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We are organizing an interesting symposium for the Technology Forum of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities on "Innovative technologies for medicine". The symposium is mostly in German and addresses the general public. In addition, almost one hundred selected students from Bavarian high… [read more]

We are advancing in the organization of one of the largest upcoming events of our community: the joint WCCM-ECCOMAS 2026 in Munich.We invite you to participate in this distinguished scientific and technical event by submitting a proposal to organize a minisymposium in a topic close to your… [read more]

Dr.-Ing. Christoph Meier has been appointed Associate Professor of Simulation for Additive Manufacturing at the Technical University of Munich. Christoph completed his Ph.D. at the Institute for Computational Mechanics in 2016, focusing on geometrically exact beam formulations and contact… [read more]

Last week, our institute, in collaboration with Institute for Mathematics and Computer-Based Simulation (Universität der Bundeswehr München), Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, and Ruhr University Bochum, hosted the 2nd German Workshop on Next-Generation Software Development in Computational Mechanics. This… [read more]

Dr.-Ing. Martin R. Pfaller was appointed tenure-track Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Yale University in July 2024. Martin finished his doctorate here at the Institute for Computational Mechanics (LNM) in 2019 on “Predictive Computational Modeling of Patient-Specific Cardiac… [read more]

"As members of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften) we take a clear stance against all forms of right-wing extremism and hostility to democracy. We see it as our responsibility to stand up for an open society, for freedom and diversity." This… [read more]

The European Research Council (ERC) just announced the awarding of its prestigious starting grants for young scientists and scholars across Europe. Our member Christoph Meier made it to the list with his research proposal named "Accelerated Additive Manufacturing: Digital Discovery of a New Process… [read more]

We are honored to announce that Munich has been selected as the host city for the WCCM-ECCOMAS 2026 congress, the prestigious synthesis of the 17th World Congress on Computational Mechanics and the 10th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering! As one of the… [read more]

Everyone working in computational mechanics knows: sometimes you gotta reboot! That's what we did last Tuesday while walking along the beautiful Mangfall river during the best "Kaiserwetter". Thanks to the team and organizers for this relaxing event! [read more]