Christoph Glocker
Professor
Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering
ETH Zürich - Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich
Switzerland
Biography
Christoph Glocker has been an associate professor since 1 March 2001 and since January 1, 2006 a full professor of mechanics at the Institute of Mechanical Systems of ETH Zurich. Christoph Glocker, born on May 30, 1962 in Munich, studied mechanical engineering with a focus on theory and research at the Technical University of Munich. After graduating in 1989 as a graduate engineer, he was Research Assistant at Chair B for Mechanics until 1995 and earned his doctoral degree from Professor Pfeiffer on the topic "Dynamics of Rigid Systems with Friction and Impact". In 1996, he received a Feodor Lynen Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki to work with Professor Panagiotopoulos in the field of hemivariate inequalities in dynamics. He then returned to Chair B in Mechanics in 1997, where he worked as a senior assistant until 2000.
Research Interest
Christoph Glocker research interest are: the non-smooth dynamics of mechanical systems with finite degree of freedom, which includes, for example, the friction and impact problem in multi-body systems, and which represents an extension of classical mechanics. Here, questions of mechanical modeling, mathematical description and numerical calculation are in the foreground, as well as the application to industrial problems.
