M. Sc.
Prince Henry Serrao
Research assistant

Building ICFW, Room 03/751
Chair of Continuum Mechanics

Telephone: +49 (0) 234 32-26941
E-Mail: prince.serrao@rub.de
ORCID: 0000-0001-8294-9292


Career

Since 01/2022 Research assistant at the institute of Continuum Mechanics, Ruhr-University Bochum
09/2021 - 01/2022 Student assistant at the institute of Continuum Mechanics, Ruhr-University Bochum
12/2020 - 06/2021 Master Thesis at Robert Bosch GmbH, Renningen (Master thesis defense 09/2021)
05/2020 - 11/2020 Intern at Robert Bosch GmbH, Reutlingen
10/2018 - 09/2021 M.Sc. in Computational Materials Science (CMS) at TU Bergakademie Freiberg
09/2016 – 08/2018 Engineer at Prism RMC (Prism Johnson Ltd.), Pune, India
07/2012 – 08/2016 B.E. (Bachelor of Engineering) in Mechanical Engineering, University of Mumbai, India

Research

Research as part of the DFG project "FLEXFRA: Modeling of Flexoelectricity (Strain and Polarization Gradients in Piezo- and Ferroelectric Materials), with Emphasis on Fracture"→ link
• Numerical modeling of Flexoelectricity
• Mixed FEM
• Fracture mechanics

Publications (until 04/2023)

[2] K. Tannhäuser, P. H. Serrao, and S. Kozinov, “Second-Order Collocation-Based Mixed FEM for Flexoelectric Solids,” Solids, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 39–70, Feb. 2023. https://doi.org/10.3390/solids4010004 

[1] P. H. Serrao, S. Sandfeld, and A. Prakash, “OptiMic: A tool to generate optimized polycrystalline microstructures for materials simulations,” SoftwareX, vol. 15, p. 100708, Jul. 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2021.100708 

Conferences (until 04/2023)

[5] P. H. Serrao, and S. Kozinov, " ," 7th International Conference on Computational Modeling of Fracture and Failure of Materials and Structures (CFRAC), Czech Technical University, Prague, Czechia, 21-23 June 2023  

[4] P. H. Serrao, and S. Kozinov, " ," 93rd GAMM Annual Meeting of the International association of applied mathematics and mechanics, TU Dresden, Germany, 30 May - 2 June 2023  

[3] P. H. Serrao, and S. Kozinov, "Numerically stable mixed FE for higher-order electromechanical coupling in piezoelectric solids," Advanced seminar "Micropolar Continua and beyond", TU Berlin, Germany, 29-31 March 2023  

[2] P. H. Serrao, and S. Kozinov, "Modeling of higher-order electromechanical coupling in piezoelectric solids using mixed FEM," 92nd GAMM Annual Meeting of the International association of applied mathematics and mechanics, RWTH Aachen, Germany, 15-19 August 2022  

[1] P. H. Serrao, and S. Kozinov, "Mixed finite-element formulations for flexoelectricity in piezoelectric solids with analysis of fracture behaviour, " 15th World Congress on Computation Mecchanics & 8th Asian Pacific Congress on Computation Mechanics (WCCM-APCOM), Yokohama, Japan, 31 July - 5 August 2022  

Open-Source project

OptiMic: A tool to generate optimized polycrystalline microstructures for materials simulations.