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Leon Mishnaevsky Jr.

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http://www.risoe.dk/About_risoe/research_departments/AFM/CV/lemi/lemi_cv.aspx

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Risoe National Laboratory, Technical University of Denmark

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Materials Research Department

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Leon Mishnaevsky Jr., born in 1964 in Kiev (Ukraine), graduated from the Kiev Civil Engineering University in 1987, received his doctorate from the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1991 and his second Doctorate degree (Habilitation, Dr.-Ing. Habil.) in Mechanics from the Darmstadt University of Technology (Germany) in 2005. From 1981 till 1994 he has been working at the Institute for Superhard Materials, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Kiev. After one year research stay at the Vienna University of Technology (Austria) in 1994/95, he joined the State Materials Testing Institute (MPA), University of Stuttgart as a Humboldt fellow and later as a Research Associate. After being awarded the Heisenberg Fellowship of the German Research Council in 2003, he started his work at the Darmstadt University of Technology, sharing his time between Darmstadt and Stuttgart. Leon has held appointments as a Visiting Research Professor at the Rutgers University (USA), Visiting Scholar at The University of Tokyo, Science University of Tokyo (Japan) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Invited Professor at the China University of Mining and Technology and Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Arts et Metiers (France). His honors include Fellowships of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and Japan Science and Technology Agency (STA), Engineering Foundation Fellowship, Humboldt Fellowship, as well as the Heisenberg Fellowship of the DFG, mentioned above. After his Habilitation, he joined the Risø National Laboratory in Denmark as a Senior Scientist. He has published a book on "Damage and Fracture in Heterogeneous Materials" (1998, Balkema) and over 100 research papers in the areas of computational mechanics of materials, micromechanics, fracture and damage mechanics, tribology, mechanical engineering.