Dr. Alejandra Castellanos returns to her alma mater from the University of Wisconsin-Madison to perform cutting-edge research and to share her knowledge and expertise with UTEP students.

• Finalist for the Student Paper Competition at AIAA - American Society for Composites (12/01/2024-12/31/2024)
• Finalist for the Student Paper Competition at ASC - American Society for Composites (10/01/2024-10/31/2024)
• COURI MERITUS Award - COURI UTEP (08/01/2024-08/31/2024)
• Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation Scholarship - Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation (08/01/2024-08/31/2024)
• UT Austin Cockrell School of Engineering Graduate Fellowship - Tokyo Electron (08/01/2024-08/31/2024)
• Andrew Hu Memorial Endowed Scholarship - Andrew Hu Memorial Endowed (01/01/2024-01/31/2024)
• NSF Travel Grant 2023 US-Japan Joint Symposium for Composite Materials - NSF (06/01/2023-06/30/2023)
• AFRL Summer Faculty Fellowship - AFRL (05/01/2023-05/31/2023)
• Honorable Mention - COURI Symposium Spring 2023 - COURI (04/01/2023-04/30/2023)
• AFRL Summer Faculty Fellowship - AFRL (05/01/2022-05/31/2022)
• AFRL Summer Faculty Fellowship - AFRL (05/01/2021-05/31/2021)

• Ph D in Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of Wisconsin–Madison (2019)
• MS in Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at El Paso (2016)
• BS in Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at El Paso (2014)

• Arctic temperature effects on the mechanical properties and failure modes of photopolymer resin for sandwich composite core' materials Results in Engineering 24 (2024), Zackery Nieto, Alejandra G. Castellanos.
• Influence of Thermal Gradients and Arctic Temperatures on the Mechanical Properties and Fracture Behavior of Woven Carbon and Woven Kevlar® Composites ASME Open Journal of Engineering 3 (2024), Lucero Buendia, Itzel Torres, Alejandro Ornelas, Alejandra G. Castellanos.
• Process Modeling of the First Pyrolysis Cycle of SMP-10 Ceramic Matrix Composites Proceedings of the American Society for Composites - 38th Technical Conference, ASC 2023 (2023), Alejandra G. Castellanos.
• Assessment on the Capabilities of ABAQUS and Ls-Dyna to Predict the Behavior of Laminated Composites Subjected to Low-Velocity Impacts Proceedings of the American Society for Composites - 37th Technical Conference, ASC 2022 (2022), Alejandra G. Castellanos.
• Damage and Failure Analysis of Ultra-High Temperature Ceramics (UHTCs) Subjected to Thermal Shock Proceedings of the American Society for Composites - 37th Technical Conference, ASC 2022 (2022), Alejandra G. Castellanos.

• 4D Printed Actuation with Spatially-varying Lattices (2024), Katia L. Delgado Ramos, Ana Aranzola, Aaron Cervantes, Alejandra G. Castellanos, Mohamed El Mansori, Akbar Ijaz, Ana C. Martinez Maciel, Alexis Maurel, Eric MacDonald, David A. Roberson.
• Optimizing the Mechanical Properties of Composite Materials using Milled Glass and Graphite Fibers (2024), Volume El Paso, TX, Hazel P. Perea, Alejandra G. Castellanos.
• Unveiling the chemical kinetics of SMP-10 pyrolysis for silicon carbide formulation (2024), Volume Milan, Italy, Jesus A. Anaya, Alejandra G. Castellanos, Jaeyoung Cho.
• Development of A High-fidelity Computational Model for Mode I Behavior in Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer Matrix Composites (2024), Volume El Paso, TX, Arlette G. Munoz-Carrasco, Alejandra G. Castellanos.
• Discovery of High Entropy Ultra High Temperature Ceramics through Entropy Forming Ability Descriptor and Hume-Rothery Rules via Machine Learning (2024), Volume El Paso, TX, Alejandro F. Ornelas, Alejandra G. Castellanos.

• Discovery of High-Entropy Ultra-High Temperature Ceramics through Entropy Forming Ability Descriptor and Hume-Rothery Rules via Machine Learning (09/30/2023 - 08/29/2026) Air Force Office of Scientific Research
• Renewable Power to Gas to Power (RPGP) (08/01/2023 - 07/31/2024) Research Sandpit UTEP-UACH
• Materials for Extreme Environments: Fiber Containing Composites (02/01/2020 - 08/31/2020) U.S. Department of Energy
• Thermal-Fatigue of Carbon/Carbon Composites for Hypersonic Applications ( - ) University Research Institute