Bio: Dr. Abdullah Abdulhaque defended his PhD thesis titled “Adaptive Isogeometric Methods for Boussinesq Problems” at the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in 2022. He is now researcher in the group Computational Science and Engineering at Department of Mathematics and Cybernetics (SINTEF Digital). His main interest is Computational Mathematics, in particular error estimation and adaptive Isogeometric Methods.

Bio: Pilar Ariza is a professor of Solid Mechanics and Structures and head of the Doctoral Program in Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Organization at the University of Seville (Spain). After her PhD in 2002, she did postdoctoral research for a period of one year at the California Institute of Technology, where she worked as a visiting associate for a second year. Since 2005, she has held a position as Visiting Associate in Aeronautics at the Graduate Aerospace Laboratories of the California Institute Technology (USA). Her main research fields are modeling and simulation of advanced materials and multiphysics phenomena at different scales, with applications including sustainable energy, hydrogen storage, electronic devices and others. She organized an IUTAM symposium in 2014 and a Euromech colloquium in 2018. She also regularly serves on the scientific boards and organizing committees of international conferences in the area of Solid Mechanics. Since 2014, Pilar Ariza is member of the IUTAM General Assembly and representative of Spain in IUTAM. She served on the IUTAM Congress Committee from 2016 to 2024. In 2018, she founded the Spanish scientific society SEMTA, which is adhered to IUTAM and Euromech, and has served as its president ever since. She also chaired the IUTAM diversity working group created in 2021. She has been elected as Treasurer of IUTAM and Officer of the IUTAM Board of Directors until 2028, and member of the EUROMECH Council for a six-year term (2022 – 2027). Pilar Ariza has been a member of the general council of IACM for the period 2017-2021 and a member of the executive committee of the SEMNI for the period 2011-2018. She is a member of three editorial boards: International Journal of Fracture, International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, and International Journal of Numerical Methods for Calculation and Design in Engineering.

Bio: Vegard Aune holds the position as an Associate Professor at the Department of Structural Engineering, NTNU. His research is aimed at increasing our fundamental understanding of how materials and structures react to impact and other extreme loading environments. Special focus is placed on the two-way interaction between the load and the deformable structure during high intensity surface pressures, and the development of new experimental methods to validate numerical simulations.

Bio: MSc NTNU 1966, PhD University of California 1971, Professor of Structural Mechanics, NTNU 1971-2011, Director of Research and senior vice president DNV 1986-2008, visiting professorships at University of Stuttgart, UC Berkeley, Stanford University, and KAIST (South Korea). Honorary Doctoral degree at Chalmers University. Extensive research activities in finite element methods including nonlinear theory, Free Formulation, solution algorithms, dynamics, fracture mechanics, material modelling etc. Originator of the finite element programs SESAM and FENRIS being used extensively in Maritime and Offshore Industries. After retirement particularly interested in applying science to solving problems associated with the environment and the green energy transition. Founded companies EnergyNest, Lattice Technology and Lattice International with particular focus on thermal energy storage and storage of liquified gases such as LNG, LCO2, ammonia, liquid hydrogen. Through the years published extensive number of scientific publications and many inventions and patents.

Bio: Dr Børvik is currently a professor (100% position) at Department of Structural Engineering, NTNU, and a senior advisor (20% position) for the Norwegian Defence Estates Agency. He has an expertise and research interest in modelling, simulation and testing of materials and structures exposed to extreme loadings, such as ballistic impact, blast loading, dropped objects and crashworthiness. He was the programme head of the research programme Optimal Energy Absorption and Protection in SFI SIMLab at NTNU from 2007-2014, and he is the vice director and a programme head of the research programme Protective Structures in SFI CASA at NTNU from 2015-2023. Currently he is the group leader of SIMLab, NTNU. From 2016-2021 he was a core team member of the FRIPRO Toppforsk-project FractAl. He has authored >200 articles in peer-reviewed Q1 journals, and a corresponding number of papers at international conferences. At present, he serves as an Associate Editor in the International Journal of Impact Engineering and on the Editorial Board of Strain. From 1993 to 2011, he held a position as a senior researcher (100% position) at the R&D Department, Norwegian Defence Estates Agency, mainly working with extreme mechanics, simultaneously as he was adjunct professor (20% position) at SIMLab from 2002 to 2012. He is involved in many research projects funded by the Ministry of Defence, the Research Council of Norway, and national and international industrial partners.

Bio: I am an Associate Professor at NTNU’s Department of Structural Engineering. My research focuses on micromechanics-based modeling of materials, combining experiments, theory, and numerical modeling and simulations. My current projects involve stochastic fracture in cast aluminum and polymer-based metamaterials for energy absorption under impact loading.

Bio: I am a professor of statistics in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at NTNU. Working with spatial and computational statistics, I enjoy to conduct both methodological developments and applied statistical research, in particular related to spatio-temporal applications in the Earth Sciences. I have industry background from the Norwegian Defense Research Establishment and Equinor.

Bio: Jianying He is a professor of nanomechanics at the Faculty of Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), and academician of Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences (NTVA). Her research focuses on nanomechanics and interface mechanics in energy materials and functional materials. She leads research on the nanomechanical properties of materials and structures, functional surfaces and coatings for low adhesion, and multiphysical phenomena. She has been recognized as an outstanding academic fellow at NTNU, a fellow of the European Structural Integrity Society (ESIS). She is also a member of the executive committee (ExCo) for ESIS, the Nordic Association for Computational Mechanics, and the IEEE Nanotechnology Nordic Chapter. She is an associate editor for Fracture and Structural Integrity and serves on the editorial boards of Engineering Fracture Mechanics, Nano Express, and Forces in Mechanics.

Bio:I am a professor of mathematics at NTNU. I hold a PhD from the University of Oslo. Mathematical interests include differential equations, flow in porous media, and numerical analysis. Current Chair of the Abel Prize Committee. My personal website is www.helgeholden.no.

Bio: Odd Sture Hopperstad is professor at the Department of Structural Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway. His research activities are mainly within materials mechanics, plasticity and crystal plasticity, ductile fracture, micromechanics, and structural impact. Within these fields, he has published about 300 articles in international journals with peer review. He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences, the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters, and The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

Bio:Espen R. Jakobsen has been a professor at the Department of Mathematical Sciences since 2008. He is a member of the Differential Equations and Numerical Analysis (DNA) research group, a group he lead for about 10 years untill 2020. Research interests Partial differential equations, nonlinear/degenerate equations, non-local and fractional equations, numerical methods, mathematical analysis, numerical analysis, stochastic processes, nonlinear diffusion equations, control theory, scalar conservation laws, mean field games, mathematical finance, and mathematical modeling.

Bio: Kjetil is the research manager of the Computational Science & Engineering group at SINTEF Digital, department of Mathematics & Cybernetics consisting of 10 researchers. His research interest lies in isogeometric analysis, digital twin applications and accelerated computing. He was awarded web of science highly cited paper for his work "Isogeometric analysis using LR B-splines". Kjetil is the author and maintainer of several large software packages such as Splipy and LR (Locally Refined) B-splines. Currently he is leading workpackage on Digital Twin and Asset Management for offshore wind in the research center FME NorthWind.

Bio: Marie E. Rognes is Chief Research Scientist in Scientific Computing and Numerical Analysis at Simula Research Laboratory, Oslo, Norway and Deputy Director of the K. G. Jebsen Centre for Brain Fluid Research. Her work targets frontier research both in computational mathematics and the neurosciences, focusing on numerics for partial differential equations, high-performance mathematical software, and high-fidelity modelling of excitable tissue. She received her Ph.D from the University of Oslo in 2009 after an extended research stay at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, US. She has been at Simula Research Laboratory since 2009, and led its Department for Biomedical Computing from 2012 to 2016. She held a Professor II position (20%) at the Department of Mathematics, University of Bergen, Norway (2020-2022), and was a Visiting Fulbright Scholar at the Institute for Engineering in Medicine, University of California San Diego, CA, US (2022-2023).

Rognes is a member of the Norwegian Academy for Technological Sciences (2022-) and was a Founding Member of the Young Academy of Norway in 2016. She won the 2018 Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters Prize for Young Researchers within Mathematics and the Natural Sciences and the 2015 Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software. She was awarded an ERC Starting Grant in Mathematics in 2017, and has been awarded a series of ground-breaking research grants from the Research Council of Norway since 2016. She is a member of the Research Council of Norway's Portfolio Board for ground-breaking research (2024-), the European Mathematical Society's Committee for Applications and Interdisciplinary Relations (2023-), the Interpore Council (2023-), and the FEniCS Steering Council (2016-2024), in addition to six Editorial Boards spanning pure and applied mathematics, scientific computing and mathematical software. Rognes has supervised more than 8 postdoctoral fellows, 16 PhD or DPhil students, and 13 MSc students in the period 2012-2024.

Bio: Trond Kvamsdal is a Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences, at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and he also holds a part time Senior Scientist position in the Department of Mathematics and Cybernetics at SINTEF Digital. His positions at NTNU are within computational mathematics, i.e. development of new theories/methods within applied mathematics and numerical analysis to make robust and efficient numerical software programs for challenging applications in science and technology. Main areas of research are Adaptive Finite Element Methods (AFEM), Reduced Order Modeling (ROM), and Hybrid Analysis and Modeling (HAM) to enable predictive digital twins. He is chairing the FME NorthWind Scientific Advisory Committee and is the leader of the NTNU Energy Team Wind and the NTNU IE Team Digital Twin. He is a Past President of NoACM, and currently member of NoACM Executive Committee, ECCOMAS Executive Committee as the President Elect (as President medio 2026 - medio 2030) , ECCOMAS Management Board, and IACM General Assembly. He received the IACM Fellow Award (International Association for Computational Mechanics) in 2010 and was elected member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences (NTVA) in 2017.

Bio: Dr. Arne Morten Kvarving submitted his PhD thesis titled “Bénard cells and pattern formation: A numerical investigation” from the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in 2010. He is now a senior software developer in the group Computational Science and Engineering at Department of Mathematics and Cybernetics (SINTEF Digital). His main interest is Computational Mathematics, in particular error estimation and adaptive Isogeometric Methods, numerical linear algebra, parallel computations and scientific software development.

Bio:Mats G. Larson is Professor of Applied Mathematics at Umeå University, where he leads research at the interface of numerical analysis, computational mechanics, and scientific computing. He is known for his contributions to finite element technology, including CutFEM for unfitted and evolving geometries, adaptive methods, discontinuous Galerkin schemes, and augmented Lagrangian techniques. Elected an IACM Fellow in 2024, he also chairs the Nordic Association of Computational Mechanics and the ECCOMAS Technical Committee for Computational & Applied Mechanics. Larson’s recent work integrates simulation with AI/ML, including differentiable, GPU-accelerated solvers, nonlinear model order reduction, and generative models for domains and microstructures, advancing data-driven yet physics-faithful design and control. He received his Ph.D. (1997) from Chalmers University of Technology under Claes Johnson and held a postdoctoral appointment at Stanford University with T. J. R. Hughes (1997–1999). Beyond his research, he is actively involved in community leadership, mentoring, and industry collaboration focused on simulation-driven engineering.

Bio: Anders Logg is Professor of Computational Mathematics at Chalmers University of Technology. His research interests are adaptive finite element methods, high-level automating software systems for solution of PDE, domain-specific languages and compilers in scientific computing, augmented and virtual reality, and applications in biomedicine, general relativity, architecture, and geoinformation; in particular the combination of modeling, simulation and visualization to create Digital Twins of physical systems. Logg is Director of the Digital Twin Cities Centre at Chalmers, a Vinnova Competence Centre devoted to the study and development of the Digital Twin concept for city modeling and simulation. Logg is co-founder and initial developer of the FEniCS Project, a leading open-source software for automated solution of PDE. He works part-time as scientific advisor to Fraunhofer-Chalmers Centre.

Bio: Dr. André Massing is an Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim. His research lies at the intersection of computational mathematics, numerical analysis, and scientific computing, with a focus on finite element methods for complex and evolving geometries, differential equations on surfaces, and coupled multi-physics problems. He is known for his work on the analysis and algorithmic realization of unfitted or cut finite element methods and their application to complex multi-physics problems arising in e.g. biomedicine, neuroscience, and biophysics.

Bio: Kjell Magne Mathisen is Professor in Computational Mechanics at the Department of Structural Engineering at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). He has been the past research group leader of the Structural Mechanics and the Nanomechanics group at Department of Structural Engineering, respectively. Currently he is the Faculty Pedagogical Coordinator for the Study Program Civil- and Environmental Engineering, and the Program director of the Bachelor’s program in Civil Engineering at NTNU. He is also a past president of the Nordic Association for Computational Mechanics (NoACM). Mathisen has experience in teaching courses in computational mechanics for more than 4 decades. His research interests are in computational mechanics, with emphasis on developing software, modeling and simulation in solids, structures, and fluid-structure interaction. Currently his focus is on reduced order modeling (ROM), and isogeometric analysis (IGA).

Bio: Background in computational structural mechanics. Architect of the open source isogeometric finite element analysis package IFEM. Have also worked in Fedem Technology / SAP earlier, developing the now open source multi-body dynamics code FEDEM.

Bio: Professor of Mathematical Sciences at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.

Bio: Professor in computational mechanics. Main fields nonlinear elasticity, plasticity, fracture mechanics, fatigue, biomechanics, nonlinear shell finite element formulations, bone mechanics/prosthesis, heart valves/virtual surgery, numerical simulation of obstructive sleep apnea, analysis of aorta aneurysms, forensic biomechanics. Member of NTNU board, developer of software LINK pipe (fracture mechanics of pipelines). Co author (with J Amdahl) of book "Nonlinear analysis of offshore structures".

Bio: Florian Stadtmann works as a Research Scientist on hybrid analysis and modeling and digital twins in the Computational Science and Engineering group at SINTEF Digital. He did his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Physics from RWTH Aachen, where he focused on astroparticle physics and cosmology. Recently, he defended his PhD thesis on "Enabling Technologies for Digital Twins in Wind Energy" at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

Bio: Ingelin Steinsland (1974) is professor at the Department of Mathematical Sciences. She is a member of the the Statistics group. Professor Steinsland has a MSc in Industrial Mathematics and a PhD in Statistics from NTNU. She is the Vice Dean of research at the Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering.

Bio: Research Engineer, Philps, Eindhoven. 1978-79 Dr. Tech. Helsinki University. Tech. 1984 Post. Doc. Inria Rocquencourt 1987-89 Researcher. Helsinki University. Tech. 1990-96 Prof., University of Innsbruck. 1996-99 Prof., Tampere Univ. Tech. 1999-2001 Prof. Helsinki University. Tech. Aalto University. 2001-2021.

Bio:PhD-student in focusing on spatio-temporal statistics and numerics applied to CO2 storage. Developed the AI-agent JutulGPT together with SINTEF Digital.

Bio: I have been working at SINTEF since 2011 as a scientist. Prior to that, i did my post-doctoral fellowship at Flow Technology group CSIRO, Melbourne. My current work involves developing computational fluid dynamics and machine learning (hybrid analytics) tools for industrial processes, renewable energy, aviation safety and digital twin enablers. The work is available for perusal through peer-reviewed journal publications.

Bio: As a researcher in the Applied Computational Science group in SINTEF Digital, I work on large-scale numerical simulation and high-performance computing, with a focus on accelerating scientific software on modern hardware. My interests include data-driven and hybrid simulation methods, GPU-enabled solvers, and emerging agentic workflows for automating simulation and scientific discovery. Education: - MSc Applied Computational Science and Engineering, Imperial College London, 2021 - BSc Physics, Imperial College London, 2020 Competence and research areas: - Numerical modelling and simulation - High-performance computing - GPU acceleration - Data-driven and hybrid simulation methods - Agentic workflows for scientific computation

Bio:Dr. Vasileios Tsiolakis was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie ESR and holds a PhD from LaCàN, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and the ZCCE of Swansea University. He later held a Postdoctoral Fellowship position at the Department of Mathematical Sciences of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and is currently working as a Research Scientist at the Computational Sciences and Engineering Group of SINTEF Digital. His work focuses on Reduced Order Modelling (ROM), and Hybrid Analysis and Modeling (HAM), with contributions mainly in Computational Fluid Dynamics and Coupled Problems. He has been an active member in the community of Digital Twins (DT) applications, with focus on enabling technologies for Predictive DTs, organizing symposia and sessions in ECCOMAS, USACM, and IACM conferences, with the incentive to foster collaboration and knowledge sharing in the field.