Prof. Bernhard Schrefler, UNIPD, Italy

is Secretary General of the International Centre of Mechanical Sciences (CISM), member of the Executive Council of IACM, of the Executive Committee of the Congress Committee of IUTAM and Secretary General of EUROMECH.

He received honorary doctorates from St. Petersburg State Technical University, University of Hannover, Technical University of Lodz, Russian Academy of Sciences and a honorary fellowship from the University of Wales. He is the recipient of the 2009 ASCE Maurice A. Biot Medal, of the IACM Computational Mechanics Award in 2002 and of the IACM Award in 2006.