Markus J. Buehler

Markus J. Buehler is an American materials scientist and engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is a faculty member at MIT's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, where he directs the Laboratory for Atomistic and Molecular Mechanics (LAMM). His research and teaching activities center on the application of a computational materials science approach to understand functional material properties in biological and synthetic materials, specifically focused on mechanical properties. His work is highly cross-disciplinary and incorporates materials science, engineering, mathematics and more recently the establishment of links between natural materials with the Arts through the use of category theory.