Herbert MANG

Short Bio:

Born: January 5, 1942, Vienna, Austria; Dipl.-Ing., Civil Engineering, and Dr.techn., Vienna University of Technology (VUT) (1967 and 1970); University Assistant, VUT (1967-79); Fulbright Fellow (1971-72), Research Assistant (1973), Ph.D. (1974), all at Texas Tech; Max Kade Fellow, Cornell University (1975-76); Habilitation, VUT (1977); Visiting Research Associate, University of Tokyo (1979); Associate Professor, VUT (1979-83); UNIDO Field Expert, Zhengzhou Research Institute for Mechanical Engineering, China (1981); Prof., Head of Institute for Mechanics of Materials and Structures, VUT (1983-2010); Prof. Emer., VUT (10-2010-); National RPGE Chair Prof., Tongji Univ., Shanghai (2012-); Co-author of 8 books and 4 chapters of handbooks, co-editor of 16 books, author (co-author) of 231 journal papers and 281 proceedings papers, book chapters, etc.; 12 International/Foreign Prizes (including 2 Foreign Decorations) and 12 National Prizes (including 3 Young Investigator Awards and 4 Decorations); 6 Honorary Doctorates (Technical University of Cracow, Innsbruck, Kiev, Leoben, Prague, and Vilnius); 1 Honorary Professorship, Tongji University, Shanghai; Foreign Assoc. of CAE and NAE; Member of 3 European Academies of Sciences (and Arts) and of 15 National/Regional Academies of Sciences/ Engineering (in Austria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Poland (Warsaw and Cracow), Portugal, Slovakia, in the Ukraine, and in the USA); Vice President of IACM (1998-2010), President of ECCOMAS (2004-2009), President, Austrian Academy of Sciences (2003-06); Vice-President, Austrian Science Council (2010-2015).