Manu Hegde

Dr.-Ing. Manu Hegde

Tel.: +49 201 183 3603
Room: V15 S06 D21
manu.hegde@uni-due.de

Universität Duisburg-Essen

Fakultät für Ingenieurwissenschaften
Abteilung Bauwissenschaften
Institut für Mechanik
Universitätsstraße 2
Raum V15 S06 D17
45141 Essen

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Research • Teaching • Career • Supervised Thesis 

Research

  Focus

  • Mechanics of soft active solids
  • Biomechanics
  • Mixed Finite Elements

  actual Projects

  • Mixed Least Squares Finite Elements for Ionin Metal Polymer Composites (IPMCs)

Teaching

  Lectures

  • Finite Element Methods- I
  • Finite Element Methods - II

Career

2010 - 2014 Bachelor of Engineering - B.E (Mechanical Engineering) - Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum, India
2014 - 2016 Master of Technology - M.Tech (Mechanical Engineering) - Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal, India
2017 - 2022 Doctor of Philosophy - Ph.D (Aerospace Engineering) - Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India
2023 - 2024 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Israel Institute of Technology - Technion, Haifa, Israel
2025 - present Research Associate, Institute of Mechanics, University of Duisburg-Essen

Supervised thesis

  • Bachelor Thesis : Bandgaps in Periodic Nanobeams - Spectral Finite Element Study
  • Bachelor Thesis : Performance of Hellinger-Reissner type mixed finite elements for the shear deformable elastic beams