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Xi F. XU received a Bachelor degree from Tsinghua University, China in 1993. He had practiced as a structural engineer for 5 years in Shanghai before returning to graduate school. He received two Master degrees, one in offshore engineering from Robert Gordon University, and the other in civil engineering from University of Akron, USA. In 2005 he completed his PhD degree in civil engineering from Johns Hopkins and then served as an assistant professor at Stevens Institute of Technology, USA. He is now a professor at Beijing Jiaotong University, China. His research interests cover a variety of topics in the areas of engineering reliability, multiscale mechanics, micromechanics, and stochastic dynamics. He is one of pioneering researchers in promoting development of multiscale methods onto stochastic systems.
George STEFANOU graduated from the School of Civil Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece. He received his postgraduate and PhD degrees in the field of Computational Stochastic Mechanics from NTUA. After having worked in 2008 as a post-doctoral researcher at the Ecole Centrale de Nantes (ECN), France, he had a two-year research collaboration with the Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at Columbia University in the City of New York, USA (2012–2013). He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His teaching includes basic and advanced courses in structural analysis with the finite element method. His research activity is mainly focused on the development and application of computer methods for stochastic finite element analysis of real world structures as well as on the multiscale modeling and uncertainty quantification of heterogeneous materials and structures. He has been involved in the following scientific activities: Guest Editor of 2 special issues of international scientific journals, member of the Scientific Committee of 7 international conferences, reviewer for 38 scientific journals and 17 international conferences.
Carsten PROPPE received in 1995 Dipl.-Ing., Dipl.-Math from Engineering and Mathematics at TU Berlin and Ecole Centrale de Lyon, Germany. In 1999, he has got a doctoral degree from Institut für Mechanik, Otto-vonguericke-universität, magdeburg, Germany, focused on Engineering Mechanics of Random Vibrations. From 1999 to 2002, he has been an assistant professor in Institut für Mechanik, Leopold-Franzens-Universität, Innsbruck. After having worked as an Engineer on Vehicle Dynamics in Bombardier Transportation GmbH for several years, he has been a professor of Engineering Mechanics at Universität Karlsruhe in Germany since 2005. His research interests cover a variety of topics in the areas of multibody dynamics, structural dynamics, multiscale computing, uncertainty quantification, etc.
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Xu, X.F., Stefanou, G., Proppe, C. et al. Special Column on Multiscale Stochastic Finite Element Method. Front. Struct. Civ. Eng. 9, 105–106 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11709-015-0297-7
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