Analysis and design of deployable and retractable structures
Analysis and design of highly flexible structures in architecture
Light weight structures, tensegrity structures
Structural topology
Structural stability
Non-linear finite element methods
Teaching experience
Uncertainty Quantification, Parametric Problems, and Model Reduction;
Introduction to PDEs and Numerical Methods;
Numerical methods for PDEs;
Mechanics I: Statics;
Mechanics II: Strength of materials;
Mechanics III: Structural statics;
Reinforced concrete structures I, II;
Timber and masonry structures.
Research Projects
PhD thesis: Investigation of highly flexible, deployable structures : review, modelling, control, experiments and application
SFB 880: Fundamentals of High Lift for Future Civil Aircraft
Junior project JP5: Robustness, sensitivity analysis and identification of the reduced order model for Coanda blowing flow control for stochastic spectral methods
Subproject C4: Uncertainty quantification in models for high-lift simulations
Uncertainty propagation analysis with a non-intrusive stochastic Galerkin approach
Uncertainty Quantification of the eigenmotions of a high lift configuation aircraft
Stochastic description of porous material
Bayesian parameter identification of turbulence model with complex parameter space
Compressibility field identification of a gas reservoir (cooperation with University of Padova)
DLR: Uncertainties in Engineering Systems and Probabilistic Approaches to Cope with them (February, 27, Braunschweig)
EPFL 2012 - Analysis, experiments and application of an antiprismatic deployable space truss system (May, 23, Lausanne)
TU BS 2012 - Analysis, experiments and application of an antiprismatic deployable space truss system characterized by snap-back behaviour (July 2., 2012)
IASS-IACM 2012 - Keynote lecture: Deployment analysis of an antiprismatic snap-through type cylindrical space truss and proposal for a pop-up bridge design
