Position:

• Professor
• Director: Computational Continuum Mechanics Research Group
• Director: Social Responsiveness: Department of Civil Engineering

Email:

• sebastian.skatulla@uct.ac.za

Office:

• Room 3.41; New Engineering Building; UCT Upper Campus

Qualifications:

• PhD Mechanical Engineering, University of Adelaide (2007)
• Diplom Bau-Ingenieur (TH), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (2003)

Professional Affiliations:

• South African Association for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (SAAM)
• Scientific Council of the International Centre for Mechanical Sciences (CISM)
• International Society for Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (ISCCBE)
• Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research - Instabilities & Thresholds in Antarctica (SCAR INSTANT)

Undergraduate Teaching: 

• CIV1007S (Engineering mechanics)
• CIV2011F (Mechanics of materials)

Postgraduate Teaching: 

• CIV5108Z (Advanced mechanics of materials)
• CIV5142Z (Finite element modelling in structural analysis)

Research Affiliations: 

• Polar Engineering Research Group (PERG)
• Computational Continuum Mechanics Research Group (CCM)
• Structural Engineering and Mechanics Research Group (SEM)

Publication Profile: 

• Google Scholar

Research Interests: 

• Antarctic ice shelf dynamics
• Antarctic sea ice dynamics
• Cardiac mechanics with application to rheumatic heart disease
• Multiscale methods

Biographical Summary:

Sebastian Skatulla is a Professor of Structural Engineering and Mechanics in the Department of Civil Engineering. He graduated with a Masters degree in Civil Engineering from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in 2003. He was awarded his PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Adelaide in 2007. He is the Director and founder of the Polar Engineering Research Group (PERG) at the University of Cape Town.

His research activities are centred in multiscale and multiphysics continuum methods and modelling. Current activities comprise Antarctic sea-ice and shelf-ice dynamics as well as biological tissue mechanics.

He has been the President of the South African Association for Theoretical and Applied
Mechanics (SAAM) 2016-2021. He is a Member of the Board of Directors of the
International Society for Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (ISCCBE) and
Member of the Scientific Council of the International Centre for Mechanical Sciences
(CISM).