Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Josef Kiendl

Professur für Baustatik
Building 33/400, Room 033/2417
+49 89 6004-3281
josef.kiendl@unibw.de

Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Josef Kiendl

 

Education and Academic Career

since 2022 Dean of Studies at the Department of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences,
University of the Bundeswehr Munich
seit 2020 Full professor at the Institute of Engineering Mechanics Structural Analysis, Department of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences, University of the Bundeswehr Munich
2020-2023 Adjunct Associate Professor at the Department of Marine Technology, NTNU Trondheim
2016-2019 Associate Professor (Onsager fellowship) at the Department of Marine Technology, NTNU Trondheim
2015-2016 Assistant Professor (Juniorprofessor) at the Institute for Applied Mechanics, Department of Civil Engineering, TU Braunschweig
2012-2015

Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Computational Mechanics and Advanced Materials Group, University of Pavia, Italy

2011

PhD with highest distinction (summa cum laude). Thesis: Isogeometric Analysis and
Shape Optimization of Shell Structures, TU Munich, Germany

2007-2011

PhD student of the International Graduate School of Science and Engineering (IGS-
SE), at the Chair of Structural Analysis, TU Munich, Germany

2005

Master's Degree

2000-2005

Student of civil engineering at TU Munich, Germany

Non-academic professional experience

2011 Project manager at DrillTec GmbH for the Poland Shale Gas drilling project, Malbork,
Poland
2005-2007

Project engineer at Max Streicher GmbH for the Adriatic LNG pipeline project in
Porto Viro, Italy

Research stays abroad

2022 Invited visiting professor (4 weeks) at University of Calabria, Italy
2014 Visiting scholar (2 weeks) at Prof. Hughes, ICES, University of Texas at Austin
2013 Visiting scholar (1 month) at Prof. Hughes, ICES, University of Texas at Austin
2010 Visiting scholar (1 month) at Prof. Bazilevs, Department of Structural Engineering, University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
2009 Visiting scholar (2 months) at Prof. Bazilevs, Department of Structural Engineering, University of California, San Diego (UCSD)

Awards

2019 ERC Consolidator grant
2017 Highly Cited Researcher according to Clarivate Web of Science
2016-2019 Onsager Fellowship of NTNU, awarded to young, internationally recognized researchers to strengthen the university's academic community.
2016 Richard-von-Mises Prize, awarded by the International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (GAMM) in acknowledgment of scientifc achievement in the area of applied mathematics and mechanics.
2013 GAMM Award 2013 for organizing a Young Researcher Minisymposium at the 84th Annual Meeting of the International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (GAMM)
2011

PhD Dissertation Award of the Association of Friends of the Technical University of Munich to the six best PhD dissertations at TU Munich in 2011

2007-2011

PhD stipend of the International Graduate School of Science and Engineering (IGSSE) at TU Munich

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