Gerhard A. Holzapfel#
| Membership Number: | 3801 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2014 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRIA |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.biomech.tugraz.at |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2007, 02 Full Professor of Biomechanics – Head of the Institute, Graz University of Technology, Austria
- 2007, 02 Adjunct Full Professor of Biomechanics, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), School of Engineering Sciences, Department of Solid Mechanics, Stockholm, Sweden
- 2004, 12 Full Professor of Biomechanics, KTH, School of Engineering Sciences, Department of Solid Mechanics, Stockholm, Sweden
- 1998, 01 Associate Professor at the Institute of Structural Analysis, Graz University of Technology, Austria
- 1987, 05 Assistant at the Institute of Strength of Materials, Graz University of Technology, Austria (1991 on leave to P.R. China, 1993-1995 on leave to the USA)
- 1991, 02 Visiting Scholar at University of Shenyang, P.R. China
- 1988, 06 Visiting Scholar at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
- 1986, 01 Research Assistant at Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Constitutive (multi-scale) modeling of biosolids
- Multi-photon microscopy (SHG)
- Nonlinear continuum mechanics
- Nonlinear finite element methods
- Experimental and computational biomechanics and mechanobiology
- Fracture and material failure of biological tissues
- Medical image processing
- Growth and remodeling of biosolids
- Modeling of therapeutic interventions such as balloon angioplasty and stent implantation
- Arterial wall mechanics
Honours and Awards
- 2021 Warner T. Koiter Medal
from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (USA)
- 2021 William Prager Medalist
- 2013 Congress Award Graz 2013; Category: not repeated conferences in Graz
- 2012 Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Section for Mathematics and the Natural Sciences
- 2012 Founding Fellow of EAMBES – European Alliance for Medical and Biological Engineering & Science
- 2011 Erwin Schrödinger Prize 2011 of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 2008 Research Award 2008 of the Federal State of Styria, Austria, for Simulation and Modeling, Basic Research and University Research
- 2007 Member of the young curia of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 2003 Awarded with the "Josef-Krainer Würdigungspreis 2003 for exceptional achievements in the field of Biomechanics"
- 1997 START-Award 1997, granted by the Chancellor of the Republic of Austria and the Ministry for Education, Science and Culture
- 1992 Erwin Schrödinger Scholarship for foreign countries
