Prof. Marek Behr obtained his Bachelor’s and Ph.D. degrees in Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics from the
University of
Minnesota in Minneapolis. After faculty positions at Minnesota and at Rice University in Houston, he was
appointed in
2004 as a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and holder of the Chair for Computational Analysis of
Technical Systems
(CATS) at the RWTH Aachen University in Germany. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Rice and a frequent
Guest Professor
at Chuo University in Tokyo. Behr advises or has advised over 65 doctoral students, and has published over
95 refereed
journal articles and a similar number of conference publications and book chapters. Behr is one of the main
developers
of the stabilized space-time finite element formulation for deforming-domain flow problems. He is an expert
on
physiological model development and on numerical methods for non-Newtonian fluids. He is a member of
advisory and
editorial boards of international journals, of the executive council of the International Association for
Computational
Mechanics (IACM), and of the ECCOMAS Managing Board. He is serving as the President of the German
Association for
Computational Mechanics (GACM). In 2014, he was the recipient of the IACM Fellow award.
