Title: Recent Developments and Applications of the Generalized Finite Element Method for 3-D Fracture Propagation

Brief CV: C. Armando Duarte is the Nathan Newmark Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Prior to joining the University of Illinois in 2004, Professor Duarte was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alberta, Canada, and a Visiting Professor in the Department of Structural Engineering at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. He has five years of industrial experience (Altair Engineering). Professor Duarte is a Fellow of the United States Associate for Computational Mechanics, and a Fellow of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). Dr. Duarte has made fundamental and sustained contributions to the fields of Computational Mechanics and Methods, in particular to the development of Meshfree, Partition of Unity, and Generalized/Extended Finite Element Methods (G/XFEM). He proposed the first partition of unity method to solve fracture problems (in 1997) and pioneered the use of asymptotic solutions of elasticity equations in the neighborhood of cracks as enrichment functions for this class of methods. Dr. Duarte has published more than 130 scientific articles and book chapters, co-edited two books on computational methods, and co-authored a book on enriched FEMs (Fundamentals of Enriched Finite Element Methods). Dr. Duarte’s group has a history of collaborative research with industry (Boeing, ExxonMobil, GE) and U.S. government agencies such as the Department of Defense (AFOSR and AFRL) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

Title: Recent advances in multiscale modelling of mechanically-induced martensitic transformation.

Brief CV: Eduardo’s research focusses on the modelling and numerical simulation of solids and structures with emphasis on constitutive modelling: from phenomenological approaches to plasticity of metals and geomaterials to advanced multiscale techniques for phenomena such as damaging, phase transformation and other small-scale dissipative mechanisms.

Title: Research in dynamics for railway infrastructure: from computational dynamics to international consensus in codes

Brief CV: Current position: Full professor in structural mechanics, School of Civil Engineering, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid - UPM (Technical University of Madrid). Head of department “Mecánica de medios continuos y teoría de estructuras” (Structural Mechanics). President of Juanelo Turriano Foundation. Professional and academic background: After my university degree and compulsory military service (1980), I developed my PhD thesis at the U. of London 1982-1985. I worked for the private sector in structural engineering in 1981, and computational mechanics within “PRINCIPIA Ingenieros Consultores” and others in 1985-1992. In 1993 I obtained a permanent post as full professor in structural mechanics, where I remain up to date. My research and teaching is centred in structural dynamics, computational mechanics and biomechanics. My early research interests were in nonlinear dynamics of solids. In 1997 I started focusing on the dynamics of railway bridges, with application to the new high speed railway lines. I was commissioned by Spanish government to develop the new engineering code for actions and design criteria for railway bridges (IAPF-07). Subsequently I have been participating within the Eurocode groups in The European Committee for Normalisation (CEN) and the European Union Agency for Railways (ERA), developing new code proposals for the dynamics of bridges. I have served as chairman of the Spanish mirror group for structural Eurocodes (UNE CTN140) until January 2023. In 2000 I started a new research line in biomechanics of soft tissue in cardiovascular applications.

Title: Simulation of the mechanical behavior of laminated composite materials using physical models and artificial intelligence.

Brief CV: Prof. Pedro Camanho, FRAeS (MSc in Mechanical Engineering, UPorto, 1995) received his PhD in Composite Materials from the Department of Aeronautics, Imperial College London, UK, in 1999. He is currently Full Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Porto. Pedro Camanho is the President of the Associated Laboratory in Energy, Transportation and Aeronautics, and member of the Editorial Board of multiple international journals. The main research interests of Pedro Camanho are the mechanics of deformation and fracture of advanced polymer composite materials, and new concepts for lightweight composite materials and structures for aerospace applications such as hybrid, nano-structured, multi-functional, variable-stiffness, morphing, energy-storage and ultra-thin composites. Pedro Camanho was Visiting Scientist at NASA-Langley Research Center and at the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory. He was Visiting Professor at Imperial College London, École Normale Supérieure de Cachan, Brown University and Cambridge University. Pedro Camanho is the recipient of the 2006 NASA - H.J.E. Reid Award for Outstanding Scientific Paper. He also received the 2020 Excellence in Research Award of the University of Porto, and the Career Award from the Portuguese Society of Fatigue and Structural Integrity.

Title: Recent developments on the long-term analysis of shells for application on eolic blades

Brief CV: Paulo de Mattos Pimenta was born in São Paulo in 1954. In 1976 he graduated in Civil Engineering in the first place at the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo (EPUSP) and in 1978, at the same institution, he completed his master's degree with distinction and honors, under the supervision from Prof. Decius of Zagottis. In 1982 at the University of Stuttgart, under the guidance of Prof. John Argyris, one of the creators of the Finite Element Method, achieved a Doctor of Aerospace Engineering degree. In 1989 he became Full Professor at EPUSP, where he still teaches and conducts research. He is the leader of the John Argyris Center for Computational Methods in Engineering at EPUSP since 2007. His field of Teaching and Research is Computational Mechanics of Structures, Solids and Materials. After his PhD, he was Visiting Professor at the University of Stuttgart (1983), at Stanford University (1990), at the Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon (1997) and at the Leibniz University of Hanover (LUH) in 2000. In 2006 he was awarded by DFG with a Mercator Chair at LUH, where he spent the year teaching and researching. In 2008 he coordinated and taught at the CISM in Udine, Italy, the course New trends in thin structures: formulations, optimization and coupled problems. He was president of the Brazilian Association of Computational Mechanics (ABMEC) from 2000 to 2003. Now he belongs to its Executive Board. He is a member of the editorial board of 4 scientific journals, including Computational Mechanics and Latin-American Journal of Solids and Structures. In 1988 he became a member of the São Paulo State Academy of Sciences. He received the following awards: Prize Conde Armando Álvares Penteado da Universidade de São Paulo and the Prize Belgo-Mineira for being the best student at EPUSP in 1977, Preis der Freunde der Universität Stuttgart für besondere wissenschaftliche Leistungen for the best thesis from the University of Stuttgart in 1983. In 2012, he organized the X WCCM (10th World Congress on Computational Mechanics) in São Paulo, with more than 2000 participants from all over the world. In 2014 he won the IACM Fellow Award. In 2015 he received the Georg Forster Award from the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He was the first Engineer and Brazilian to receive such distinction. For this he was received by Germany´s President. In 2016 he received a Sorbonne Chair at the Sorbonne Universités in Paris, where he spent the year teaching and researching. In 2017 he coordinated and taught the course Novel Finite Element Technologies at CISM, Udine, Italy. He has published 4 books and more than 80 papers in scientific journals as well as more than 100 papers in scientific congresses. He has supervised 35 Masters in Brazil and 2 in Germany (Stuttgart and Munich). He has supervised 35 PhDs at EPUSP, 3 at the IST of the University of Lisbon and 2 at the University of Duisburg-Essen. He currently supervises 5 doctorates in Brazil. In 2013 he received the top degree (1A) from CNPq for his research on Civil Engineering in Brazil. His current h-index is 22.

Title: Progress in Scientific Machine Learning for Computational Mechanics

Brief CV: Alvaro L.G.A. Coutinho got a master's and DSc (1987) in Civil Engineering from The Alberto Luiz Coimbra Institute for Graduate Studies and Research in Engineering (COPPE), The Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he is a professor since 1998. He served in various positions at COPPE. He is currently Coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Area of Computational Engineering and Science at COPPE. He is the recipient of an IBM Faculty Partnership Award, 2001, the J. Tinsley Oden Faculty Fellowship at UT Austin in 2004, and the Giulio Massarani Academic Award, COPPE, in 2007. In 2012 he was the recipient of the International Association of Computational Mechanics Fellow Award. Prof. Coutinho has organized national and international conferences, training workshops and short courses, serving in scientific committees of many conferences, including the Supercomputing Conference, the SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing, VECPAR, Finite Elements in Flow Problems, the US National Congress on Computational Mechanics, the World Congress on Computational Mechanics. Prof. Coutinho serves on the Executive Committee of the International Association of Computational Mechanics and in the Brazilian Association for Computational Methods in Engineering. Prof. Coutinho is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering and on the advisory board of the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids. He coordinated over 80 industry projects. Prof Coutinho directed 33 PhD thesis and 37 MSc dissertations. He is the author of 136 peer-reviewed journal papers and over 450 conference papers. He was the PI of the Brazil- Europe Project “HPC4E High Performance Computing for Energy” from 2017-2020. He is currently the PI of the Thematic Network in Artificial Intelligence for Renewable Energy and Climate Change, supported by the Rio de Janeiro State Agency for Research.

Title: Experiences in high performance computational mechanics

Brief CV: Guillaume Houzeaux studied physics at the Université de Montréal, Canada. After his Batchelor studies, he joined Prof. Habashi's CFD group at Concordia University, Montréal, to start working in CFD and turbulence modeling, and obtained a Master of Applied Science in 1995. Afterwards he moved to Barcelona and carried out a PhD in Domain Decomposition methods applied to CFD at the Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain, under the supervision of Ramon Codina. Since 2005, he's leading the physical and numerical modelling group at Barcelona Supercomputing Centre. His research focuses on High Performance Computational Mechanics, in particular CFD. He's one of the main architect of Alya simulation code, one of the two CFD codes of the Unified European Application Benchmark Suite. He's also one of the co-funders of BSC spin-off, Elem Bio tech.

Title: Reduced Order Modelling in Computational Fluid Dynamics: state of the art, challenges and perspectives

Brief CV: Gianluigi Rozza is professor in Numerical Analysis and Scientific computing at International School for Advanced Studies -SISSA, Trieste, Italy. Phd in Applied Mathematics at EPFL in 2005, MSc in Aerospace Engineering at Politecnico di Milano in 2002, post-doc at MIT. At SISSA he is the coordinator of SISSA mathematics area, lecturer in the master in High Performance Computing, in the master degree in Mathematics, as well as in data science and scientific computing. He is SISSA Director’s delegate for Valorisation, Innovation, Technology Transfer and Industrial Cooperation. His research is mostly focused in numerical analysis and scientific computing, developing reduced order methods. Author of more than 150 scientific publications (editor of 8 books and author of 3 books). Co-advisor of 40 master thesis, co-director/director of 20 PhD theses since 2009. Principal Investigator of the European Research Council Consolidator Grant (H2020) AROMA-CFD and PoC ARGOS (HE), as well as for the project FARE-AROMA-CFD funded by Italian Government. Within SISSA mathLab he is responsible of several industrial projects with companies such as Danieli, Electrolux, Wartsila and Fincantieri. He is member of the Applied Mathematics Committee of European Mathematical Society.