Malte Krack

• Structural Dynamics
• Structural Dynamics - Programming Seminar
• Nonlinear Structural Dynamics
• Turbomachinery Blade Vibrations
• Mechanical Design of Aircraft Engines

• Since 2021: Professor (full) at the University of Stuttgart
• Since 2016: Junior professor (Tenure Track) at the University of Stuttgart
• January-December 2015: Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA with Prof. Alexander F. Vakakis and Prof. Lawrence A. Bergman
• November 2014: Graduation (Dr.-Ing.) on ' The Concept of Nonlinear Modes Applied to Friction-Damped Systems'
• 2010-2014: Research assistant at the Institute of Dynamics and Vibration Research, Leibniz Universität Hannover
• 2009: Visiting researcher, Advanced Composite Materials Engineering Group, University of Alberta, Canada
• 2005-2010: Studies of Mechanical Engineering at the Leibniz Universität Hannover

• 2024: Best Technical Paper Award for the article 'Friction saturated limit cycle oscillations – Test rig design and validation of numerical methods', International Gas Turbine Institute, ASME
• 2023: Best Technical Paper Award for the article 'Fully Coupled Analysis of Flutter Induced Limit Cycles: Frequency vs. Time Domain Methods', International Gas Turbine Institute, ASME
• 2022: EREA Best Paper Award for the article 'Development of a Fully-Coupled Harmonic Balance Method and a Refined Energy Method for the Computation of Flutter-Induced Limit Cycle Oscillations of Bladed'
• 2022 ORATIO Award for special commitment to teaching in the aerospace engineering program at the University of Stuttgart.
• 2020: Best Paper Award for the article 'Effect of Modal Interactions on Friction-Damped Self-Excited Vibrations' in the Journal of Vibrations and Acoustics
• 2016-2018: Daimler und Benz Stiftung postdoctoral scholarship
• 2015: DAAD P.R.I.M.E. postdoctoral scholarship
• 2015: Honored with the Dr.-Jürgen-und-Irmgard-Ulderup-Award (doctoral exam)
• 2013: Best Technical Paper Award for the article "Reduced Order Modeling Based on Complex Nonlinear Modal Analysis and its Application to Bladed Disks With Shroud Contact", Structures & Dynamics Committee, International Gas Turbine Institute, ASME
• 2011: Best Technical Paper Award for the article "Eddy Current Damper for Turbine Blading: Electromagnetic Finite Element Analysis and Measurement Results", Structures & Dynamics Committee, International Gas Turbine Institute, ASME
• 2010: Honored with the E.ON Future Award 2010 (Diploma thesis)
• 2010: Honored with the Dr.-Jürgen-und-Irmgard-Ulderup-Award (final exam)
• 2007: Honored with the Dr.-Jürgen-und-Irmgard-Ulderup-Award (intermediate exam)

• 2023: Lecturer within the CISM Advanced School on Model Order Reduction for Design, Analysis and Control of Nonlinear Vibratory Systems
• 2023: Keynote Speaker at the Final Meeting of the DigiTwin ESPRC programme
• 2022: Lecturer within the CISM-AIMETA Advanced School on Exploiting the Use of Strong Nonlinearity in Dynamics and Acoustics
• since 2021: Member of the Editorial Board of Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing
• 2020: Vanguard chair for Structural Mechanics, Vibrations & Damping at the annual ASME Turbomachinery Conference, various locations USA/Asia/Europe
• 2019-2020: Guest Editor, Special Issue Tribomechadynamics, ASME Journal of Vibrations and Acoustics
• since 2018: Session organizer and chair on nonlinear dynamics at the annual SEM International Modal Analysis Conference
• since 2017: Co-organizer and project advisor, annual research camp on nonlinear mechanics of jointed structures, with M. Brake (Rice University Houston, USA) and C. Schwingshackl (Imperial College London, UK). Each year, the research camp is sub-divided into 3-4 projects with 4-6 international doctoral students and postdocs each, see tmd.rice.edu. After an individual preparation period, the teams meet for 5-6 weeks at one of the host universities. The results are published in peer-reviewed journals and presented at international conferences.
• 2016-2019: Track organizer of the Global Power and Propulsion Systems Conference, Structures and Dynamics Track
• 2016-2019: Session organizer and chair on damping and nonlinear dynamics of the ASME Turbo Expo, Structures & Dynamics Committee
• 2016: Organizer and chair of mini-symposium 'Nonlinear Vibrations of Conservative and Nonconservative Systems: Phenomena and Advanced Numerical Methods' at the ECCOMAS Congress together with Prof. Gaetan Kerschen and Dr. Ludovic Renson
• 2014: O rganizer and panelist in the panel session 'Efficient Dynamic Analysis of Nonlinear Structures' at the ASME Turbo Expo, together with Christoph Pierre, Fabrice Thouverez, Ludovic Renson, Evgeny Petrov and Loic Salles, Düsseldorf

Malte Krack is a frequent reviewer for a number of scientific journals, including Journal of Sound and Vibration, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, Nonlinear Dynamics, Computers and Structures, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, Computational Mechanics, Archive of Applied Mechanics.

see Structural Mechanics/Publications