SIMULIA EuroNorth Regional User Meeting - Nordics

I completed my PhD in computational solid mechanics with a major in nonlinear static and dynamic structural simulations in 2018. I joined Aalto University in 2020 as a postdoctoral researcher where I focused on nonlinear mechanics of lattice structures. Then, in October 2022, I started my career at Wärtsilä Oy as a structural analyst, mainly working on strength analysis, thermomechanical simulations, and fatigue analysis.

Martin is a CAE engineer with 5 years of experience at Fagerhult Belysning AB, specializing in light simulations, structural analysis, and heat transfer. Prior to joining Fagerhult Belysning AB Martin worked in the automotive industry.

He holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Chemical Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology.

As a dedicated professional, Martin thrives on trying to optimize workflows and utilize available software’s to enhance product design, performance, and efficiency. By doing this complex engineering challenges can be solved in a much more efficient manner.

Outside of work, Martin cherish quality time with his family. He also likes to play board games, finding joy in strategic thinking, social interactions and friendly competition/cooperation.

Tomas has for the last ten years worked as a Group Manager at AFRY with mainly Automotive structural simulations. AFRY is a engineering consultancy firm with 19,000 employees, including 145 CAE Engineers. Prior to joining AFRY, Tomas ran his own company for seven years. During his whole career he has been hands-on focused on FE-simulations, optimization, constitutive modeling and software development. The main focus areas has been Automotive, Defense and Packaging.

Helin Zhou received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, in 2013. He has been with Volvo Car Corporation in Gothenburg since 2021, working on electromagnetic & EMC simulations. Before that, he worked as electrical design engineer at ABB HVDC in Ludvika and EMC engineer at Bombardier Transportation in Västerås. He is an active reviewer of IEEE Transactions on EMC and EMC Europe. He is the author or co-author of more than 30 scientific papers in reviewed journals and international conferences. He was the receipt of Young Scientist Award at 32nd
International Conference on Lightning Protection.

Joe graduated from Cambridge University and gained a PhD from Imperial College before joining Jaguar Cars as an aerodynamicist in 1998. Joe was responsible for the aerodynamic development of a number of Jaguar vehicles, using physical tests methods and CFD and eventually became the Technical Specialist for Aerodynamics at JLR. Joe then joined Exa Corporation in 2005, as their first UK employee, in order to focus exclusively on CFD with the PowerFLOW toolset.

At Exa Joe was heavily involved in the development and deployment of the PowerFLOW toolset for automotive and motorsport across the world. In 2017 Exa was acquired by Dassault Systèmes, as part of their SIMULIA Brand. Joe now manages a global team dedicated to delivering automated MODISM process’ to SIMULIA customers worldwide.

Upon completing a PhD in Mechanical Engineering and a short tenure at Lockheed Martin, Chris joined Dassault Systemes (HKS, Inc. at the time), Abaqus R&D organization working on fundamental capabilities in the Abaqus solvers. From that beginning, he took on additional leadership activities in development, strategy, and product management. In 2016, he took the responsibility for the structural simulation R&D organization, and finally in 2024 he was appointed head of the global SIMULIA R&D organization, responsible for all of SIMULIA’s world-leading simulation domains.

Yingjie You is an Industrial Process Consultant and has worked in this role for Dassault Systèmes since September 2018.Her main responsibility is delivering Electromagnetic Simulation technical solutions to a wide variety of customers across the EuroNorth region for different industries. She specialises in antenna design, microwave component simulation and high power component simulation. Prior to her current role, she worked as an early stage researcher for the 5G European Research (Horizon-2020) Programme. She studied for both her MSc and PhD degree at the University of Sheffield, UK, focussing on antenna design and propagation models for wireless mobile network systems.

Kingshuk joined DASSAULT SYSTEMES (HKS Inc. at the time) after completing his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics. Over the years, he worked in a number of different areas of nonlinear mechanics including element technology, constitutive modeling for advanced materials, fracture and failure, multiphysics, and adjoint sensitivities for non-parametric design optimization. Currently he is an R&D Technology Director, and leads a development team within SIMULIA Structures organization with responsibility in the areas of Multiphysics & Implicit Technology.

Jan Granlund is an Industrial Process Consultant at Dassault Systèmes, Jan’s main role is to support abaqus customers in the Nordics.

Prior to joining Abaqus in 1998, Jan obtained an MSc in Civil engineering and a PhD in material modelling.

Dr. Alistair Wingfield completed his PhD in the field of electromagnetics in 2003 specialising in miniaturised antennas for Hi Tech applications. He spent 16 years in the Hi Tech and A&D industry working on Electromagnetic related topics. He has around 25 international publications and won 2 major international awards for his work in the High tech industry, as well as high national recognition within the A&D industry. He joined DASSAULT SYSTEMES 8 years ago through the acquisition of CST and is now the Northern Europe Sales Director for the Direct Channel of SIMULIA.

Joakim Asklund is an Industrial Process Consultant at Dassault Systèmes, Joakim’s main role is to support abaqus and 3DExperience customers in the Nordics.

Anton graduated as M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology in 1988.

He has more than 30 years of FEA experience from a wide range of industries using a broad range of structural analysis techniques.

He has been involved in using, supporting and developing new methods for Structural Optimization based on Tosca Structure since Dassault Systèmes acquired FE-Design in 2013.

His current position is Automation and Optimization Process Expert within the R&D organisation.

- B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering (Institute of Engineering and Technology, India)

- Worked as Lead Engineer at Wipro Technologies, Bangalore, India (2006 – 2010)

- M. Sc. in Vehicle Dynamics (Coventry University, UK)

- Joined Simulia / Simpack at DASSAULT SYSTEMES in 2012

- Currently working as Senior Technical Manager for MultiPhysics including Multibody Dynamics, Electromagnetics and Vibro Acoustics