Lecturers

Lecturers

Ferdinando Auricchio. Professor of Mechanics of Solids at University of Pavia, Italy. Expertise: constitutive modeling of innovative materials, biomechanics, FEM. Projects: “3D@UniPV: Virtual Modeling and Additive Manufacturing (3D printing) for Advanced Materials”.

Manfred Bischoff. Head and Professor of Institute of Structural Mechanics at University of Stuttgart, Germany. Expertise: nonlinear computational structural mechanics and dynamics, modeling and analysis of shells, FE technology, structural optimization, contact problems, isogeometric analysis, adaptive structures.

Carlo Lovadina. Professor of Numerical Analysis at University of Milan, he mainly works on Galerkin methods for problems arising from Continuum Mechanics. He has contributed to design and theoretical analysis of FE and isogeometric methods for elasticity, including thin structures. Recently, his studies are focused on virtual element method applied to engineering problems.   

Guillermo Lorenzo. Ramon y Cajal research fellow in the Group of Numerical Methods in Engineering, Department of Mathematics, School of Civil Engineering, and CITEEC at the University of A Coruña, Spain. Expertise: FEM, isogeometric analysis, imaging-based methods, computational oncology, mechanistic learning.

Robert L. Taylor. Professor of the Graduate School, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, USA. Expertise: computational mechanics, element technology, contact problems, solution algorithms and software development.

Peter Wriggers. Emeritus Professor for Mechanics, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Leibniz University Hannover, Expertise: continuum mechanics, constitutive theory, numerical homogenization, computational mechanics, virtual elements, contact mechanics, symbolic coding,