Plenary Lectures
Dr Anne de BAAS, Programme Officer EC RTD LEIT NMBP, European Commission
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Anne Francisca de Baas, Dutch from origin received a physics education in Eindhoven, Utrecht and Delft in the Netherlands and a MBA in Brussels, Belgium. She has been working at the European Commission since 1992 in DG CNECT and DG RTD.
Most recently, she works on ontologies and ontology-base market places for both materials modelling and materials and manufacturing data. These market places target to share and re-use knowledge generated in EU projects and elsewhere.
Her former responsibilities have included the organisation of best practice activities and technology transfer programs and responsibility for benchmarking of industrial software applications. Economic and technical business analyses of 2800 European industries, ensuring return of investment in research and development resulting in the selection of 600 projects. The best practice extracted is documented in a booklet called ‘management of economic issues’ and accompanied by a booklet on how to manage outsourcing of research called ‘dealing with subcontractors’ (www.fuse-network.com). She wrote a brochure on Road-Mapping, the work with Network of Excellences and on metamaterials all available on http://ec.europa.eu/research/industrial_technologies/index_en.html
Prof. Charbel FARHAT, Stanford University, USA
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Charbel Farhat is the Vivian Church Hoff Professor of Aircraft Structures, Chairman of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Director of the Stanford-KACST Center of Excellence for Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University. His research interests are in computational engineering sciences for the design and analysis of complex systems in aerospace, mechanical, and naval engineering. He is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Member of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK), a Member of the Lebanese Academy of Sciences, a Doctor Honoris Causa from Ecole Centrale de Nantes, a Doctor Honoris Causa from Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay, a designated ISI Highly Cited Author, and a Fellow of AIAA, ASME, IACM, SIAM, USACM, and WIF. He has trained more than 90 PhD and post-doctoral students. For his research on aeroelasticity, aeroacoustic scattering, CFD, dynamic data-driven systems, fluid-structure interaction, high performance computing, and model reduction, he has received many professional and academic distinctions including: the Ashley Award for Aeroelasticity and the Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Award from AIAA; the Lifetime Achievement Award and the Spirit of St Louis Medal from ASME; the Gordon Bell Prize and the Sidney Fernbach Award from IEEE; the Gauss-Newton Medal from IACM; the Grand Prize from the Japan Society for Computational Engineering Science; and the John von Neumann Medal from USACM. He was knighted in France in the Order of Academic Palms, and awarded the Medal of Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques.
Prof. Patrick SELVADURAI, Mc Gill University, Canada
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Dr. A.P.S. Selvadurai is currently William Scott Professor and Distinguished James McGill Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Theoretical Mechanics from the University of Nottingham, under the tutelage of the eminent continuum mechanicist the late Professor A.J.M. Spencer FRS, for research in the area of “Non-linear Elasticity” and in 1986 the D.Sc. in Theoretical Mechanics for research into “Mathematical Modelling of Problems in Geomechanics and Elastomechanics”. He joined the Department of Civil Engineering at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada in 1975 as Assistant Professor, became Professor in 1981 and Head of the Department from 1982 to 1991. In 1993, he was invited by McGill University to become Chair of the Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics, a position he held until 1997.
In 1991, Dr. Selvadurai received the Inaugural Horst Leipholz Medal of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineering and in 1993 the Engineering Medal for Research and Development of The Professional Engineers of Ontario. In 1998, Dr. Selvadurai received the Humboldt Forschungspreis (Humboldt Foundation of Germany), given to internationally acclaimed scientists and engineers. In 2000, he became the first civil engineer to be awarded the Killam Research Fellowship Canada Council for the Arts, one of Canada’s most distinguished research awards. In 2001 he was awarded the Inaugural John Booker Medal of the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics-IACMAG. In 2003 he received the prestigious Max Planck Forschungspreis in the Engineering Sciences. In 2007, he was awarded the Killam Prize in Engineering from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Gold Medal of the Canadian Congresses of Applied Mechanics. In 2008 he received the IACMAG Medal for Outstanding Accomplishments in Geomechanics. In 2010, he was awarded the ALERT Research Medal, by the Alliance of Laboratories in Europe for Research and Technology. In 2013, he was awarded the Eric Reissner Medal of the ICCES and the Maurice A. Biot Medal of the ASCE. In 2017 he was awarded the C.S. Desai Medal of the IACMAG for outstanding contributions to computational geomechanics.
Prof. François TROCHU, Ecole Polytechnique Montreal, Canada
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Dr. François TROCHU is professor of Mechanical Engineering at École Polytechnique de Montréal. After graduation in 1974 from École Polytechnique in Paris, he obtained his Master's degree under the supervision of Dr. J. T. Oden in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin in 1975. In 1990, he received his Ph.D. from École Polytechnique, Montreal, on the development of random finite elements and the application of kriging to groundwater flows in porous media. Since 1990, F.
Trochu is Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department of École Polytechnique de Montréal and has published over 100 papers on composite manufacturing in scientific journals. Actively involved for nearly 30 years in applied research in Liquid Composite Molding (LCM), Professor Trochu is the creator of the commercial software PAM-RTM developed to simulate the Resin Transfer Molding (RTM) process with over 100 users worldwide. Professor Trochu held from 2003 to 2017 a Tier I Canada Research Chair on High Performance Composites and between 2005 and 2015 two successive Industrial Research Chairs on composite manufacturing by resin injection with General Motors (GM) and Safran.
Prof. Fernandino AURICCHIO, University Pavia, Italy
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After a Bachelor degreein Civil Engineering at the University of Napoli, Italy (1989), a Master of Science (1991) and a Ph.D. (1995) at the University of California at Berkeley, USA, since 2001 Ferdinando Auricchio is professor of Solids and Structural Mechanics at the University of Pavia, Italy, where he started to develop strong collaborations with the Department of Mathematics (being also a Research Associateat IMATI-CNR Pavia) and with several medical institutions.
He received the Euler Medal by ECCOMAS (European Community of Computational Methods in Applied Sciences) in 2016 and he became Fellow Award by IACM (International Association for Computational Mechanics) since 2012.Since 2013 he is Vice-President of ECCOMAS.
In 2018 he was appointed as a member of the Italian National Academy of Science, known also as Accademia dei XL.
Major research interests are the development of numerical schemes (in particular, finite element methods, both for solids and fluids, with a particular attention to innovative materials), the development of simulation tools to support medical decision (in particular, for cardiovascular applications), and more recently everything that is related to additive manufacturing. In fact, he has organized a 3D-printing lab, exploring new materials, new printing technologies, new uses of 3D printing, ranging from civil engineering 3D printed concrete beams to bio-manufacturing.
