Christian Linder

Biography

Christian Linder is an Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering . As a Fulbright scholar Dr. Linder received his Ph.D. in Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Materials from the University of California, Berkeley. He earned his Dipl.-Ing. degree in Civil Engineering from the Technical University of Graz, an M.Sc. in Computational Mechanics of Materials and Structures from the University of Stuttgart, and an M.A. in Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley. Before joining Stanford in 2013 he was an Assistant Professor of Micromechanics of Materials within the Applied Mechanics Institute of Stuttgart University where he also received his Habilitation in Mechanics.

Research Interest

His research focus on the development of advanced computational methods and mathematical frameworks to predict the mechanical response of new materials. Relying on a detailed representation of the actual material microstructure, his models allow to understand microscopic mechanisms in biological materials and subsequently mimic and adapt those to new man-made sustainable materials with unprecedented mechanical properties used in large-scale Civil and Environmental Engineering applications. He is particularly interested in soft matter materials such as elastomers, nonwoven fabrics, hydrogels, or cellular foams and his numerical methods range from macroscopic continuum based finite element simulations to highly parallelized nanoscale electronic structure calculations.