Computational Structural Mechanics Lab (CSMLab)

Dr Fehmi Cirak   ( / Contact details)

• Dr Cirak is active in research and teaching of computational mechanics. He joined Cambridge in March 2006. Prior to this, he spent five years as an Senior/Associate Scientist at the Center for Advanced Computing Research (CACR) at the California Institute of Technology. He has a PhD in Computational Structural Mechanics from the University of Stuttgart and was a Postoctoral Scholar in Aeronautics at the California Institute of Technology.

Dr Thomas Rüberg   ()

• Thomas joined the group in March 2009 and is working on parallel computational methods for fluid-membrane interaction. Thomas has engineering degrees in civil engineering and computational mechanics from Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany, and obtained his PhD at Graz University of Technology, Austria. Among his previous research topics were the simulation of bone remodelling and the coupling of finite and boundary element methods for non-conforming interface discretizations. Find more on his personal webpage.

Dr Burkhard Bornemann   ()

• Burkhard joined the group in December 2009. He has an undergraduate degree in civil engineering from University of Stuttgart and a PhD in computational mechanics from Imperial College. Before coming to Cambridge he was a Staff Scientist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Technical University of Munich. His research areas are isogeometric analysis using subdivision and computational fluid-membrane interaction.

Dr Jakub Sistek   ()

• Jakub joined the group in February 2011 and is on leave from his permanent research position at the Institute of Mathematics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. He completed his undergraduate, master and PhD studies at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Czech Technical University. His current research focus is on domain decomposition techniques for large-scale, massively parallel finite element simulation of incompressible flows and solids.

Kosala Bandara   ()

• Kosala joined the group in October 2008. He has an undergraduate degree in structural engineering from Moratuwa University (Sri Lanka). His research is on the integration of geometric design and finite element analysis with a view towards computational structural optimisation.

Matija Kecman   ()

• Matija finished his MEng in our Department and joined the group in October 2010. His MEng project was on on physical simulation and animation using the GPU. In his PhD, Matija will be doing research on computational fluid-structure interaction and high-performance computing.

Ray Rui   ()

• Ray began his Phd in October 2010 and is working jointly with Prof Kenichi Soga and Dr Fehmi Cirak. Before coming to Cambridge, he was first an undergraduate and then a graduate student at Tongji University in China. Ray's research is on thermo-hydro-mechanical coupled simulation of geothermal energy extraction systems, such as energy piles.