- Office hours: nach Vereinbarung
- renate.sachse@tum.de
Research Interests
- Motion Design
- Active and Adaptive Structures
- Biomechanics, Biomimetics and Bioinspirated Structures
- Soft Robotics
- Active Metamaterials
- Structural Mechanics for thin-walled and slender structures
- Contact Mechanics
- Modeling of the Musculoskeletal System
Curriculum Vitae
| seit 05/2024 | Research associate (postdoc) at the Chair of Structural Analysis, Technical University of Munich directed by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Kai-Uwe Bletzinger |
| seit 07/2023 | Associate of the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA |
| 04/2024 – 06/2024 | Postdoctoral fellow in the Bertoldi Lab at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Harvard University directed by Prof. Katia Bertoldi |
| 01/2021 – 04/2024 | Research associate (postdoc) at the Institute for Computational Mechanics, Technical University of Munich directed by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang A. Wall |
| 01/2015 – 12/2020 | Research associate at the Institute for Structural Mechanics, University of Stuttgart directed by Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Manfred Bischoff |
| 04/2014 – 07/2014 | Research assistant at the Institute for Structural Mechanics, University of Stuttgart |
| 11/2012 – 12/2013 | Working student in structural engineering at Werner Sobek AG, Stuttgart |
| 01/2012 – 05/2012 | Study abroad in the ERASMUS-Program, École Spéciale des Travaux Public, du Batiment et de l’Industrie (ESTP) in Cachan, France |
| 10/2011 – 10/2014 | M. Sc. in Civil Engineering, University of Stuttgart (Master thesis: „Isogeometric Contact Analysis of Thin-Walled Structures“) |
| 09/2011 – 12/2011 | Intern in structural engineering at Foster + Partners, London, UK |
| 02/2011 – 08/2011 | Research assistant at the Institute for Structural Mechanics, University of Stuttgart |
| 05/2009 – 12/2010 | Working student in structural engineering at Werner Sobek AG, Stuttgart |
| 10/2008 – 09/2011 | B. Sc. in Civil Engineering, University of Stuttgart (Bachelor thesis: „An Elementary School Pavilion for Magagula in South Africa – Structural Analysis“) |
| 07/2008 | Abitur, Hegel-Gymnasium, Stuttgart |
Teaching
- Numerical Methods for Engineers, Technical University of Munich
- Nonlinear Continuum Mechanics, Technical University of Munich
- Nonlinear Finite Element Methods (selected chapters), Technical University of Munich
- Baustatik und Baudynamik I (Structural statics and dynamics I), University of Stuttgart
- Baustatik und Baudynamik II (Structural statics and dynamics II), University of Stuttgart
- Nichtlineare finite Elemente (Nonlinear finite elements), University of Stuttgart