Amy Wagoner Johnson
Amy Jaye Wagoner Johnson (born 1974) is an American materials scientist and bioengineer whose research concerns artificial bone,[1] the reconstruction of coral reefs,[1][2] and the application of biomechanics to female reproductive health. She works at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign as a professor in the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering of the Grainger College of Engineering, professor in the Department of Biomedical and Translational Sciences of the Carle Illinois College of Medicine, Andersen Faculty Scholar, and (by courtesy) professor in the Department of Bioengineering.[3]
Education and career
[edit]Wagoner Johnson was born in 1974 in Warren, Michigan, and grew up in Columbus, Ohio, where her father, Robert H. Wagoner, was a professor of metallurgical engineering at the Ohio State University.[4] Her own interest in science engineering began in high school, when her father took a sabbatical year in France and she studied at an international school.[4][5] She majored in materials science at Ohio State and graduated in 1996. She continued her studies in materials science at Brown University, received a master's degree there in 1998, and completed her Ph.D. in 2002.[3] Her dissertation, Deformation and failure mechanisms in Ti-6Al-4V/TiC particulate and layered composites, was jointly advised by Clyde L. Briant and K. Sharvan Kumar.[4]
She began working at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2001,[5] initially as a research scientist and lecturer in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering.[6] In 2005 she became a regular-rank faculty member.[5] She held a chair of excellence at the Nanosciences Foundation in Grenoble from 2014 to 2017, has been professor of mechanical science and engineering and of bioengineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign since 2018, and was head of the Department of Biomedical and Translational Sciences from 2019 to 2024.[3]
Recognition
[edit]Wagoner Johnson was elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows in 2022, "for work in recruiting and advancing women and persons of color in academe and pioneering research in biomaterials and biomechanics".[7] In 2024, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) named her as an ASME Fellow, "for seminal contributions to biomechanics and biomaterials, particularly in bone regeneration, soft tissue mechanics, and coral restoration, as well as for her innovative teaching and impactful leadership in engineering and medicine".[1]
The Society of Women Engineers gave Wagoner Johnson their Distinguished Engineering Educator Award in 2020.[8] She is also a recipient of the 2025 M. Hetényi Award of the Society for Experimental Mechanics.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Wagoner Johnson named ASME Fellow, UIUC Carle Illinois College of Medicine, August 22, 2024, retrieved 2025-07-03
- ^ "Building an Ark", Limitless Magazine, UIUC Grainger College of Engineering, Spring 2022, retrieved 2025-07-03
- ^ a b c "Amy Wagoner Johnson", Profiles, UIUC Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, retrieved 2025-07-03
- ^ a b c Wagoner Johnson, Amy J. (2002), Deformation and failure mechanisms in Ti-6Al-4V/TiC particulate and layered composites (Ph.D. thesis), Brown University, ProQuest 304798734; see vita, p. iv.
- ^ a b c Witten, Jeremiah (August 28, 2022), "An interview with Amy Wagoner Johnson", News, UIUC Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, retrieved 2025-07-03
- ^ Affiliation as listed in Wagoner Johnson, A. J.; Bull, C. W.; Kumar, K. S.; Briant, C. L. (February 2003), "The influence of microstructure and strain rate on the compressive deformation behavior of Ti-6Al-4V", Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 34 (2): 295–306, doi:10.1007/s11661-003-0331-6
- ^ "Amy Wagoner Johnson, Ph.D.", College of Fellows, AIMBE, retrieved 2025-07-03
- ^ "2020 Outstanding Women in Engineering", SWE: Magazine of the Society of Women Engineers, 2021, retrieved 2025-07-03
- ^ "M. Hetényi", Awards, Society for Experimental Mechanics, retrieved 2025-07-03
External links
[edit]- Wagoner Johnson Applied Biomaterials and Biomechanics Lab
- Amy Wagoner Johnson publications indexed by Google Scholar
- 1974 births
- Living people
- People from Warren, Michigan
- American bioengineers
- American materials scientists
- American women engineers
- Women bioengineers
- Women materials scientists and engineers
- Ohio State University alumni
- Brown University alumni
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
- Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering