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Matthew Richard Begley
Professor
Telephone: 434-243-8728
Office: MEC 331
E-mail: m43h@virginia.edu
Matthew R. Begley received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1995, after working on the mechanics of fibrous composites. From 1995 to 1997, he was post-doctoral Fellow at Harvard, where he worked on thin films and scale-dependent material behavior. He continued this research at the University of Connecticut from 1997-2001, where he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. In 2001, he joined the Department of Civil Engineering at UVA.
Since 2001, Begley's funded research has blended the mechanics underlying of material science with that controlling microdevice performance. Examples include studies of: the impact of compliant low-k materials on microprocessor reliability (Semiconductor Research Consortium), the role of scale-dependent plasticity in hydrogen-assisted crack growth in metals AFOSR), the mechanics of nano-porous metals (NSF), and chemo-mechanical sensors (NSF). His on-going and future research is focused on the development of "lab-on-chip" technology to create fully integrated biochemical analysis tools which exploit nanoscale interactions of chemistry and mechanical deformation.
He holds faculty appointments in the Department of Material Science and the Department of Electrical Engineering, and is currently Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics.
Begley enjoys research and cigars, and occasionally, golf.
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