Huertas Cerdeira, Cecilia
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Maryland Robotics Center
The Institute for Systems Research
Aerospace Engineering
Maryland Robotics Center
The Institute for Systems Research
Aerospace Engineering
2151 Martin Hall
Dr. Huertas Cerdeira has broad research interests in the fields of Unsteady Fluid Mechanics and Fluid-Structure Interactions. Her group leverages a combination of experimental, analytical and data-driven tools to tackle problems ranging from bio-inspired robotics to efficient aviation, wind energy harvesting and heat transfer enhancement.
Education
- PhD., Aeronautics, California Institute of Technology, 2019
- M.S., Aeronautics, California Institute of Technology, 2015
- B.S/M.S., Mechanics and Aeronautics, ENSMA Poitiers (France), 2014
- B.S., Aeronautics, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (Spain), 2014
Honors
- Rising Stars of Mechanical Engineering, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (2025)
- NSF CAREER Award (2024)
- William F. Ballhaus Prize, California Institute of Technology (2019)
- Charles D. Babcock Award, California Institute of Technology (2018)
- Victoria Alegria Tracy Scholarship, The Aerospace Historical Society (2018)
- La Caixa Fellowship Grant , La Caixa Foundation (2015-2017)