Michael Baskes

Michael I. Baskes is an American engineer.

Baskes earned a degree in engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1965, and remained at the institution through 1970 to pursue doctoral study in materials science. He worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory for 29 years, then started a teaching career. Baskes held an adjunct professorship at the University of California, San Diego, joined the faculty of Mississippi State University in 2013, and later moved to the University of North Texas as a distinguished research professor. He founded the journal Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering in 1992 and remained the publication's chief editor until 2005. The National Academy of Engineering granted Baskes member status in 2012, "or contributions to the embedded atom method for predicting the structure and properties of metals and alloys."