Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX

Hans Mark has resumed his former position at the University of Texas at Austin having completed his assignment as Director of Defense Research and Engineering for the Department of Defense (1998-2001). Prior to this presidential appointed position, he held the John J. McKetta Centennial Energy Chair in Engineering as a Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics. Dr. Mark was Chancellor of the University of Texas System from 1984 until 1992.

Dr. Mark is a Fellow of the American Physics Society and The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He has formerly been a Deputy Administrator for NASA in Washington, DC, Secretary of the United States Air Force, Director of the NASA Ames Research Center and has taught at several universities including the University of California, Berkeley and MIT. Dr. Mark is the author of several books and articles. He was the recipient of two Distinguished Service Medals from NASA in 1972 and 1984 and two from the Department of Defense in 1981 and 2001.

He holds an A.B. in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley, a Ph.D. from MIT and has received six honorary doctorate degrees.