Melih Eriten is a professor at the Mechanical Engineering department. He received his master’s degree in applied mathematics and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2008 and 2012, respectively, and joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2012. His research interests are in multiscale mechanical characterization and modeling of materials and structures, contact mechanics, soft matter mechanics and nonlinear dynamics.