Franz G. Rammerstorfer#
Membership Number: | 4499 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
Elected: | 2017 |
Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRIA |
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
Fields of Scholarship
- 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
Honours and Awards
- 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)