	Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Thomas Seelig
	office hours: Thursday 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. room: 208 phone: +49 721 608 43714 fax: +49 721 608 47990 Thomas SeeligGuw0∂kit edu	Institute of Mechanics Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Building 10.30 Otto-Ammann-Platz 9 D-76131 Karlsruhe

Research fields

Research projects
topic	contact
Micromechanics of rubber-toughened thermoplastics	Dipl.-Ing. Martin Helbig Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Thomas Seelig
Multiscale modeling of the fracture behavior of polymers	Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Thomas Seelig
Simulation tools for thermomechanical forming processes on polymers	M.Sc. Philipp Hempel Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Thomas Seelig PD Dr.-Ing. habil. Matthias Worgull (IMT)
Material modeling incorporating manufacturing influences ("process chain")	M.Sc. Philipp Hempel Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Thomas Seelig

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1985 - 1991 Studies of mechanical engineering and mechanics, TH Darmstadt
Sept. 1991 Degree in mechanics (Diplom)
1992 - 1994 Scientific employee, Institute of Theoretical Mechanics, Karlsruhe University
1994 - 1997 PhD student, Institute of Mechanics, TU Darmstadt
June 1997 PhD in mechanics
1998 - 2004 Research and teaching assistant, Institute of Mechanics, TU Darmstadt
2000 Visiting scholar (postdoc), Micromechanics of Materials group, TU Delft
Dec. 2004 Habilitation in mechanics
since 2005 Privatdozent, TU Darmstadt
2004 - 2009 Researcher, Fraunhofer-Institute for Mechanics of Materials, Freiburg
since 2009 Professor of mechanics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology