Rainer Niekamp

Dr.-Ing. Rainer Niekamp is a Researcher at the Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Duisburg-Essen, where he has worked since 2016. He holds a diploma and doctorate in mathematics with a focus on computational mechanics and stochastic modeling.

• Studied mathematics and computer science at the University of Hannover (1986–1993)
• Doctoral degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Hannover (2000)

Rainer Niekamp’s research spans computational mechanics, multiscale modeling, and stochastic methods. His work includes polynomial chaos expansion for data-driven modeling, partitioned systems for coupled simulations, and parallel software frameworks for large-scale problems. He specializes in model reduction, nonlinear dynamics, and component-based software engineering.

His publications highlight multiphysics problems (e.g., thermo-mechanical coupling in steel processing, offshore wind energy converters) and software architecture for scientific computing. He has supervised numerous theses on topics like PeriDynamics simulations, multi-objective optimization, and heterogeneous network modeling.