Klaus-Jürgen Bathe is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the USA. He teaches and performs research in the areas of applied and computational mechanics of structures, fluids, and electromagnetics.

Professor Bathe also founded in 1986 the company ADINA R & D, Inc. (sold in 2022 to Bentley Systems, Inc.) where he was leading the development of the ADINA system used world-wide for the analysis of structures, fluids, and multi-physics problems. 

He has published numerous articles, six textbooks and the two books To Enrich Life and How Lawyers Think, Work & when Perhaps not Hire a Lawyer. He was, for over 25 years, an Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Computers and Structures (by Elsevier Inc.), and was the Editor of the proceedings of twelve M.I.T. Conferences on Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis and seven M.I.T. Conferences on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics. He is an Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Machine Learning for Computational Science and Engineering (by Springer) and the Editor of the book Series Computational Methods in Engineering & the Sciences (by Springer).

He has been honoured by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, M.I.T. and many other universities around the world (including receiving many honorary doctorates), for his innovative teaching, his pioneering work, his fundamental contributions in computational mechanics, his development of widely used engineering software, and his outstanding efforts in bridging the world between academia and industry.

He has maintained strong ties with the University of Cape Town since graduating there in 1967 as the Gold Medalist of the Faculty of Engineering, and has been sponsoring the Klaus-Jürgen Bathe undergraduate scholarships in this Faculty over the past 20 years.

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