Prof. Marek Behr obtained his Bachelor's and Ph.D. degrees in Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. After faculty positions at Minnesota and at Rice University in Houston, he was appointed in 2004 as a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and holder of the Chair for Computational Analysis of Technical Systems (CATS) at the RWTH Aachen University in Germany. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Rice and a frequent Guest Professor at Chuo University in Tokyo. Behr advises or has advised over 65 doctoral students, and has published over 95 refereed journal articles and a similar number of conference publications and book chapters. Behr is one of the main developers of the stabilized space-time finite element formulation for deforming-domain flow problems. He is an expert on physiological model development and on numerical methods for non-Newtonian fluids. He is a member of advisory and editorial boards of international journals, of the executive council of the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM), and of the ECCOMAS Managing Board. He is serving as the President of the German Association for Computational Mechanics (GACM). In 2014, he was the recipient of the IACM Fellow award.

Martin J. Gander, was born on January 12, 1967, in Saanen (BE), Switzerland. Education: Diploma in Computer Science ETH Zürich1994; Master in Mathematics from Stanford University 1995; PhD in Scientific Computing and Computational Mathematics from Stanford University 1997, supervisor A.M. Stuart. Postdoctoral Fellow at Ecole Polytechnique in Paris from 1998-1999. Assistant and associate professor with tenure at McGill University in Montreal from 1999-2004. Since then, full Professor of Mathematics at the University of Geneva. Vice Dean of the Faculty of Science from 2009 to 2022. SIA Fondation Sciences Mathmématiques de Paris M Fellow 2020, Jean-Morlet Chair of the CIRM 2022, Fondation Sciences Mathématiques de Paris (FSMP) Chair 2023. Research interests: Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing, Numerical Linear Algebra and Parallel Computing, Preconditioning.

Gunilla Kreiss was born 1958 in Stockholm, Sweden. Education: Master in Engineering Physics, KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), Sweden 1982, PhD in Numerical Analysis, KTH, 1986. Positions: at KTH 1987-2006 (postdoctor, associate professor 1993, full professor 2003), Full professor in Numerical Analysis at Uppsala University since 2006. Editor-in-Chief of BIT Numerical Mathematics since 2017. Research interest: numerical analysis for initial boundary value problems for PDE’s modelling wave phenomena.

Prof. Xavier Oliver is presently Emeritus Professor at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC). His research work has developed around Computational Mechanics and Simulation Sciences: computational material failure, particle finite element methods, computational methods for contact-friction, computational optimization methods, among others. His more recent research areas focus Computational Design of Engineering Materials and Metamaterials. In this context he was granted by the European Research Council (ERC), the ERC Advanced Grant “Advanced tools for computational design of engineering materials” (2013-2018), and the ERC Proof of Concept Grants “Computational catalog of multiscale materials: a plugin library for industrial finite element codes” (2018-2020) and, “Design and prototyping of acoustic metamaterials for tailored insulation of noise” (2019-2021). In 2014 he co-chaired the joint Conferences: 11th. World Conference on Computational Mechanics (WCCM XI) - 5th. ECCOMAS European Conference on Computational Mechanics (ECCM V) - 6th. European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics (ECCF VI) held in Barcelona. He has been awarded, the IACM Computational Mechanics award (2008) and the IACM Gauss-Newton Medal (2022), by the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM), the International Award of the Argentinean Association for Computational Mechanics (2008), and the Olgierd Zienkiewicz Award (2023), by the Spanish Society of Computational Mechanics and Computational Engineering (SEMNI).

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Paola F. Antonietti is Head of the Laboratory of Modelling and Scientific Computing MOX and Professor of Numerical Analysis at the Department of Mathematics, Politecnico di Milano. She received her PhD degree in 2007 from the University of Pavia. Her research is concerned with the approximate solution of partial differential equations arising in various fields of Applied Sciences and Engineering. She made important contributions to the development and analysis of Discontinuous Galerkin methods, with applications to computational neurosciences and engineering seismology. She is author of one hundred papers published in peer-review International Journals. Her research has been acknowledged by scientific prizes, among them the young researchers prize awarded by Italian Society of Applied and Industrial Mathematics (SIMAI) in 2015 and the ECCOMAS Jacques Louis Lions Award in 2020. In 2015, she has been granted a “Scientific Independence of Young Researchers” starting grant funded by the Italian Ministry of Universities and Research. She serves in the editorial board of a number of scientific journals, including Mathematics of Computation and SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing.

Manuel Doblaré is full professor of Solid and Structural Mechanics at the University of Zaragoza. He has published over 250 articles in ISI journals, presented over 500 papers at conferences, and supervised 39 PhD theses. He served as Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Dean of the School of Engineering, founding Director of the Aragon Engineering Research Institute and of the National Center for Bioengineering, Biomaterials, and Nanomedicine. In 2011, he temporarily left the University to help create Abengoa Research, the Corporate Research Center of Abengoa, a multinational company leader in solar energy generation and biofuel production, where he served as Chief Scientific Officer and CEO until 2016. Dr. Doblaré has received several recognitions, including the Aragon Research Excellence Award, the O.C. Zienkiewicz Award for achievements in Numerical Methods, his appointment to the World Council of Biomechanics, and his election as Fellow of EAMBES, and as academician of the Spanish Royal Academy of Engineering. Dr. Doblaré's research interests include mechanics of materials, multiscale and multiphysics problems with applications in biomechanics, mechanobiology and tissue engineering, organ-on-chip systems, and the combination of physical and data models with health applications.

Marc Geers is full professor in Mechanics of Materials at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands since 2000. His research interests are in the field of micromechanics, multi-scale mechanics, damage mechanics and mechanics in miniaturization. His research group aims to understand, describe, predict and optimise the mechanical response of engineering materials as a function of their underlying microstructure, processing and evolution, through focused and coordinated experimental, theoretical and computational efforts at a wide range of length scales. Particular research topics are: strain gradient crystal and dislocation plasticity, ductile damage, interface mechanics, computational homogenization and microstructural patterning. He published more than 300 journal papers, with a significant citation impact (Web-of-Science h-index=51). In the past 10 years, he presented more than 15 plenary lectures at international conferences and over 50 keynote and invited lectures. At present, he is the Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Mechanics A/Solids, and he serves on the editorial boards of several other journals. He serves the Dutch scientific community and organizations in various responsible roles. He is a Fellow of the European Mechanics Society, Fellow of the International Association for Computational Mechanics and member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received an ERC Advanced Grant for his research on homogenization and metamaterials. He is the President of the European Mechanics Society EUROMECH.

Katharina Kormann is a professor in Numerical Analysis at the Ruhr University Bochum. She obtained her Master degree from the Technical University of Munich and her PhD in Scientific Computing from Uppsala University. After a PostDoc at TU Munich she joined the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics as a senior researcher before holding an associate professorship at Uppsala University. Her research covers a broad rage of topics in scientific computing, in particular algorithms for high-dimensional problems, structure-preserving numerical methods, low-rank tensor compression and matrix-free methods in scientific computing. The main application area is to understand the dynamics in fusion energy, astro- and particle physics.

Trond Kvamsdal is a Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences, at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and he also holds a part time Senior Scientist position in the Department of Mathematics and Cybernetics at SINTEF Digital. His positions at NTNU are within computational mathematics - Main areas of research are Adaptive Finite Element Methods (AFEM), Reduced Order Modeling (ROM), and Hybrid Analysis and Modeling (HAM) to enable predictive Digital Twins. He is chairing the FME NorthWind Scientific Advisory Committee and is the leader of the NTNU Energy Team Wind and the NTNU IE Team Digital Twin. He received the IACM Fellow Award (International Association for Computational Mechanics) in 2010 and was elected member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences (NTVA) in 2017.

Sandra May is currently associate professor for Scientific Computing at Uppsala University. She obtained a Diplom in Mathematics from Heidelberg University and a PhD in Mathematics from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (NYU). After that she has worked as postdoc at ETH Zurich and as assistant professor at TU Dortmund University before moving to Sweden.
In her research, she develops new finite volume and discontinuous Galerkin schemes for solving flow problems. A focus topic has been the solution of hyperbolic flow problems with complex geometries by means of a cut cell approach.

Prof. Emilio Martinez-Pañeda is an Associate Professor in Engineering Science at the University of Oxford, where he leads the Mechanics of Materials Lab. His research interests span a wide range of topics within computational mechanics, from the prediction of crevasse growth in large ice-sheets to the micro-scale modelling of battery materials. Prof. Martinez-Pañeda has published more than 90 scientific papers in the best journals of computational and applied mechanics and received numerous prestigious awards and fellowships for his contributions. Among others, Prof. Martinez-Pañeda is the recipient of SEMNI’s Simó Prize, RILEM’s Gustavo Colonetti Medal, Spain’s Royal Academy of Engineering Young Investigator Medal and the UK’s Royal Academy of Engineering Young Engineer of the Year award.

Alessandro Reali (b. 1977) is Full Professor of Solid and Structural Mechanics at the University of Pavia since 2016, Dean of the Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture since 2018, and Rector’s Delegate for International Research and Ranking since 2019. He has been the principal investigator of several national and, international research projects, including an ERC grant of the European Research Council, and, for his research results, he has been awarded many prizes and honors; just to name a few, he is Knight Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, Clarivate/ISI Highly Cited Researcher, Ambassador of the Technical University of Munich - TUM, ECCOMAS Euler medalist, IACM Fellows awardee, Fischer Fellow of the TUM Institute for Advanced Study, Finzi awardee of Istituto Lombardo – Accademia di Scienze e Lettere, IACM Argyris awardee, ECCOMAS Zienkiewicz awardee, AIMETA Junior awardee. He has been, moreover, selected for the Regional Forum for Research and Innovation of Regione Lombardia (2023-2025), and he is a member of the Executive Council of Gruppo 2003 per la Ricerca Scientifica (the association of Italian ISI Highly Cited Researchers), a founding member of ERC in Italy (the association of Italian ERC grantees), as well as a member of the ECCOMAS General Assembly and IACM General Council.

Spencer Sherwin is the Professor of Computational Fluid Mechanics and Head of the Department of Aeronautics at Imperial College London. Over the past 25 years he has specialised in the development and application of advanced parallel spectral/hp element methods for flow around complex geometries with a particular emphasis on vortical and bluff body flows, biomedical modelling of the cardiovascular system and more recently in industrial practice through partnerships with McLaren Racing and Rolls Royce. Professor Sherwin’s research group (www.sherwinlab.info) also develops and distributes the open source spectral/hp element package Nektar++ (www.nektar.info) which provides the capability for direct numerical and large eddy simulation as well as stability analysis for a range of applications including vortex flows of relevance to offshore and wind, engineering, vehicle aerodynamics and turbomachinery. He has published numerous peer-reviewed papers in international journals covering topics from numerical analysis to applied and fundamental fluid mechanics and co-authored a highly cited book on the spectral/hp element method. In 2020 he was awarded the ECCOMAS Prandtl prize for outstanding and sustained contribution to the area of computational fluid dynamics.