Plenary Lectures

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Vikram Deshpande is a professor of Materials Engineering at the University of Cambridge. He has also served on the faculty at the University of California, Santa Barbara and the Technical University of Eindhoven. Prof. Deshpande has worked primarily in experimental and theoretical solid mechanics and has written 300+ peer-reviewed journal articles with his students and collaborators. He is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids (JMPS). His recognitions include the 2020 Rodney Hill Prize in Solid Mechanics, the 2022 Prager Medal, the 2022 ASME Koiter Medal, the 2024 Bazant Medal ASCE, the 2025 EUROMECH solid mechanics prize and the 2025 ASME Nadai Medal. He has been elected Fellow of the Royal Society, London, the UK Royal Academy of Engineering, and an International Member of the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE).

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Marc Geers is full professor in Mechanics of Materials at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands since 2000. His research interests are in the field of micromechanics, multi-scale mechanics, damage mechanics and mechanics in miniaturization. He published more than 300 journal papers with a significant citation impact. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Mechanics A/Solids, Fellow of the European Mechanics Society, Fellow of the International Association for Computational Mechanics and member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received an ERC Advanced Grant for his research on homogenization and metamaterials. He is the former President and now vice-president of the European Mechanics Society EUROMECH. In 2024, he received the Computational Mechanics Award from IACM and the Leadership in Excellence Award from his home university.

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Stelios Kyriakides received his undergraduate education at the University of Bristol, UK, and earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Aeronautics from the California Institute of Technology, with a specialty in the mechanics of solids. He is Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at The University of Texas at Austin, holds the John Webb Jennings Chair in Engineering, and is director of the Research Center for Mechanics of Solids, Structures and Materials. Kyriakides' major technical interests are in the mechanics of structures and materials, with an emphasis on instability of both structures and materials. His work is motivated by practical problems and usually involves combined experimental, analytical, and numerical efforts. He has approximately 300 publications, has co-authored two books, co-edited 5 books, and has lectured extensively in the US and internationally. He has pioneered propagating instabilities in structures such as offshore pipelines and in materials such as fiber composites, shape memory alloys, cellular materials, wood, Lüders banding in metals. He has made significant contributions to plastic instabilities and crushing of structures, plasticity, forming problems in manufacturing, localization and ductile failure of metals, the mechanical behavior of composites, etc. His service includes: chair of the Executive Committee of the Applied Mechanics Division-ASME, President of the American Academy of Mechanics (AAM), chair of the US National Committee of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Solids and Structures. His recognitions include the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Warner T. Koiter Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Member of the US National Academy of Engineering, and Fellow of ASME and AAM.

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Ricardo Lebensohn is a senior scientist of Los Alamos National Laboratory's (LANL) Theoretical Division, Fluid Dynamics and Solid Mechanics Group. He has worked in the area of structure/property relationships of materials for more than 30 years. He is an expert in crystal plasticity modelling. His contributions include the viscoplastic selfconsistent (VPSC) formulation, a simulation tool for the prediction of mechanical response and microstructure evolution of crystalline aggregates, and the specialization of the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT)-based formulation to polycrystalline materials, ideally suited for numerical simulations with direct input from microstructural images collected by emerging 3-D material characterization methods. He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed journal papers that received more than 18,000 citations. Among several distinctions, he received Germany's Humboldt Research Award for Senior US Scientists (2010); TMS Structural Materials Division Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award (2019), and he was inducted as LANL Laboratory Fellow in 2022.

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Prof. Dr. Erica Lilleodden is the Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Microstructure of Materials and Systems IMWS since February 2022. She is primarily concerned with the nano- and micromechanics of materials and correlations to microstructural characteristics. This serves to deepen an understanding of the application behavior of such materials and contributes to the tailor-made development of materials and multi-scale material systems with specific properties for high-performance applications. Following her bachelor studies in materials science at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities and her Ph.D. at Stanford University, her professional career has included positions at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBL), the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and at the Helmholtz Center Hereon. From 2014 to 2022, she was Professor at the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) and is since 2023 Professor at the Martin Luther University in Halle (Saale). She is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, the Board of Trustees of the Karl Heinz Beckurts Foundation and of the Scientific Advisory Board for the Leibniz-IWT. She was awarded the DGM Prize in 2019 and in 2023 was elected to ACATECH, the National Academy of Science and Engineering.

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Andreas Menzel received the diploma degree in civil engineering from Leibniz University Hanover in 1997. The same year, he moved to the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, TU Kaiserslautern, and received the Dr.-Ing. degree in 2002. He continued as a postdoc and was awarded the Habilitation for Mechanics in 2006. The following year, he held an interim professorship with the University of Siegen. He joined the faculty at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, TU Dortmund University, in 2007 and holds a double affiliation with the Division of Solid Mechanics at Lund University. His main research interests include the fields of computational and continuum mechanics, material and multi-scale modelling, as well as coupled and multi-physics phenomena.

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Błażej Skoczeń (full professor 2008) works at Cracow University of Technology (CUT) since 1984. During 1994–2005 he became associate and scientific staff at European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN, Geneva, where he headed Section working on Large Hadron Collider. In 2006, he was appointed visiting professor at IFMA, Clermont-Ferrand. During 2009–2017 he acted as director of Institute of Applied Mechanics at CUT. During 2013–2023 he became member of Committee for Evaluation of Scientific Units and chairman of Science Evaluation Committee. In 2017 he became member of Board of Directors of CISM, Udine. In 2020 he was elected corresponding member of Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS), and in 2024 regular member of Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. Since 2022 he is in charge of Laboratory of Extremely Low Temperatures at CUT, and since 2024 he acts as chairman of Committee for Mechanics of PAS. He is author of more than 150 publications. His research is focused on constitutive modelling of materials applied near absolute zero.

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Stanisław Stupkiewicz is a professor at the Institute of Fundamental Technological Research (IPPT), Polish Academy of Science in Warsaw, Poland and head of the Department of Mechanics of Materials. He graduated from the Warsaw University of Technology (1989) and received his PhD (1996) and habilitation (2006) at IPPT. Since 2011 he is a full professor. In 2013–2014, he spent one year in Italy as a visiting professor at the University of Trento.
His research interests include micromechanics of interfaces and interface layers, size effects, multiscale modelling of shape memory alloys, phase-field modelling of microstructure evolution, constitutive modelling of contact phenomena, contact mechanics, plasticity, crystal plasticity, and computational mechanics.
Since 2020 he is a corresponding member of the Polish Academy of Science. He is an Editor of Mechanics of Materials, Section Editor of Archives of Mechanics, and member of the editorial boards of Computational Mechanics and Archive of Applied Mechanics.