projects

  • Disuse-related bone loss prediction using a multiscale mechanobiological model of bone remodeling


    (Own Funds)
    Project leader:
    Term: since 2025-04-01

  • Automated model discovery for electromechanically coupled materials


    (Own Funds)
    Project leader:
    Term: since 2025-03-01

  • Lagrangian and Hamiltonian field theories – geometry, discretization, optimal control


    (Third Party Funds Single)
    Project leader: ,
    Term: since 2025-02-01
    Funding source: DFG-Einzelförderung / Sachbeihilfe (EIN-SBH)

  • Symplectic discretizations for optimal control problems in mechanics


    (Third Party Funds Single)
    Project leader:
    Term: since 2023-02-15
    Funding source: DFG-Einzelförderung / Sachbeihilfe (EIN-SBH)

  • Simulation of optimal control problems via geometric methods


    (Own Funds)
    Project leader:
    Term: since 2023-02-15
    URL: https://www.ltd.tf.fau.de

  • Smoothed finite element methods in modelling and simulation of cardiac electromechanics


    (Third Party Funds Single)
    Project leader:
    Term: 2022-04-01 - 2024-03-31
    Funding source: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

  • Geglättete finite Elemente Methoden in der Modellierung und Simulation der Elektromechanik des Herzens


    (Third Party Funds Single)
    Project leader:
    Term: 2022-04-01 - 2024-03-31
    Funding source: DFG-Einzelförderung / Sachbeihilfe (EIN-SBH)

  • Muskeln, Knochen und ihre Interaktion in muskuloskeletalen Systemen


    (Third Party Funds Single)
    Project leader:
    Term: 2022-03-09 - 2022-12-31
    Funding source: Bayerische Forschungsallianz (BayFOR)

  • Simulation and optimal control of flexible mechanical systems with frictional contact


    (Own Funds)
    Project leader:
    Term: since 2022-01-01

  • Empatho-Kinaesthetic Sensor Technology


    (Third Party Funds Group – Overall project)
    Project leader: ,
    Term: 2021-07-01 - 2025-06-30
    Acronym: SFB 1483 EmpkinS
    Funding source: DFG / Sonderforschungsbereich / Transregio (SFB / TRR)
    URL: https://empkins.de/

  • Analysis of Degenerative Motion Impairments through Integration of Empathokinaesthetic Sensor Data in Biomechanical Human Models (C04)


    (Third Party Funds Group – Sub project)
    Overall project: Empatho-Kinaesthetic Sensor Technology
    Project leader:
    Term: 2021-07-01 - 2025-06-30
    Acronym: SFB 1483 EmpkinS C04
    Funding source: DFG / Sonderforschungsbereich (SFB)
    URL: https://www.empkins.de/

  • Dynamic analysis of prosthetic structures with polymorphic uncertainty


    (Third Party Funds Group – Sub project)
    Overall project: Polymorphic uncertainty modelling for the numerical design of structures
    Project leader:
    Term: 2020-10-01 - 2023-09-30
    Funding source: DFG-Einzelförderung / Sachbeihilfe (EIN-SBH)

  • Modelling, optimisation and control of Stirling-cycle devices in a port-Hamiltonian framework


    (Own Funds)
    Project leader:
    Term: since 2020-01-01

  • Konzeptentwicklung zur Bedatung (Parameteridentifikation) Biomechanischer Menschmodelle auf Basis von Messungen im Bewegungsanalyselabor


    (Third Party Funds Single)
    Project leader:
    Term: 2020-01-01 - 2020-12-31
    Funding source: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft

  • Electromechanically coupled beam models for stacked dielectric elastomer actuators


    (Third Party Funds Single)
    Project leader:
    Term: 2020-01-01 - 2022-12-31
    Funding source: DFG-Einzelförderung / Sachbeihilfe (EIN-SBH)

  • Joint Training on Numerical Modelling of Highly Flexible Structures for Industrial Applications


    (Third Party Funds Single)
    Project leader:
    Term: 2019-10-01 - 2023-09-30
    Acronym: THREAD
    Funding source: EU - 8. Rahmenprogramm - Horizon 2020
    URL: https://thread-etn.eu

  • High order variational integrators for continuum mechanics, constrained mechanical systems and optimal control


    (Own Funds)
    Project leader:
    Term: since 2019-08-15

  • A mechano-geometric framework to characterize macromolecular ensembles


    (Third Party Funds Single)
    Project leader:
    Term: 2019-06-01 - 2022-03-31
    Funding source: DFG-Einzelförderung / Sachbeihilfe (EIN-SBH)

  • P14 – Passage from Atomistic-to-Continuum for Quasistatic and Dynamic Crack Growth


    (Third Party Funds Group – Sub project)
    Overall project: GRK 2423 FRASCAL: Skalenübergreifende Bruchvorgänge: Integration von Mechanik, Materialwissenschaften, Mathematik, Chemie und Physik (FRASCAL)
    Project leader: ,
    Term: 2019-04-01 - 2027-12-31
    Acronym: P14 GRK 2423 FRASCAL
    Funding source: DFG / Graduiertenkolleg (GRK)

  • Teilprojekt P2 - Atomistics of Crack-Heterogeneity Interactions


    (Third Party Funds Group – Sub project)
    Overall project: Skalenübergreifende Bruchvorgänge: Integration von Mechanik, Materialwissenschaften, Mathematik, Chemie und Physik (FRASCAL)
    Project leader: ,
    Term: 2019-01-02 - 2027-12-31
    Acronym: GRK2423 - P2
    Funding source: DFG / Graduiertenkolleg (GRK)
    URL: https://www.frascal.research.fau.eu/home/research/p-2-atomistics-of-crack-heterogeneity-interactions/

  • Teilprojekt P9 - Adaptive Dynamic Fracture Simulation


    (Third Party Funds Group – Sub project)
    Overall project: Fracture across Scales: Integrating Mechanics, Materials Science, Mathematics, Chemistry, and Physics (FRASCAL)
    Project leader: ,
    Term: 2019-01-02 - 2027-12-31
    Acronym: GRK2423 - P9
    Funding source: DFG / Graduiertenkolleg (GRK)
    URL: https://www.frascal.research.fau.eu/home/research/p-9-adaptive-dynamic-fracture-simulation/

  • Computational and experimental biomechanics


    (Own Funds)
    Project leader:
    Term: since 2017-09-01

  • Muscle paths in the biomechanical simulation of human movement and MBS integration


    (Third Party Funds Group – Sub project)
    Overall project: 05M2016 - DYMARA: A dynamic manikin with fibre-based modelling of skeletal musculature
    Project leader:
    Term: 2016-12-01 - 2020-06-30
    Acronym: DYMARA
    Funding source: BMBF / Verbundprojekt

  • Establishment of a heart support system as a contractile membrane based on the pericardium


    (Third Party Funds Single)
    Project leader:
    Term: 2016-05-01 - 2022-07-15
    Funding source: Stiftungen

  • Variational integrators of higher order for constrained systems and variational integrators of mixed order for dynamical systems with multiple time scales


    (Own Funds)
    Project leader:
    Term: 2016-01-01 - 2022-03-31

  • Dynamic analysis of prosthetic structures with polymorphic uncertainty


    (Third Party Funds Group – Sub project)
    Overall project: SPP 1886: Polymorphic uncertainty modelling for the numerical design of structures
    Project leader:
    Term: 2016-01-01 - 2020-09-30
    Funding source: DFG / Schwerpunktprogramm (SPP)
    URL: https://tu-dresden.de/bu/bauingenieurwesen/sdt/forschung/spp1886?set_language=en

  • Optimal control of biomechanical MBS-Digital Human Models for simulation in the virtual assembly planning


    (Third Party Funds Single)
    Project leader:
    Term: 2015-11-01 - 2018-03-31
    Acronym: MKS-Menschenmodelle
    Funding source: Industrie
    URL: https://www.emma-cc.com/de/teilprojekte-partner/biomechanik-optimalsteuerung.html

  • Optimal feedback control for constrained mechanical systems


    (Own Funds)
    Project leader:
    Term: 2015-01-01 - 2017-01-01

  • Protein flexibility and conformational ensembles from kino-geometric modeling and sampling to motion planning


    (Own Funds)
    Project leader:
    Term: 2014-06-01 - 2019-03-31

  • Development of artificial muscles as actors and sensors on the basis of dielectric elastomers


    (Third Party Funds Group – Sub project)
    Overall project: bionicum research
    Project leader: ,
    Term: 2012-10-01 - 2018-03-31
    Funding source: Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Umwelt und Verbraucherschutz (StMUV) (ab 10/2013), Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Umwelt und Gesundheit (StMUG) (bis 09/2013)
    URL: http://www.bionicum.de/forschung/projekte/muskeln/index.htm

  • Numerical investigations on optimal control and variational integrators for multirate systems


    (Own Funds)
    Project leader:
    Term: 2012-01-01 - 2017-12-31

  • Multiobjective optimal control of hybrid systems


    (Own Funds)
    Project leader:
    Term: 2012-01-01 - 2016-01-01

  • Space time discretization for flexible multibody systems and multisymplectic variational integrators


    (Own Funds)
    Project leader:
    Term: 2011-10-01 - 2018-09-30

  • Phase lag analysis of variational integrators using interpolation techniques


    (Own Funds)
    Project leader:
    Term: 2011-01-01 - 2013-01-01

  • Complex frequency response for linear viscoelastic beams of Kelvin-Voigt type


    (Own Funds)
    Project leader:
    Term: 2011-01-01 - 2021-06-30

  • Simulation and optimal control of the dynamics of multibody systems in biomechanics and robotics


    (Third Party Funds Single)
    Project leader:
    Term: 2008-12-01 - 2011-12-01
    Funding source: DFG-Einzelförderung / Emmy-Noether-Programm (EIN-ENP)