The purpose of this award is to recognize outstanding educators from among the untenured junior faculty  from the Georgia Tech Schools of Aerospace Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and the College of Computing.  Award recipients are selected for extraordinary effectiveness in classroom teaching, educational innovations, inspiration transmitted to students, direct impact and involvement with students, and impact on the postgraduate success of students.

Antoniou started with the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineeringl in the fall of 2008. Prior, she worked as a postdoctoral research associate at the Center for Integrated Nanotechnlogies (CINT) at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Her research focuses on understanding the micromechanics of deformation in cellular materials and metallic glasses, using both experimental measurements and numerical modeling. More recently, she has become interested in the synthesis and mechanical behavior of nanostructured materials.

A member of the AE faculty since 2011, Rimoli earned aeronautics degrees from Argentina’s Universidad Nacional de La Plata and the California Institute of Technology before accepting a post-doctoral assignment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2009. His research interests include computational solid mechanics with particular focus on aerospace applications. He has a special interest in problems involving multiple length and time scales, and in the development of theories and computational techniques for seamlessly bridging those scales.