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On July 15, 2017, at the yearly commencement day, the "Tag der Fakultät Maschinenwesen", Dr.-Ing. Benedikt Schott was awarded the Wittenstein/attocube award, sponsored by the companies Wittenstein & attocube systems AG, for his outstanding thesis entitled "Stabilized Cut Finite Element Methods for…

The Computational Structural Mechanics Association (CSMA) awarded Alessandra Cattabiani the PdD Thesis Award for his Thesis "Simulation of Low- and Medium-Frequency Impact Response Using a Frequency Approach”. Alessandro Cattabiani was PhD student at the LMT-Cachan from 2012 to 2016 under the…

Die Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (https://www.badw.de/die-akademie.html) hat in Ihrer Plenarsitzung am 24. Februar 2017 Professor Wolfgang A. Wall, Ordinarius für Numerische Mechanik der Technischen Universität München (TUM), zum ordentlichen Mitglied gewählt. Er wurde in die Sektion III:…

Dr.-Ing. Christoph Meier has been selected to become a member of the "GAMM Juniors" (https://www.gamm-juniors.de/). GAMM Juniors are representatives of the young scientific generation in the fields of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics who represent these scientific fields within the academic…

For his excellent dissertation, entitled „Geometrically Exact Finite Element Formulations for Slender Beams and Their Contact Interaction“, Dr.-Ing. Christoph Meier has been awarded the Dr.-Klaus-Körper-Award of GAMM for the year 2017. In addition, GAMM decided to nominate him for the ECCOMAS Best…

Microstructure and micromechanics of the interface between bone and tendon

For his excellent master's thesis "Inverse analysis and uncertainty quantification for vascular growth and remodelling", M.Sc. François Kimmig was awarded the graduate award 2016 of the SEW-ERUODRIVE Foundation. His thesis was supervised by Dr.-Ing. Christian Cyron. The award will be presented…

On November 29th, 2016, the 2nd Symposium by the Munich Student Chapter of the Electrochemical Society (ECS) took place in the Faculty Club of the TUM Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Garching. The central organization of the symposium was conducted by Rui Fang, who has been vice president of…

Tobias Crönert received the "MINT-Award Technik 2016" for his Bachelor Thesis entitled "Monolithic Finite Element Simulation of Electrochemical Processes and Thermal Effects in Li-ion Batteries". The work was conducted in cooperation with supervisor Rui Fang at the Institute for Computational…

On the occasion of the Graduation Ceremony of the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Technical University of Munich on July 8th, 2016, Maximilian Grill was awarded the "Golden Teaching Award" from the student's association. This award was given for his committed and excellent performance in…