Franz G. Rammerstorfer#

Present and Previous Positions

• since 2016, 10 Professor emeritus, Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien)
  
• since 2009, 01 Rector of CISM (Int. Centre for Mechanical Scienes) Udine, Italy
  
• since 2012, 12 President of the Austrian Nat. Comm. for Theor. and Appl. Mech. (delegation to Austrian Academy of Sciences)
  
• 2007 - 2016 Vice President of the Christian Doppler Research Association (CDG) and Chair of the Scientific Senat of CDG
  
• 1983 - 2016 Full Professor for Lightweight Structures and Aerospace Engineering
  
• 2011 - 2014 Head of the Institute of Lightweight Design and Structural Biomechanics (ILSB, TU Wien)
  
• 2003 - 2004 Visiting Professor at the Institute for Material Mechanics, TU München, Munich; Germany
  
• 1998 - 2007 Vice-Rector for Research at TU Wien
  
• 1983 - 2003 Head of the Institute of Lightweight Structures and Aerospace Engineering (ILFB, TU Wien)
  
• 1977 - 1983 VOEST ALPINE Linz, Austria; (finally Head of Department for Scientific Computing - Mechanics

• Structural mechanics
• Continuum mechanics
• Computational materials science
• Finite element analysis
• Composite materials and composite structures
• Nano- and micro-mechanics of multi-phase materials
• Fracture mechanics
• Thermal stresses
• Stability of structures
• Biomechanics

• 1998 CDG Senior Fellow (Christian Doppler Research Assoc.)
  
• 2001 Corr. Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)
  
• 2002 IACM Fellow (Int. Assoc. for Comput. Mechanics)
  
• 2005 Full Member of the Austrian Acacemy of Sciences (ÖAW)
  
• 2016 Honorary Senator of the CDG (Christian Doppler Research Assoc.)
  
• 2016 Viktor Kaplan Medal (Vienna University of Technology)
  

Curriculum Vitae

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Highlights of my work and anecdotes

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