Prof. Hans Jürgen Herrmann, ETHZ, Switzerland

is head of Institute for Building Materials and of the Group on Computational Physics. He is renowned in DEM with and without coupling to the surrounding fluid, and has expertise on modelling of flow and particle transport in porous media.

Prof Herrmann is Editor-in-Chief and founding editor of the Springer Journal ‘Granular Matter’ and ‘International Journal of Modern Physics C’, as well as being on the editorial board or reviewing panel of numerous other leading scientific journals. Prof. Herrmann published widely with broad coverage in physics and engineering.