant
Ohio University, Department of Civil Engineering
- Supervisor: Prof. E. Steinberg
Undergraduate Research Assistant
National University of Colombia, Department of Civil Engineering
- Supervisor: Prof. J.D. Aristizábal-Ochoa
Teaching Experience
Instructor
University of Missouri, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Responsibilities include class planning, lecturing, grading, and holding office hours for CV_ENG 2080 – Introduction to dynamics.
Instructor
University of Antioquia (Colombia), School of Environmental Engineering
Responsibilities included class planning, lecturing, grading, and holding office hours for: (a) 35 students in the course of Numerical Methods during the spring semester of 2012; and (b) 120 students in the course of Statics of Structures between spring 2011 and spring 2012.
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant
National University of Colombia, School of Mathematics
Responsibilities included solving calculus problems on the whiteboard, grading, and holding office hours for about 120 students each semester in course of Multivariable Calculus.
Academic Honors and Awards
James W. and Joan M. O’Neill Faculty Scholar in Engineering
COLFUTURO Scholar
Young Researcher Award, awarded by COLCIENCIAS (Colombian equivalent to NSF)
Emilio Robledo Award (best undergraduate student award), awarded by the Colombian Society of Engineers
Top 10 highest scores (ranked 7th) in ECAES test (Colombian equivalent to FE exam) nationwide
Ad Hoc Reviewer
Applied Mechanics Reviews
Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization
Engineering Optimization
Journal of the Chinese Institute of Engineers
Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
Computers and Structures
Journal of Building Engineering
Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications
Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
Journal of Wood Science and Technology
Journal of Engineering Fracture Mechanics
Journal of Applied Mechanics
Journal of Thin-Walled Structures
Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering
Journal of Engineering Structures
Simulation: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International
Road Materials and Pavement Design
Materials & Design
International Journal of Solids and Structures
International Journal of Fracture
Journal of Engineering Mechanics
Mechanics Research Communications
Skills
- MATLAB
- Abaqus
- LS-DYNA
- SAP2000
- ETABS
- Fortran
- Adobe Illustrator
- AutoCad
- Mathcad
- Mathematica
- Academic and communicative fluency in English and Spanish, and basic communicative skills in Portuguese
Leadership and Community Activities
Treasurer
Latino Organization of Graduate Students (LOGRAS) at Georgia Tech
Managed financial affairs of the organization
Volunteer
EIP LTDA (Colombia)
Visited seven underprivileged neighborhoods in Medellin (Colombia) to measure structural parameters and obtain seismic vulnerability maps