Founders - AdCo

DR.-ING. VOLKER GRAVEMEIER

Dr.-Ing. Volker Gravemeier is founder, shareholder and chief executive officer of AdCo Engineering^GW.

Professional Career

Volker Gravemeier received a diploma with the best graduation in Civil Engineering from Universität Kaiserslautern in 1999 and a PhD from Universität Stuttgart in 2003 („summa cum laude“, thesis title: „The variational multiscale method for laminar and turbulent flow“). Afterwards, he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow and Feodor Lynen Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation at the Center for Turbulence Research (CTR), a research center on turbulence jointly operated by Stanford University and NASA Ames Research Center. In 2005 and 2006, he was a research associate at the Institute for Computational Mechanics at Technische Universität München. In 2006, he was elected to be a member of the Emmy Noether Program of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation, DFG), an exceptionally prestigious program for promoting highly-qualified young scientists. The Emmy Noether research group headed by Dr.-Ing. Volker Gravemeier at Technische Universität München from 2007 through 2011 on “Computational Multiscale Methods for Turbulent Combustion in Complex Geometries” was the first ever Emmy Noether research group in the field of computational mechanics. In 2010, he worked again for three months as a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Turbulence Research at Stanford University.

Honors and Awards

Dr.-Ing. Volker Gravemeier was awarded multiple times for his work, for example, with

the prestigious Richard-von-Mises-Prize of the International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (GAMM – Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik) in 2010,
a Feodor Lynen Alumni Research Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation (2010),
the election to be a member of the Emmy Noether Program, the initiative of excellence for young scientists of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation, DFG) (2006),
the nomination as Finalist of the ECCOMAS Award for the Best European PhD Thesis of 2003 on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering (2004),
a Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation (2004, as the only engineer in that year, whereas 113 fellowships were granted overall in Humanities, Natural Sciences, and Engineering),
a Postdoctoral Fellowship of the Center for Turbulence Research, Stanford University and NASA Ames Research Center, CA, USA (2003),
the Award for Best Graduation in civil engineering at Universität Kaiserslautern (2000), and
a Scholarship of the “Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes ”, the German National Academic Foundation (1998, less than 0.5% of all students in Germany were granted this scholarship at that time).

Professional Activities

Dr.-Ing. Volker Gravemeier has teaching assignments both in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Technische Universität München and at the European School of Computer Aided Engineering Technology and regularly gives lectures on computational methods. Furthermore, he is or has been, respectively,

project manager of various projects funded both by public organizations and industry,
reviewer for several of the leading international scientific journals and organizations,
invited presenter at leading scientific conferences,
multiply-cited author of publications in leading international scientific journals (see list of publications in comprehensive curriculum vitae),
developer of pioneering computational methods,
co-developer of BACI, one of the most powerful research software platforms in the field of Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) in the world,
member of the NAFEMS Multiphysics Working Group, and
member of the selection board of the “Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes ”, the German National Academic Foundation (since 2009).

Memberships

Dr.-Ing. Volker Gravemeier is a member of the following international und national organizations:

Comprehensive Curriculum Vitae and Publications

You can find a comprehensive curriculum vitae of Dr.-Ing. Volker Gravemeier, including a list of publications and presentations, here.

PROF. DR.-ING. WOLFGANG A. WALL

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang A. Wall is founder and shareholder of AdCo Engineering^GW.

Professional Career

Wolfgang A. Wall graduated in Civil Engineering (major: Structural Engineering) from Universität Innsbruck, Austria, (with distinction, best graduation ever) and received his PhD from Universität Stuttgart (“summa cum laude“, thesis title: “Fluid structure interaction with stabilized finite elements “). Important steps in his professional career and employment history are

Engineer in consulting office in Salzburg, Austria (1983-1984),
Visiting researcher at Princeton University, USA (1990),
University assistant at Universität Innsbruck, Austria (1992-1994),
Scholar in graduate program “Modeling and discretization methods for continua and fluids”, funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation, DFG), at Universität Stuttgart(1994-1997),
Research assistant and team leader at Institute for Structural Mechanics, Universität Stuttgart (1997-1999),
Vice-Head of Institute for Structural Mechanics, Universität Stuttgart (1999-2003),
Full Professor (“Ordinarius”) for Computational Mechanics and Founding Director of Institute for Computational Mechanics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technische Universität München (since 2003), and
Founding Director of Munich School of Engineering (2010-2012).

Honors and Awards (selection)

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang A. Wall was awarded multiple times for his work, among others, with

the election as Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (2017),
the Prandtl Medal (ECCOMAS) (2016),
the election as Corresponding Member abroad of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (2015),
the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Medal (2013),
the Computational Mechanics Award of the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM) (2012),
a Guest Professorship Award for outstanding international scientists at Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan (2011),
the Fellow Award of the International Association for Computational Mechanics (2008),
several teaching awards at Technische Universität München (since 2005),
the Fritz-Peter-Müller Award of Universität Karlsruhe (2000),
the Rotary Award for the doctorate thesis, Stuttgart (2000),
the European Academic Software Award for program SLang (together with C.G. Bucher & Y. Schorling) (1994),
scholarships of “Pro Scientia“ (1988-1991),
several excellency-in-studying awards (~ top 1%), (1986, 1987, 1988), and
regular invitations as plenary speaker at the most important international conferences.

Appointments and elected positions (selection)

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang A. Wall was appointed or elected to the following positions:

Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (2017 – ),
Rector of International Centre for Mechanical Sciences (CISM), Udine, Italy (2017 – ),
Member of TUM Appointment and Tenure Board (2016 – ),
Member of ERC Advanced Grant Panel (2015 – ),
Editor-in-Chief of International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids (2014 – 2017),
Corresponding Member Abroad of Austrian Academy of Sciences (2015 – ),
Board Member for Research & Technology of Graz University of Technology, Austria (2014 – ),
Member of Founding Board of the TUM School of Bioengineering (2014 – 2017),
President of German Association for Computational Mechanics (GACM) (2013 – 2016),
Member (co-opted) of ECCOMAS Executive Council (2012 – ),
Member of Advisory Council of the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (2012 – 2016),
Member of Executive Council of International Association for Computational Mechanics (2012 – ),
Chairman of ECCOMAS CFD Committee (2012 – ),
Member of the Munich School of Engineering Executive Board (2011 – ),
Member of the Advisory Council of TUM Institute for Advanced Studies (TUM-IAS), Technische Universität München (2011 – 2017),
Member of TUM Perspectives Committee (Advisory Council of TUM President), Technische Universität München (2011 – 2012),
Member of ECCOMAS CFD Committee (2010 – ),
Member of Committee on Fluid-Structure Interaction of Applied Mechanics Division, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) (2008 – ),
Member of Selection Committee “Landesforschungspreis Baden-Württemberg” (most prestigious (highest endowment) state research award in Germany) (2008 – ),
Member of Foundation Board of Timoshenko-Föppl Foundation (2008 – ),
Member of Advisory Board of European School of CAE Technology (EsoCAET) (2006 – ),
Member of Scientific Council of International Centre for Mechanical Sciences (CISM), Udine, Italy (2006 – ),
Member of General Council of International Association for Computational Mechanics (2004 – ),
Member of Executive Council of German Association for Computational Mechanics (GACM) (2004 – ),
Honorary Member of Technology Network Alliance (TechNet) (2003 – ).

Memberships (selection)

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang A. Wall is a member of the following international und national organizations:

Publications

You can find a comprehensive list of publications by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang A. Wall on the website of the Institute for Computational Mechanics.