| Michael Ortiz | |
| Birth Date: | 6 August 1954 |
| Nationality: | American/Spanish |
| Known For: | Quasi continuum method, optimal transportation mesh-free (OTM), variational methods in computational mechanics[1] |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Egor Popov |
| Thesis Title: | Topics in constitutive theory for inelastic solids |
| Thesis Year: | 1981 |
| Thesis Url: | https://www.proquest.com/openview/cd9c558af676fea046c0361337df0e3a/1 |
| Doctoral Students: | Yashashree Kulkarni |
Michael Ortiz (born August 6, 1954) is a dual American-Spanish scientist and researcher in the fields of structural, continuum and computational mechanics and is a Frank and Ora Lee Marble Professor Emeritus of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering at California Institute of Technology. Prior to his arrival at Caltech in 1995, he was Professor of Engineering at Brown University.
Since 2020 he is a Professor Emeritus in the Engineering and Applied Science Division at Caltech, also holding positions as Research Chair in the Institute of Applied Mathematics, University of Bonn[2] and as adjunct professor and Timoshenko Distinguished Fellow in the departments of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics and Astronautics of Stanford University.