Keynote Speakers

Luciano Teresi

Luciano Teresi is member of the Department of Studies on Structures of the University "Roma Tre", and assistant professor at the School of Engineering of the same university since 1998. He is graduated in Aeronautical Engineering at University of Rome "La Sapienza". His Ph.D. concerned Shell Models. His main research lines currently involve Biomechanics (growth and remodeling of living tissues, electromechanical models for the heart), Continuum Physics (liquid crystals, soft elasticity of nematic elastomers) and Solid-Fluid Interaction (moving grid techniques, coupled problems in structural mechanics, sail design). He is an active member of the Italian Research Group in Mathematical Physics (GNFM) and of the Italian Society of Applied and Industrial Mathematics (SIMAI).

Title of his presentation: Electro-Mechanical Modeling of Excitable Soft Tissues

Michel Castaings

Michel Castaings is Professor at the University of Bordeaux 1 since 2005. His research activities concern Evaluation and Non Destructive Control of materials by ultrasonic waves. He founded a professional master on the Non Destructive Control and teaches at the high school MATMECA (Mathematical and Mechanics Modeling). In 1993, his Ph.D. concerned ultrasonic wave propagation in anisotropic and viscoelastic multilayer composites, of which he developed FEM simulations at the Imperial College of London.

Title of his presentation: Dynamic responses of anisotropic viscoelastic material structures

Peter Steeneken

Since 2006 Peter Steeneken is project leader of the RF MEMS Research project by NXP Semiconductors. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Gröningen for studying magnetic and superconducting materials using optical and electron spectroscopy. In 2002, he joined Philips Research and has investigated Micro-Electromechanical Systems (MEMS). His current interests include the design, simulation, reliability and characterization of RF MEMS switches.

Title of his presentation: Parameter Extraction and Support-Loss in MEMS Resonators

Mario Jungwirth

Since 2003 Dr. Mario Jungwirth is a Full-time Professor at the University of Applied Sciences in Wels, Upper Austria. In 2001, he received his Ph.D. in Technical Science from the Johannes Kepler University Linz and was until 2002 head of the development department for passive devices at Infineon Austria in Linz. After a one-year period at the University of Applied Sciences in Villach, Austria as a project leader and lecturer in the field of Analog VLSI Design he joined his actual university as Professor and researcher for electrical and automation engineering. His work focused on micro-electromechanical components for sensors and actuators, its modelling and multiphysics simulation accompanied by verification with measurements.

Title of his presentation: Numerical simulation versus experiments and analytical computation for design optimization.

Friedhelm Schönfeld

Since 2004 Dr. Friedhelm Schönfeld is head of the simulation group in the Fluidics and Simulation department of the Institut für Mikrotechnik Mainz (IMM). After his PhD in theoretical solid-state physics in 1999 at the University of Köln, his major work deals with computational fluid dynamics in the framework of microfluidics. Specifically his main interests concern simulation of free surface flow, wetting and transport and mixing phenomena. He is co-editor of "Microfluidic Technologies for Miniaturized Analysis System" and tutor of several microfluidics courses.

Title of his presentation: CµFD: Simulation of Microfluidic Systems

Magnus Olsson

Dr. Magnus Olsson is currently COMSOL product manager in the area of computational electromagnetics. After his PhD in plasma physics and fusion research from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, he worked as a consulting specialist in electromagnetic computations for the Swedish armed forces. Since 1996 he has been promoting the use of advanced mathematical modeling and design solutions for the industry in COMSOL Multiphysics.

Ed Fontes

Ed Fontes is the Vice President of Applications and responsible for all Modules and Lab products in the COMSOL product lines. He has 10 years experience of modeling transport phenomena in industry and 4 years of supervising research projects in Academia. Ed Fontes received his PhD in electrochemical engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden in 1995.