Timon Rabczuk

Timon Rabczuk is a Professor and Chair of Computational Mechanics at Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany. His research focuses on computational methods for moving boundary/interface problems with applications in fracture mechanics, fluid-structure interaction, inverse analysis, and topology optimization.

• Develops meshfree and peridynamics methods for dynamic fracture simulation
• Created cracking particles method (CPM) and dual-horizon peridynamics (DH-PD)
• Works on immersed particle methods (IPM) for fluid-structure interaction

Current research includes computational materials design of piezoelectric/flexoelectric nanostructures and quantum spin Hall effect-based phononic topological insulators using isogeometric analysis and level set methods. Based at the Institute of Structural Mechanics (ISM) with expertise in thin shell formulations and topological optimization.