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Michael Ortiz (born August 6, 1954) is an American scientist and researcher in the fields of structural, continuum and computational mechanics and is a Frank and Ora Lee Marble professor of aeronautics and mechanical engineering at California Institute of Technology.

Since 2020 he is a professor emeritus in Engineering and Applied Science Division at Caltech, also holding a position as Research Chair in the Institute of Applied Mathematics, University of Bonn.

Education

 * (BS), Polytechnic University of Madrid,1977,
 * (MS), University of California, Berkeley, 1978,
 * (PhD), University of California, Berkeley, 1982. Dissertation: "Constitutive Theory for Inelastic Solids"

Awards

 * Timoshenko Medal, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015.
 * John von Neumann Medal, US Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM), 2019.