Constitutive Models for Rubbers XIII

Huesnue Dal is Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey, where he has initiated the Computational Micromechanics Research Group in Spring 2014. Dr. Dal obtained his B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from METU in Ankara, Turkey in 2001, and his M.Sc. degree from the interdisciplinary programme "Computational Mechanics of Materials and Structures" (COMMAS) at University of Stuttgart in 2005. He received his PhD degree in Solid Mechanics from Dresden University of Technology, Germany, in 2011. After a short visit to ETH Zurich, he joined Simulation Technologies Excellence Cluster (SIMTECH) at the University of Stuttgart. He has been appointed as a full-time faculty member at METU since 2014. Dr. Dal has co-authored publications in journals such as Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering and Computational Mechanics and has delivered numerous invited presentations at research institutes and universities in Europe. He is the Scientific Research Projects Coordinator at METU since May 2017 and Head of the METU CAD/CAM Robotics Center since January 2023.