**Tim Osswald**

Tim Osswald is a professor of mechanical engineering and the director of the Polymer Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and he is originally from Cucuta, ´ Colombia. He received the National Science Foundation's Presidential Young Investigator Award as well as the 2001 VDI-K Dr-Richard-Escales-Preis. In 2006, he was named an honorary professor at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany, and in 2011, he was named an honorary professor at the National University of Colombia. Professor Osswald teaches polymer and polymer composites processing, and designing with polymers and polymer composites and conducts research in the same areas, in particular in the areas of fiber orientation, fiber density and fiber length distributions. Professor Osswald has published over 300 papers and numerous books.
