Gerhard A. Holzapfel - Biography#

Gerhard A. Holzapfel is Professor of Biomechanics and Head of the Institute of Biomechanics at Graz University of Technology (TUG), Austria, since 2007. He is also Visiting Professor at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. Until 2013 he was Full Professor (2 years) and Adjunct Professor at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden for 7 years. After his PhD in Mechanical Engineering in Graz he received an Erwin-Schrödinger Scholarship for foreign countries to be a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University (1993-95). He achieved his Habilitation at TU Vienna in 1996 and received a START-Award from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) in 1997, which is the most prestigious research award in Austria for young scientists. In the following years (1998-2004) he was the Head of the research group on "Computational Biomechanics" at TUG. Holzapfel has received four calls for full professorships in Austria, Germany, Sweden and United Kingdom; two he has accepted. Among several awards and honors in the past years he became a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), Section for Mathematics and the Natural Sciences, and he received the Erwin Schrödinger Prize 2011 from ÖAW for his lifetime achievements.