Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang A. Wall

Contact

• Room 1205
• Email: wolfgang.a.wall@tum.de
• Phone: +49 (0) 89 289 15300
• Fax:     +49 (0) 89 289 15301
• Address:
  Institute for Computational Mechanics
  Technical University of Munich
  Boltzmannstr. 15
  85748 Garching b. München
  Germany

Wolfgang A. Wall is full Professor and founding Director of the Institute for Computational Mechanics at the Technical University of Munich. Born near Salzburg (Austria), he studied at the University of Innsbruck and received his PhD from the University of Stuttgart. Among others he acted as founding director of the Munich School of Engineering and is co-founder of the companies AdCo Engineering^GW and Ebenbuild GmbH. Wolfgang A. Wall has received several esteemed awards and serves on a large number of prestigious boards. He currently also serves as Rector of the International Centre for Mechanical Sciences (CISM) in Udine (Italy) and is member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences as well as of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

Short CV

A short CV (as pdf) of Wolfgang A. Wall can also be found here and some information also on his Scopus, Publon or Google scholar page.

Research Interests

Research interests of Wolfgang A. Wall and his group can be described as “application motivated fundamental research” in a broad range of areas in computational mechanics, with applications spanning all fields of engineering and the applied sciences. With a strong basis in a variety of advanced single field problems (like computational solid, fluid and transport dynamics), the current focus lies on coupled multifield and multiscale problems (like fluid-structure interaction, contact dynamics, thermo-structure interaction, electro-chemo-mechano-thermo interaction, opto-acoustics, porous media, multiphase transport, etc.) as well as on computational biophysics (on sub-cellular and cellular scale) and biomedical engineering (like modelling of respiratory and cardiovascular systems, cancer growth, etc.). In all these areas his group covers the full spectrum from advanced modeling and the development of novel computational methods to sophisticated software development and application-oriented simulations on high performance computing systems. Meanwhile, their research activities also include optimization, inverse analysis, uncertainty quantification, machine learning as well as experimental work. In collaboration with leading researchers worldwide as well as national and international industrial partners, LNM expedites projects at the front line of research.

More details: A (never up to date) overview on current research can be found here and a list of publications can be found on our webpage here (peer-reviewed journal publications) and here (also including other publications, like books etc.) or a (possibly outdated) list in a pdf version here.

Teaching

Wolfgang A. Wall is a dedicated academic teacher and teaching activities cover a large spectrum of courses, that are very well received by students (at least concluding from the number of teaching awards received). The spectrum ranges from large (up to 1000 students) first year courses to small and specialized graduate courses.

An overview of current teaching activities can be found here.

Education

Professional career, employment history

Appointments, elected positions (selection)

Awards (selection)

Regularly invited as plenary & keynote lecturer at major international conferences in Computational Mechanics, Computer Methods in Applied Science and Engineering, Biomechanics & Biomedical Engineering, etc. Numerous high level awards in research (like Richard-von-Mises award, ECCOMAS Best PhD award, etc.) and teaching (like teaching award of the free state of Bavaria, several teaching awards at TUM, etc.) by scientific co-worker.

Editorial Activities (selection)

• Editorial Board member of International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, IJNME
• Editorial Board member of Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, CMAME
• Editorial Board member of International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, IJNMF
• Editorial Board member of International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering, IJNMBE
• Editorial Board member of Advanced Modelling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences, AMSES
• Editorial Board member of Acta Mechanica
• Editorial Board member of International Journal for Coupled Systems Mechanics, CSM
• Editorial Board member of Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures
• Editor of Springer Book Series CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences – Courses and Lectures

Reviewing activities

Regular reviewer for roughly 40 international scientific journals. Regular reviewer for a variety of national and multi-national funding agencies, research centres, international universities and governments.

Publications

A multitude of publications in peer-reviewed international journals (top journals in the fields), more can be found here or on Scopus, Publon or Google scholar.

• Scopus lists over 300 publications with an h-index of 52 (and an i10-index of 176)
• ISI (Web of Science) / publons lists over 280 publications with an h-index of 49 ( i10: 158)
• Google scholar lists an h-index of 69 (i10: 239)

Co-Author of textbook series on Engineering Mechanics (available in German and in English; the German version (now in its' 14^th edition) is the best selling (across all disciplines/publishers) technical textbook series in German language). or here

Research funding

PI in a multitude of research projects funded by different national and international funding agencies (e.g. German Science Foundation (DFG), European Research Council (ERC), European Science Foundation etc.) as well as in a variety of research projects directly funded by industry.

And many further services in Scientific and Academic Communities.