Werdegang:
Prof. Dr.rer.nat. Ernst Rank, born in 1954, studied mathematics and physics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München from 1974 to 1980.
Having obtained his doctoral degree from the Faculty for Civil Engineering and Geodesy of the Technische Universität München in 1985,
he became a DAAD fellow at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA until 1986.
From 1987 to 1990 he held the position of senior scientist at the Corporate Research and Technology Department of SIEMENS AG in Munich.
He was appointed professor for Numerical Methods and Information Science in Civil Engineering at the University of Dortmund in 1990 and
held the chair for Computation in Engineering at the Technische Universität München from 1997 until his retirement in 2020.

Forschungsschwerpunkte:
Key areas of his research include high-order finite element methods, immersed boundary methods, and combining numerical computation with geometric modeling.
His work is aimed at developing effective and intuitively usable simulation methods, which can be applied to optimize industrial products and processes.
He has published more than 400 papers in scientific journals, as book contributions and in reviewed conference proceedings.
Prof. Rank has mentored 58 successful PhD projects, 17 of his former students hold professorships in many countries of the world.

Mitgliedschaften und Funktionen:
Prof. Rank held the office of Vice President Research of TUM from 2002 to 2008.
From 2006 to 2016 he was Director of the International Graduate School of Science and Engineering at the Technische Universität München, and
from 2008 to 2013 Founding Director of the TUM Graduate School.
From 2015 until 2020 Prof. Rank was Director of the TUM Institute for Advanced Study (TUM-IAS).
He was the Chairman of the University Council of TU Dortmund from 2007 until 2023.
Since 2021 he is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Georg Nemetschek Institute Artificial Intelligence for the Built World at TUM.

Auszeichnungen und Ehrungen:
Among other awards Prof. Rank obtained the Konrad-Zuse Medal (2009),
the Federal Cross of Merit (2009), and
the Leonhard Euler Medal (2024) of the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS).
He is Corresponding Member of the Nordrhein Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und Künste (2014),
member of the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (2017) and
since 2018 Fellow of the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM).

Ausgewählte Publikationen:

• C. Faßbender, T. Bürchner, P. Kopp, E. Rank, S. Kollmannsberger,“ Implicit-explicit time integration for the immersed wave equation”, Computers & Mathematics with Applications 163, 2024
• T. Bürchner, P. Kopp, S. Kollmannsberger, E. Rank, “Isogeometric multi-resolution full waveform inversion based on the finite cell method”, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 417, 2023
• T. Bürchner, P. Kopp, S. Kollmannsberger, E. Rank, „Immersed boundary parametrizations for full waveform inversion” Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 406, 2023
• L. Hug, G. Dahan, S. Kollmannsberger, E. Rank, Z. Yosibash, „Predicting fracture in the proximal humerus using phase field models“ Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials 134, 2022
• A. Özcan, S. Kollmannsberger, J. Jomo, E. Rank, “Residual stresses in metal deposition modelling: discretizations of higher order,” Computers & Mathematics with Applications,  doi.org/10.1016/j.camwa.2018.10.027, 2018
• A. Düster, E. Rank, B. Szabó, “The p-version of the Finite Element and Finite Cell Methods,“ in Encyclopedia of Computational Mechanics, Second Edition, Edited by E. Stein, R. de Borst and T.J.R. Hughes. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2017
• B. Wassermann, S. Kollmannsberger, T. Bog, E. Rank, “From geometric design to numerical analysis: A direct approach using the Finite Cell Method on Constructive Solid Geometry,“ Computers & Mathematics with Applications, 2017
• N. Zander, T. Bog, M. Elhaddad, F. Frischmann, S. Kollmannsberger, E. Rank, “The multi-level hp-method for three-dimensional problems: Dynamically changing high-order mesh refinement with arbitrary hanging nodes,“ CMAME, vol. 310, pp. 252-277, 2016
• M. Ruess, D. Schillinger, A. Özcan, E. Rank, “Weak coupling for isogeometric analysis of non-matching and trimmed multi-patch geometries,“ CMAME, vol. 269, pp. 46-71, 2014
• D. Schillinger, L. Dedè, M.A. Scott, J.A. Evans, M.J. Borden, E. Rank and T.J.R. Hughes, “An Isogeometric Design-through-analysis Methodology based on Adaptive Hierarchical Refinement of NURBS, Immersed Boundary Methods, and T-spline CAD Surfaces,“ CMAME, 2012.
• D. Schillinger and E. Rank, “An unfitted hp-adaptive finite element method based on hierarchical B-splines for interface problems of complex geometry,“ CMAME, vol. 200, pp. 3358-3380, 2011
• A. Düster, J. Parvizian, Z. Yang, E. Rank, “The Finite Cell Method for three-dimensional problems of solid mechanics,“ CMAME, 2008

Link zur Liste der gesamten Publikationen:
See Google Scholar: Ernst Rank