Juan C. Lasheras, PhD

Affiliations:	1981-1983	Director, Combustion Group	Royal Dutch Shell Laboratories, Amsterdam
	1983-1991	Mechanical Engineering	University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
	1991-2021	Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering	University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA

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Biomechanics Biophysics, Cell Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Fluid Dynamics, Combustion

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Juan C. Lasheras, University of California San Diego distinguished professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Bioengineering, passed away on February 1, 2021 after a brief battle with cancer. Lasheras was a brilliant scholar, a visionary leader, a supportive mentor, a dedicated educator and a larger-than-life presence in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) and in the Jacobs School of Engineering.
Prof. Lasheras was instrumental in founding the Aerospace Engineering program at UC San Diego and in forming the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE). In 1999, when the Department of Applied Mechanics and Engineering Sciences (AMES) split into the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) and the Department of Structural Engineering, Juan served as the first Chairman of the new MAE department. He was also the founding director of the Center for Medical Devices at UC San Diego, and served as the Interim Dean of Engineering in 2012. Since 2007, he held the Stanford S. and Beverly P. Penner Endowed Chair in Engineering or Applied Sciences.

Over his career, Prof. Lasheras received multiple distinctions and awards, election to the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Inventors, and the Spanish Royal Academy of Engineering. He also held honorary doctoral degrees from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and from Universidad Carlos III.
(see https://jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/release?id=3218 for more information)
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