Laura De Lorenzis received her PhD from the University of Lecce, where she was promoted to Assistant and later Associate Professor of Solid and Structural mechanics. In 2013 she moved to the TU Braunschweig, Germany, as Professor and Director of the Institute of Applied Mechanics. Since February 2020 she is full Professor of Computational Mechanics at ETH Zurich. She has been awarded with a number of prizes, including the RILEM L’Hermite Medal 2011, the AIMETA Junior Prize 2011, the IIFC Young Investigator Award 2012, an ERC Starting Grant and is elected Euromech Solid Mechanics Fellow 2022. Her research interests lie in the area of computational and applied mechanics.

After studying civil engineering at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum and completing his PhD in the field of mechanics (1986), Otto von Estorff spent one year as a visiting scientist at MIT, Cambridge, USA. From there, he changed to the consulting company IABG in Ottobrunn (near Munich), where he worked for seven years as a project manager and later on as the department head. In 1997, Otto von Estorff accepted a call of the Hamburg University of Technology, where he heads the Institute of Modelling and Computation until today. In order to put his research focus in the fields of acoustics and vibrations into practice, he founded (in 2003, together with two colleagues) an own consulting company which is meanwhile well-established as a reliable partner for industrial projects in the mentioned areas. Otto von Estorff is author/co-author of more than 450 scientific publications, reviewer of various funding organizations as well as journals, and a member of several scientific societies.

Tobias Kaiser studied Mechanical Engineering with emphasis on Continuum Mechanics and Simulation Technologies at TU Dortmund University, where he received his M.Sc. degree in 2015. Focusing on the modelling of non-simple and anisotropic continua, he continued his studies as a Ph.D. student in the group of Prof. Andreas Menzel and obtained his doctoral degree in 2019. During his studies, he had the opportunity to spend some time as a visiting researcher with Prof. Panayiotis Papadopoulos at the University of California, Berkeley and with Prof. Samuel Forest at Mines ParisTech.

Today, Tobias Kaiser’s research focuses on computational multiscale methods and microscale mechanics. In particular, he develops efficient multiscale simulation techniques as a member of Prof. Marc Geer’s group at Eindhoven University of Technology, and studies multiscale modelling approaches for electrical conductors as a principal investigator in the CRC/Transregio 188 and a member of Prof. Andreas Menzel’s group at TU Dortmund University.

Maximilian Grill holds a Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering  as well as a Bachelor's degree in Management and Technology from the  Technical University of Munich (TUM). He pursued his PhD studies in the  field of computational biophysics at the Institute for Computational  Mechanics (Prof. Wolfgang A. Wall) at TUM and graduated in 2020. During  his study abroad and his research stays, he spent some time at the  Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane and the University of  California in Los Angeles. Dr. Grill's dissertation entitled  "Computational Models and Methods for Molecular Interactions of  Deformable Fibers in Complex Biophysical Systems" was awarded the "Best  PhD Award 2020" by GACM and the "Department Prize - Dissertation 2021"  by the Department for Mechanical Engineering at TUM.