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Professor Chris Damaren, director of University or Toronto Institute tor Aerospace stud les (UTIAS, Professor Damaren obtained his doctorate at UTIAS In 1990 In the area of control systems tor flexible spacecraft. In the 1990s most or his research concentrated on control system design for large structurally flexible robot manipulator systems such as the space station robotic systems developed by Canada. Most of this work was performed at Royal Roads Military College In Victoria, BC and the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. Since Joining the faculty of UTIAS In 1999, his research group has been Involved In the dynamics and control of spacecraft Including the orbital, attitude, and structural motions of these systems.
John was awarded a BSc In Applied Mathematics and Computing Science from Sheffield University In 1976 and a D.Phil. In Engineering from the UnIversity of Sussex In 1982. He is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical EngIneers, and a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society. He Joined Rolls-Royce In 1982 and held the role of Corporate Specialist In Aeroelasticity and Heat Transfer before becoming Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the UnIversity of Surrey, UK In 2000.John established the Thermo-Fluid Systems University Technology Centre at Surrey, and has held several leadership roles. He is Editor-in-Chief for the Proc. IMechE, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, and was Technical Programme Chair for ASME Turbo Expo 2016, the first Turbo Expo held in Asia.
Prof. Richard Degenhardt finished his diploma in civil engineering in 1990. He has completed his PhD in 1996 at the Institute of Applied Mechanics (TU Braunschweig). Following this he worked in industry as structural engineer. Since 2000 Prof. Degenhardt has been working at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) Institute of Lightweight Systems. Since 2008 he is professor for mechanics of composite structures at the University of Applied Sciences Göttingen (50%) in Stade and still 50% at DLR. Since 2019 he is also honorary professor for structural mechanics of composite materials at the University Bremen. In his current position at DLR, he is senior scientist in the field of composite structures. He published more than 200 papers in reviewed journals and conference proceedings and contributed to 4 books. He is also being involved in the International Forum for Aviation Research (IFAR) from the beginning in 2009.
Erdogan Madenci has been a professor in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Arizona since 1989. He received his B.S. degrees on both Mechanical and Industrial engineering, and his M.S. degree in Applied Mechanics from Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa in 1980, 1981, and 1982, respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree in Engineering Mechanics from UCLA in 1987. Prior to joining the University of Arizona, he worked at Northrop Corporation, Aerospace Corporation, and the Fraunhofer Institute. Also, he worked at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, NASA Langley Research Center, Sandia National Labs and MIT as part of his sabbatical leaves. He is the lead author of five books on Peridynamics (available in Chinese and Persian) and Finite Element analysis. He serves as the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Peridynamics and Nonlocal Modeling and an Associate Editor of ASME Open Journal of Engineering. He is a Fellow of ASME and an Associate Fellow of AlAA.