Principal Member of the Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories
B.S. ASE 1983, The University of Texas at Austin
M.S. EM 1986, The University of Texas at Austin
Ph.D. EM 1991, The University of Texas at Austin
Edmundo Corona has been an R&D mechanical engineer in the Engineering Sciences Center at Sandia National Laboratories since 2008. He has worked on a variety of national security projects in solid mechanics ranging from thin-film buckling and fracture to the response and failure of large structures under blast loads. He has mentored several young staff members and student interns and co-founded a solid mechanics community of practice, the Constitutive Cabal, that has been active for over seven years.
Prior to joining Sandia, Corona taught in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame from 1991 to 2008 where he advised six M.S. and four Ph.D. students. His research focused on experimental and numerical work on structural response and on metal-forming operations. During that time, Corona consulted for the steel and pipeline industries. He is co-author of a book on the mechanics of offshore pipelines.
Corona has three degrees from The University of Texas at Austin: a B.S. in aerospace engineering in 1983 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in engineering mechanics in 1986 and 1991. His excellence in teaching as a graduate student was recognized by the Cockrell School of Engineering at UT Austin. He also received the Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Excellence in Teaching while at Notre Dame. At Sandia, he was part of a team that received an Employee Recognition Award for excellence in technical work. He is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Corona lives in Albuquerque with his wife, Mary Ann, an accomplished pianist who has a doctorate in musical arts from UT Austin. They have two adult children, Benjamin and Gabrielle, and a newly arrived granddaughter, Gemma. In his free time, Corona likes to exercise and recently ran the Boston Marathon.
