Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. h. c. Andrés Kecskeméthy

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Curriculum Vitae

1. Personal data

Name Andrés George Kecskeméthy Darányi
Birth date 28 September 1957
Birth place Lima, Perú
Family status
Married, two children
Citizenship German
Affiliation Chair for Mechanics and Robotics, University of Duisburg Essen

2. Academic track

1963 - 1976 Peruvian-German School Alexander von Humboldt in Lima, Perú
Final Examination for general German University Entrance (Abitur): November 1976
1977 - 1984 Diploma study in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Stuttgart with major subjects Mechanics und Process Computer Engineering
Diploma grade: Summa cum laude
1984 - 1987
University Assistant with Prof. Dr. rer.nat. R. Eppler at the Institute A of Mechanics of the University Stuttgart
1987 - 1993 University Assistant with Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. M. Hiller at the Institutes of Mechanics and Mechatronics, respectively, of the University Duisburg
1993 Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering. Grade: Summa cum laude
1993 - 1996 Senior Engineer at the Institute of Mechatronics at the University of Duisburg
1994 Award of the University of Duisburg for the best Ph.D. Thesis
1994 - 1995 One-year sabbatical at the Centre for Intelligent Machines at McGill University in Montreal with Prof. Jorge Angeles
1996 - 1999 Full Professor (ordentlicher Universitätsprofessor) for Mechanics at the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the University of Technology of Graz
1999 - 2002 Full Professor (ordentlicher Universitätsprofessor) for Mechanics and Mechanisms at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Technology of Graz
since 2002 Full Professor (C4) for Mechanics at the Institute of Mechatronics and Systems Dynamics of the University Duisburg-Essen
2003 - 2006 Dean of the Faculty of Engineering of the University Duisburg-Essen
2004 - 2015 Editor-in-Chief of the journal “Mechanism and Machine Theory”
2006 - 2010 Member of the Senate of the University Duisburg-Essen
2008 - 2010 Chairman of the Senate of the University Duisburg-Essen
2010 - 2011 Five-month sabbatical leave at MIT with Prof. Steve Dubowsky
since 2011 External Corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of Univ. of Bologna
2013 / 2016 Visiting Professorship, Universidad Católica del Perú
2014 - 2016 Member of the Evaluation Committee of the Canadian Research Association
2013 Award of the University of Minho for Scientific Cooperation
2014 Best Teacher Award from the students of the Mechanical Engineering-Economics (“Wirtschaftsingenieur”)
2015 Award “Illustrious Scientist of the Ibero-American Association of Mechanical Engineers”
2015 “Dedicated Services Award” of the International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science (IFToMM)
2018 Doctor honoris causa from Riga Technical University
2019 ASME Design Engineering Division Mechanism and Robotics Award
2020 Best Teacher Award from the students of Mechanical Engineering
2020 - 2023 President of IFToMM
2020 - 2023 Elected Member of the DFG Fachkollegiat 402-02 Mechanik

3. Publications, Curricular Activities, Projects, other Activities

234 Publications (journal & proceedings papers, 7 books, scientific reports, 3 best paper awards 2011, 2014, 2015)
2 Patents
135 Supervised Bachelor and Master Theses
28 Supervised PhD theses
11 Research projects since and 2017 (total volume € 7,07 Mio as PI)
  Languages: German, English, Spanish: fluent; French, Italian: basic knowledge

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