Thomas Wallmersperger

Thomas Wallmersperger is a full professor for Mechanics of Multifunctional Structures at TU Dresden (since 2011), and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Science and Engineering at TU Dresden since 2016. His research topics comprise coupled multi-field problems, active materials and smart structures, modeling and simulation of soft and hard materials, discretization and numerical modeling. Dr. Wallmersperger completed his dissertation in 2003 and his habilitation in 2010 at University of Stuttgart, Germany. In the years 2005 and 2006 he conducted research stays as Visiting Professor at the Center for Intelligent Material Systems and Structures at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in the Field of ‘Electroactive Ionic Polymers’ with the Professors Donald J. Leo and Daniel J. Inman.