Course Management

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Klaus Hackl

Course Director

Diploma in Mathematics (1985); Heidelberg, Dr. rer. nat. (1988), RWTH Aachen; Habilitation (1997), TU Graz; Professor at Ruhr-University Bochum since 1999; Homepage

Interests: Theory of materials, numerical methods in mechanics and structural mechanics
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Dr.-Ing. Jörg Franke

Course coordinator

Diploma in Mechanical Engineering (1994), University Karlsruhe (TH); Dr.-Ing. (1998), University Karlsruhe (TH); Lecturer (Wiss. Assistent) (1998 - 2000), Senior Lecturer (Oberingenieur) (2000 - 2012), Interim Full Professor for Fluid Mechanics (Vertretungsprofessur) (2008 - 2011), University Siegen; at VGU since 2012; CV.

Interests: Fluid mechanics; Computational Fluid Mechanics; Computational Wind Engineering; Verification, validation and uncertainty quantification in scientific computing.

Prof. Dr. Nguyễn Đăng Hưng

Academic Advisor

Master in Aero-Space Engineering, University of Liège (1966); Special Ph.D. (Doctor-habilitation) University of Liège (1984); Assistant then full professor, University of Liège (1968 - 2006), now emeritus full professor; Visiting professor in Europe, USA, Canada, Australia, Africa and Asia; Promoter and coordinator of EMMC (HCM city) and MCMC (Hanoi) master programs (1995 - 2008); Grand Officer of Belgian Kingdom’s orders (2005); Homepage

Interests: FEM, BEM, meshfree methods, plasticity, limit shakedown analysis and design, fracture mechanics.

Lecturers

Prof.Dr –Ing. Matthias Baitsch

Diploma in Civil Engineering (1997), TU Dortmund; Dr.-Ing. (2003), Ruhr-University Bochum, at VGU since 2009; Homepage

Interests: High-order finite element methods, design optimization, object-oriented numerics and project-based teaching.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ruediger Höffer

Diploma in Civil Engineering (1988), Ruhr-University Bochum (RUB); Research Assistant, universities at Bochum (D), Copenhagen (DK) and Florence (I) (1988-1997); Dr.-Ing. (1996), RUB; Full professor at RUB since 2003; State-Approved Proofing Engineer for Structural Safety since 2010; Homepage

Interests: Wind and Structural Engineering, Safety and Reliability of Structures and Probabilistics.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Detlef Kuhl

Diploma in Aeronautics and Astronautics (1992), TU-Stuttgart; Dr.-Ing. (1996), TU-Stuttgart; Research associate Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, Department of Aeronautics, London (1997); Research associate, Ruhr-University Bochum (1998-2007); Professor at University Kassel since 2007; Homepage

Interests: Nonlinear stuctural dynamics, Galerkin time stepping methods, multi-field problems, tensegrity structures.

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Lê Khánh Châu

Diploma in Mechanics (1979), Moscow; Dr. rer. nat. (1983) Lomonossow Moscow State University; Habilitation (1986) Moscow; Habilitation (1996) Ruhr-University Bochum; Professor in Bochum since 2004; Homepage

Interests: Fracture in brittle materials, micromechanics and microstructures.

Prof. Dr. techn. Günther Meschke

Diploma in Civil Engineering (1983), Vienna University of Technology, Austria; Dr. techn. (1989), Vienna University of Technology, Austria; Research associate Stanford University (1991); Professor at Ruhr-University Bochum since 1998; Homepage

Interests: Computational structural mechanics, multi-phase and multi-field models, durability of concrete structures, fracture and damage in brittle and quasi-brittle solids, simulation in tunneling and biomechanics.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Tamara Nestorović

Diploma (1994) and Scientific degree Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering – Control Systems (2000), both at University of Niš, Serbia; Dr.-Ing. (2005), Otto-von-Guericke University, Germany; Professor at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, since 2008. Homepage

Interests: Overall design and control of smart structures, active vibration and noise reduction, experimental identification and real-time control, development of robust controllers based on FE-models.

Prof. Dr.-Ing Timon Rabczuk

Diploma in Civil Engineering (1997), University of Karlsruhe; Dr.-Ing. (2002), University of Karlsruhe; Research associate (2002 - 2005), Northwestern University (with T. Belytschko); Research associate (2005 - 2007), Technical University of Munich; Senior Lecturer (2007 - 2009), University of Canterbury, New Zealand; Professor at Bauhaus University Weimar since 2009; Homepage

Interests: Meshfree methods, strain smoothing in FEM and XFEM, fracture mechanics.

Prof. Günther Schmid, PhD

Diploma in Aeronautics and Astronautics (1964), TU-Stuttgart; PhD, Universitiy of Washington (1970), Seattle, USA; Project Manager Gesellschaft für Weltraumforschung (1970-1972), Bonn; Professor at Ruhr-University Bochum (1979-2003)

Interests: Dynamic soil-structure interaction, system dynamics (high speed rail traffic), simulation of solute transport in groundwater and project-based teaching.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Holger Steeb

Diploma in Civil Engineering (1995), University of Stuttgart, Germany; Dr.-Ing. (2002), University of Stuttgart, Germany; PostDoc (2002), University of Stuttgart; Research Associate (2002-2008), Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany; PostDoc (2004), NTUA, Athens, Greece; Habilitation-Venia Legendi in Mechanics (2008); Assistant Professor (2008), University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands; Full Professor at Ruhr-University Bochum since 2009

Interests: Multi-scale and multi-phase models, wave propagation, porous media, material modelling of complex/smart materials, numerical methods.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Henning Schütte

Diploma in Mech. Engrg. (1997) Ruhr-University Bochum; Dr.-Ing. (2001), Ruhr-University Bochum; Professor at RUB since 2002.


Interests: Damage in brittle and ductile materials, microcracks, anisotropic damage evolution and high-cycle fatigue.

Dr.-Ing. Ulrich Hoppe

Diploma in Mech. Engrg. (1991) Ruhr-University Bochum; Dr.-Ing. (1996), Ruhr-University Bochum; Homepage

Interests: Microstructures, modelling of fractures in shells and shape memory alloys.

Dr.-Ing. Matthias Kraus

Diploma in Civil Engineering (2001), TU Darmstadt; Dr.-Ing. (2005), Ruhr-University Bochum; Chief Engineer at Schürmann-Kindmann and Partners Consulting Engineers since 2010

Interests: Finite element procedures for steel structures, stability, cross section bearing capacity, joints and connections

Dr.-Ing. Dipl.-Inform. Karlheinz Lehner

Diploma in Computer Science (1986), TU Dortmund; Dr.-Ing. (1991) Ruhr-University Bochum; Working at the Institute for Computational Engineering, Ruhr-University Bochum. Homepage

Interests: Distributed and Parallel Computing, Knowledge-Based Systems in Engineering Applications.

Dr. Nguyễn Xuân Hùng

Bachelor in Mathematics and Computer Sciences, Ho Chi Minh City (2000); European M.Sc. Modelisation of Continuum (MCMC), University of Liège (2003), Belgium; Ph.D. University of Liège, Belgium (2008); Post doctoral visits at various institutions (2008 - 2011); Homepage

Interests: Equilibrium finite elements, smoothed FEM, XFEM, meshfree methods, isogeometric analysis, fluid structure interaction, limit and shakedown analysis.

Dr.-Ing. Janosch Stascheit

Diploma in Civil Engineering (2005), Ruhr-University Bochum; Dr.-Ing. (2010), Ruhr-University Bochum; Working at the Institute for Statics and Dynamics, Ruhr-University Bochum since 2005.

Interests: Computational structural mechanics, high performance parallel computing, simulation in tunneling.

Dr.-Ing. Trịnh Bạch Tuyết

Diploma in Civil Engineering, HCM city University of Architecture, Vietnam (1998); European M.Sc. Mechanics of Construction (EMMC), University of Liege, Belgium (2001); Dr.-Ing, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany (2009); Working  at the Institute of Mechanics, Ruhr-University Bochum; Homepage

Interests: Inelasticity, microstructures, strain localization, enhanced finite elements.

Research and Teaching Assistants

M.Sc. Mehdi Goodarzi

B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, Tehran, Iran (2004); M.Sc. in Computational Engineering, Bochum, Germany (2008); Ph.D. student of Mechanical Engineering, Bochum, Germany since 2008.

Interests: Continuum theory of interfaces, anisotropic elasticity, interface effects in martensitic phase transformation.

Dipl.-Ing. Dirk Leonhart

Diploma in Civil Engineering (2008), Ruhr-University Bochum

Interests: Computational fracture mechanics using X-FEM, hygromechanical modelling and crack propagation.

M.Sc. Tran Tuan Minh

Bachelor in Mechatronics (2008), CanTho University, CanTho, Vietnam;
Master of Computational Engineering (2011), Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany – Vietnamese-German University, Vietnam.
Research and Teaching Assistant (since 2012), Master program Computational Engineering, Vietnamese-German University, Vietnam.
 
Interests: Micromechanics, Continuum theory of dislocations, high-order finite element methods.

Dipl.-Ing. Christoph Moos

Diploma in Mechanical Engineering (2009), Ruhr Universität Bochum, Research Assistant at Institute of Computational Engineering, Bochum, since 2009.

Interests: Micromechanics, wave propagation in elastic solids.

M.Sc. Jithender Jaswant Timothy

Bachelor in Mech. Engrg. (2006), Anna University, Chennai, India; Master in Computational Engineering (2009), Ruhr Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany; Research Associate (since 2009), Institute for Statics and Dynamics, Ruhr Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany.

Interests: Micromechanics, numerical modeling of transport phenomena and coupled problems.

MSc. Pramio Sembiring

Bachelor in Mech. Engrg. (2000), Bandung Institute of Technology, Bandung, Indonesia; Master of Computational Engineering (2006), Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany; Working at the Institute of General Mechanics (Allgemeine Mechanik) in Civil Engineering, Ruhr-University Bochum since 2006.

Interests: Continuum theory of dislocations, dislocation based plasticity.

M.Sc. Nguyen Hai Van

Bachelor in Applied Mathematics and Informatics (2009), Hanoi University of Technology and Science, Vietnam; Master of Computational Engineering (2011), Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany; Research and Teaching Assistant (since 2012), Master program Computational Engineering, Vietnamese-German University, Vietnam.

Interests: Micromechanics, Numerical Methods in Mechanics and Structural Mechanics

Dipl.-Ing. Cornelia Wevers

Diploma in Environmental Engineering and Resource Management (2008), Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany; working at the Building Aerodynamics Laboratory, Faculty of Environmental and Civil Engineering, Ruhr-University Bochum since 2008.

Interests: Computational Fluid Dynamics, Computational Wind Engineering.