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The Daimler and Benz Foundation has awarded a research fellowship to Dr. Alexander Popp for his project proposal "Bottom-Up Modeling of Self-Expandable Stent Grafts for Endovascular Repair of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms“. He is among the twelve awardees who were selected out of more than 200… [read more]

Prof. Wolfgang A. Wall together with Prof. Charbel Farhat from Stanford University are organizing a course on "Computational Fluid-Structure Interaction" at the International Centre for Mechanical Sciences (http://www.cism.it) in Udine, Italy from June 27 to July 1, 2016. More information on the… [read more]

Dr. Alexander Popp will organize a short course "Computational Contact and Interface Mechanics" at the prestigious International Center for Mechanical Sciences (CISM). His joint proposal with Prof. P. Wriggers (Leibniz University Hannover) has been approved by the CISM Executive Council and the… [read more]

The front cover of the International Journal Physiological Measurements for the whole year of 2016 will be based on an image from Christian Roth. It is adapted from Figure 6 of our paper: Christian J Roth et al 2015 Physiol. Meas. 36 1211. Click on the image for larger view. [read more]

In a commemorative event Prof. Wolfgang A. Wall has been welcomed as corresponding member abroad of the prestigious Austrian Academy of Science. According to the by-laws of the ÖAW, this honor can only be given to 70 scientists from all over the world working in the fields of Applied Sciences,… [read more]

An image by Kei Müller has been chosen as cover image of the October issue of Proceedings of the Royal Society A. Have a look at Royal Society Publishing. The image comes from our paper Proc. R. Soc. A 2015 471 20150332; DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2015.0332 [read more]

On September 2nd, 2015, 19 master students, Ph.D. students, and postdoctoral researchers from four different research groups founded the first German student chapter of the Electrochemical Society (ECS), named "ECS Student Chapter Munich". During the foundation meeting at the Chair of Technical… [read more]

Dr. Kei Müller was awarded the "Fakultätspreis - Dissertation" of the faculty of mechanical engineering (TUM) for his doctoral work entitled "Simulation of Self-assembly and Mechanics of Transiently Crosslinked, Semiflexible Biopolymer Networks". [read more]

The student council awarded the 3rd prize in the category "Best Exercise Course in Undergraduate Studies" to the course "Engineering Mechanics 1", offered in winter term 2014/15. [read more]

The student council awarded the 3rd prize in the category "Best Lecture in Graduate Studies" to Dr. Alexander Popp for the course "Nonlinear Continuum Mechanics", offered in winter term 2014/15. [read more]