Prof. Jože Korelc

Address: University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering,

Jamova 2, 1000-Ljubljana

Tel: +386 41391565

E-mail: jkorelc@fagg.uni-lj.si

Web: symech.fgg.uni-lj.si/korelc/

Born: 5.5.1965, Novo Mesto, Slovenia

 

Prof. Jože Korelc graduated from the University of Ljubljana and finished his PhD at the Darmstadt University of Technology. His research examines an interdisciplinary approach to computational mechanics as synthesis of classical numerical methods and symbolic-algebraic systems. He has published numerous articles on finite element technology for solid and contact problems, material modeling, sensitivity analysis, automatic code generation and the use of symbolic methods in engineering. Prof. Korelc is a primal developer of the software systems AceGen and AceFEM for on-demand numerical code generation and finite element analysis. He has organized four conferences as a president of Slovenian Society of Mechanics and published a book by Springer.

Current positions:
Full Professor at University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering

Mercator Fellow at Institute of Continuum Mechanics, Leibniz University of Hannover

Head of division of structures

Head of research group Structural engineering and building physics

Member of General Council of International association of computational mechanics (IACM), 2012 -

Vice-president of the Scientific Computing Committee at the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences 2012 -

 

Previous positions:

2014-2015  Vice-dean for research and international cooperation,  University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering

2008-2012  Member of General Council of European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS)

2008-2012 President of the Central European Association of Computational Mechanics (CEACM)

10.2010-2.2011 Mercator Visiting Professor at Institute of Continuum Mechanics, Leibniz University of Hannover

2005-2008 Vice-president of Central European Association of Computational Mechanics

2004-2007 President of Slovenian Society of Mechanics

10.-11.2002 Visiting professor, Polish Academy of Science and Technology, Poland

1999 - 2000 Visiting researcher, Institute for Structural and Computational Mechanics, University of Hannover

1994 - 1999 Visiting researcher, Institute of Mechanics, Darmstadt University of Technology

Summer 1999 Exchange visitor, Department of Civil Engineering, North Carolina State University, USA

1990 - 1994 Research position, Institute for Testing and Research in Materials and Structures, Ljubljana, Slovenia

 

Education:

1990 Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Dept. of Civil Engineering

1993 Master of Science in Civil Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Dept. of Civil Engineering; referent Prof. Dr. Jurij Banovec

1996 Doctor Engineer, Institute of Mechanics, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany; referent: Prof. Dr. Peter Wriggers, TH Darmstadt, Germany; co-referent: Prof. Dr. Roger Owen, Swansea, England.

1998 Habilitation in Mechanics and Theory of Structures, University of Ljubljana

 

Invited lectures, awards, scientific committees
2015-2019 - awarded Mercator Fellowships from German Science Fundation

2015 - On the initiative of the Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Prof. Dr. Jože Korelc was invited by the government of Republic of Lithuania as visiting professor.

2011 - awarded Mercator Visiting Professorship from German Science Fundation for the work on the field of automation of computational modelling

2010 - plenary lecture at IV. European Conference on Computational Mechnaics, Pariz, "Automation of Computational Modelling by Automatic Differentiation"

1992 - First price in competition in symbolic programing at the European Mathematica Conference

 

·        10 invited lectures at international conferences

·        23 invited lectures at universities worldwide

·        6 times member of International Scientific Committee at international scientific conferences

 

Supervisor:
- 35 times supervisor of diploma work
- 7 times supervisor of doctoral work

 

Research fields
Prof. Jože Korelc in his research examines an interdisciplinary approach to computational mechanics as synthesis of classical numerical methods and symbolic-algebraic systems. His major research topics are: finite element and finite strip technology, design of symbolic and algebraic systems and automatic programming, material modeling, structural stability and optimization, contact problems, sensitivity analysis, stochastic analysis and multi-scale analysis, general coupled problems, thermo-hydro-mechanical problems.

Commercial products
Prof. Jože Korelc is a primal developer of the commercial software systems AceGen and AceFEM for code generation and finite element analysis (www.fgg.uni-jl.si/symech/). AceGen and AceFEM are supported by the leading software provider in the field of integrated computing Wolfram Research, Inc. (www.wolfram.com/products/thirdparty.html).

Project coordinator
Form 2014 Head of research group Structural engineering and building physics at University of Ljubljana,

 P2-0158, Coordinator of projects founded by Slovenian Ministry of Science and Technology: J2-0935-0792-98, "Numerical algorithm for optimization of metal forming processes", J2-3055-0792 Numerical modelling of low-cycle fatigue of steel structures. Coordinator of bilateral projects: Slovenia-Germany, SLO-GER 2002/8 Finite element library for education and research, Slovenia-Croatia, SLO-HRV 27/03-04, Numerical modeling of low-cyclic fatigue in contact area, Slovenia-Poland, BI-PL/08-09-14, Development of efficient numerical algorithms for advanced constitutive models, Slovenia-Poland 10-11 Development of efficient computational algorithms for multi-scale analysis of microstructured materials.