William Klug
William Klug
William Scott Klug (pronounced: Kloog) was a 39 year old Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering professor at UCLA. His field of Interest included computational structural and solid mechanics, computational biomechanics, and micro/nanomechanicsof biological systems. [1]
William Klug got married to engineer, Mary Elise Richter Klug since 1999. The couple have a 10 year old son and a daughter. The family lives in El Segundo. William coached his son’s little league baseball Team. He liked to surf and had a strong Christian faith.
Education
William Klug graduated from California Institute of Technology in 2003 with a Ph.D. Recently he was a graduate of UCLA with an M.S. in 1999. Before that, he got a B.S. degree from Westmont College.
Death
On June 1, 2016, Klug died in a UCLA Shooting. Mainak Sarkar, the Shooter, killed himself, as well. There were no other victims.
Sarkar posted a blog entry describing his hatred of Klug.
A Go Fund Me page was set up with the goal of raising $100,000 to support William's Family and college expenses for his two young children.
Klug Lab Members
Jee Rim, postdoctoral scholar, 2008-current.
Andrew Missel, postdoctoral scholar, 2009-current.
Mainak Sarkar, ME Ph.D. student, 2006-2013.
Ankush Aggarwal, ME Ph.D. student, 2008-current.
Mo Bai, ME Ph.D. student, 2008-current.
Shankarjee Krishnamoorthi, ME Ph.D. student, 2009-current.
Recent Collaborators
Luigi E. Perotti, Ph.D.
Nils P. Borgstrom
Christoph A. Haselwandter
Olujimi A. Ajijola
A Frid
Aditya V. Ponnaluri
Zhilin Qu
Alan Garfinkel
Honors and Awards
2008 - 2013 National Science Foundation, NSF CAREER Award.
1999 - 2003 Caltech Doctoral Award (including Betty and Gordon Moore Fellowship).
1998 Chi Epsilon Civil Engineering Honor Society
1997 Santa Barbara & Ventura Counties, Engineering Student of the Year Scholarship
1997 Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Society
1994 - 1997 Westmont College Presidential Scholarship.