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Peter Mackenzie-Helnwein joined the faculty of the University of Washington in 2003. Prior to this, he held a position in the Department of Civil Engineering at the Vienna University of Technology in Austria from 1991 to 2002, where he also held an equivalent rank as Assistant Professor in 1997. He received his Diplom-Ingenieur (Master of Science) in Civil Engineering from the Vienna University of Technology in 1991 and earned his Doctoral Degree (Dr. techn.) with the highest academic honor in Austria in 1997. He has held the venia docendi, a qualification to teach at the university level, since 2003 at the Vienna University of Technology. His research focuses on numerical methods in continuum fluid mechanics, with an emphasis on various methodologies such as Finite Elements, Material Point Method, and Discontinuous Galerkin Method. His scientific contributions include work on nonlinear structural stability, analysis of composite structures under large deformations, thermo-visco-plastic constitutive modeling of wood under multi-axial loading, and soil-structure interaction under liquefaction conditions. He also specializes in landslide modeling and finite deformation particle simulations in saturated porous media.
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