ECCOMAS AWARD FOR THE BEST Ph.D THESES OF 2007 ON COMPUTATIONAL METHODS IN APPLIED SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING
The meeting of the Evaluation Committee for the ECCOMAS award for the best PhD theses 2007 was held on May 5th, 2008 at CIMNE, Barcelona. As an answer to the call for tender, 17 theses were nominated by the ECCOMAS member associations.
After a detailed discussion, a secret voting was held in two phases. First, after a secret voting the number of thesis was reduced from 17 to 8. Then the committee ranked the 8 theses evaluating the different aspects of each and unanimously agreed on selecting 2 out of these 6 theses as the winners.
The two winners are:
- Dr. Jeroen Wackers (The Netherlands) for the thesis “Surface Capturing and Multigrid for Steady Free-Surface Water Flows“
- Dr. Lukasz Madej (Poland) for the thesis “Development of the Multi-Scale Analysis Model to Simulate Strain Localization Occurring During Material Processing“
These theses are outstanding works in Computational Methods combining excellent knowledge of both theory and practice.
All nominees will be recognized by a special diploma that will be sent directly to the candidate.
The list of finalists selected by the local-regional ECCOMAS Association is the following:
| Author | Title of the Thesis | Association | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Régis Cottereau | Probabilistic Models of Impedance Matrices. Application to Dynamic Soil-Structure Interaction | CSMA | France |
| Federica Daghia | Active fibre-reinforced composites with embedded shape memory alloys | GIMC-AIMETA | Italy |
| Liesbet Geris | Mathematical Modelling of Bone Regeneration during Fracture Healing and Implant Osseointegration | BNCM | Belgium |
| Stefan Hartmann | Contact Analysis of Thin-Walled Structures at Large Deformations | GACM | Germany |
| Niels Heinrichson | On the Design of Tilting-Pad Thrust Bearings | NoACM | North Europe |
| Grieta Himpel | Computational Modeling of Biomechanical Phenomena-Remodeling, Growth and Reorientation | GAMM | Germany |
| Michail Kavousanakis | Coarse Simulation of Complicated Physicochemical and Biological Systems with Methods of Multiscale Analysis, Bifurcation Analysis and Self-Similarity | GRACM | Greece |
| Aline Lefebvre | Numerical Modelling of Fluid/Particle Flows | GAMNI | France |
| Vladimir Lukeš | Two-scale Computational Modeling of Soft Biological Tissues | CEACM | Central Europe |
| Lukasz Madej | Development of the Multi-Scale Analysis Model to Simulate Strain Localization Occurring During Material Processing | PACM | Poland |
| Netta Omer | Edge Stress | IACMM | Israel |
| Intensity Functions in Three Dimensional Domains | |||
| Mayur Pal | Families of Control-Volume Distributed (MPFA) Finite Volume Schemes for the Porous Medium Pressure Equation on Structured and Unstructured Grids | ACME | UK |
| Carlos M. Tiago Tavares Fernandes | Meshless Methods: Extending the Linear Formulations and its Generalization to Geometrically Exact Structural Analysis | APMTAC | Portugal |
| Andrés Prieto Aneiros | Some Contributions in Time-Harmonic Dissipative Acoustic Problems | SEMA | Spain |
| Alberto Sorrentino | PFM: Particle Filters for Magnetoencephalography | SIMAI | Italy |
| Jesús Gerardo Valdés Vázquez | Nonlinear Analysis of Orthotropic Membrane and Shell Structures Including Fluid-Structure Interaction | SEMNI | Spain |
| Arho Virkki | The Human Respiratory System: Modelling, Analysis and Control | FMS | Finland |
| Jeroen Wackers | Surface Capturing and Multigrid for Steady Free-Surface Water Flows | NMC | Netherlands |