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Gernot Beer
[[File:Gernot Beer Graz.png|alt=Birth: August 14, 1944, Graz Austria|thumb|Gernot BeerBorn           August 14, 1944

Nationality Austrian

Occupation Emeritus Professor

Institution    Graz University of Technology, Austria

]] Gernot Beer is currently an emeritus professor of Structural Analysis at the TU Graz in Austria. He is a world renowned researcher and expert in numerical simulation, rock mechanics and underground excavation. His main contributions are in the advancement and application of simulation methods, starting with Finite and Boundary Element methods. Throughout his career he has been extremely successful in acquiring and managing research projects, with a total budget of over 31 Million Euros. He was the technical coordinator of the EC project “Technology Innovation in Underground Construction” (TUNCONSTRUCT), one of the largest integrated projects of the European framework for research and development. He is the author or co-author of 5 books, editor of 4 books and has made 12 contributions to books, authored over 40 journal articles and 50 publications in conference proceedings. He has been invited to present 7 plenary and 7 keynote lectures.

Early Education
1976      Graz University of Technology            Dr.techn.

1973-76 University of Queensland, Australia   PhD in Civil Engineering

1971-72 Lehigh University, U.S.A.                   Master of Science, Civil Engineering

1964-69 Graz University of Technology           Diplom Ingenieur (Dipl.Ing.), Civil Engineering

Employment History
2012-        Emeritus Professor, Graz University of Technology, Austria

2011-2017 Conjoint Professor, University of Newcastle, Australia

1993-2012 Professor of Structural Analysis, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Graz University of Technology

1993-2012 Head of Institute, Institute of Structural Analysis, Graz University of Technology

1985-1993 Senior Principal Research Scientist, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Division of Geomechanics, Australia

1978-1985 Senior Research Fellow, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Queensland, Australia

1975-1978 Associate, Technische Datenverarbeitung (TDV), Graz, Austria

1972-1975 Lecturer in Civil Engineering, Queensland Institute of Technology, Australia

1971-1972 Research Assistant, Department of Civil Engineering, Lehigh University, USA

Summary of achievements
Professor Beer is an internationally recognised expert in numerical simulation, rock mechanics and underground excavation. He continues to be involved in research and is currently coordinating a project funded by the Austrian Science Fund. Since becoming emeritus Professor in 2012, his research output has increased significantly. In 2015, two papers authored and co-authored by him appeared in the journal Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, which has one of the highest impact factors (3.0) of engineering journals. A further paper is being prepared for this journal to be submitted in May 2015. He has also recently finished a book on “Advanced numerical simulation methods”, which was commissioned by Taylor&Francis and is due to appear in August 2015.

His main contributions are in the advancement and application of simulation methods, starting with Finite and Boundary Element methods and most recently isogeometric methods. In 2013 he organised a short course on “Isogeometric methods for numerical simulation” at the International Centre for Mechanical Sciences (CISM) in Udine, Italy which was very well attended. He has recently become involved with the research group of Tom Hughes at the University of Texas, Austin and it is planned that one of his PhD students in Graz will spend some time as a postdoc at this institution after his graduation.

Throughout his career he has been extremely successful in acquiring and managing research projects, with a total budget of over 31 Million Euros (a list of project follows later). He was the technical coordinator of the EC project “Technology Innovation in Underground Construction” (TUNCONSTRUCT), one of the largest integrated projects of the European framework for research and development. The project involved 40 partners from 11 European countries. It integrated not only on-the-field engineering experience and technical know-how of the industry, but also research capabilities and conceptual innovation of the academic sector. The project received an excellent evaluation and was shortlisted for the best project award.

He is the author or co-author of 5 books, editor of 4 books and has made 12 contributions to books, authored over 40 journal articles and 50 publications in conference proceedings. He has been invited to present 7 plenary and 7 keynote lectures. He has organised 4 mini-symposiums and given 3 short courses at international conferences. In 2007 he was a VIP speaker at a symposium organised by the Hyundai Engineering Corporation in South Korea and in 2010 he was the main speaker at a symposium organized by the British Tunnelling Society. He will be a keynote speaker at the Coupled conference in May 2015. In 2011 he was invited together with Prof G. Gioda to be the editor of a special issue of the ASCE Journal of Geomechanics.

Awards
1971 Fulbright Fellowship

1996 European Academic Software Award for the development of RuckZuck teachware

2009 “European Champion of Research” award from the Austrian ministry of science.

2010 European Commission nominates project TUNCONSTRUCT for the best project award given for the best projects in the 7th framework program (spanning 5 years).

2012 Selected as one of 16 persons that influenced sustainable development at the Graz University of Technology over a period of 6 years. (Book “Initiators of sustainable development at the TU Graz” published)

2015 Distinguished lecturer award from the University of Queensland.

Books:
Beer, G. Advanced numerical simulation methods - From CAD Data directly to simulation results. CRC Press, 2015.

Beer, G., Smith, I.M., Duenser, CH. The boundary element method with programming, Springer, Wien-New York, 2008. Citations: 129

Beer, G. Programming the boundary element method. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2000. Citations: 222

Beer, G., Watson, J.O. Introduction to finite and boundary element methods for engineers. Wiley, New York, 1992. Citations: 285

Papers:
Beer, G., Marussig, B. and Zechner, J. A simple approach to numerical simulation with trimmed CAD surfaces. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 285, 776-790, 2015. ERA 2010 Journal Ranking: A

Marussig, B., Zechner, J., Beer, G. and Fries, T.P. Fast isogeometric boundary element method based on independent field approximation. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 284, 458-488, 2015. Citations: 2 ERA 2010 Journal Ranking: A

Pereira, A., Beer, G. Interface dynamic stiffness matrix approach for three-dimensional transient multi-region boundary element analysis. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering 80, p. 1463 – 1495, 2009. Citations: 9 ERA 2010 Journal Ranking: A* This paper contains approaches on coupling BEM regions in the time domain. 8.-11.- Papers on infinite elements

Beer, G. Mapped infinite patches for the NURBS based boundary element analysis in geomechanics. Computers and Geotechnics, 66:66–74, 2015. Moser, W., Duenser, Ch. and Beer, G. Mapped infinite elements for three-Dimensional multi-region boundary element Analysis. International journal for numerical methods in engineering 61, p. 317- 328, 2004. Citations: 27

ERA 2010 Journal Ranking: A* Beer, G., Watson, J.O. Infinite boundary elements. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 28, 1233-1247, 1989. Citations: 65

ERA 2010 Journal Ranking: A* Beer, G., Meek, J. ‘Infinite domain’ elements. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 17, 43-52, 1981. Citations: 170

ERA 2010 Journal Ranking: A* The original paper on infinite finite elements published in 1981 was one of my most cited papers at the time. I developed the idea further for application to infinite boundary elements and most recently to isogeometric BEM.