Christopher Steimer M.Sc.

Professur für Computergestützte Simulation im Bauingenieurwesen
Gebäude 41/100, Zimmer 5116
+49 89 6004 4138
christopher.steimer@unibw.de

Christopher Steimer M.Sc.

Academic Career

since 04/2021 Research and Teaching Associate, Institute for Mathematics and Computer-Based Simulation, University of the Bundeswehr Munich
2017-2020

Master of Science, Civil Engineering, Technical University of Munich

Master's thesis: Implementation of a monolithic and energy preserving coupling method for domains with incompatible time steps and application to selected examples in structural mechanics, Chair of Structural Analysis

2017-2020

Graduate Research Assistant, Chair of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, Rock Mechanics and Tunneling, Technical University of Munich

2013-2017

Bachelor of Science, Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Munich

Teaching

  • Introduction to the Finite Element Method (Exercise) WT23
  • Computational Methods in Contact Mechanics (Exercise) HT22
  • Programming (Exercise) HT22
  • Computational Methods in Contact Mechanics (Exercise) HT21
  • Programming (Exercise) HT21

Research Focus

  • Nonlinear Contact Mechanics
  • High-Performance-Computing (HPC)
  • Finite Element Method (FEM)

International conference contributions with abstract

  • Scalability of dynamically load balanced mortar methods for contact problems, 9th GACM Colloqium on Computational Mechanics 2022, Essen, Germany, September 21 - 23, 2022
  • Scalability of algebraic multigrid methods for mortar based contact problems, 92nd Annual Meeting of the International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Aachen, Germany, August 15 - 19, 2022