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Two Unite! visiting professors at etit

Felix Siebenhühner and Klaus Roppert will strengthen the department in the coming winter semester

2024/09/02 by

Felix Siebenhühner from Aalto University and Klaus Roppert from TU Graz will be researching and teaching in the winter semester 2024/25 as part of the Unite! Visiting Professorship Program at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology. The programme aims to attract outstanding international talent in order to promote interdisciplinarity in teaching and didactic innovation through international experience.

The two visiting professors will supplement teaching in the department with their own courses. Klaus Roppert will offer the course Finite Element Formulations for Magnetic Materials. Contents include linear and anhysteretic electromagnetics, ferromagnetic constitutive modelling, hysteretic electromagnetics in the lecture and the implementation of a vector hysteresis model in existing (simple) FEM code in the associated exercise. In his research he will work closely with Professor Schöps and Professor De Gersem.

In his course Clinical applications of brain imaging, stimulation, and modelling (also lecture + exercise), Felix Siebenhühner gives a broad overview of established and new techniques of brain imaging, brain stimulation and computer modelling and, in particular, their clinical applications.

The two visiting professors will supplement teaching in the department with their own courses. Klaus Roppert will offer the course ‘Finite Element Formulations for Magnetic Materials’. Contents include linear and anhysteretic electromagnetics, ferromagnetic constitutive modelling, hysteretic electromagnetics in the lecture and the implementation of a vector hysteresis model in existing (simple) FEM code in the associated exercise. In his research he will work closely with Professor Schöps and Professor De Gersem.

Klaus Roppert studied mechanical engineering at TU Wien, where he also completed his PhD. During his studies, he worked as a student assistant at the Institute of Mechanics and Mechatronics at TU Wien and took on a project assistant role there after completing his Master's degree. Since 2020, he has headed the Group for Multiphysical Modelling and Simulation at TU Graz. There he set up the Magnetic Material Laboratory and developed, among other things, characterisation methods for hard and soft magnetic materials as well as measurement systems for magnetic quantities and identified magnetic material parameters for hysteresis models.