Biography Prof. Dr. Timon Rabczuk

Professional Experience

12/1997              
Dipl.-Ing. in Structural Engineering, Universität Karslruhe

02/1998-12/2001
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Massivbau und Baustofftechnologie der Universität Karlsruhe bei Prof. J. Eibl

01/2002-02/2002
Postdoc am Fraunhofer Institut für Kurzzeitdynamik-Fraunhofer (Ernst Mach) bei Prof. K. Thoma

01/2002              
Doktorarbeit: Numerische Untersuchungen zum Fragmentierungsverhalten von Beton mit Hilfe der SPH-Methode

02/2002-09/2005
Postdoc an der Northwestern University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Group of Computational Mechanics, Evanston, Illinois, USA bei Prof. T. Belytschko

10/2005-01/2007
Postdoc am Lehrstuhl für Numerische Mechanik, Fakultät für Maschinen- bau, Technische Universität München, bei Prof. W.A. Wall

02/2007-02/2009             
Senior Lecturer an der University of Canterbury, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Christchurch, New Zealand

since 02/2009   
Univ.-Professor an der Bauhaus University of Weimar, Lehrstuhl Mechanik- Modellierung und Simulation, Institut fu¨r Strukturmechanik, Fakult¨at Bauingenieurwesen

Editorial Memberships

Editorial Board Mitglied einiger internationaler Zeitschriften wie ’Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering’, ’Composite Structures’, ’Computational Materials Science’, ’Finite Elements in Analysis and Design’, ’Computers & Structures’, ’Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics’, ’Engineering with Computers’.

since 01/2015
Executive Editor von ’Frontiers of Structural and Civil Engineering’ (Journal of the Chinese Academy of Engineering) (IF=2.37)

since 09/2016   
Associate Editor von ’International Journal of Impact Engineering’ (IF=4.208)

since 03/2018   
Editor-in-chief von ’Computers, Materials & Structures’ (CMC) (IF=3.772)

since 01/2021   
Associate Editor von ’Applied Physics A’ (IF=2.584)

since 2022
Associate Editor von ’International Journal of Mechanics and Materials in Design’ (IF=4.011), ’Underground Space’ (IF=2.824) und ’Defense Tech- nology’ (IF=3.172)

Other Memberships

since 2014          
Member des Modeling Market Place (MMP) Working Group of the European Materials Modeling Council (EMMC)

since 2015          
Member of the EU Academy of Sciences

12/2022              
Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts

11/2022              
Member of the European Academy of Science

05/2023             
Member of the Academia Europaea

Activities as reviewer

Reviewer fu¨r ca. 50 internationale Zeitschriften

since 2009          
Reviewer fu¨r einige ’Funding Agencies’ einschliesslich der DFG, ERC (Eu- ropean Research Council), Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), Independent Research Fund Denmark, CSF (Czech Science Foundation), FWF (F¨orderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung) in Austria, the Re- search Council for Natural Sciences and Engineering at the Academy of Finland, the U.S. Army Research Office, the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science and Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation, the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), ANR French Research Agency, FWO Expertpanel member Chemical Engineering and Materials Science (Belgium), Panel Member of ’La Caixia’ Fellowships (Spain).

Research Grants: EU - FP7/H2020

2017-2022          
H2020-MSCA-RISE-2016  BESTOFRAC

2014-2019          
ERC-CoG COMBAT

2014-2015          
Coordinator and Scientist in Charge of a Marie-Curie International Incoming Fellowship (IIF)

01/2012-12/2015             
Coordinator of the FP7-ITN INSIST

2011-2015          
Coordinator of the FP7-IRSES grant MultiFrac

Research Grants: DFG

up to now          
2 Sachbeihilfen as Co-PI, 9 Sachbeihilfen as PI, 5 Internationale Kooperationsprojekte, 1 Projekt ’Europäische Nachwuchsakademie’, Mitglied unseres ehemaligen DFG Graduiertenkollegs ’Modellqualit¨aten’.

Other Research Grants

seit 2022             
Host for the Humboldt Postdoctoral Scholar (2 years) Saurev Sharma seit 2020  Mitglied des Projektes der Carl-Zeiss Stiftung ’Durchbrüche - Exzellenz in der Forschung’

2017-2019          
Host of Dr. Hasan Aladad (Philipp Schwartz-initiative – for threatened foreign researchers – of the Humboldt Foundation)
Nominator and Host of the Humboldt Prize Winners Prof. Hehua Zhu, Tongji University, Shanghai, China and Prof. Guirong Liu, University of Cincinatti, USA

2015-2017          
Host for the Georg-Forster Scholar (2 years) Jahed Naghipoor

2012         
DAAD PPP Spanien with UPV (Barcelona)

2011     
BMBF SUA 10/042 with WITS in South Africa

2010     
ARC-DAAD with Cardiff University

Research Interests

Computational Mechanics (Computational Solid Mechanics and Computational Fluid-Structure-Interaction) with focus on numerical methods for the solution of partial differential equations

Computational Materials Design

Integrated Computational Materials Engineering

Challenging applications in engineering and materials science including modeling and computational design/optimization of composites, flexoelec- tric materials, 2D materials and battery materials.

Biomechanical Engineering (biomembranes and vesicles)

Completed PhD thesis as main supervisor

up to now         
Completed 38 PhD students