Dr. Ingraffea is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Emeritus, and a Weiss Presidential Teaching Fellow at Cornell University where he has been since 1977. He holds a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Notre Dame, an M.S. in Civil Engineering from Polytechnic Institute of New York, and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Colorado. Dr. Ingraffea’s research concentrates on computer simulation and physical testing of complex fracturing processes. He has authored with his students and research associates over 250 papers in these areas. Since 1977, he has been a principal or co-principal investigator on over $37M in R&D projects from the NSF, EXXON, Shell, Amoco, NASA Langley, Nichols Research, NASA Glenn, AFOSR, FAA, Kodak, U. S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, U.S. Dept. of Transportation, IBM, Schlumberger, Gas Technology Institute, Sandia National Laboratories, the Association of Iron and Steel Engineers, General Dynamics, Boeing, Caterpillar Tractor, DARPA, and Northrop Grumman. Professor Ingraffea was a member of the first group of Presidential Young Investigators named by the National Science Foundation in 1984. For his research achievements in hydraulic fracturing he won the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics “1994 Significant Paper Award”, and he twice won the National Research Council/U.S. National Committee for Rock Mechanics Award for Research in Rock Mechanics (1978, 1991). He was named the Dwight C. Baum Professor of Engineering at Cornell in 1992. He became a Fellow in 1991 and a Distinguished Member in 2019 of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He became Co-Editor-in-Chief of Engineering Fracture Mechanics in 2005. In 2006, he won ASTM’s George Irwin Medal for outstanding research in fracture mechanics, and in 2009 was named a Fellow of the International Congress on Fracture. TIME Magazine named him one of its “People Who Mattered” in 2011, and he became the first president of Physicians, Scientists, and Engineers for Healthy Energy, Inc. (www.psehealthyenergy.org) in that same year. He is a co-author of papers on methane emissions (2011, 2012, 2014, 2016), wellbore integrity in Pennsylvania (2014, 2019), and on conversion of New York (2012) and California (2014) to wind/sun/water power for all energy uses in the next few decades.