Sanjay Govindjee is a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and a Horace, Dorothy, and Katherine Johnson endowed professor at the University of California, Berkeley. His main interests are in theoretical and computational mechanics with an emphasis on micro-mechanics, shape memory alloys, and elastomers. He has also held positions at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and ETH Zürich. He is a long-time member and fellow of the US Association for Computational Mechanics.