Professor Dr.-Ing. habil. P. Wriggers
"Application of virtual elements for simulations in solid mechanics"
Director of the Institute of Continuum Mechanics in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
Professor Dr.-Ing. habil. P. Wriggers studied Civil Engineering from 1970-1976 at the University Hannover, he obtained his Dr.-Ing degree at the University Hannover in 1980 on “Contact-impact problems”. From 1983-84 he was Visiting Scholar at the UC Berkeley, USA. After that he worked as Lecturer at the Institute of Mechanics at the University Hannover where he finished his Habilitation in 1986. In 1990 he was appointed as Full Professor at the Institute of Mechanics at TH Darmstadt. In 1998 Prof. Wriggers changed to the University Hannover where he held the Chair for Mechanics in Civil Engineering from 1990 to 2008. From 2008 to 2022 he was Director of the Institute of Continuum Mechanics in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. From 2022 on he is “Leibniz Emeritus” Professor at the Leibniz University Hannover. From 2003 to 2004 he held the position of “Linkage Professor” at the University of Newcastle in NSW, Australia.
Peter Wriggers is member of the “Braunschweigische Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft”, the Academy of Science and Literature in Mainz, the German National Academy of Engineering “acatech” and the National Academy of Croatia. He was President of GAMM, President of GACM and Vice-President of IACM. Furthermore, he acts as Editor-in-Chief for the International Journal “Computational Mechanics” and “Computational Particle Mechanics” and is member of 15 Editorial Boards. He was awarded the Fellowship of IACM and received the “Computational Mechanics Award” of IACM, the “Euler Medal” of ECCOMAS and the “IACM Award” of IACM as well as three honorary degrees from the Universities of Poznan, ENS Cachan and TU Darmstadt.