Mitgliedschaften

Mitgliedschaften

Member of the Materials Science Advisory Board of Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und –prüfung (BAM) (Federal Establishment of Materials Research and Testing) in Berlin/Germany

Member of the Components and Processes Programme Committee of the German Reactor Safety Committee (since 2011)

Member of the German Society for Non-Destructive Testing

Member of the Canadian Institute for NDE

Fellow of the Institute of Physics, Bristol/UK (since 2001)

Member of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DGLR)

Member of the American Institution of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

Member of the AIAA Adaptive Structures Technical Committee

Institute of Smart Materials, Systems and Structures (ISSS), Bangalore/India (Life Member since 1999)

Chairman of the Far East Forum on Nondestructive Evaluation and Testing (FENDT 2014) in Chengdu/China (2014)

Co-chairman of the Symposium on NDT in Aerospace (since 2010)

Member of the Internat. Steering Committee and Internat. Scientific Committee of the IUTAM Symposium on Multi-functional Materials, Structures and Systems, Bangalore/India, December 10-13, 2008

Member of the Steering Committee of the 4^th European Conference on Structural Control and Monitoring, St. Petersburg/Russia, September 2008

Member of the Internat. Advisory Board of ‘Conferences Internationales Materiaux et Technologies’ (CIMTEC) 2008 in Acireale, Sicily/Italy

Member of the Evaluation Board for the Research Assessment Exercise 2007 of the University of Oulu/Finland

Editor-in-chief for the Encyclopaedia on Structural Health Monitoring (3 volumes with around 2,000 pages and also as an online service) currently launched by John Wiley & Son

Member of the Scientific Committee and Jury for the 3^rd European Micro Aerial Vehicle Conference and Flight Competition in Toulouse/France in September 2007

Member of the international scientific committee of the Asian-Pacific Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring 2006 in Yokohama/Japan

Co-chairman of the International Symposium on Intelligent Materials organised by the Internat. Union of Materials Research Societies (IUMRS) in Bangalore/India in October 2007

Member of the Internat. Committee of the 2^nd Internat. Conf. on Smart Materials & Structures in Aerospace Engineering, Nanjing/China, September 2006

Member of the Scientific Committee and Jury for the 2^nd European Micro Aerial Vehicle Conference and Flight Competition in Braunschweig/Germany in July 2006

Member of the international advisory committee of the International Conference on Emerging Adaptive Systems and Technologies (EAST-2005) in Tamil Nadu, India

Member of the Internat. Technical and Organizing Committee of the Internat. Conference on Smart Materials & Structures in Aerospace Engineering (SMSAE2006) in Nanjing/China

Co-chairman of the 10th Internat. Conference on Advanced Materials organised by the Internat. Union of Materials Research Societies (IUMRS) in Bangalore/India 2007

Co-chairman of the ISSS-SPIE International Conference on Smart Materials, Structures and Systems to be held in Bangalore/India in July 2005

Member of the scientific committee for the Symposium on Structural Durability in Darmstadt, to be held in Darmstadt/Germany in June 2005

Member of the scientific committee of the 2^nd ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Smart Structures and Materials in Lisbon/Portugal in July 2005

Member of the editorial board of the Journal of Aerospace Sciences and Technologies, Aeronautical Society of India (since 2004)

Member of the editorial board of the Internat. Journal of Structural Control and Monitoring published by J. Wiley & Sons since July 2004

Elected as director of the International Association of Structural Control and Monitoring for the period of 2004 to 2008

Member of the Scientific Committee for the European Micro Aerial Vehicle Conference and Flight Competition (since 2004)

Chairman of the European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring held in Munich/Germany July 7-9, 2004 and Dresden/Germany July 2012

Chairman of the International Workshop on ‘Micro Aerial Vehicles – Unmet Technological Requirements’ held in Schloss Elmau/Germany September 22-24, 2003

Member of the Steering Committee for the European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, July 2002 (elected as chairman from 2002 to 2004, presently past-chairman)

Co-Chair of the Internat. Steering Committee der 'SPIE/ISSS Internat. Conf. on Smart Materials, Structures and Systems' in Bangalore/India, July 2002

Member of the Advisory Board of a Smart Materials and Structures Research Centre to be established at the Academy of Sciences in Warsaw/Poland, since May 2002

Member of the Organising Committee of Workshop on Smart Materials and Structures (SMART’03)  in Jadwisin near Warsaw/Poland since May 2002

Member of the Advisory oard of the 'Smart Materials and Structures Research Centre' in Tsukuba/Japan, since September 2001

Chairman of the Organising Committee of the 'Internat. Workshop on Passive and Active Damping – Directions for the Next Decade', Neu-Ulm/Germany, 2001

Member in the Organising Committee of the 'SPIE Annual International Symposium on Smart Structures and Materials' with regard to the following conferences:

·         Industrial and Commercial Applications of Smart Structures Technologies (since 2000)

·         Modeling, Signal Processing, and Control (since 2001)

Member of the Steering Committee for the Internat. Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, Stanford Univ., Stanford/CA, (since 1999)

Member of the Steering Committee of Internat. Conf. on Smart Materials, Structures and Systems; ISSS-SPIE '99, 7.-10. July 1999, Bangalore/India

Member of the Steering Committee for the Smart Structures Expert Meeting organised by the Engineering and Physics Science and Research Council (EPSRC) and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) (1996)

Editorial Board of ‘Smart Materials and Structures’, published by Institute of Physics Publishing, Bristol/UK (member since 1997, European Editor since 2000, Associated Editor since 2005)

Scientific Committe of EUROMECH 365 Internat. Workshop ‘Structural Damage Assessment Using Advanced Signal Processing Procedures’ (1996)

Internat. Advisory Board of the Internat. Conference on Intelligent Materials (since 1996) 

Internat. Advisory Board of the European Conference on Smart Structures and Materials (since 1993)