Richard-von-Mises Prize

Call for the Richard-von-Mises Prize 2024

Since 1989, the Richard-von-Mises Prize is awarded every year by GAMM to a scientist for exceptional scientific achievements in the field of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics.
Traditionally, GAMM will present the prize during the opening ceremony of the GAMM Annual Meeting and the prize winner will present her/his research in a plenary talk.
The aim of the prize is to reward and encourage young scientists whose research represents a major advancement in the field of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics. The price includes a certificate, a biennial free membership in the GAMM e.V. and a donation of 2000 Euro. To accommodate the width of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, the prize committee may decide to split the prize (and therefore the prize money) in equal parts to two persons.

Richard von Mises
(April 19, 1883 – July 14, 1953)

Laureates

YearRichard-von-Mises Awardees
In appreciation for excellent scientific achievements in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics
Proposer
2023Prof. Dr. Ruming Zhang
in appreciation of her outstanding contributions on modeling, theory, and numerics for direct and inverse scattering problems for periodic structures.
Prof. Dr. Andreas Kirsch
2022Jun.-Prof. Dr. Matti Schneider
in appreciation of his outstanding works on Computational Micromechanics.
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Böhlke
2021Dr.-Ing. Silvia Budday
in appreciation of her outstanding work on continuum-biomechanical modeling of the ultra-soft material class of brain tissue
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Paul Steinmann,
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Tim Ricken, Prof. Dr. Oliver Röhrle
Dr. Thomas Berger
in appreciation of his outstanding contributions on adaptive control of nonlinear and infinite-dimensional systems and its application to problems from, inter alia, multibody dynamics.
Prof. Dr. Achim Ilchmann
2020
Dr. Elisa Davoli
in appreciation of her outstanding work on calculus of variations and nonlinear partial differnetial equations and their application to complex problem in material science.

Univ.-Prof., PhD Ulisse Stefanelli
Dr.-Ing. Fadi Aldakheel
in appreciation of his outstanding contributions on damage modeling using innovative phase field approaches within the method of virtual elements.
Prof. Dr.-Ing.
Peter Wriggers
2019Dr. Dietmar Gallistl
in appreciation of his outstanding work on the Discretization of high-order elliptic problems.
Prof. Dr.
Carsten Carstensen
Dr.-Ing. Philipp Junker
in appreciation of his outstanding contributions to the continuum mechanical modeling of complex solid materials.
Prof. Dr.
Klaus Hackl
2018Prof. Dr. Marc Avila
in appreciation of his outstanding work on the dynamical-system approach to the turbulence problem.
Prof. Dr.
André Thess

2017Prof. Dr.-Ing. Benjamin Klusemann
in appreciation of his outstanding work on the numerical modelling of heterogeneous material behaviour in technological processes with experimental validation.
Prof. Dr.
Bob Svendsen
Prof. Dr. Christian Kuehn
in appreciation of his outstanding results on instabilities and patterns in stochastic and multiscale systems obtained by merging analytical and numerical approaches to nonlinear dynamics.
Prof. Dr.
Anton Arnold
2016Prof. Dr.-Ing. Josef Kiendl
in appreciation of his outstanding results in Isogeometric Analysis and modelling of thin structures.
Prof.
Alessandro Reali
Dr. Martin Stoll
in appreciation of his outstanding results on the iterative solution of time-dependent PDE-constrained optimisation problems and the efficient preconditioning of the resulting optimality systems.
Prof. Dr.
Peter Benner
2015Prof. Dominik Schillinger
in appreciation of his pioneering work on immersed methods with weakly imposed boundary conditions, spline-based collocation methods, and hierarchical refinement schemes for Galerkin and spline-based finite element methods.
Prof.
Thomas J.R. Hughes
Prof. Dr. Siddhartha Mishra
in appreciation of his arbitrarily high-order accurate numerical methods for multi-dimensional systems of hyperbolic conservation laws and their applications in fluid dynamics and astrophysics.
Prof. Dr.
Rolf Jeltsch
2014Jun.-Prof. Dr. Irwin Yousept
in appreciation for his results on the analysis and numerical methods for the optimal control of systems of partial differential equations, in particular the Maxwell equations.
Prof. Dr.
Fredi Tröltzsch
2013Jun.-Prof. Christian Linder, Ph.D.
Computational Homogenization of Random Network Microstructures in Soft Materials.
Prof. Dr.-Ing.
Christian Miehe
Dr.-Ing. Dennis M. Kochmann
Understanding and exploiting mechanical instabilities in composite materials.
Prof. Dr.
Hans G. Hornung
2012Jun.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Swantje Bargmann
Modeling of (poly) crystalline plasticity and latent solidification.
Prof. Dr.
Bob Svendsen
2011Jun.-Prof. Oliver Röhrle, Ph.D.
Cross-scale modeling in the field of biomechanics with application to the skeletal muscles.
Prof. Dr.-Ing.
Wolfgang Ehlers
2010Prof. Dr. Ulisse Stefanelli
Mathematical analysis of nonlinear partial differential equations and its application to complex problems of continuum mechanics.
Prof.
Franco Brezzi

Dr.- Ing. Volker Gravemeier
Variational multiscale methods and their application to turbulent flow and combustion problems.
Prof. Dr.-Ing.
Wolfgang A. Wall
2009Dr. Daniel Balzani
Polyconvex strain energy functions and their application in the area of composite structures and bio materials.
Prof. Dr.-Ing
Jörg Schröder
Dr. Bernd Schmidt
Multiscale analysis of plates and multilayer structures by combining methods of weak convergence and relaxation with estimates related to atomistic approaches.
Prof. Dr.
Stefan Müller


2008Prof. Dr. Chiara Daraio
Highly nonlinear behaviour of mechanical systems at the macro- and nano-scale, which improves the design of new composite materials.
Prof. Dr.
Hans G. Hornung
2007Dr. Michael Dumbser
Development of numerical schemes of high order accuracy for linear and nonlinear hyperbolic partial differential equations in complex three-dimensional geometries with applications in geophysical, aeroacoustical and electromagnetical wave propagation.
Prof. Dr.
Claus-Dieter Munz
Dr. Tatjana Stykel
Stability analysis and model reduction for differential-algebraic equations from mathematics, mechanics and electrical engineering.
Prof. Dr.
Volker Mehrmann
2006Dr. Jose Antonio Carrillo
Partial Differential Equations, Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computation.
Montijano
2005Dr. rer. nat. Bernd Rainer Noack
Theoretische Untersuchung der Zylinderströmung mit einem niedrigdimensionalen Galerkin-Verfahren.
Prof. Dr.
André Thess,
Prof. Dr.-Ing.
Jörg Schröder
2004Dr. Mark David Groves
Theory of water waves.
Prof. Dr.
Guido Schneider
2003Dr. rer. nat. Barbara Niethammer
Analysis of Ostwald ripening.
Prof. Dr.
Stefan Müller
2002Dr. Britta Nestler
Mathematical-thermodynamic modeling of metallurgical phase transitions.
Sahm
Dr. Xue-Nong Chen
Hydrodynamics of wave generation in shallow water to reduce the wave resistance of ships.
Sharma
2001Univ.-Doz. Dr. Herbert Steinrück
Boundary layers in mixed convection.
Prof. Dr.
Wilhelm Schneider
2000Dr.-Ing. Peter Eberhard
Modeling dynamic contact problems with hybrid multi-body systems.
Prof. Dr.-Ing.
Wernr Schiehlen
Dr. Udo Nackenhorst
Investigations on biomechanics and the dynamics of rolling contact problems.
Prof. Dr.-Ing.
Rolf Lammering
Dr.rer.nat.habil. Martin Rein
Investigation of chemically reacting gas flows and the interaction between droplets and hot surfaces.
Prof. Dr.
Hans G. Hornung
;
Prof. Dr.
Wilhelm Schneider
1999Dr. Michael Ruzicka
Modelling and theoretical investigation of the flow of electrorheological fluids.
Prof. Dr.
Jens Frehse
1998Privatdozent Dr.-Ing. habil. Valery Levitas
Investigations in the fields of micromechanics and continuum mechanics.
Prof. Dr.-Ing.
Erwin Stein
1997Dr.-Ing. Hermann Nirschel
Three – dimensional calculations of the simple shear flowaround a single particle between two moving walls.
Prof. Dr.-Ing.
Antonio Delgado
Dr. Guido Schneider
Investigations on the Ginsburg-Landaue equation.
Prof. Dr.
Alexander Mielke
1996Dr. Franz Marketz
Work on the mathematical-thermodynamic and continuum mechanical description of the phase transition of materials.
Fischer
1995Prof. Dr. Carsten Carstensen
Nonlinear interface in solid mechanics-finite element and boundary element coupling.
Prof. Dr.
Klaus Kirchgäßner
Dr. Michael Fey
A really multidimensional method for solving the Euler equations.
Prof. Dr.
Rolf Jeltsch
Dr. Christiane Tretter
Nonlinear Boundary Eigenvalue Problems.
Langer
1992Dr. Peter Fotin
The dynamic effect of dissipative processes in materials with micro-defects with applications to vibration problems in inelastic plate structures.
Prof. Dr.
Franz Ziegler
1991Dr. Tobias von Petersdorff
Boundary value problems of elasticity theory for polyhedron singularities and approximation with boundary element methods.
Meister
1989Dr. Alexander Mielke
Saint-Venaut’s Problem and Semi-Inverse Solutions in Nonlinear Elasticity.
Prof. Dr.
Klaus Kirchgäßner