Glocker, Christoph, Prof.

Center of Mechanics (Institute for mechanical Systems)

 

Areas of Interest:

• Mechanics, Structures and Manufacturing

Biography
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Christoph Glocker has been Extraordinarius for Mechanics at the Institute of Mechanical Systems at ETH Zurich since March 2001. He was promoted to Full Professor in January 2006. Christoph Glocker was born on May 30, 1962 in Munich. He studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Munich. After receiving his diploma in 1989, he worked as a research assistant at the Institute B of Mechanics and wrote his doctoral thesis under the guidance of Professor F. Pfeiffer. In 1996 he received a Feodor Lynen Fellowship supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and spent one year at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki working with Professor P.D. Panagiotopoulos on hemivariational inequality problems in dynamics. After this stay, he returned in 1997 to the Institute B of Mechanics as a senior engineer. In 2001, he obtained the Certificate of Habili-tation in Mechanics with a postdoctoral thesis devoted to non-smooth dynamics. A central point in his research is non-smooth dynamics of mechanical systems with finite degrees of freedom which includes, for example, the friction and impact problem in multibody systems, and which must be regarded as a generalization of classical mechanics. He is interested in both, theoretical and practical questions concerning the mechanical modeling, the mathematical formulation, and the numerical treatment of systems with discontinuities, as well as their applications to industrial problems.