Mitchell Luskin

Mitchell Luskin develops mathematical models and computational methods for the mechanical and electromagnetic properties of materials.  His current research focuses on the mathematical foundations and computational methods for 2D moiré heterostructures.

Professor Luskin’s early work studied fluid flow in gas pipelines, normal modes of the oceans, neutron transport, and viscoelasticity. He developed numerical analysis and theory-based computational methods to model defects in the molecular orientation of liquid crystals and for the macroscopic properties of materials with fine scale sub-grid oscillations. Subsequent work proposed and analyzed hybrid atomistic-to-continuum coupling methods for materials with defects and analyzed accelerated molecular dynamics methods.