Professor Bernhard Schrefler, Secretary General of CISM, has been awarded with the Gauss-Newton Medal, the highest award given by IACM.

It honors individuals who have made outstanding, sustained contributions in the field of computational mechanics generally over periods representing substantial portions of their professional careers.

The medal is bronze and carries the images of Newton and Gauss in recognition of the synergy between mathematics, numerical analysis, and mathematical modeling of physical events that underpin much of the broad field of computational mechanics.

Professor Schrefler has received the medal on July 25th, 2016 during the opening of the World Congress on Computational Mechanics in Seoul (South Korea).