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We are pleased to announce that Eva Maria Richter attended the NAFEMS DACH Conference in Bamberg, Germany, from May 5th to May 7th. Eva’s attendance followed her receipt of the NAFEMS DACH Student Award for her Master’s thesis that she completed in 2024. NAFEMS remains the premier independent globa...

Felix Weber has submitted his doctoral thesis on "Multiscale fracture modeling of amorphous materials: Bridging atomistic and continuum mechanical perspectives" and is now leaving the Capriccio group after being member for more than 7 years for a position in industry. Felix joined the Capriccio a...

We are excited to share that our article "The Capriccio method as a versatile tool for quantifying the fracture properties of glassy materials under complex loading conditions with chemical specificity" authored by Felix Weber, Maxime Vassaux, Lukas Laubert, and Sebastian Pfaller is now available in...

From 05 to 07 January, Sebastian Pfaller met Denise Hellmuth (University of Bayreuth), Agustín Ríos (Université Lyon 1), and Fabrice Detrez (Université Gustave Eiffel) in Lyon for a BIO ART strategy meeting. First of all, we congratulated Agustín for being appointed Professor at Université Lyon 1 ve...

Eva Maria Richter receives the NAFEMS DACH Student Award 2023/2024 in the category of materials science and structural mechanics for her master's thesis on “A ‘Capriccio light’ approach to study the capabilities of multiscale fracture simulations of thermoplastics”. In her thesis, Eva expanded the l...

The PULS group and the Capriccio group concluded the year by their semi-annual meeting within the research training group "FRASCAL". After a joint lunch with preparatory, informal discussions, Eva Maria Richter, Lukas Laubert, Felix Weber, and György Hantal presented their research activities and fi...

On November 20, 2025, the 4th Frascal Symposium (research training group "Fracture across Scales") was organised in the beautiful "Orangerie" located in the palace garden in Erlangen. Wuyang Zhao gave a talk entitled "Microscopic mechanisms of plasticity and fracture in glassy polymers" as an invite...

From September 27th to November 8th, Eva Maria Richter completed a six-week research stay with the group of Assistant Professor Frederik van Loock, which is embedded within the Processing and Performance (P&P) of Materials group at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Eindhoven University...

From July 20th to 24th, Lukas Laubert attended the 18th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics (USNCCM18), held in Chicago, USA. This major international conference brought together leading experts in computational mechanics from academia and industry, offering an excellent platform to ex...

The Capriccio group vividly participated with three events at the "Long Night of Sciences" held on 25 October 2025 throughout Nuremberg, Fürth, and Erlangen: First, our group member Eva Maria Richter dicussed with Prof. Daniel Köhn from Geology the question: "What have cracks between continents t...