Invited Sessions

Call for Invited Sessions

Plenary lectures will be complemented by Invited Sessions organized by recognised experts in targeted research areas.

Participants interested in organizing an Invited Session as part of Membranes 2021 are requested to submit a proposal to the conference secretariat no later than June 1st, 2020

Confirmed Invited Sessions

Adaptive Lightweight Structures
Christoph Paech
Schlaich Bergermann Partner, Stuttgart, Germany
Knut Göppert
Schlaich Bergermann Partner, Stuttgart, Germany

Closing the loop: the end-of-life scenarios of tensile surface structures
Marijke Mollaert
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Carol Monticelli
Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Detailing-Case Studies-Installation Process
Josep Ignasi Llorens
UPC, School of Architecture, Barcelona, Spain
Günther H. Filz
University of Innsbruck, Austria

Education of Tensile Membrane Structures
Alireza Behnejad
Spatial Structures Research Centre, University of Surrey, UK

Energetic Aspects of Building Envelopes
Karsten Moritz
TAIYO Europe GmbH, Germany
Lars Schiemann
MUAS Munich, Germany

Masts and Mast-Supported Structures
Sudarshan Krishnan
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Material developments and design aspects
Heidrun Bögner-Balz
DEKRA Automobil GmbH, Germany

Membrane / Adaptive Molding
Arno Pronk
Technical University Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Numerical Methods and Modeling for Lightweight Structures
Falko Dieringer
HFT Stuttgart / Tragform Ingenieure, Germany
Benedikt Philipp
BPR Dr. Schäpertöns Consult, Germany
Ann-Kathrin Goldbach
TUM University, Germany

Pneumatic Structures
Paolo Beccarelli
Faculty of Engineering, The University of Nottingham, UK
Javier Marcipar
CIMNE, Barcelona, Spain
Carles Estruch
Buildair, Barcelona, Spain

Wind Engineering and Fluid-structure Interaction
Rubén Zorrilla Martínez
CIMNE, Spain
Máté Péntek
TUM, Germany
Roland Wüchner
TUM, Germany
Riccardo Rossi
CIMNE, Spain