Dr. Manfred Bäcker Fraunhofer LBF Tire model group Bartningstr. 47 Darmstadt Germany 64289 Email: manfred.baecker@lbf.fraunhofer.de Biographical Sketch: Studied mathematics and Physics at universities of Kaiserslautern and Heidelberg 1986 – 1990 researcher at university of Kaiserslautern in applied mathematics à PhD in mathematics, topic “Kinetic schemes for nonlinear scalar conservation laws” 1991 – 1997 working at TecMath GmbH in Kaiserslautern as group leader, main topic “mathematical methods in signal processing” 1997 -- 2007 working at LMS International in Kaiserslautern, since 2001 manager “Method Development”, main topic “virtual car” and tire modelling Since end 2007 at Fraunhofer LBF à Group leader “tire modelling” |