Prof. Dr. Michael Gee

Michael Gee was born in 1971 in Hamburg and grew up in the Stuttgart area.

After completing his Abitur in Esslingen am Neckar, he studied civil engineering at the University of Stuttgart, graduating in 1999 with a degree in engineering.

From 1999 to 2004, he earned his doctorate (Dr.-Ing.) at the Institute of Structural Mechanics at the University of Stuttgart, focusing on efficient solution strategies in nonlinear shell mechanics. From 2004 to 2006, he spent time abroad at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico, USA, where he worked primarily on parallel algorithms and algebraic multigrid methods for solving very large numerical problems.

In 2006, Michael Gee joined the Chair of Numerical Mechanics at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) as a postdoctoral researcher and group leader. In 2011, he was appointed to the professorship for Mechanics on High-Performance Computers. From 2016 to 2019, he served as Dean of Studies at the Munich School of Engineering, where he co-founded the Master's program in Materials Science & Engineering.

In his research, Professor Gee and his group focus on numerical methods and models for solving coupled multi-field problems, highly scalable solvers for massively parallel supercomputers, and various applied topics in biomechanics – including personalized computer models of the cardiovascular system. He is the author of more than 50 peer-reviewed journal articles spanning the fields of medical engineering and numerical mathematics.

At TUM, Michael Gee teaches courses such as “Engineering Mechanics,” “Parallel Computing,” and “Nonlinear Continuum Mechanics,” as well as other subjects in various Bachelor's and Master's programs in engineering. From 2013 to 2018, he received the Best Teaching Award of the Munich School of Engineering five times.