Harald Biller studied mathematics and physics at Darmstadt, London, and Würzburg. In 1999, he received his PhD from Stuttgart University, specializing in functional analysis, topology, and Lie theory. He worked as a lecturer at Darmstadt University until 2004, when he became a development engineer with the automotive supplier Continental, one of the leading producers of electronic brake and safety systems for passenger cars. His main task is to support the design departments with COMSOL calculations in the areas of electromagnetism, structural mechanics, heat transfer, and fluid dynamics.

Title of presentation: Dynamic simulation of electromagnets

Manuel Collet is member of the Department of Applied Mechanics of the FEMTO-ST Institute. He is graduated in Mechanical Engineering of Ecole Centrale de Lyon in 1992 and obtained his PhD in 1996 about Active control of vibrating structures by mean of semi distributed piezoelectric patches. His main research lines currently involve smart structures and active Control, MEMS applications in structural active control and smart materials or metamaterials modelling for structural dynamics. He is an active member of Joined Research Unit Georgia Tech Lorraine.

Title of presentation: Modeling Implementation of Smart Materials such as Shape Memory Alloys and Electro-Active Metamaterials

Dr. Christian Deville-Cavellin is a Research Engineer at Ugitech's Research Center, since 1995. Ugitech, member of the Schmoltz & Bickenbach group, is a stainless steel, long products producer. C. Deville-Cavellin is responsible for all research topics related to liquid metal metallurgy and solidification. He keeps also an expert role in machinability, within one of the french public funded competitivity poles. In 1995, his PhD dealt with numerical models coupling, in heat transfer and fluid flow. Since 2006, he's responsible for the introduction of numerical simulation in the heat transfer related research subjects of Ugitech's interest.

Title of presentation: A Heat Transfer Model for Ugitech's Continuous Casting Machine

Ed Fontes is VP of Application at COMSOL with specific interest in the transport-reaction products. He has 13 years experience of modeling transport phenomena in industry and 6 years of supervising research projects in Academia. Ed Fontes received his PhD in Electrochemical Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden) in 1995.

The new COMSOL product line makes it possible for engineers and scientist to cover all aspects of research, development, and design. Introduced to this product line are now tools for filtering and analysis of experimental data, and for model calibration and optimization. In COMSOL Multiphysics, we also introduce new ready-made modeling interfaces for rotating machinery and assemblies

Title of presentation: COMSOL 4.0 - A Milestone in Multiphysics Simulation

Thomas Herrmannsdörfer got his PhD in experimental physics from the University of Bayreuth in 1994. In 1995 he got the Research Award of the Emil-Warburg-Foundation when worked at the DFG-Graduiertenkolleg Bayreuth. From 1995 – 98 he worked as a scientist at Hahn-Meitner-Institute (HMI) Berlin. Since 1998 he works at Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (FZD) as Head of Department at the Dresden High Magnetic Field Laboratory (HLD). 1999 he got the Walter-Schottky Award for Solid-State Physics of the German Physical Society

Title of presentation: Highest pulsed magnetic fields in science and technology, assisted by advanced finite-element simulation

Svante Littmarck is the CEO of the COMSOL group. He co-founded COMSOL in 1986. He holds a M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. In 2004 he received an honorary doctoral degree from the Royal Institute of Technology.

Title of presentation: Multiphysics 2009

Redmer van Tijum studied Applied Physics at the University of Groningen. In 2006, he received his PhD title on ‘Interface and surface roughness of polymer metal laminates’ in the field of Material Science at the University of Groningen. After that he became research and development engineer at Philips, where he focussed his attention on the improvement of production processes mainly on the functional parts of the Philips shaver. Nowadays he is responsible for the development of simulations of the Electrochemical Machining Process, five types of coupled physics for the finishing of shaving heads.

Title of presentation: Simulation of Production Processes using the Multiphysics Approach: The Electrochemical Machining Process