About

Introduction

Positions Held

• 1976 - 1983 Member of staff at Institute for Mechanics, University of Hannover
• 1983 - 1984 Visiting scholar at University of California, Berkeley, USA (with Prof. R.L. Taylor)
• 1984 - 1990 Lecturer at Institute for Mechanics and Computational Mechanics, University of Hannover
• 1988 Guest Professor at Department of Civil Engineering, UC Berkeley, USA
• 1990 Full Professor of Mechanics at TH Darmstadt
• 1995 - 1996 Dean of the Faculty of Mechanics at TH Darmstadt
• 1996 - 2001 Member of the Senat for PhD programs of DFG (German Science Foundation)
• 1996 - 1998 Director of the Darmstadt Center for Scientific Computing
• 1998 - Full Professor of Mechanics at the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Hannover
• 1998 - Director of the Int. Center for Computational Engineering Sciences (ICCES)
• 2001 - 2003 Dean of the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Surveying at University of Hannover
• 2001-2004 Member of the Advisory Board of the Transatlantic Science and Humanities Program of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
• 2004- Member of the review boards for Construction Engineering and Architecture and Medical Technology
• 2005- Chairman of the Engineering Class of the "Braunschweigische Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft
• 2006- Member of the selection committee for the AvH for Humboldt Fellowships

Qualifications

• 1970 – 1976 Civil Engineering at University of Hannover
• 1980 PhD in Civil Engineering on "Contact-Impact Problems" University of Hannover
• 1986 Habilitation for Mechanics, University of Hannover

Other

Awards and Prizes

• 1981 "Christian-Kuhlemann-Scholarship" for best PhD-thesis,University of Hannover
• 1983/84 DFG-Scholarship for a stay as visiting scholar at UC Berkeley.
• 1999 Elected member of the "Braunschweigische Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft", Braunschweig, Germany.
• 2002 "Award for Excellence" for outstanding and best paper 2002 in Engineering Computations, with T. I. Zohdi
• 2002 "Fellow" award of IACM, presented at WCCM V in Vienna.
• 2004 "Highly Commended Award" for paper in Engineering Computations, with E. Onate and H. Tschöpe.
• 2003-2004 ARC Linkage Professorship at University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia
• 2004 Elected member of the "Academy of Science and Literature", Mainz, Germany
• 2004 Elected member of "acatech", München, Germany
• 2006 "Computational Mechanics Award", presented at WCCM VII in Los Angeles.

Editorial Boards

• Computational Mechanics (since 2001), Editor in chief
• International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering (1998-2001)
• Associate Editor Der Bauingenieur (since 2003)
• Associate Editor Engineering Computations (since 1990)
• International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering (since 1990)
• International Journal for Engineering Analysis and Design (since 1994)
• Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering (since 1995)
• Computers and Structures (since 1997)
• International Journal of Solids and Structures (1997-2005)
• International Journal of Forming Processes (since 1997)
• Engineering with Computers (since 1998)
• Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (since 2000)
• International Journal for Computational Civil and Structural Engineering (since 2000)
• Computational Engineering Science (since 2000)
• Journal of Computational Biomechanics (since 2002)
• International Journal of Computational Methods (since 2003)
• Latin American Journal of Solids and Structures (since 2003)
• International Journal for Multiscale Computational Engineering (since 2003)
• Journal of Mechanics of Materials and Structures (since 2005)