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Dr. Sudhakar Yogaraj, who has completed his PhD at LNM in 2015, has secured a faculty position at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Goa. Since April 2018 he is an Assistant Professor in the department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Goa. After his time at LNM and prior to joining IIT Goa, he…

On March 1st, 2018 Dr.-Ing. Christian J. Cyron was appointed as a full Professor (W3) of Continuum and Materials Mechanics at Hamburg University of Technology. Previously, Dr. Cyron had worked for many years at the Institute of Computational Mechanics of TUM, first as a teaching assistant and PhD…

Dr. Alexander Popp, former member of LNM between 2007 an 2017, has accepted an offer from the University of the Bundeswehr Munich to join the Department of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences. Since January 2018, he is Full Professor of Computer-Based Simulation and leads the new Institute…

Alexander Rupp received the first prize of the DRIVE-E study award for his excellent contribution to future electromobility in his Master's Thesis. He developed a mathematical model and a computer-based simulation environment for lithium-ion all-solid-state batteries to examine and predict their…

Dr. Alexander Popp has been successful with his project proposal "EVARSim: A Simulation-Based Digital Toolchain for Surgery Planning and Risk Prediction in Endovascular Repair (EVAR) of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms (AAA)" at the Center Digitization.Bavaria (ZD.B). The project has been selected by the…

Christoph Schmidt received the 3rd prize of "MINT-Award Technik 2017" for his Master's Thesis entitled "Finite Element Analysis of Lithium Plating in Lithium-Ion Batteries". The work was conducted in cooperation with supervisor Rui Fang at the Institute for Computational Mechanics in summer 2016.…

Dr. Cristobal Bertoglio, former member of LNM, has accepted an offer from the University of Groningen and joined the Computational Mechanics and Numerical Mathematics Group at the Johann Bernoulli Institute of the Faculty of Science and Engineering as an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) of Applied…

The student council awarded the "3rd Prize in Golden Teaching" in the category "Best Exercise Course in Undergraduate Studies" to Martin Pfaller for "Engineering Mechanics 1" offered during the winter term 2016/2017.

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On July 15, 2017, at the yearly commencement day, the "Tag der Fakultät Maschinenwesen", Dr.-Ing. Christoph Meier was awarded the Rudolf Schmidt-Burkhardt award for his thesis entitled "Geometrically Exact Finite Element Formulations for Slender Beams and Their Contact Interaction". The RSB-award is…