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Wolfgang A. Wall, director of the Institute for Computational Mechanics, received the "Solid Mechanics Fellow" award of EUROMECH, the European Mechanics Society. This award, one of the highest awards for Mechanics in Europe, is given to only one scientist per year from the huge areas of solid and… [read more]

Dr.-Ing. Jonas Biehler received the ZD.B Prize for the best interdisciplinary Ph.D. Thesis for his excellent Ph.D. Thesis “Efficient Uncertainty Quantification for Large-Scale Biomechanical Models Using a Bayesian Multi-Fidelity Approach”. The prize is awarded to particularly outstanding doctoral… [read more]

Alexander Popp, who received his PhD from LNM / TUM in 2012 and then was Postdoc at LNM until end of 2017, who is now Full Professor of Computer-Based Simulation at the University of the Bundeswehr Munich, received the prestigious Olgierd Cecil Zienkiewicz Award for Young Scientists 2018 from the… [read more]

Congratulations to Dr.-Ing. Christian J. Roth who has been selected as the awardee of the Klee-Award of the German Society of Biomedical Engineering of the VDE and the Klee family Foundation. The award honors his excellent thesis entitled "Multi-dimensional Coupled Computational Modeling in… [read more]

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… [read more]

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… [read more]

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… [read more]

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… [read more]

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… [read more]

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.… [read more]