Alexander Popp receives ECCOMAS Fellow Award

27 July 2026

On the occasion of the WCCM-ECCOMAS 2026 Congress in Munich, Prof. Alexander Popp has been awarded the newly established ECCOMAS Fellow Award, which was presented for the very first time in 2026 to an initial group of around 40 distinguished members of the ECCOMAS community. The award recognizes his longstanding contributions to the development and success of the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS).

In particular, this service to the community is reflected in his commitment to the organization of the biennial ECCOMAS Thematic Conference ICCCM (International Conference on Computational Contact Mechanics), which was held last in Munich in 2025 and will next take place in 2029. It also includes his major role as one of the scientific main organizers of the WCCM-ECCOMAS 2026 Congress in Munich — the first ECCOMAS Congress ever hosted in Germany and only the second WCCM Congress in Germany after 36 years. The congress was a record-breaking event in many respects and, most visibly, brought together more than 5,000 delegates, making it the largest congress ever in the field.

Another important part of this service was his role as Chairman of the ECCOMAS Young Investigators Committee (EYIC) from 2016 to 2020.

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