CURRICULUM VITAE:

Alexander Düster studied Mechanical Engineering at the University of Kassel and the University of Manchester. He received his diploma degree from the University of Kassel in 1996. Afterwards, he worked as a research assistant on adaptive nonlinear finite element methods at the University of Dortmund and at TU München. In 2001, he obtained his doctoral degree from TU München, where he continued to work as a post-doc leading a research group on simulation methods in applied mechanics. He visited the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES) at the University of Texas at Austin, USA, as a J.T. Oden Research Faculty Fellowship recipient in 2004 and 2006. In 2006, he received the Venia Legendi for Computational Engineering from TU München. He joined TU Hamburg in 2009, where he became Professor for Numerical Structural Analysis with Application in Ship Technology. His research interests are nonlinear finite element methods, coupled problems, numerical homogenization procedures, and fictitious domain methods. He has published related works in about 250 papers in proceedings and journals. He is a member of the German Association for Computational Mechanics (GACM), the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM) General Council, the International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (GAMM), the German Society for Maritime Technology (STG), and vice chairman of the Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Kontinuumsmechanik e.V. Since 2023, he has been the GAMM representative at TUHH, and since 2025, he has been an elected member of the GAMM managing board. Furthermore, he is Managing Editor of the international journal ‘Computers and Mathematics with Applications’.

Research

• Coupled problems (e.g. fluid-structure interaction)
• Nonlinear Finite Element Methods
• Finite Cell Method (FCM)
• Numerical homogenization methods