About me
During studying mechanical engineering at TU Wien I have developed an interest in the field of mechanical simulations. To get a deeper insight into the subject, I wrote a master’s thesis at the ILSB on the simulation of composite structures. After receiving my master degree, I spent a year in industry to work as an analysis engineer in order to gain insight into practical engineering methods. In 2019, I took the opportunity to work on a PhD project at the ILSB that focuses on mechanical simulations of lattice structures. Summarized, due to my engineering background, my interest is to bridge the gap between theory and practice with respect to numerical simulations.
Research
The focus of my research is on the development of modeling strategies to describe the mechanical behavior of lattice structures with respect to computational efficiency while preserving reliability. The theory of continuum mechanics within the framework of the Finite Element Method (FEM) can serve as an appropriate basis for such requirements. The model needs to capture the most important underlying mechanical mechanisms in order to represent a satisfactory approximation of the real lattice, which involves mechanisms settled on different length scales. Based on other projects at the ILSB, other topics related to lightweight design have also piqued my interest, such as the study of stability phenomena in composite structures.