My research field is micromechanics of materials. The general objective of the field is to provide quantitative relations between the structure of materials on a "microscopic" scale and their "macroscopic" mechanical properties, i.e. the so-called structure-property relationships. Computational modelling is a key step in developing such relationships.
This research is carried out together with a number of Ph.D. students and post-docs, as one can see in the Micromechanics Home Page. What this has led to so far, can be found on the list of publications.
| May 12, 1959 | Born in Rotterdam |
| 1971 – 1977 | High school education at De Lage Waard in Papendrecht |
| October 31, 1983 | Mechanical engineering degree (M.Sc.) from Delft University of Technology |
| September 24, 1987 | Ph.D. from the same university. Title of thesis "Models in nonlinear thermomechanics: finite element models and constitutive models for large deformation elastoplasticity" |
| 1988-1991 | Research Fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) |
| 1988 | visiting research scientist at the Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Department of Solid Mechanics (prof. Viggo Tvergaard). |
| 1992 – 2000 | Professor of Continuous Media and New Materials at Delft University of Technology (first in Mechanical Engineering, from 1997 also in Materials Science). |
| 1993 | visiting professor at Brown University, Providence, R.I., USA (prof. Alan Needleman). |
| 1999 – 2000 | VUB chair of the Free University Brussels, Belgium |
| 2000 | member of Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences |
| 2001 – ... | professor of Micromechanics of Materials at the University of Groningen (department of Applied Physics). |
| 2004 | Fellow of the Institute of Physics |
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