Mission & Organization
IFToMM Young Faculty Group wish you all happy holidays!
The Cross-Disciplinary “IFToMM Young Faculty Group” seeks to join young professors and lecturers from all the world involved in topics covered by IFToMM and to unveil the opportunities and networks in academia that can emanate from the corresponding research fields. Possible fields of activities are workshops with information and experience exchange, presentation of new ideas for shaping modern faculty positions related to IFToMM, presentation of research networks and their potential of international cooperation, and networking across world borders for common projects with future.
To this end, we are launching a survey, so we can identify what moves a young faculty. You can help us answering it here.
Next meeting of the IFToMM Young Faculty Group will take place online on March 5, 2026 at 13:00 hrs CEST. If you want to participate, please send an email to cdg2youngfacultygroup@iftomm-world.org with the subject “Meeting IFToMM YFG”. In the body of the email, please indicate your name, country, institution and a brief introduction about yourself. Then, you will receive an invitation later on. đ
Watch our teaser here!
Upcoming events:
EFI^(MMS) Symposium: In this symposium, the Young Faculty Group joins with the Women’s Group and the Graduate’s Group to share high level research and power up our community. We want to broaden our network together, yours and ours, so we can advance as professors and researchers. Call for papers here. Let us meet in Monastir, Tunisia on April 15-17, 2026!
Past events:
Workshop: Mechanism Synthesis with Excel, Prof. Eres Söylemez, Middle East Technical University, Turkiye, Dates: 30.09.2024 and 01.10.2024
1st IFToMM YFG-MMS: The IFToMM Young Faculty Group Symposium on Emerging Fields in Mechanism and Machine Science is a space for young faculty members for presenting high level research and networking. The 1st version of this conference was held online between Nov. 19-21. To see the abstracts accepted for the symposium, click here.
Leadership
| Function | Name | Affiliation |
| Chair |
Prof. Claudio Villegas University of BĂo-BĂo cvillegas@ubiobio.cl |
Department of Mechanical Engineering University of BĂo-BĂo ConcepciĂłn, RegiĂłn BiobĂo CHILE |
| Chair Secretariat | Jiang Ming | Tokyo Institute of Technology |
Members
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Name | Affiliation |
| TĂŒrkiye | Onur Denizhan | Batman University |
| Spain | Pau CatalĂ | Universitat PolitĂšcnica de Catalunya, UPC |
| Japan | Jiang Ming | Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| China | Qizhi Meng | Tsinghua University |
| Poland | MichaĆ Olinski | Wroclaw University of Science and Technology |
| Germany | Francisco Geu Flores | University of Duisburg-Essen |
| Italy | Giovanni Mottola | University of Messina |
| MĂ©xico | Maria G. Contreras C. | TecnolĂłgico de Monterrey/UTEQ |
| Mexico | Omar Mendoza Trejo | Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences |
| India | Shanmukha Sundaram V R | GMR Institute of Technology |
| Japan | Sajjad Keshtkar | Tokyo Metropolitan University |
| Germany | Tobias Bruckmann | University of Duisburg-Essen |
| PerĂș | Daniel Lavayen-Farfan | Pontificia Universidad CatĂłlica del PerĂș (PUCP) |
| Portugal | Filipe Marques | University of Minho |
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