Dr. Marilyn Lightstone

Marilyn Lightstone is a Professor and former Chair of Mechanical Engineering at McMaster University. She is a Professional Engineer registered in Ontario. In 2013, Marilyn was appointed as the first female Chair in the history of the Faculty of Engineering at McMaster University and was reappointed for a 2nd five-year term in 2018. She was previously Associate Chair (Undergraduate) in Mechanical Engineering. She is a Fellow of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering and is an award-winning teacher at McMaster University.
Marilyn served as the Director and Executive Officer of the Computational Fluid Dynamics Society of Canada and as a conference co-chair. She was Chair of the eSim Conference which is an international conference for building simulation in 2016. She was the National Fluids Examiner for the PEO for 2007-2010 and was Vice-Chair Graduate Attributes for the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board in 2017. She was a member of the NSERC Grant Selection Committee for 2008-2011 and co-chaired that committee in 2010-11. She also was a member of the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR – French National Research Agency) Grant Selection Committee with review meetings held in Paris in 2012 and 2015. She was also a member of the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM) as the Canadian Representative to the General Assembly of the IUTAM (2017-2021) and was a member of the IUTAM Diversity Working Group in 2021.