B. Emek Abali

After studying and working at the universities in Istanbul, Munich, Berlin, Berkeley, and Ghent, B. Emek Abali joined the faculty at the Uppsala University. Emek developed expertise in thermodynamical derivation of coupled phenomena involving thermomechanics and electromagnetism in solid bodies and fluids as well as computational continuum mechanics by means of the finite element method (FEM) with the aid of open-source codes developed under the FEniCS project.

• 2020-11 to present
  • Associate Professor in Solid Mechanics
    Department of Materials Science and Engineering
    Uppsala University, Sweden
• 2020-09 to 2021-02
  • Senior Researcher
    Institute of Mechanics
    Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
• 2019-09 to 2020-12
  • Senior Researcher
    Institute of Structural Engineering
    University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Austria
• 2019-09 to 2020-09
  • Affiliated Researcher
    Department of Structural Engineering
    Ghent University, Belgium
• 2017-08 to 2019-09
  • Postdoctoral Associate
    Institute of Mechanics
    Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
• 2016-08 to 2017-07
  • Postdoctoral Fellow
    Department of Mechanical Engineering
    University of California, Berkeley, USA
• 2014-05 to 2016-07
  • Postdoctoral Associate
    Institute of Mechanics
    Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
• 2009-02 to 2014-02
  • Teaching Assistant
    Chair of Continuum Mechanics and Materials Theory
    Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
• 2006-11 to 2008-05
  • TUfast Racing Team e.V. Garching Germany, Team Chassis, FEA (for season '07 and '08)
    Formula Student Silverstone 2010 Overall 1st Place
    Formula Student USA /Michigan 2008 Overall 3rd Place
    Formula Student Germany 2007 Engineering Design Award
    tufast.de
• 2006-03 to 2006-06
  • Magna Powertrain Engineering Center Steyr GmbH & CoKG/St.Valentin – Austria, FEA Department (structural projects for automotive industry)
    magnapowertrain.com
• 2005-07 to 2005-09
  • Robert Bosch GmbH/Bursa Turkey, project based internship in production department common rail injector
    Project title: "CRI body SW milling operations optimization"
    www.bosch.com.tr

EDUCATION

• 2021-06-01
  • Docentship at Uppsala University,
    Docent in Engineering Science with Specialization in Applied Mechanics, with the lecture:
    "Thermoelectric effect, an infamous idea to use as a cooking plate" (in English)
• 2019-07-10
  • Habilitation at Technische Universität Berlin,
    with the thesis entitled as:
    ''Thermodynamics of deformable solids under electromagnetic interaction and computation of multiphysics applications '' (in German and English)
• 2014-02-14
  • Doctor of Engineering at Technische Universität Berlin,
    with the thesis entitled as:
    ''Thermodynamically compatible modeling, determination of material parameters, and numerical analysis of nonlinear rheological materials'' (in English)
    also published by epubli: epubli Shop or Amazon
• 2006-10 to 2008.08
  • M.Sc. in Computational Mechanics
    Department of Mechanical Engineering
    Technical University of Munich, Germany
    Master thesis title:
    "Space adaptivity using a posteriori residual-based error estimation in the finite element method for the incompressible Navier--Stokes equations" (in English)
    Term thesis title:
    "Non Uniform Rational B-Spline implementation in the finite element method for 3D" (in German)
• 2001-09 to 2006-02
  • B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, Strength of Materials Department at the Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
    Bachelor thesis title:
    "Plastics Injection Mold Design and Analysis" (in Turkish)
    published on the eng. portal (in Turkish):
    www.turkcadcam.net/rapor/PEK-CAE/index.html

Link to

• Web site: http://bilenemek.abali.org
• Google Scholar
• ResearchGate
• ResearcherID
• Mendeley
• Publons

Fields of research:

• Thermodynamically consistent formulation of continuum mechanical problems
• Variational formulation and solution of multiphysics problems
• Determination of parameters of materials and metamaterials

Authored and edited books and monographs:

• B. E. Abali. Computational Reality. Solving Nonlinear and Coupled Problems in Continuum Mechanics. Springer Nature, 2017.
• B. E. Abali and C. Cakiroglu. Numerische Merhoden für Ingenieure. Mit Anwendungsbeispielen in Python. Springer Vieweg, 2020.
• H. Altenbach, W. H. Müller, and B. E. Abali (eds.) Higher Gradient Materials and Related Generalized Continua. Springer Nature, 2019.
• B. E. Abali, H. Altenbach, F. dell’Isola, V. A. Eremeyev, and A. Öchsner (eds.) New Achievements in Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics. Springer Nature, 2019.
• B. E. Abali and I. Giorgio (eds.) Developments and Novel Approaches in Nonlinear Solid Body Mechanics. Springer Nature, 2020.
• B. E. Abali and I. Giorgio (eds.) Developments and Novel Approaches in Biomechanics and Metamaterials. Springer Nature, 2020.

Web site: http://bilenemek.abali.org