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

• Computational Methods in Contact Mechanics (Exercise) HT23
• 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)

Conference proceedings (with Peer-Review)

• Steimer, C., Mayr, M., Popp, A., (2023): Targeting a faster time-to-solution of mortar based contact problems, In: Proceedings in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, DOI (Open Access) 

International conference contributions with abstract

• Targeting a faster time-to-solution of mortar based contact problems, 7th International Conference on Computational Contact Mechanics, Turin, Italy, July 05 - 07, 2023
• Scalability of a HPC framework for mortar based contact problems, 93rd Annual Meeting of the International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Dresden, Germany, Mai 30 - June 02, 2023

• 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