Dr. Roland Pellenq, Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France
Roland J.-M. Pellenq is highly acknowledged as one of the global leaders in the multiscale modelling of complex porous materials such as clays in geological formations, energy storage materials but also materials relevant to the built infrastructure as for example concrete. Further, he is one of the pioneers of a new field of research called Urban Physics, which simulates urban processes, such as the transport of heat, water or air in an urban environment by adapting physics based modelling techniques originally developed for nano-scale simulations. During his stay in Germany, he intends to investigate the usage of carbon nanoparticles as to functionalize mineral building materials and in order to increase the sustainability of the latter.
Dr. Pellenq is hosted by Professor Michael Haist, Institute for Building Materials Science, at Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany.
Distinguished Professor Jianbing Chen from Tongji University, China
Professor Chen is a globally leading researcher in stochastic mechanics and reliability theory, particularly in structural engineering. He has made ground-breaking contributions to time dependent reliability analysis of high-dimensional nonlinear stochastic systems, revealing physics of failure modes and being of significant value for design and decision making. During his stay in Germany, he will explore novel pathways for risk reduction and resilient design of complex infrastructure systems.
Professor Chen is hosted by Professor Michael Beer at the Institute for Risk and Reliability.
Prof. Bruno Sudret, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Professor Bruno Sudret (ETH Zürich) is a world-leading authority in reliability analysis and uncertainty quantification in engineering. He has made important contributions in the development of surrogate modelling techniques such as sparse polynomial chaos expansions, global sensitivity analysis and active learning methods for reliability and reliability-based design. During his stay in Germany, he will explore new uncertainty quantification methods for complex hierarchical networks with application to the resilience of infrastructure systems.
Professor Sudret is hosted by Professor Michael Beer at the Institute for Risk and Reliability.
Another award winner who will be conducting research at Leibniz Universität Hannover is Prof. Dr. Kevin C. Elliott, Professor of Philosophy at Michigan State University. His host is Prof. Dr. Mathias Frisch, Director of the Institute of Philosophy and Co-Director of the DFG-funded research training group SOCRATES.
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