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Marcelo Epstein (born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Canadian citizen living in Calgary, Alberta) is an Argentinian professor of Schulich School of Engineering (Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering) and an adjunct professor of Classics and Religion of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Calgary.[1] Epstein has made "contributions in the fields of continuum mechanics and the biomechanics of soft-tissue growth and remodelling".[2]
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Education | Doctor of Philosophy |
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Marcelo Epstein gets a B.S. of Civil Engineering (cum Laude) at the University of Buenos Aires in 1967.[1] Epstein accepted a scholarship to study at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and in 1970 he earned a M.S. of Civil Engineering (cum Laude), and from 1972 he holds a Doctor of Philosophy Civil Engineering with the dissertation A General Kinematic Approach to the Nonlinear Analysis of Structures with Applications to the Theory of Shells under the tutelage of Yair Tene.[2][3] In 1993 he earned a B.A. Classics (first class honours) at the University of Calgary.[1]
From 1969 to 1972 Marcelo Epstein was an instructor at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and from 1972 to 1973 he become a Lecturer.[1] From 1974 to 1975 Epstein was a Post-Doctoral Fellow of Civil Engineering, and from 1975 to 1976 a Research Associate at the University of Alberta.[1] In September 1976, a few days before the Israel-Arab war, he returned from Israel, and a year later he accepted a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Alberta.[2] Epstein was an Assistant Professor (1976-1979) and Associate Professor (1979-1983) of Mechanical Engineering, and an adjunct professor of the Faculty of Kinesiology (1992-2012) at the University of Calgary.[1] From 2002 to the present Epstein become a full University Professor of Rational Mechanics at the University of Calgary.[1] From 2000 to the present Epstein is adjunct professor of the Faculty of Humanities (Classics) at the University of Calgary.[1]
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