Only 17 months after reaching 3000 citations and while still officially an Assistant Professor, Dr. Hartl has reached the 4000 citation mark according to Google Scholar.
With an h-index of 25 and with 65 publications having over 10 citations, Dr. Hartl continues to work with his students to make an impact on the smart materials and adaptive structures community in particular. Highly cited publications from the MAESTRO Lab address such topics as shape memory alloys, active origami, and multi-functional composites. Newer papers have addressed fracture and fatigue of shape memory alloy materials, new topological design methods, new actuator concepts, and new methods for coupled fluid-structural analysis specifically tuned for adaptive aerostructures applications.