**About the Editor**

**Cemal Basaran** is Professor in the Dept. of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering at University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. He specializes in the computational and experimental mechanics of electronic materials. He has authored 145+ peer-reviewed journal publications, a textbook on Unified Mechanics Theory (c Springer-Nature, ISBN 978-3-030-57771-1), and several book chapters. His research includes the development of Unified Mechanics Theory, which is the unification of the laws of Newton and of thermodynamics at the ab initio level, and the nanomechanics of 2-Delectronic materials. Some of his awards include 1997 US Navy ONR Young Investigator Award, and 2011 ASME Electronic Packaging and Photonics Division, Excellence in Mechanics Award. He is a Fellow of the ASME. He has served and continues to serve on the editorial board of numerous peer-reviewed international journals, including *IEEE Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Tech, ASME Journal of Electronic* Packaging, and Entropy, among others. He has been the primary dissertation advisor to 24 PhD students. His research has been funded by NSF, ONR, DoD, State of New York, and many industrial sponsors including but not limited to Intel, Motorola, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Delphi, DuPont, Texas Instruments, Micron, Tyco Electronics, and Analog Devices. He serves as a research proposal reviewer for many national and international research funding agencies found around the globe, including but not limited to the UK, EU, France, China, Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia, Germany, Ireland, and Austria.
