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Subject
- Multibody Systems
- Particles and Contact Mechanics
- Mechatronics Control and Optimization
- Driving Safety
- Biomechanics
- Uncertainties
- Competence Center for LDV
Professional Career
15 March 1966
Born in Stuttgart (Germany)
1991
Graduation in Mechanical Engineering (Dipl.-Ing.), University of Stuttgart
1991-2000
Fully Funded Research Associate at the Institue B of Mechanics, University of Stuttgart
1995
Visiting Scientist at the Mathematics and Computer Science Department, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
January 1996
Doctoral Degree (Dr.-Ing.), University of Stuttgart
1996-1997
Visiting Scientist at the University of California, UC Berkeley, USA
January 2000
Habilation Degree, University of Stuttgart
2000-2002
Associate Professor (C3 with Tenure) of Mechanics and System Dynamics at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Head of the Dynamics Group
Since2002
Full Professor (C4, W3) and Director of the Institute of Engineering and Computational Mecahnics (until 2005: Institute B of Mechanics), University of Stuttgart
2000
Richards-von-Mises Award GAMM (Ges. für Ang. Mathematik und Mechanik)
2002
Offer a Full Professorship (C4) at the University of Karlsruhe (declined)
2002
offer a Full Professorship (C4) at the University of Stuttgart (accepted)
2011
Offer of a Full Professorship (W3) at the University of Munich (declined)
Nov. 2007
Honorary Professorship from the Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, PR China
since 2010
Guest Professor Shanghai Jiao Tong University, PR China