Position

Emeritus Professor (Research Unit Strength of Materials and Biomechanics)

National RPGE Chair Professor, Tongji University, Shanghai

Publikations

Link to reposiTUm

Business Card

Link to TISS

Education and Professional Experience

1942:

born in Vienna, Austria

1967:

Dipl.-Ing. (Civil Engineering), Vienna University of Technology

1970:

Dr. techn., Vienna University of Technology

1974:

Ph.D. (Major: Structural Engineering, Minor: Mathematics), Texas Tech University, USA

1977:

Habilitation, Vienna University of Technology

1983:

Full Professor (Strength of Materials), Vienna University of Technology

1984-2004:

Head, Institute for Strength of Materials, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

1991-1994:

Dean (Chairman), Department of Civil Engineering, Vienna University of Technology

1994-1995:

Prorector (Vice President), Vienna University of Technology

1995-2003:

Secretary General, Austrian Academy of Sciences

2003-2006:

President, Austrian Academy of Sciences

2003-2015:

Member (2010-2015: Vice Chairman) of the Austrian Science Council 

2008-2010:

Head, Inst. for Mechanics of Materials and Structures, Vienna University of Technology

2010:

Retirement

Academic and Professional Activities Abroad

1971-1973:

Fulbright Fellow, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA

1975-1976:

Max Kade Fellow, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

1979 (01-03):

Visiting Associate Prof., Tokyo University, Japan

1981 (09-12):

United Nations Field Expert, Zhengzhou Research Institute for Mechanical Engineering, People’s Republic of China

2012-2015:

National RPGE Chair Professor, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

2017-:

(Full) Professor, College of Civil Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Scientific Activities

Basic and applied research in mechanics of deformable solids, structural mechanics, computational mechanics, computational acoustics, multi-field analysis, multi-scale analysis

23 books and book editorships, 553 articles in scientific journals, conference proceedings, and books; past co-editor of 2 international journals, member of the editorial board of 46 scientific journals

Activities in Scientific Organizations

1992-1995:

President of the Central European Association for Computational Mechanics (CEACM)

1998-2010:

Vice President of the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM)

2005-2009:

President of the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS)

Acknowledgements

Full Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, the Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw), the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, the Polish Academy of Sciences and Arts (Cracow), the Slovak Academy of Sciences, the Albanian Academy of Sciences, the Georgian National Academy of Sciences, the German Academy of Technical Sciences (acatech), the Engineering Academy of the Czech Republic, the Slovak Academy of Engineering Sciences, the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon (Academia Lusitana), the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the Brunswick Scientific Society, Member of the New York Academy of Sciences, the Academia Europaea (London), the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (Salzburg), and the Académie Européenne des Sciences, des Arts et des Lettres (Paris)

Fellow of 3 international professional societies, Honorary Member of 3 foreign scientific societies

12 (major) national and 16 (major) foreign distinctions (scholarships, prizes, medals, decorations)

7 honorary doctorates (Cracow University of Technology, University of Innsbruck, National Technical University of Ukraine in Kiev, Czech Technical University in Prague, University of Mining in Leoben, Technical University of Vilnius, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine), honorary professorship (Tongji University Shanghai)