Technical Committee for Multibody Dynamics

Mission & Organization
The Committee intends to promote the activity of the international multibody community and to serve as a communication channel among its members.
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Leadership
Function | Name | Affiliation |
Chair |
Prof. Francisco González
Universidade da Coruña f.gonzalez@udc.es |
Laboratorio de Ingeniería Mecánica - CITENI
Campus Industrial Ferrol Universidade da Coruña 15403 - Ferrol SPAIN |
Deputy chair |
Prof. Pascal Ziegler
Universität Stuttgart pascal.ziegler@itm.uni-stuttgart.de |
Institute of Engineering and Computational Mechanics
Universität Stuttgart Pfaffenwaldring 9, 4th Floor 70569 Stuttgart GERMANY |
Chair Secretariat |
Prof. Xinxin Yu
Tampere University xinxin.yu@tuni.fi |
Automation Technology and Mechanical Engineering
Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences Hervanta Campus of Tampere University Korkeakoulunkatu 6 33720 Tampere FINLAND |
Members
MO
|
Name | Affiliation |
Armenia | Prof. Oleg Gasparyan |
State Engineering University of Armenia |
Australia | Dr. Ross McAree |
University of Queensland |
Austria | Prof. Andreas Müller |
Johannes Kepler Universität |
Brazil | Prof. Maira Martins Da Silva |
University of Sao Paulo |
Brazil | Prof. Tarcisio-Antonio Hess-Coelho |
Universidade de Sao Paulo |
Canada | Prof. Józef Kovecses |
McGill University |
Canada | Prof. John McPhee |
University of Waterloo |
Canada | Prof. Maxime Raison | Polytechnique Montréal |
Czech Republic | Prof. Michael Valasek |
Czech Technical University |
Czech Republic | Prof. Dr. Sc. Jaroslav Zapomel |
VSB-Technical University of Ostrava |
Czech Republic | Dr. Pavel Polach |
Research and Testing Institute Plzen s.r.o |
Egypt | Prof. Said Megahed |
Cairo University |
Finland | Prof. Aki Mikkola |
Lappeenranta University of Technology |
France | Dr.-Ing. Belhassen Chedli Bouzgarrou |
Institut Français de Mécanique Avancée |
Germany | Prof. Werner Schiehlen |
Unversity of Stuttgart |
Germany | Dr. Pascal Ziegler |
University of Stuttgart |
Hungary | Dr. Gabor Erdos |
Hungarian Academy of Sciences |
Hungary | Prof. Gabor Stepan |
Budapest University of Technology and Economics |
Hungary | Dr. László Bencsik |
Budapest University of Technology and Economics |
Hungary | Dr. Ambrus Zelei |
Budapest University of Technology and Economics |
India | Dr. Pushparaj M. Pathak |
Indian Institute of Technology |
India | Prof. Subir Kumar Saha |
Indian Institute of Technology New Delhi |
Italy | Dr. Giuseppe Carbone |
University of Calabria |
Italy | Prof. Rosario Sinatra |
Universita di Catania |
Italy | Dr. Giovanni Gerardo Muscolo | Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Trento |
Japan | Prof. Yoshiaki Terumichi |
Sophia University |
Kazakhstan | Prof. Assylbek Jomartov |
Institute of Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering |
Mexico | Prof. Mario Acevedo |
Universidad Panamericana |
Netherlands | Dr. Ir. Arend L. Schwab |
Delft University of Technology |
Poland | Prof. Marek Wojtyra |
Warsaw University of Technology |
Poland | Prof. Janusz Fraczek |
Warsaw University of Technology |
Portugal | Prof. Jorge Ambrosio |
Technico Lisboa |
Portugal | Prof. Paulo Flores |
University of Minho |
Slovakia | Prof. Hucko Branislav |
STU |
Slovakia | Prof. Dr. Stefan Segla |
Technical University of Liberec |
South Korea | Prof. Sung-Soo Kim |
Chungnam National University |
South Korea | Prof. Jin H. Choi | Kyung Hee University |
Spain | Prof. Josep M. Font-Llagunes |
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya |
Spain | Dr. Andres Rovira |
Universitat Politecnica de Valencia |
Spain | Prof. Jose L. Escalona |
University of Seville |
Spain | Dr. Fancisco Javier Gonzalez Varela |
Universidade da Coruña |
Spain | Prof. Dr. -Eng. Eduardo Corral Abad |
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid |
USA | Prof. Ahmed Shabana |
University of Illinois at Chicago |
USA | Prof. Kurt Anderson |
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
USA | Prof. Olivier Bauchau |
University of Michigan–Shanghai Jiaotong University Joint Institute |
USA | Prof. Dan Negrut | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
United Kingdom | Prof. Homer Rahnejat |
Loughborough University |
Vietnam | Prof. Nguyen Van Khang |
Hanoi University of Technology (DHBK) |
Vietnam | Dr.-Ing. Pham Anh Tuan |
Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST) |
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