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Education:

• Dr.-Ing. habil. degree, 1980, University of Stuttgart, Germany (Prof. John H. Argyris).
• Habilitation: Finite Element Discretization of Quasistatic Problems in Space and Time (in german).
• Ph.D. degree, 1969, University of California Berkeley, California (Prof. Alex S. Scordelis).
• Dissertation: Finite Element Analysis of Cellular Structures.
  M.S. degree, 1966, California State University San Jose, California (Prof. William Lorell).
• M.S. Thesis: An Experimental Study of Combined Torsion and Bending in Reinforced Concrete
  Beams.
• Dipl.-Ing. degree, 1964, Technical University Vienna, Austria.

Honors and Distinctions:

• Member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE Class of 2004).
• Nathan M. Newmark Medal Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, ASCE, 2003.
• Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, F. ASCE, 2001.
• Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, F. ASME, 1999.
• AvH Fellow, Alexander von Humboldt Research Award, Bonn, Germany, 1998.

Professional Affiliations:

• National Academy of Engineering, NAE
• American Society of Civil Engineering, ASCE
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers, ASME
• American Concrete Institute, ACI
• Gesellschaft f¨ur Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik, GAMM
• American Academy of Mechanics, AAM
• US Association of Computational Mechanics, USACM
• Intl. Association for Fracture Mechanics of Concrete Materials and Structures, IAFraMCoS

Interests:

• Computational Failure Mechanics, Finite Element Analysis, Interface Modeling.
• Mechanics of Materials, Plasticity, Elastic Damage, Poromechanics, Thermohydromechanics.
• Localization Analysis of Cohesive-Frictional Materials, Thermal Degradation of Concrete Materials, Seismic Response of Masonry Infill Walls.